PROJECT REPORT
Originator: CIA
From: COS, MEXICO CITY
To: CHIEF, WH DIVISION
Document date: 1965-01-06 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER : 104-10054-10008

RECORD SERIES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

80T01357A

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM : COS, MEXICO CITY

TO

: CHIEF, WH DIVISION

TITLE :

PROJECT REPORT

DATE

01/06/1965

PAGES

16

SUBJECTS

JFK ASSASSINATION

PHOTO OPS

LIONION

FINANCIAL RPT

PBRUMEN

PROJECT REPORT

CLASSIFICATION

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER

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Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

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DISPATCH

CLASSIFICATION

SDORENSE

PROCESSING ACTION

MARKED FOR INDEXING

TO

Chief, WH Division

XX

INFO.

NO INDEXING REQUIRED

ONLY QUALIFIED DESK

CAN JUDGE INDEXING

FROM

Chief of Stetion, Mexico City IN

roJect LIONio

CTION REQUIRED - REFERENC

Reference: HMMW-13207, 14 December 1964

BUT DOL 70-17

1. Attached by split transmission is an outline for Project LIONION

covering the services of the two agents heretofore known as LIFEUD-22

(201-288243) and LIPEUD-23 (201-305604). This project was anticipated in

paragraph 4, rage 9 of the LIRANCH project outline transmitted by Reference.

2.

To avoid re-typing at Headquarters the Station nas

taken the liberty

of provisionally assigning cryptonyms LIONION-1 and LIONION-2 to these agents.

Please advise if this is correct.

Laureuce F. Barker.com

Willard C. CURIIS

Attachment:

Project Outline, left side h/w

Project Outline, right side usc

Distribution:

3 - C/ED w/att

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'OSS REFERENCE TO

DISPAICH SYMBOL AND NUMBER

LE MA-25110

CLASSIFICATION

SECRET M

03252

50-6-12211

DATE

6 January 1965

HQS FILE NUMBER

150-6-122/1

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SECRET STOK

PROJECT OUTLINE

CRYPTONYA_

LIONION

STATION

Mexico City

FIELD CASE OFTER Laureuce F. Barker

Lawrence F. BARKER

cas sea illand (Curtis

Willard C. CURTIS

The attached Iroject Outline is presented for approval.

SO 130K

25203 57 227 22ESSION 63 03p

Excluded ties adama

634ng 35g:

7791

58-6-12211

FIRMA D510 RESIDE OF MIRIN.

$5111

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PROJECT LIONION

A. Identification. This is a technical (primarily photographic) surveillance

operation against the PBRUMEN Embassy in Mexico City.

B. Objectives. The operation is designed to (1) furnish photographic coverage

during daylight hours of the entrances of the target installation, (2)

dispatco poysical surveillance teams against persons associated with the

target, and (5) keep in readiness a listening post for the monitoring and

recording of eventual technical penetration operations of the target.

The target installation is the PBRUMAN Embassy compound (including

Consulatal in Mexico City.

The above-listed objectives are accomplished by

two trained, full-time surveillance agents who live across the street from

C.

The project is in consonance with Priority A, Objective 1, of the

current Related Mission Directive

for Mexico.

Background. This project, herewith presented for approval for the first time,

does not represent a new

operation. LIONION activity has been going

on since

1962 and costs have heretofore been charged to PBRUMEN FI funds.

operation produces photographs of

persons associated with the PBRUMEN Fabassy,

both staff and visitors.

These photographs are normally reviewed for identi-

fications by the PBRUMEN section at the Station, then shown separately to

LITAMIL-9 and LITAMIL-? who are pènetration agents working inside the target.

They are subsequently forwarded to the CI section of WH/SA where they are shown

to PBRUMEN intelligence defectors AMNIP-1 and AMMUG-1.

Of those assets to whom

they are routinely shown, LITAMIL-9 has to date made the largest number of

identifications.

The photos have proven of great value.

Within hours of the

arrival of a new Enbassy staff member his photograph is in the hands of the

Station,

In addition to the identification of staff and visitors, the photos

(accompanied by a log kept by the LIONION agents) reveal patterns of action

(arrivals and departures) and details of personal associations (who associates

with whom) which are of great value to the Station in mounting operations against

the target.

In addition to photography,

LICNION-1 and LIONION-2 are often called upon

to do visial sureillance of the target installation and LICNION- is essential

to the dispatching of the LIEMBRACI surveillance team egainsi indiviauals

associated with the target.

Because pi the presence of police ratrol cars in

the vicinitj;

the Station's mobile sumeillance assets cannot come close to the

target, hence the need for LIONION-l's dispatching services.

The presence of LIONION-1 and LIONION-2 also insures continued occupancy of

a valued pieca of real estate wnich will be used as a listening post when the

Station sacreeds in installing additional technical surveillance devices in the

target in the form of concealed radio transmitters.

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D. Operational Assets (Personnel).

LIONION-1 is a young PBRUMEN lawyer in exile. He left PBRUMEN in 1960,

planning to continue on via Mexico to the United States where he resided in

His two brothers are American citizens, one a desk officer

in the Department of Commerce in Washington, the other a police official in

Tampa, Florida. While in Mexico LIONION-1 was recruited, as LILILY-1, to

perform PaRUMoN operational support services for the Station and, once having

a taste of clandestine activity, decided to remain in Mexico. LIONION-2, his

mother, was recruited in 1961, as LILILY-2, as a basehouse occupant and

operator in the LIFEAT/LIERODE technical operation aimed at the PERUMEN

Embassy.

At this same time LIONION-1 also phased into LIFEAT/LIERODE work and

the two worked together as a team. In 1962 LIONION-1 and LIONION-2 worked

together in processing the take of the LIFEAT/LIERODE/MKTRAP installation, now

known as LIMEN.

At this time their cryptonyms were changed from LILILY-l and

2 to LirDi-22 and 23, respectively.

In the latter part of 1962 the two agents

began the present photographic surveillance operation.

LIONTON 1 was granted an A on 18 May 1962 by HMMW-10664. He was

LCFLUTTERID on 8 October 1963, HMMW-12064.

LIONION-2 was granted an OA on 16 May 1962 by HMMW-10660.

LIONION-1 is the mainstay of the operation. LIONION-2 acts as his assistant

and fill-in at such times as he is absent from the observation post.

Both serve

principally as observers and photographers. LIONION-1 also acts as a dispatcher

for the LIEMBRACE surveillance team from which he is compartmented.

Dispatching

is done by radio using pre-arranged innocuous code terminology; the team does not

Know LIONION1 or his precise location. LIONION-1 also processes on the premises

all photograykic coverage of the main Embassy gate through final printing, cropping

and mounting.

Photographic coverage of the Consulate gate is processed through the

negative development stage.

Control is primarily financial buttressed by the knowledge, on the part of

the agents, that as PBRUMEN refugees they are vulnerable to pressure which might

be brought upon them by KUBARK through the Mexican goverment should they get out

Motivation is a combination of financial necessity and violent aversion

to, and deterination to bring about the downfall of, the AMTHUG regime.

additional notivating factor is that both agents actually enjoy what for many would

be monotonous work. Psychologically, they are ideally suited to this sort of work.

Bots agents realize that they are working for faiRime intelligence; LIONTON-1

appears to be aware that he is working for KUBARK. The cover utilized by LIONION-2

is that of dependent mother. LIONION-1 passes as a would-be writer who can afford

to dabble ithout notable publishing success because of family landholdings in

Tampa, Florida (inherited from nis deceased father), which enable him to live as

a "rentista," one who lives on income from sources other than gainful employment.

His rentista status is registered with the Mexican govemment.

In October 1964

this cover successfully withstood intensive investigation by Mexican authorities

checking on persons of questionable status for tax collection purposes.

Station plans to bolster the writing cover with supporting documents from a

literary agent in New York City; these will be requested in separate correspondence.

ady are Of

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Coummication 1s primarily with LIONION-l; with LIONION2 only in his

absence. Meetings, pre-arranged or signalled by innocuous phone calls (calls

from LIONION-1 go through a telephone cut-out), are usually held at the

LIONION-1 safe apartment.

This apartment, which would appear to be a LIONION-1

love nest, is in another area of town.

The Station KURIOT technician,

Hugh T. FRANCOITE, meets with LIONION-1 at least once a week.

I'he Case Officer,

Lawrence F. BARKER, meets with him less frequently.

Whereas LIONION-1 knows

the true rame of the Case Officer, he does not know FRANCOITE's true identity.

Security Evaluation.

If either of the LIONION agents are uncovered by Mexican

authoritles as engaged in operations against the target, they have been briefed

to indicate that they are working for an exile organization based in the JMWAVE

area on a roluntary, non-paid, patriotic basis and to stick to the story covering

their income. This would probably hold up unless they were caught in flagrante

with the KurIOT automatic pulse camera on the premises. This camera is of such

refinement and complexity as to be difficult to ascribe to an exile organization.

In any event, IIONICN-1 has a close relationship with an official of the Mexican

president's office.

Inis connection, developed by LIONION-1 for his own protection,

enabled hin to weather the tax investigation and can be used by him to overcome any

. future difficulties with Mexican authorities.

Under Mexican law, the principal (photographic) activity of the project is

not illegal, therefore uncovering of the photographic operation would not of

itself result in arrest or prosecution. It is usually possible to stave off

investigation or house search for a period of time sufficient to remove compromis- •

ing material from the premises.

The LIONION base house was once cleaned completely

in one evening and could again be cleaned, probably in less time, if circumstances

should warrant.

The tarset installation is aware that photo surveillance is a probability.

On one occasion AMKNOB-1, a JMWAVE asset, was shown a nearby building (not the

LIONION base) by & PBRUMEN Embassy officer and told that it was a KUBARK photo

LIONION-1 is known by sight to some PBRUMEN Embassy staff personnel who have

observed him in the neighborkood. Presumably they believe he is a Mexican. To

avoid operational compronise, he cannot renew his expired passport at the

PBRUMEN Consulate. For this reason the Station will request KURICT in separate

correspondence to prepare new passports for both LIONION agents so that they may

Security measures employed in this operation are designed

to make it virtually

impossible for any opposition service to link LIONION

personnel with the Station.

F. Coordination. Coordination irith other PRPRINE

elements or the Mexican government

is not necessary at this time and none is envisaged.

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G.

Costs.

The total annual cosü of Project LIONION is $10,478, distributed

as shora below:

TY 55

FY 66

Hotel

LIONICS-1 salary

13 months @ $320

LIONICS-E Salary

13 Eontas 8 $150

Real estate rentals:

LICTION Basehouse

LICTICS Salenouse

Utilitias on both houses

Supplies

(Pastographic filn, paper,

chemicals, and miscellaneous )

Iotals

$1920

900

600

254

150

1170

$5004

$2240

$4:160

1050

1950

600

254

150

1170

1200

523

300

2340

45174

310478

Salaries for LIOHION-1 and -2 include the custonary year eac

ge one abath's salary. LIONION-l's saary was raised Iron $200 tr

$320 montial in 1964 to compensate in part for his renunciation of a

sales position in order that he might devote his full time to the LIONION

operation. LIOiIOn-2's salary has remained at $150 per montin since her

recruitment in 1961. lo salary changes are contemplated during the

project year.

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