104-10413-10204 uy, TP ICAT CE Weweoe a ibers AC EC SRCIUE [  S MARKED fOR INDEXING Chief, WH Division Foie __Onlef of Station, Mexico City per OSH 43-430 | ” LEFEAT Progress Report. /July 1963 ACTION aCQUIRED. REFERENCES Ref: HMMA 21755 oo. 1. The following report is submitted in accordance with CSFHB-F 5e- -6=1, . . section V, paragraph 2 (d) (1). , “A. EXPLOTTATION OF LEADS , (1) LIFEAT/Soviet LIFEAT has continued its daily coverage of the home phones of two known Soviet Intelligence Officers. he This has enabled the interested Station officer to monitor the daily activities ' of these officers including clandestine contacts of one and lately. the appar- ; .ent- involvement of the other in an affair with the wife of another Soviet I * official stationed in Mexico. Ho (2) LIFEAT/Polish During the final weeks of ‘| BEKNAVE's stay in Mexico, LIFEAT provided continuing support to the attempted ‘| approach to BEXNAVE. This support included periods of "live-monitoring" the : ‘target lines to give early warning of BEKNAVE's exact departure plans as well - as the movements of BEKNAVE. LI" EAT also initiated coverage of the Polish |. Commercial Office in support of the interested Station officer's attempt to gain more information on that installation and the personnel assigned thereto, A (3) LIFEAT/Cuban LIFEAT coverage of two iN | targets related to the AMSTRUT operation are of great. interest to JMWAVE and wh Headquarters. forwarded - Rs weekly to these customers. A recent and excellent roundup of AMSTRUT-8 done g~ by Headquarters drew heavily on LIPEAT provided information. This roundup oy jwas very well done and greatly appreciated by the Station. During the re- ae porting period nothing of interest was obtained from the coverage of the an home of. a Cuban Commercial Attache and it is planned to cut this coverage in = 8 ~ 3 the. near future if it remains unproductive. hw 9 . neh (4) LIFEAT/Exile LIFEAT coverage of ESLARD-1 ¢ u continues to be of interest to both the Station, Headquarters and other wm Stations who are connected with ESLARD-1l's activities. Information con- * m 2 * cerning ESLARD-1's planned travel to both Central America and PBPRIME was 3°. 3 fully reported from this coverage. LIFEAT information enables the Station 2S 2 to provide timely physical surveillance of ESLARD-1 which should give intor- mation of his exact departure date and mode of travel. “| DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER | DATE 2029, ' 27 August 1963 CROSS REF FRENCE TO cRaye f Erethaud tees 2ulomallep ; ooo ee weanenn —| -RECORD..COP) me nant ne an CLASSIFICATIC TION i Oe FILE NUMBER SECRET 1w50-6-32/3 dectagsiticatiae
13-00000 CONTINUATION OF a tien 4 4 TMOPATO TM at PAHO BED PHD DISPATCH HMMA-22029 -LIFEAT continued coverage of Judith FERRETO Segura has provided a number of leads for possible agent candidates to assess and develop this Costa Rican Commnist exile. (5) LIFEAT/American Communist Group in Mexico (ACGM) The information provided to the local ODENVY office from the coverage of David DRUCKER and Charles SMALL (SMOLIKOFF) is most useful to that office - for covering American leftists and Communists who travel to Mexico. Often these travellers continue on to Cuba. Their contacts with members of ACGM are of special interest to ODENVY, (6) LIFEAT/Miscellaneous As noted in reference the coverage of a former SMOTH agent is of interest to Headquarters, SMOTH and the senior ODYOKE official in Mexico. Recent information from this coverage indicates that this individual is continuing in his literary efforts against PBPRIME interest. LIFEAT, at Headquarters request, has undertaken coverage of two targets of ZRENICK interest, Although the coverage has not as yet been of sufficient duration to judge the take definitively, one of these coverages appears to have potential in providing information of interest, - B. PROCESSING OF TAKE Processing workload of the LIFEAT processor/translator staff remains “heavy, but no backlog has developed. With the recruitment of LIFEUD-28, “there will be a possible more equitable division of the work for the noted staff. C. PERSONNEL LIFEUD-28 was granted a POA on 8 July 1963. This agent candidate is presently being assessed. PRQ Part II will be forwarded at the earliest possible date. LIFEUD-1 has initiated attempts to_expand his sion for investi- gating administrative personnel of the (see paragraph 2 ¢ of reference) to include all [personnel-as well. This would give L-l the access to th he previously enjoyed + an "employee of confidence". Evéni WI ié préséfitly reduced access, ’ LIFEUD-1 has continued to make a substantial contribution to the success oi the LIFEAT operation. D. LLATSON No change from conditions noted in reference. E, SECURITY As noted in reference LIFEAT access to the| has bec reduced by the combination of LIFEUD-1's “retirémé and the new “work order" system being implemented by the As of the prese LIFEAT has not been adversely effected T Léwlar ineident by the | ‘of LIFEUD-1's “protection” of the LIFEAT lthough this constitute: a continuing danger to the operation. Larn is working toward regair the enjoyed. If he is successful LIFEAT's access to the [na partial circumvention of the "work order" syst: would be ré-éstaplisnéd, , Just prior to the reporting period, a telephone work crew disconnect: the LIFEAT lines routing the Yugoslav Embassy tap lines to the basehouse. This was done at a point one-half mile from the basehouse and en equal di- tance from the target Embassy, and at a point where the tap routing was "jumped" from one telephone central's area to the central area serving th basehouse. It was assumed the telephone crew would -be curious as to the nature of these unusual connections. LIFEAT therefore disconnec? the tap routing en between the basehouse and the telephone work c TIT ARCPREIRTEMy PAGE NO CITED AAS, TW
13-00000 toot . 2 8 - FORM . 1057-530 Ny a sme a PEPE BE POO SEP GTR PE CPT ra HMMA- 22029 DISPATCH SECRET / RET Even if the crew had then attempted to checkout the routing it would have been impossible. No direct damage was done to LIFEAT as a result of this discovery but it was agreed that if possible LIENVOY should assume the Yugoslav coverage in the future. If such will not. prove feasible, a cool. off period will ensue prior to LIFEAT attempting to re-establish the note coverage, F, TECHNICAL . No change from conditions noted in reference, . 2. The coverage provided by LIFEAT during the reporting period tot: 19 separate lines. <A breakdown by target is as follows: 1. Aleksandr G. SIDOROV 2, Svyatoslav F. KUZNETSOV 3, Suspected Soviet support agent. 4, 5, and 6, Polish Embassy and related line. 7, and 8, AMSTRUT operation. -9. Home of a Cuban Commercial Attache | 10. Home of a Czech intelligence officer ll. and ie. Targets of ZRKNICK interest 13. and 14. ESLARD-1 and related line 15. David DRUCKER 16. Charles SMALL (SMOLIKOFT) 17. Judith FERRETO Segura 18. and 19. Former SMOTH agent and related line. > 3, During the reporting period @ number of memoranda were prepare the Station for passing to local ODACID and ODENVY based in whole or ir on LIFEAT provided material. One HMM was provided based on LIFEAT mate (HMM-7550). Distributions: ‘B= C/WHD 2 - Files REPLACES FORMSA tr f S48 50.2BA anig $1291 ee,