104-10054-10061 ty eC | “ ie ® — 10 Feb 77 Source: idotes made by A. Goodpesture for John Leader, IG Staff Suodjects Background on Mexico Station Support Assets (Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies) Le (Unilateral) coverege. From the time the Mexico Station vas ozened in ‘April 1947) (by Bill Doyle) until arrival of Win Scott as COS in 1958, Charles Anderson IIT (sti12 in LA/HQ) had developed a support apparatus to BEE exploit leads from the Soviet Enbassy. This umbrella type project . (LEFEAT) consisted of miltd Line phone taps, three photo sites, a mobile surveillance team and a mail, intercept operation. a. Fhone taps were placed by an” fan eaployee ar the ‘telephone company ane of tan Aneat haa {who was) hendled aby David WILSTED (pseudo). The number of Lines - (since the taps were not made in the “2a za Nes Spanish (Soviet, Polish, Czeghy ‘s cribers. Generally 7 Se HES ee Mexican inerican) were related b. Three photo sites were handled by + hed with the kelp of Harry Kehoney (retired, Living in Chicago) end TDY TSD - “people checking the best type of camera, film, and concealment devices. These had sub-cripts under LIFEAT (LIMITED, LILYRIG, and LICALLA). LIMITED was a fixed site bang opposite across the street fromthe front gate of the Soviet Embassy which had both a vehicle and foot entrance. The Soviet gate was on the NorthVest corner.of their compound and LIMITED was diagonally : Sin Sanne Pe _—_ Luobied [ ere nerey Cor y Rot aa = SB 2 LF ee me cage erm gig, cee armen ARB en ce ie ee cee ME = cette ee Steers meetin cnt ee emmmete
14-00000 et & ‘on this sit tee - LILYRIC was planned as an alternate photo base to LIMITED. Tt was in an upper storey (3ra floor -check) on the sane side of the street | Mexican fanilies) as far as we knew, were not acquainted with each other. "i Remon Alvarez: (Mexican citizen of U.S. nother Aiho taught elenentary level at \ . : . - b Satdail, that block. LIMITED was the first Lese and it onerated strictly on an ex erinentel besis in the esrly stages, I think the ilexi Station bought one storey this property (a/Sranish Colonial stone house) through LIMOUSINE (check to be sure). Later this house began to fall apart. This base was closed when the Station got word thet the photo of "uniden man" was being released to the puolic by che Warren Commission. The photo operators were moved to another apt nearby. The property vas sold (under an operational agreement with LIMOUSINE for a long term lease on the top floor of a new apartment blding to be built as LIMITED but in the middle of the block South. . It had a slentdéd view of the front gate of the Soviet Enbassy, The agents in LLATED and LILYRIC (both | LILYRIC was a rented apartzent. LICALLA, ‘the third ge located ae Enbassy. compound the Soviet Bnbassy ms The purpose of this operation wes to get good identification photographs of the Soviet personnel (ho at thet time were largely unidentified in Mexico Station records). The three photo sites were , handled by the Anericaa School). “Ramon” collected the film opiidhentoatuch ive from LIATTED and LILYRIC three times a week. His sister's husband, Carlos (Gloidean a doctor) developed and printed the film into 8x10 contact print strips. The master plan . cers ‘ fuct— was for LICALLA film to. ve. processed, inside, ISD man from 1957 to 1959 (Harper ] Holt /- resigned) could not handle the volume and as the unprocessed film began to accumulate, the inside CO (Mahoney) became disgusted and taok the filn out (na for: Ranon's' brather—in-law to process (probably early 1959). Thus ‘Razon’ became the handler for all three photo hases. A sensitive staff D monitoring operation a & “0000165
14-00000 . dozen. or sO agents who used three to foi: r late model cars and a a cleared attorng) CR . Little and Riquas e phone number of Mahoney (vho was subsequently replaced by Louis _ was run out of another ohe of these houses (crypt for the four houses vas LUST, 1, ete}. This was hardled by Glen WIDDEN (outside TSD officer} and Mahoney using HQ TDY teams for monitoring. This onsration was also serarate from LICALLA, The two houses in between were rented to unsusctecting tenants. c. tobile surveillance wes developed by Anderson and later placed “under Mahoney and Joseph Sancho, This team consisted of a half panel truck (which eould be used on stake outs for photo covera::e). The plen + was to activate this group by radio (from I LIMITED BASE) Soviet when someone ‘of interest left the/Enbassy gate and stay with them until. they made their meetings. These agents knew about the LATE - BASE be€ause they had LIMITED photos for identifi cation purposes. : This worked fairly well until about the niddle of 1938. —_ date) when one of the surveillance agents got too Sk ee target and was: arrested by the Mexican an ned over to" the 7 Mexican Secret Service. si aS Stetion could arrange through f. out: ‘(Judd . Austin of the Goodrich, © ee the agent. had identified Sancho (uho wes evacuated across the border at Nogales by Bob Shaw) and the inside—— --|- Puckett). As a result of this flap » the LIPEAT project was broken up into several others. The agents were not changed but were given. Frank new crypts. /Estancona and Peggy Haggard’ replaced Anders6n in handling the, unileteral phone taps. Puckett replaced Mahoney and handled the surveillance team (LIEITRAP) and the photo bases through’ Remon. intercept handled by Charlie Anderson IIT, <The agent Cy ‘exicen) had a semi eni official status end arranged to ‘obtain : selected ‘letters fron Fs -a8 a, d. LIBIGHT was the crypt used for a‘unilateral (originally). mail | g l Ubwhy } ‘Ig
14-00000 we ‘as sub-czent in the ‘postal system (L thinks at the airsort}. His case officers , Alfonso: Spera > vere Ister/! Puckett, Rovert Felduann, end Alan White. 26 " Llaison coverage was unreliable and insecure as characterised by the nature of the Mex! Scan services at that time. (the Mexican DES (Direction of Rederaly Security) ° with: which we dealt vas s hip pocket sroup: run out of the Ministry Of Gov:rnnent. “This | Winistry Sperttia hajor~part of its: time* sn control oF J (foreigners and soliticat investigations. Their azents were vicious » ver =< aetna a a __ ¢ corrupt extortionists}, . Robert ‘Nefeerg established contact with one of them i ani i . ( Levine De Leon} (later LIFIRE group) in About 1950 or 51. He geve them some training (a group of about five surveillance tyves) {in travel control working || (the airport as vell as £AikLé searehes of nanes from DFS Egtrs. wages} the files ut anes from Drs Fabre: were poorly organized and often inaccurate, | How and Ne » Some Us eful Soe (ae information vas developed but it could not be ad Mexican 1 President elect, A Adolfo Lo Lopez i Mateos. During this period, the U.S. amor Anbassador Robert CG. Hill (reflecting the policy of then Sec State J .F. Dulles) was energetic in organizing groups to "fight communism". One of these seeds grew into a proposal Miguel Al Aleman (jr. son of former Hexi President), _ acting | : a —, “for Lorez Mateos, made to Win Scott for a joint _ ‘telephone tap operation! This Sn PO err project (LIENVOY) went through about four distressing ‘years of a shakedown. (The Hexiean in control (LIELEGANT) was inexperienced, old, en xd greedy. His Seana son ((LIENVOY-2)) was a masterpiece of deceit and corruption. LISLEGANT also fr manipulated control over the rrincipal agent of LIBIG rt /mail intercept.) The ee first case officer was-Alfonso Spera inside with (Turner Smith, (retired) outside and John - (TSD training officer for surveillance and head of the listening post where thirty telechone lines would connect as well es a transcription roon 9900167 - lo.