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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch71339 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-108610011] 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
?0 Feb 77
Source: :otes made by A. Goodpasture
for John Leader, IG Staff
Subject: Background on M~exico Station Support Assets
(Coverage of Soviet and Cuban. Embassies)
1. Unilateral coverage. From the time the Miexico Station was ooened 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'ri j
exploit leads from the Soviet Embassy. This umbrella type project (LIFEAT)
consisted of multi line phone taps,. three photo sites, a mobile surveillance
team and a mail intercept operation.
a. Fhone taps were placed by an emplo ee of the telephone company
who was handled by David WILSTED (pseudo). The number of lines
tapped was limited by availability of post nearby
(since the taps were not r'a oA central) and English/
Spanish (Soviet h, etc) transcribers. Generally
theseexican or Mexican American) were related
(which 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 IMahoney (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
Northest corner of their compound and LIMITED was diagonally
across a double barrelled street on the Sout + r
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