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104-10429-10067 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (05/09/1977)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch79594 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 04-1042910067  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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SUBJECT  CubanaFlight
1. The MexicoStation surveillance of Cubana flights in
1963 consisted of a ni atera group (LIFIRE) and two separate
grops (LITEMPO and LIENVOY)'handledri ptly wt--the xeican)
a. LIFIRE was handled by jobert Fednann. These sources
- - observed arrivals and departifres~of Cuibana 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. LITEMJ and LIENVOY were handed on the polic level)
by the COS with~ng    r~knEeia~vrmn                   ca
I made the daily pick-up meetings with ,Career Agent Jeremy
K. Benadum for LITEMPO and Staff Agent Arnold F. Arehart
forLENOI-.LITEMPO was a .surveillance team of¶3xican
Security Service Officers.    They operated a concealed
passpor' camera and phtographed incoming passengers'-
(ssport   from the Cibana flights.   No outgoing1passpo
were~photographed because the facilities for departuires
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 (Passpj5K) camera operation was
to identify th Soviets arriving via Havana. They also
provided us with a -list of the.incoming passe1igers on the
Cubana flights.   (50-6-91/4  Job 67-200/50, Box 13).   LIENVOY          4
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 with     g1obiTediiIiiwho said he thought all of the
Cubana flights were passenger ffights. A review of the transcripts for
the Commercial Office of the Cuban Embassy for late 1963 indicates that they
wore shipping large qiuantities of automobile parts, foods and medicines
from Mexico City to hlavana 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 tad of cargo.   (LITEMPO passenger list- attached).

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