“… identified in true name as a CIA agent in John Newman's book, 7 Oswald and the CIA) As of 1993, (LITAMIL-9? was still alive and living in Mexico City with family in Cuba. To date, the ARRB- Board has agreed to protect his identity and crypt and delay the release of his 201 file until th …”
“… ostpone release of specific information until 2017 and use generic substitute language. 2) LITAMIL-9 (CIA penetration of Cuban Embassy in Mexico City/considered a "key player" in the Oswald-Mexico City story]: - s agreed to continue to protect the full crypt and delay the release of add …”
“… be declared as an assassination record (bad for CIA); an actual vote by the Board will not take place until the May meeting. • ISSUE 4 Mexico City Tapes 8. (S) This request asked for a thorough search of Agency files and documents for and CIA 9% surveillance 'take' from Cuban and S …”
“… rms: There could be conversations about Oswald and/or the assassination on the 22 Nov + tapes which could give clues to Oswald's visit to Mexico City on 25 September - 3 October. The absence of any conversation about Oswald or the assassination would itself be of historical interest. Or …”
“… Records —On the subject of cable, dispatch and file numbers, there is no objection to the release of this information as it pertains to Mexico City, to include 201 numbers of key players in the JFK story. All hqs cable numbers can be released as can dispatch numbers to Mexico City. Th …”
“… L ON: X1 ORV FRM: COL 1-82 25 September 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: Bob Skwirot FROM: Charles A. Briggs-Y- OFFICE: DCI/CSI/HRG SUBJECT: Mexico City Station History REFERENCE: The Mexico City Station History contains at least 99 separate cryptonyms, for the most part concerning proj …”
“… in other directorates or, traditionally, outside of the division within the Operations Directorate. Thus concern about the release of the Mexico City History pages that, viewed through the widest of lenses, do not appear to be relevant to the JFK story,is very great. ______ -—-—— CC: …”
“… lines that will continue to guide the review process, some of which will be outlined here. For CIA stations, all locations related to the Mexico City story will be released during the period 1960-69. Outside of that window, they will be released on a case-by-case basis should the identi …”
“… NG POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION IN MEXICO. - DAILY INTERLOQUTOR WITH MEXICAN CABINET OFFICERS DURING SLIGHTLY LESS THAN FOUR YEARS IN MEXICO CITY. - IN PREVIOUS WASHINGTON ASSIGNMENT, DEALT EXTENSIVELY WITH THE FULL RANGE OF FOREIGN POLICY ELEMENTS OF THE USG. GAVE IN HOUSE AS WELL …”
“… ce Agency Washington, DC 20505 Re: Request to CIA to contact liaison channels regarding LIENVOY intercepts of Oswald telephone calls in Mexico City ; Some time ago the Review Board requested informally that CIA contact its liaison channels in Mexico City for information related to Le …”
“be appropriate for CIA to contact directly Mexico City liaison) Ichannels to inquire as tg whether the Mexican authorities retained copies of LIENVOY/ telephonic tai^, specifically the actual …”
“in foreign countries), First Chief Directorate, told Nosenko orally that Mexico City station had just sent a cab!! about a request by Oswald for a visa to re-enter Soviet Union. What should be done? Nosenko said he said, ‘ …”
“two Mexico City officers, both still alive in Russia: Valeriy Kostikov and Pavel Yatzkov.”
“… technical operation." 56; 4-7 M Release line 4; 10/2017, "Describes protect all of line 5; intelligence operation in release lines 6 & 7 Mexico City." 56; 19-23 M postpone from 4th 10/2017, "Describes sr word in line 19 intelligence operation in through the third Mexico City." word i …”
“… e information at issue. —■—-—— - I. Mexican Political Action Program "We were running, at that time, a vast political action program in Mexico City to try to swing Mexico around from its Leftist direction to a”
“… on program there at the time - - absolutely enormous" (Scelso, 64; Lopez, pp. 177, 178) 2. (S) From the early 1950's to the mid-1960's. Mexico City Station conducted a political action campaign to minimize leftist influence on and within the Mexican Government. The campaign utilized s …”
“… ic -confirmation—bythe U.S. Government of those activities would risk an adverse reaction. Such adverse reaction would impact on current Mexico City Station operations and be harmful to U.S. interests.*A (War Division officers) 3. (S) As has been described to the Board in previous br …”
“… so pg. 185). 8. (S) Release by the Board of Scelso's comments about the Mexican police in conjunction with surveillance coverage of the Mexico City airport could similarly have a chilling effect on our current liaison relationship with the Mexicans. The Station has worked, and continu …”
“… items, and on the Agency's concerns re the Australian documents; I requested that the Board reconsider the release of the statements on) Mexico City political action programs, Scelso's comment on Agee, the reference to the Mexican Police as a source and / Warrenton as site of the Agenc …”
“… at we would have V) to ; disseminated any additional information that we got. Mr. Goldsmith. Did Headquarters ever criticize the 1 1 Mexico City station for failure to send this information? •- 'I i Mr. Scelso. No. That was not because we were trying to: .1 go easy on them, it …”
“… this time. I am going i la i to modify the line of inquiry somewhat. Do you know how many telephone intercepts there were i31 in the Mexico City station? 15, Mr . Scelo. How many lines were being tapped? 20 Mr. Goldsmith. Yes, at the Cuban and then at the Soviet.”
“… 15 years. Mr. Goldsmith. In any event, your earlier comment was 340 771 STREET , S.W. 17 that the telephone surveillance operation in Mexico City id was one of the most extensive in the world? ■9 Mr. Scelo. Yes. And of course, they taped a great ce deal which they could not explo …”
“13-00000 221173 A w&wtsa 1-141 (e tc by) YOSH Mr. Goldsmith. Is the Mexico City’s station's operations 1 dee one of the most sensitive of all of the stations at the Agency? 3 : 6 Mr. Scelso. It was then. That is; t …”
“… al cover of Washington DC public relations firm Robert Mullen AND ALLIED WORKERS (IFegAw). The international trade secret- Co. Assigned to Mexico City with same cover. ariat for rural wodus. Usedt, the CIA for labour operations. King, Colonel, J. c. Chief of the Western Hemisphere Divisio …”
“… See COORDINAT ofcertain operations. ING SECRETARIAT OF NATIONAL UNIONS OF STUDENTS (COSEC). ladenburg, Arthur. cia operations officer in Mexico City under INTERNATIONAL TRADE SECRETARIATS. A generic description of . non-official cover. Later assigned to Santiago, Chile. the internation …”
“… ent City. CIA agent. True name forgotten. • * who wrote cover kiters ajiLuis Toroella, q.v., and served as tran Licozy-1. Double-agent of Mexico City station against the KGB. True scriber and courier for telephone-tap operation. Cryptonym: name forgotten. ECDOXY Li cozy-3. Double-agent …”
“in charge of move- LIEMBRACE. Mexico City station surveillance team. Names of team ments el. us-domicisix population. Montevideo station liaison members unknown._____ _ _ collabor …”
“… ted of a series of letters sent to the Cuban intents "operation are made outside the exchanges by telephone company gence service in their Mexico City Embassy from a person engineers who work as station agents, as in the case of the bugging purported to be a CIA officer trying to help the …”
“… ly associated with Ordoqui and Marco flight-travel lists from the airport, which are passed daily to the Rodriguez when all three lived in Mexico City during the late station and take photographs of passengers to and from com 1950s. The letters continue to be sent to Cuban intelligence 1 …”
“… l Central American parties, including the government, Luis Echeverria.? Thus the LITEMPO project Guatemalans, maintain liaison sections in Mexico City in order focuses at the top on the President and the current Minister of to keep lines open to the Soviets, Cubans and”
“… on from the Mexican government. Scott’s chummy relationship with Diaz Ordaz none the less has its problems. In 1964 Fulton Freeman went to Mexico City as Ambassador to crown a Foreign Service career that had started Washington DC in the same Embassy in the 1930s. He is expected to retire …”
“… . project which is administered by Winston Scott,t the Chief of While Scott frequently meets the President and the Minister of Station in Mexico City since 1956, with”
“… e officers is a former FBI agent who tional support programmes to the various Mexican civilian worked in the legal attache’s office in the Mexico City Embassy security forces for the purpose of intelligence exchange, joint - the legal attache is usually the FBI office in an American 524 …”
“… a tract, and Julian Zambianco who was transferred from Guayaquil ‘stealing’ of an FBI officer. The two non-official cover officers are" to Mexico City about a year ago. These officers are in charge of the equivalent of an aid Public Safety mission but in Mexico this agent and technical pe …”
“… by the Agency all over Latin America. quarters. Other reports, often relating to a single subject, are Pellecer is still being used by the Mexico City station as a propa- passed to Diaz Ordaz, Echeverria and top security officials. These ganda agent, as with other former”
“… them is mainly of interest to the FBI, regularly by the station. which calls them the American Communist Group in Mexico Stan Watson, the Mexico City Deputy Chief of Station, has City (ACGMC). Information collected about them includes that been meeting with a South Korean CIA officer wh …”
“… but is more important. j reveals requests for Mexican visas by Soviet officials, including The agent is an American who teaches English in Mexico City X the diplomatic couriers. In addition, NSA is also monitoring and is an ardent fisherman. Through fishing he became acquain several com …”
“… from the 1950s who is now a US cittra Dover and one case officer under non-official cover. An observa- and full-time CIA employee, went to Mexico City to study Gjon post for photographic coverage and radio contact with the voluminous reports on Yatskov written by LIOVAL-1. He DEMBRACE sur …”
“… a student in Mexico, but who reported i from Havana on the frequent Cubana flights. Each traveller is the recruitment and worked for the Mexico City station. He: photographed and his passport is stamped with arrival or depar- worked for the FBI after returning to the US - the Soviet ca …”
“… at every quarters, who sent an operations officer and transcribers to thing in the exchange is in order. Eventually, as the interference Mexico City. Now that the NCNA offices are closed, the audio continues, the engineers will check street connections and finally equipment will be remo …”
“… nvestigate. The plane was gone. The 9 man was on it. He had not identified himself before he left. We had very complete coverage of the Mexico City Airport: OK :C 1l and watched the Cuban flights closely, but where it sometimes • 4 happened that an important Cuban official would …”
“… ing was requested on 7/25/78.142/ The CIA’s explanation stated that the photographs and logs "may have been destroyed * in a purge of Mexico City Station files and that the folders for the destroyed material were reused to forward more recent photographic material to Headquarter …”
“… 5-09-14 The Chancery The Commercial Office OKe 11-28-47 The Consulate 89A. One CIA employee who was involved in Cuban operations in Mexico City remembered that there were taps on the telephone of the Cuban Consulate.213/ It is " possible that the employee, Mr. Phillips, who was …”
“… say, in important il legal manipulations of society, secretly. p-^Me were running, at that time, a vast/poli- ?tical action program in Mexico City to try to f 3swing Mexico around from its Leftist direction) to a middle of the road direction and it succeeded. Classification: TIP- a …”
“… st of the Station’s effort was to attempt to recruit Russians, Cubans and satellite people. 658/ 90222%. Perhaps the nature of the CIA Mexico City Station’s handling of the Oswald case prior to the assassination 2-67.. can best be summed up in Dave Phillips ’ response when 24, h …”
“… was of Oswald. In Octo- ber, Ann Goodpasture had argued this very point with Win ston Scott. 657/ On the day of the assassination, the Mexico City Station cabled Headqua rters that it was sending 09 ;t Classification: Nd to 35 u 46 as soon as possible "copies of only visitor to 19 …”
“… seemed to me to be a small-potatoes defector,” he said. But he conceded that significant information about Oswald - known to CIA agents in Mexico City, for example - had not reached headquarters before the assassination. It dealt chiefly with Oswald’s visits to the Soviet and Cuban emba …”
“… on who sequestered her in a hotel after she protested at the Cuban Embassy. Because of this link to stories related to Oswald's visit to Mexico City, Calvillo is considered a JFK assassination figure. His name and all assassination-related information have been released in collection. …”
“… _____ — -(Alfonso Rudolph Wichtrich. _- — A WWII intelligence officer, Wichtrich worked with the Agency in Panama during 1947-49 and in Mexico City from 1954-70 in various capacities (Station contact, field agent, and contract agent). A prominent businessman, he was general manager o …”
“… orical Review Group FROM: Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr. DO, Focal Point for ARRB SUBJECT : Position on Release of Information Pertaining to Mexico City Station and the JFK Assassination Records 1. At its monthly meeting on 17 July the ARRB will be addressing the issue of the Mexico City …”