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104-10054-10287 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (02/10/1977)

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992


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10 Feb 77
Source:  'iotes made by A. Goodprsture
         for John Leader,  IG Staff

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


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

April 1947  (by Bill Doyle) until arrival of Win Scott as COS in 1956', Charles

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

exploit leads from the Soviet Embassy.   This umbrella type project (LIFEAT)

consisted of multi line phone  taps, three photo site          e surveillance

team and a mail intercept  operation.

            a.  Phone  taps were plac             o es of the telephone compan

            Swho was handle                TED (pseudo).  The number of lines

            tapjed               y availability of a listening post nearby

              (since th  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.)


              b.  Three  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 the front gate of the Soviet Embassy which had

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

              Northlest  corner.of their compound and LIMITED was diagonally

              across  a double barrelled street on the Sout'





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