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104-10413-10128 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/10/1977)

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

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


          1.            L coverage.  From the time the Mexico Station was opened in

          CA~p  19  2     Bill      )] until arrival of Win Scott as COS in 1:956, Charles

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

          exploit leads from  the Spad.dElklassy,  This umbrella type project.(LIFEAT)

          consisted of multi line  phone taps,   ree photo sites,)a mobile surveillance

          team and a mail intercept  operation,

                      a.  Phone taps  were placed by anemle  -oe-of th -telephone eomipay

                      rwh-o--as handled by David WILSTED (pseudo).  The number of lines

                      tapped  was listed  by availability of a listening post nearby

                      (since  the 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,)


                             hree 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 LIFEAT '(LIMITED, LILYRIC,

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

                        the street from t     ot   ateof  the Soviet Embassy which had

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

                        NorthWest corner.0f their compound and LIM1ITED was diagonally

                        across a double barrelled street on the Sout-n'- .


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