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104-10404-10423 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(Ct@il1ate afigroup (LIFIRE) and two separate
                        grops(LTEMPO  and LIENVY   handled

                                a.  LIFIRE was handled by Robert Feldmann. 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 were handled  (on the policy level)
                                by the COS
                                I made the uany pIJI-up meeti-ngs with Car-ee-r Agent Jeremy
                                K. Benadum for LITEMPO and Staff Agent Arnold F. Arehart
                                1 o LIENVOY. LITEWO  was asurveillance  tenfs
                                                           They operated a conceale
                               passport camera and photograped  icoming  passengers
                               passports from the Cubana flights.  No outgoing passports
                               were photographed because the facilities for departures
                               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 passport camera operation was
                               to identify the Soviets arrivin  via Havana.   They also
                               provided us with a list of the incwing  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 with Robert Feldmann 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 Cit  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.  (LITEwPO passenger list attached).

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