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104-10413-10035 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/2/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch19466 and id is 1 raw text is: S1O4~iO413~1OO35 2 October 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Foreign Intelligence SUBJECT: TDY to Mexico City 1. After taking a good look at LIENVOY and LIMAT, I would agree with the persons I talked with in Mxicoj they maintain that any well- run tap operation should produce substantial intelligence information, provided the targets are of intelligence interest, and provided also there are people at the station who look for it and are able to recog- nize it. The case of LIFEAT is interesting in this respects It has been deprived of its most productive lines in favor of LINVOY, and yet its intelligence production compares favorably.with that of the other productive taps, except LIENVOY. 2.. Mexico has people who can detect any little item of intelli- gence significance. This inclides the Chief of Station, who goes over the highlights of the previous day's take every morning and marks certain items for action by station case officers or reports officerss The reports officers work on copies of the take at the same time. 3. There are several aspects of LIENVOY that make it an excellent operation and an outstanding producer of intelligence. I will describe them in detail when mg notes get here from the station. The principal factors in the success of LIEVOY seem to be the following. a, The agreement made with unlike many such agreements elsewhere, is as much in effect today as it was at the starts the targeting is not based on personal politics; the intercept staff has stayed on the job; the equipment Is con- sidered to be on loan fra CIA. b. The native monitoring staff has reached a peak of effec- tiveness that everyone at the station praises very highly. c. The station is organized to handle the take speedily as soon as it comes in. The Chief of Station, the case officers, the reports officers, all work on it at the same time and exchange views on hot items. They do not let reports backlogs accimlate. V.

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