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104-10429-10067 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   i aera  group  (LIFIRE) and two separate
 grou s  LITEMPO and LIENVOY) handledl jolptly ithHeNian
 vernment

          a.   LIFIRE was handled by obert Feldmann.  These sources
          observed arrivals and departures of.Cdbana 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.  LITEMD and LIENVOY were handled  (on the policy levell
          by the 0OS with
          I made the daily pick-up meetings with-Career Agent Jeremy
          K. Benadum for LITEMPO and Staff Agent Arnold F. Arehart
          forLIEbNVOYLITENiQ was a.   surveillance team ofT*xd*
          Security Service Officers.  They operated a concealed
                      era and photographed incoming passengers'
                      rom the Cubana flights. No outgoingj
          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  [camera operation was
          to identify theSoviets  arriving via Havana.   They also
          provided us with a list of the incoming passerdgers 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 withlbefVFe  Tdiiiann who said he thought all of the
Cubana flights were passenger frights.  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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