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104-10054-10287 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/10/1977)

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10 Feb 77
Source:  .iotes made by A. Goodpasture
         for John Leader, IG Staff

Subject:  Background on Mexico Station Support Assets
          (Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies)


1.             coverage.  From the time the Mexico Station was opiened in

April 1947 (by Bill Doyle) until arrival of Win Scott as COS in 1956, Charles

Anderson III  (still in LA/HQ) had developed a support apparatus to -1   -

exploit leads from the Soviet Embassy.  This umbrella type project (LIFEAT)

consisted of multi line phone taps, three photo site          e surveillance

team and a mail intercept operation.

            a.  Phone taps were plac

                     handle           1   TED  (pseudio). The number of lines

             taped              y availability of a listening post nearby

             (since th  taps were not made in the main central) and English/

             Spanish   (Soviet, Polish, Czech, etc) transcribers. Generally

             these  agents  (mostly Mexican or Mexican American) were related

               (which the station at that time felt was good security in that

               if they talked about-shop, they would talk to each other.)


               b. Three photo sites were handled by Anderson with the help

               of Harry Mahoney (retired, living in Chicago) and TDY TSD

               people checking the best type of camera, film, and concealment

               devices. These had  sub-cripts under I1FEAT (LIMITED, LILYRIC,

               and LICALLA). LIMITED was a fixed site bang opposite across

               the street from the front gate of the Soviet Embassy which had

               both a vehicle and foot entrance. The Soviet gate was on the

               NorthWest corner.of their compound and LIMITED was diagonally

               across a double barrelled street on the Sout' .


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