2 wie-te ahi cal “agente - fe In offer “to get nore i aC EE. riéadqiarters’ approves) - e ‘Lon, wai th. new -principalse ‘Separates, ‘independent Li". LA T-type, operat Ge Perfomance: of! igents Thile in gerieral the perfomance of the LIFEAT agents has been cood in the past Year, sone of those connected with the group tased on the. family of former head avert James 0. AYCALL have not ‘been acting in a sdtisfactary:.” nanrer, These aré cradual ly teing weeded out and new, rore effective and fully coripartmented base operators are bein: substituted for then. The Station's problen 4n this. connection is difficult since it is hard to - recruit persons Whe carbine the following qualifications necessary for base house operations s a . ; . ae absolute ‘discretion ; ae ter ee 43) willingness to.cover the base 2h hours daily, year after yearg* a _ 443) «ss suitatle cover; =: “and willinmess to obey complex orders to the letter year after year; and ii1i4) . willingness to live in a. situation of constant potential. danzer. : d. Status of seproved 6 Cond tments . _ ‘LIPEAT Project(as approved ia RE. atin3Th0) cantains nost of the — elenents which will be necessary in Fiscal 1956. ‘dhe main difference that ~€ . ea be noted in the atiacsed Meld rroject Jutline is that costs will _....- ----4---— be aigher ¢ and one_ tore. base__nouse will be-added~ to “We current List. . eT wee oe Fs ‘ Attachnent to = Teh 27063 86 \ > dune 1957 \ Oo — . \ Aes Cawibe r/3 —
ST” Grange oF szK tro: @. Purpose we To mount vari ous “ty Des of technical ; surveillance operations, mainly , To, : : teleynonic, aseinst the Soviet, Csech and: olisn. dplomatic missions in . a “yt Nexico3; against important contacts of tie instdlations; and against leading . _ Hexican and nolisieican Communists and Communist $s wpathizers. . ar 3. Background so e : vo " i “ ' This project was first aspioved 3 . October 1950 and has teen exténded each year thereafter, Actual operations began 18 January 1951 and have mo, ' been continuous, with sill breaks fer security or other operational reasons oe . from taat date, ‘The project was last appr proved in Hbe@W=3740, 19 November 1956. ° LIGAT has beer rin since its inception without Liaison. and no plans now exist to change this. arrangement, ° Qver the past 6 years and 3 months LIFEAT has expanded from coverage’ of one(1) line to averare of an average of atout twenty-four(2k) lines, . each being covered 2 Rours per day. -In cll, over 10,000 pases of docue 0 | ee mentary. inforra tian « -On-prime station targe.s has thus teen ottained from ‘ . tais operation. . . he Reference Hii.=%~37L0, 19 ioverber 1956, contains the last reneval of this project. a. This project has teen one of the outstanding KUTARH operations in the world. ‘eriain elenents at Headquarters vecognize tiis. Onief, onf/Ce States to this Statiod during his:visit in January 1957 that this was the only RLISnAT st ype" operation whieh wis wholly HUS\Ai's and he said it was 7, Se Fr Pare 11 . . Attachment to 27 ).=i-7063 > TOP) perme 986 —_ > June 1957
14-00000 All of these reverted t ‘to mea coverayes Ge The Director has personally cormended the Station officer Yor his ~ work in oe line's scorersse in this operation; and ha orally stated ee to CO, 1ex4 Co taat tis ig an- @xcelle nt operations : oo 7 ae 5e Objectives Se . hs ; To carry out this Station's: O8Ligctions, in conformity 1 with its Related nO oF Iission Directive, throush - ‘technical. surveillonce _operctions, “the. crecuct ne ; DN from this operation is- ‘coordinated wa thy other Station operatiins, with | a especial attér tion to Soviet,, Folish and. ‘Czech activities, : be . Targets Primary targets covered in this ogeration are: Soviet imbas y and. residehces of Soviet officials; 3° Czech: Legation; ; : ; ; ; . Polish Lezation; and : ae , . - Alfred Kauftanr(and kartha Dodd) S7Udi. Secondary tar gets are, . - 7 ee we ee . _. _ Soviet; “Polisi @ ana os ech ‘Acents; Nexienr. and foreicn Gosmunists5 and Aneri car: Conmurists. 7e Tasks &. To maistein ard operate, existin, project facilities and establishments; b. To eugert sixilar coverere when need or opportuhity arises; . ' Fase 12, * (i Attachzent to.” me > dune 1957