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104-10103-10059 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/9/1977)

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                                                                   9 May 1977

                    SUBJECT:   Cubana Flights

                          1.  The Mexico Station  surveillance of Cubana flights in
                    1963 consisted of  a unilateral group (LIFIRE) and two separate
                    groups  (LTEMPO  and LIENVOY) handled,


                              a.  LIFIRE was handled by(Robert-Fei   gg    These sources
                              observed arrivals  and departures of Cubana flights.  They
                              reported any unusual  incidents and provided copies of the
                              flight manifests.  This  travel was routinely reported to
                              Washington by cable  (JMGIN Cuban Travel).  A copy of the
                              manifests was sent  later by dispatch to Washington with
                              the same reporting crypt.

                              b.  LITEND and LIENVOY wereihandled- (on the  aicy iLeve1)
                              by the 0OS
                              I made the daily pick-up meetings with  Career Agent Jereiimy'
                              K. Benadum for LITEMPO  and Staff Agent Arnold F. Arehart
                              for LIENVOY.. LITEMPO was a  surveillance team of
                                                        : They operated  a concealed
                                       canera and photographed  incoming passengers'
                                       from  the Cubana flights.  No outgoing
                              were photographed because the facilities  for departutes
                              were located at the other end of the  airport and not
                              feasible for the number of available  agents at our disposal.
                              Further, the purpose of the/E   7    camera operation was
                              to identify the Soviets arriving vid Havana.   They  also
                              provided us with a list of the incoming passengers on  the
                              Cubana flights.   (50-6-91/4 Job 67-200/50, Box  13). LIENVOY
                              was a telephone tap operation against  the Cuban Embassy and
                              provided transcripts of conversations with  the Cubana Office
                              and the Mexican Airport Control Office.

                          2.  I checked withiobert  Feldmanii'who said he thought all of the
                    Cubana flights were passenger flights.  A review of  the transcripts for
                    the Commercial Office of the Cuban Embassy for late  1963 indicates that they
                    were shipping large quantities of automobile parts,  foods and medicines
                    from Mexico City to Havana by Cubana Airlines.  Statements to clients on
                    what day they could send cargo and packages by Cubana led me to the
                    conclusion that all the flights to Mexico City from Havana could carry
                    passengers but some of the flights out were basically cargo  (with the
                    capability of also carrying a few passengers).  From manifests,  it appears
                    that Cubana made a flight from Havana to Mexico City and return every
                    other day.  There was a flight on 22, 25, and 27 November 1963.  The
                    22 and 25 November flights carried passengers.  The  27th November flight
                    carried 75 passengers to Mexico and returned with LOPEZ and  it is believed
                    a plane load of cargo.   (LITEMPO passenger list attached).

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