PROJECT LIEMPTY/PROGRESS REPORT 1 NOVEMBER 1964-31 JANUARY 1965.
Originator: CIA
From: COS, MEXICO CITY
To: CHIEF, WH DIVISION
Document date: 02/10/1965
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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LIENVOY •

Telephone tap operation against the Soviet

Embassy.

President of Mexico

Gustavo DIAZ Ordaz

LITEMPO

Support program to the various Mexican

civilian

security forces for the purpose

of intelligence exchange, joint opera

tions, and constant upgrading of Mexican

internal intelligence and public security

functions. ]

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ECHEVERRIA, Luis

Minister of Government

(LITENPO/14)]

(Internal Security)

24:

[Joint operations include travel con-

trol, telephone tapping, and repres-

sive

action.

LI EMBRACE

Eight-man surveillance team which has vehi-

cles (including

a Volkswagon photo-van) and

radio-communications equipment and is mainly

concerned with Doriet/satellite and Cuban

targetsi

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LIFIRE

Travel-control operation - photographs

of travel documents are obtained along

with data on arrivals and departures.

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LIENVOY

The joint operation for

telephone tapping is effected in cooperation

with the Mexican

authorities and has a capacity

for about forty lines.

The station provides the equipment, the technical assistance, couriers,

and transcribers, while the Mexicans make the connections in

the ex-24

changes and maintain the listening

postss. In addition to monitoring

the lines of the communist diplomatic missions

those of Mexican

revolutionary groups, LIENVOY also covers special cases.

involvement of the Mexi- <y

are made outside the exchanges by telephone company

work

as station agents, as in the case of the bugging

connect on an entire to 24

" embassy (LISAMPAN)

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MICROFILM

Chief of station, Mexico Cityl

UNEÇE Project LIEMPTY/Progress Report

November 1954-31 January 1965

CTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES

Reference: IMMA-24729, dated 13 Hovenber 1964

1.

ROPORTING AND BACKGROUND.

The last regularly scheduled LIMPTY Progress Report covering the perioa

1 August through 31 October 1964 was forwarded to Heauquarters as Reference.

the period under review, the LIEPTY Project continued to collect

operational infornation on the LIMERICk installation, the LIvErICK personnel and

their visitors, as well as various targets of opportunity, through the daily photo-

graphic coverage provided by the LIMITED, LILYRIC, and LICALLA photo basehouses and

the frequent use of the LIENTRAP mobile photographic unit.

In addition,

project provided other essential operational support to the Station's activities

through the use of the services of long-time contract agents Raymond H. GERE DE

and Oliver G. SCANTLING.

2. AGENT CONTACE AND PROJECI CONMUNICATIONS.

During the reporting period,

the primary LIMPTY principal

agent, Raymond H.

GERS DE was seen thirty-nine (39) times

in regular operational meetings by the

undersigned,

while principal agent Oliver G. SCANTLING was seen separately on

trenty-six (26) occasions. Other than frequent, intentional variations

times and sites, no changes were mele in the LImiTY Project communication systoms.

All operational contact with the action, cub-agents of the LIDPIY Projecü, vas

maintained through Raymond H. GERENDE.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS, PROGRESS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS.

Throughout the reporting period, Project LImITY continued to produce the

najority of the operational photographs toed in Station Merico City's KUDESK

operations against the LIMERICA tansoú. Zain coversge las proved to be a reliable

tool for folloting the daily activitios of LIMERICK personnel; providing identities

Of LI ERICK staffors and their visitors; and verifying the relative ran!: and

positions as tell es the intelligence service connection of LIMRICK officers.

Specific anamples of the contributions of each LIMPTI Project component follow:

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EMMIA-25559

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DATE

10 FebrIary 1965

HQS FILE NUMBER

50-6-7413

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HMMA-25352

a)

Raymond H. GERENDE - Throughout this period, Raymond il, GERENDE

continued as the Station's full-time

the LIMITED,

and LILYRIC basehouses as well as maintaining the cutout

responsibility to the LIstin? mobile photo unit and the LIE PTY

photographic-processing basehouse.

GERENDE agoin made numerous

and essential contributions to the sensitive AROD operation

well as servicing numerous postal acconnodation addresses.

b)

O11ver G. SCANTLING - SCANELING during the reference period,

continued to make his regulai contribution

to Station activities

as the alternate contact of LICASA-l in this sensitive LAURICLE

operation.

In addition, SCANTLING provided detailed casing reports

on the Indonesian Embassy and the home

Of AMRIFT-1; performed pre-

text investigations in an effort to determine the

residence, of a

koy LIMERICK staffer; and successfull: recruited the subject of

MEXI-2315 (dated 19 January 1955) which enabled the Station to

achieve a major technical penetration

of the PBRUMEN Embassy in

Mexico City (see also MEXI-2235 dated. 20 January 1965, for

additional details) • SCANTLING's extremely professional performance

in this recruitment and the subsequent ticklish agent-handling of

the subject is to ba commended.

c) LIMITED

As noted in paragraph 2, section b

of Reference, the LIMITED

photographic, surveillance, and radio dispatching activities were

suspended in

Late September 1964 due to the release of LIMITED

notographs in the larren Commission's overt report. ¡ The Station

subsequently acquired an apartment in the immediate veinity of

the LIMERICK installation and moved the LIMITED basehouse keepers,

LIEMPIY-6 and LIEMPTY-7, into this temporary location.

operational activities were then re-initiated from the new basehouse

early January 1965 and during that month LIMITED produced 18 rolls

of 35 mm operational film, provided regular physical

surveillance

reports, and served as the finca radio dispatch base for one

LIMBRACE surveillance operation.

interim period and as a result oi separate correspondence

with Headquarters, the forner LIMITED basehouse and property

to LIMOSINE, who as per formal agreement with the Station,

structure and will begin construction

immediate future.

Incluled in this

formal agreoment with LIMOSINe is

the proviso that

one floor of the now building will be reserved for

the Station's use.

of the new structure, the DIreD

personnel and operational activity will be transferred from the

temporary apartment basenouse to the new, more ideally located

LIMOSIE building.

LILYRIC - Throughout the periol under review, the LILIRIC installation

continued to provide photographic and fixed visual surveillance of the

front of the LIMERICK installation. LILYRIC provided 63 rolls of

operational photograpis during this period which were of definite

value to the Stations KUDESK operations against the LIMERICK target.

IILYRIC made specific contributions to the Station's LIOYSIER-1

operation, as noted in MEXI-1473 of 4 November 1954.

LICALLA - During the period under review, the LICALLA installation

provided coverage of the bach of the IlMERIck installation, the

sarden, and patio area where many of the personnel congregate. LICALLA

provided 60 rolls of 35mn still photographs as well as 600 fest of

15mm motion picture test filn.

Station reinitiatsa this motion

picture program to obtain further exemplars of LIMERICK persornel

engaged in conversation,

for possible lip-realing emploitation.

autitional details, see

mriA-25155, dated 13 January 1965 and ADMA-25275

dated 28 January 1965.

LIEVIRA? - Throughout the soporting period, the LInTRAP mobile photo-

82aphic

wit was targeted extensively against members and installations

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of the Partido Commista Mexicano and visiting

communist leaders.

Much of this coverage, 25 rolls of 35mm film, was in support of

planned recruitment attempts and the LIENTRAP"take" was of

considerable

value in providing identifications, locations, and contacts of various

LIENTRAP "take" provided the positive identification and

location of the subject of IMMA-25183, dated 18 January 1965,

enabled a visiting case officer to make the recruitment attempt of

this individual.

•4. SECURITY AND PROBLEMS.

a) During the period under review, there have been no known incidents

which adversely effected the security of Project LIE PTY.

However, as

a pre-

cautionary neasure, the LIENIRAP photographic unit was repainted (a basic color

change) in January 1965. It is believed that this action will increase the

security of the LIENTRAP unit and allow it to again operate in various areas

where it had been used extensively in the past.

b) There have been no major operational, personnel, or administrative

problems in this Project during the reporting perioa.

5. PLANS.

a)

During the past project year,

many of the operational

assignments,

levied on Oliver G. SCANTLING,

while within the realm of the Station's RMD,

have fallen outside the scope

of Project LIEMPTY.

Consequently, a new Project

Outline is being prepared at the Station to cover the relationship with, and

the present and anticipated operational activities of SCANTLING..

b)

Anticipated changes in the LIMITED installation activities were out-

lined in paragraph 2, Section c above.

Other than noted above, there are no

basic operational or administrative changes contemplated for Project ITEMPTY.

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