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104-10095-10276 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (09/20/1960)

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MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTCR OF CENTRAL INTELIIG NCE

SUBJECT              . Summary of STESCALADZ.  - Audid Operation
                 -- - -Against the New China News Aency in __van



    -  1. In May 1959, the New China News Agency (NCNA) opened
an office in Havana in the El Medico Building which is occupied     -
partly by business concerns .and partly used for residential apa::-
ments.  Shortly thereafter, the Havana Station obtained the con--
currence of Ambassador Bonsal and Miss Carolyn O. Stacey, an
Embassy  employee- to mount an audio operation against NCNA through
the wall of the adjacent apartment in which Miss Stacey lived. In
November  1939, the FE Division sent one case officer and one TSD
technician to Havana, and the installation of a microphone and tape
recorder was completed in Miss Stacey's apartment on 29 November
1959.


       2. By June 1960, it had become e-vident that two other rooms
occupie d by NCNA possibiy hou ed com=n  a-.    Anmnt  and
.?re used for co nerences. At that tie            FE  Division
case officer, went to Ha-mna and exolored the possibi ity of improving
the operation, ';e managed to lease an artment direct'y over the
NGNA  office and arranged for a stay-beid agent to occupy this space.

       3. In August 1960, a team of three TSD technicians who were
in Havana on a separate SR Division operation agreed to install the.-
additional equipment required-for the NCNA operation. A second FE
Division case officer, Robert Neet, came down to Havana; and he,
together with the technicians, in3talle a -or be microphone and tape
recorder in the apartmentobtained by  over   the NONA  office.
About this time -the ecuipment was removed from Miss Stacey's
apartment, with the exception of the plastic probe which was left -
in the wall and plastered over.


276   2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992









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