“… FORM AGENCY INFORMATION Date: 12/14/04 DOCUMENT INFORMATION AGENCY ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM COS, MEXICO CITY TO: CHIEF, WH DIVISION TITLE: THE LIRING-3 OPERATION DATE: 05/10/1967 PAGES: 5 SUBJECTS: OPERATIONS LIRING/3 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER CLASSIFICATION: SECRET RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT ST …”
“M. Chief of Station, Mexico Cit CitfN City N SUBJECT KAPOK PBRUMEN O The LIRING-3 Operation DISPATCH PROCESSING ACTION (see attachment) ☑ ☐ OILY QUI FED DESK CAN JUDGE NCEXING ☐ ☐ MAY190 X MARKED CEXING NO INDEXE REQUIRED …”
“… A-31933 dated 3 May 1967 (B) 2010798301 1. Forwarded herewith are two reports dated 28 April and 8 May 1967, dealing with the activities of LIRING-3. Although LIRING-3 and his wife moved back to their old apartment on Tacubaya in early May, LIRING-3 uses the apart- most covered by LIFEAT …”
“… ACP, Mexican Society of Friendship with People's China. 3. This Station will do its best to further identify the Sergio Valdez mentioned by LIRING-3 to determine whether he is identical with the man by the same name who contacts Gerard Pierre Charles. We will also try to identify the all …”
“… DSSEu .*w ocstaO C/IEG acres AD EoP W SECRET 232122Z Nov 68 CITE MEXICO 1 28 DIRECTOR, GUATEMALA CITY INFO JN COBRA :RYEAT PSRUMEN LIRING-3 2/Nav 68 IN43465 0 REFS A. MEXICO CITY 8159 (TOK S. GUATEMALA CITY 9739 (* 40612) 1. LINING-3 WRITTEN REPORT PER LIRING-S REQUEST WAS …”
“DID NOT READ RE PORT BUT HAD LIRING-3 GIVE• ‘HIM MAIN POINTS ORALLY. APPEARED MOST INTERESTED IN LIRING-3 -STATEMENTS ON HGY GUAT REBELS FEEL TOWARDS PBRUKEN. SODDED WHEN LIR …”
“… . FILE BID CRat TO BaANc-C DCS-AY 0 so. ACTION DIAFO RID CCPY 1 FILE.VE 1 PAGE 2 MEXICO CITY 6228 SECRET MEN (MEANING UEVISORS). B. LIRING-3 EXPLAINED HE ANARCHIST, LEFTIST, IDELAIST AND FELT TRUE REVOLUTION GOING CN GUATEMALA. THIS WHY HE • s 6 wot bom e — - HELPING GUAT REBEL …”
“FAR CONTACTS is GUATEMALA. LIRING-3 DECLINEDO HOWEVER TO LET HIM KEEP THEM AND LIRING-9 MADE uo ATTEMPT CCPY . I HEM. 3. WILL CABLE FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. POUCHING LIRING- …”
“… E MEX ICO CITY INFO IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR, ROUT INE JNCCBRA RYBAT/PER UEN/L IR IS 3-3 221lnu63 1.40291 REF. MEXICO CITY 8159 WK 1. BECAUSE LIRING-3 COULD NOT LOGICALLY HAVE GAINED DETAILED. 0 INSIGHT INTO IN SURCENCY MOVEMENT 18 GUATEMALA DURING ENCARCERAT ION, DO NOT EEL IEVE II NECE …”
“… /W/16 RID COPY 359 C/01.0/FIZ SECRET 230030Z WCV 68 CITE MEXICO CITY 8159 IMMEDIATE GUATEMALA CITY,DIRECTOR INFO JMCOBRA RYBAT PBRUMEN LIRING-3 REF: MEXICO CITY ’7900 Ex 25321 22Hhav 68 IN40273 20 1. DURING LONG DISCUSSION LIRING-9 HAD AT LIRING WITH LIRING-3 ON 21 NOV LIRING-9 …”
“… • Sic ACTION INFO RID COPY FILE. va. PAGE 2 MEXICO CITY 8159 SECRET MEETING AT 1730 0% 25 Ml WITH SOME MY COLLEAGUES’ SO CAN DISCUSS LIRING-3 REPORT AND SUGGESTIONS AT LENGTH M IN BETTER PLACE FOR PRIVATE TALK." WHEN LIRING-3 EXPRESSED HOPE HE MICHI AMPLIFY 03 RLFOnT In .5 It r …”
“… CRE T 230031Z NOV 6S CITE MEXICO CITY 8160 IMMEDIATE GUATEMALA CITY DIRECTOR INFO JACOBRA DIRECT OR Z2 Nov 68 IN 40270 00 RYBAT PBRUMEN LIRING-3 REF MEXICO CITY 8159 IN 402 23 1. ILZN IS FRANCIS SHERRY, PHONE NO. 20-76-66. 2. FILE 201-798301. SECRET SECRET G vay-”
“… TYPEWRITTEN USSIGNED LE. TER unite 22 007 FF.ON “RAFAEL ARGUETA A.7 LETTER WHICH CONTAINS MANY TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRCRS EXPRESSED HAPPINESS LIRING-3 FINALLY RELEASED AIC HOPED HE WILL SCON RECOVER 530% THE "GAS ANGUSTIA" CAUSED BY "HY COUNTRY." WRITER CONCLICE WITH APOLOGIES FOR MISTAK …”
“… N ADDRESS 0% BACK: RAFAEL :ARGUETA A., 11 AV. 25 22, ZONA 1, GUATEMALA C.A. ENVELOPE IS POSTMAN *ED 22 OCTOBER 19 63 ABID IS ADDRESSED To LIRING-3 AT CALLE .. ME 7, Col. JUAREZ, MEXICO, D.F. (SALON DE LA PLASTICA MEXICAKA WHICH LIRING-3 HAD GIVEN TO JUAK AND MIGUEL LEON BARSIDS AS …”
“… AT. 2 *** TO Fit ^ 0/ 55EW 9V. F.la RO 2: o, Bax-ch— oesnacv • SIG asC •□ :__ Rup Copy!, - . •% PAGE 2 MEXICO OITY 7945 SECRET 3. LIRING-3 COMMENTED LETTER PR OBABLY SIMPLY DESIGNED CHECK HE COMMO CHANNEL. STATES HE HAS NEVER HEARD OF NAME RAFAEL AAGUIA A Als ASSUMES It ALIAS …”
“"CESAR MONTES" - FAR . LEADER WHOSE CURRENT LOCATION UNKNOWN. - / E. "PAVEL" - wo TRACES. - . I. : - -44* 3. STATION WILL DISCUSS LIRING-3 CASE AT ANYTIME CONVENIENT SECRET i”
“… TION PEA INFO SA CSSREG C/WH6 RID COPY Fib RING /3 SECRET 012132Z NOV OCITE MEXICO CITY 7922 DIRECTOR GUATEMALA CITY RYBAT PBRUMEN LIRING-3. • dor69 25321 1. ROWTON REESTABLISHED CONTACT LIRING-3 29 OCT AND BEGAN DETAILED DEBRIEFING EVENING SAME DAY. ROWION ALLED GD, - 0 HE …”
“… TIVITY EVEN ON BEHALF ROWTON. HIGHLIGHTS DEBRIEFING FOLLOWS A. ROLA ND O "CEBOLLITA". FAR OFFICIAL , WHO SHARED CELL 5 BLOCK 402 WITH LIRING-3 TOLD LATTER THAT HE HAP SENT REPORT | A n t.# 4 OF ARREST FAVORABLE TO LIRING-3 TOLD LATTER THAT HE HAD DEENT-REPOP" OF ARREST FAVORA …”
“… XECUTION. 3. BROTHERS JUAN AND MIGUEL LEON) BARRIOS, WHO CLAIMED TO BE G-2 FAR, WHO ALSO SHARED CELLBLOCK AND REMAINED IN CLOSE CONTACT LIRING-3 THROUGHOUT HIS DETENTION, SHOWED LIRING-3 REPORT THEY HAD RECEIVED JULY FROM "RELIABLE FAR SOURCES MEXICO DESCRIBING LIRING-3 AS "ANARQ …”
“… E COUNTRY FOR EXTENDED PERIOD. MONIES CURRENTLY MEXICO: WHERE EXPECTED REMAIN. FAR HAS COMPLETELY BROKEN WITH! .. GUAT CP. THIS ACCORDING LIRING-3 REFLECTED IN COOLNESS EVIDENT BETWEEN LEON BROTHERS AND FRANCISCO CORADO, CP RESPONSIBLE IN 1 - PA VON PRISON. FAR HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVI …”
“… d nice wEiEKmiNE HIS ADDRESS) T HRCUGH . SAL ON DE LA PLASTICA MEXICAN BY POSING AS PERSON REPRESENTING "VILETA"WHO INTERESTED IN BUYING LIRING-3 WATER COLORS CONE 19 PRISON). LIRING-3 PLANS FOR COVER PURPOSES WORK IN SIQUEIROS STUDIO CUERNAVACA A ND ARRANGE SOONEST BELLAS ARTES SPO …”
“HAVE LIKING -3 TELL LIRING-13 ENOUGH TO WET HIS APPETITE AND CONVINCE HIM LIRING-3 SHOULD BE DEBRIEFED AT SOME LENGTH. LIRING-3 WOULD % TELL(LIRING !2 HE WILLING OUTLINE DETAILS HIS ORDEAL INCLUDING INFO"PERUMENS SHOULD …”
“… D5S%w •., PILE mo Deet smancul C/W4/395 AtCN Rib.copv" E SECRET 0423B7Z OCT 68 CITE MEXICO CITY 7486 DIRECTOR, GUATEMALA CITY Fib LIRING-3 50:763 IX0650 REFS: A. B. C. DIRECTOR 3 65 84 GUATEMALA CITY 95 17 HMMA 55. 02 PARA 5 (N02560) 0Jan 1. STATION WISHES TO REITERATE …”
“EXPORTATION LIRING-3 AND LIRING-4 PROBLEMATIC. IT MIGHT EVEN PROMPT GUAT REBELS TO TAKE REPRISALS AGAINST LIRING-3 AND LIRING-4. FURTHERMORE STATION NOT AT A …”
“… TROY • sis DtSSEM Sv. PER ACTION +Nfo RID COPY TEwi PAGE 2 PEXICO CITY 7486 S ECRET V WILL HAVE INCREASED OPERATIONAL POTENTIAL. IF LIRING-3 NOT she RELEASED IS NEAR FUTURE LIRING-4 MAY FIND ONLY WAY OUT HER CURRENT wk” PREDICAMENT IS AT LEAST TEMPORARY RETURN TO reRUheW. SHE …”
“… NECESSARY 30 SUPPORT UNILATERAL WOFIRM OPERATIONS, NEVERTHELESS IT MUST 38 REAL IZED THAT AFTER 6 MONTHS, REVEALING WOFIRM INTEREST IN LIRING-3 IS SOMEWHAT AWKWARD. WHILE GUATEMALAN CITY STATION IS NOT FULLY COGNIZANT OF ALL OPERATIONAL IXPLI- .CATIONS LIRING-4 OPERATION AND ITS …”
“IN FAVOR INTERVENTION WITH GUAT AUTHORITIES WHICH WOULD FINGER LIRING-3 AS SOME TYPE WOFIRM ASSET (MEXICO CITY 5964). -2. IF MEXICO CITY HAS CHANGED ABOVE POSITION AND NOW AGREES WOFIRM INTEREST CAN 38 INDICA …”
“… -20 MAY REVEAL TO THE COURTS WILL DEVELOP RESPONSE. ON THE OT HER wau, rr turpr re we ngUFTYON To ' REVEALING WOFIRM INTEREST DIRECTLY IS LIRING-3, THE STATIOS CAN SO ADV< SE ESMAJOR-20 AID REQUEST HIS HELP* 3. FILE: 201-248917, Kii :2a SE CR ET BT Tin e p . 189 1 I 0 SE …”
“… Hemisphere Division Chief of Station, Mexico City 452000 no RIG RreltaD ICKT CLU DESK an ARC BOONS ErcrRS 0 PERUMES: Activities of LIRING-3, LIRING-4 May through Mid-September 1958 ACCX LLQURID- RBtaEnS 1/924 _ 21-818842 MICROFILMED RE’S HMMA 34682, 17 May 1958 Action Requi …”
“… the chance of being deported, if caught. Although she has not tried it, she would probably be refused a visa to go to Guatemala to visit LIRING-3. She might also face difficulties in Guatemala including possible detention and interrogation if she succeeded in obtaining an entry perm …”
“CLASS# it.a • /* DNuMBEA CONTINSATION OF DISPATCH SECRET EMA - 35502 articles did little to prejudice the Guatemalans in favor of LIRING-3. As a matter of fact, the letter who succeeded in sending LIRING-4 a few letters via the Mexican Consul in Guatemala City who comes to vi …”
“… investigate ROWTON. Such statements also re-enforce the decision of the Station not to attempt, through liaison, to obtain the release of LIRING-3. Such an attempt, if it leaked, would not only expose LIRING-3 to PBRUMEN and Guatemalan FAR reprisals, it would probably also have adver …”
“… OFIRN has sharply decreased and because LIRING-4 is more and more convinced that ROWTON cannot or will not help her obtain the release of LIRING-3. In her frantic efforts to do something for LIRING-3, LIRING-4 has in fact not bad any contact with ROWTCN since early September. Unless …”
“… CITE MEXICO CITY 5984 20Ju68N3521n GUATEMALA CITY DIRECTOR 9 C.La A KAPOK 1. LIRING-4, WHO POSTPONED DEPARTURE TO CUBA IS HOPE HEL LIRING-3, HAS RECEIVED SEVERAL DISTRESSING NOTES FROM LATTER WHO CONTRARY TO PREVIOUS INFO, STILL AWAITING SENTENCE IN JAIL. LIRING-3 COMPLAINS AB …”
“… INGER LIRING-3AS SOME TYPE WOFIRM ASSET. IS THERE SOME WAY, HOWEVER, GUAT CITY STATION COULD DISCREETLY ASCERTAIN PROBABLY SENTENCE GIVEN LIRING-3 AND ADVISE. SECRET 9T SECRET”
“… LARA) ENGINEERED LING-5 HiE FRARCISCO WR 10 LARA TnIP TO GURIESALA ntke dow INCARCERATED • SANDOVAL SAW • LIRING-4 SEVERAL TlMaS A/EzR LIRING-3 ARREST AT CNE POINT SAYING ct MIGHT HAVE TV HOLD up BANK TO CUE To LIRING-4 ASSISIndCE. ACCORDING MANUEL CianCut) PARDINAS, SANDOVAL AR …”
“… v PROVIDED oY SANDOVAL) MIGHT Bt LOOKING rOR LIRING-4 FOR ( INTERROGATION , STATION HAS ASKED LIRING-4 GIVE UP BOTH APARTMENTS ;SHE AND LIRING-3 HAVE BEEN RESTING. LIRING-4 NOW LIVING WITH GIRLFRIEG. BEFORE NOVIGG SHE RECEIVED VISIT OF and WHO DESCRIBED| SELF AS LAWYER OF MEXICAN …”
“… Hemisphere Division X no-wderNG R-aaSD ngo. 1—5MY og DE - ONACnCEKNS face SET Chief of Station. Mexico City a PBRUMEN/Activities of LIRING-3 and LIRING-4 ____ 11 April to 1O May 1968 W. laceorn - M Cm ERIS - 95 Action Required: FYI Reference : HMMA-34484, 16 April 1968 1 …”
“… eparate dispatch which will also transmit floor plans and drawings of that LIRING component. There is little question that the - news of LIRING-3's arrest in Guatemala gained LIRING-4 the sym pathy of various members of LIRING including LIRING-3, -9 and -16. They sees to understand …”
“… ACTION WH 8 mo corv FILE vn. walcog e, cilops SECRET 301612Z APR 63 CITE MEXICO CITY 5423 TOR GUATEMALA CITY INFO DIRECSTR- PBRUMEN LIRING-3 LIRIN REF: MEXICO CITY 5375 (:: (nn1 98384) 38Am63N011 of 1. RETURN ADDRESS OF ENVELOPE IN WHICH NOTE FROM LIRING-3 SENT LIRING-4 IS …”
“… 0 jour CAJRED DESK COS/Guatemala City CAN LIGL NCEONG FCM Chief of Station, Mexico City MOD SIB 0 795 se Review of Events Leading to LIRING-3's Arrest in Guatemala ACTION tRUSS -KEKS Action Required: For Your Information 1. The purpose, of the present dispatch is to summarize …”
“CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH HYMA - 34531t S E C’R/ET’r 2. According to reports submitted to Wallace B. ROUTON by LIRING-3, the latter met Carlos Manuel Persaval Warcue originally through the latter's sister-in-law, Carmer/Lozada de Ramirez, who had been carry …”
“… he was in touch with two "important g-c.cill- lcade.a who needed neip in returning As LCGC 1 clandestinely to Guatemala. Persaval asked LIRING-3 to arrange to guide these persons across the Guatemalan border south of Chiapas, an area LIRING-3 had previously told Persaval he was ver …”
“… enazi may be identical with■ Luis David AEskenassy Cruz, a former agent of the Guatemala City Station. * 5. With the approval of ROWTON, LIRING-3 agreed to help the above-mentioned persons to cross the Mexican/Guatemalan border and to accompany then to Guatemala City. This latter ex …”
“098 H’viCl avD vwe LA CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH SECR-E HNWA - 34531 informed LIRING-3 that their mutual friend Rodolfo Sandoval would not be accompanying them since he was too well known and his mission was not important enou …”
“… aval and LI2ING-3 had reached the local press and that they would be turned over to the appro priate courts for trial. This indicates that LIRING-3 may : eventually be released and hence be available to ROWTON for , complete debriefing. 9. The only significant name that had surfaced as …”
“… K IENO ACTION Fl. Fi/INTL, C1/0PS, 01/102 SECRET 252105Z APR 68 CITE MEXICO CITY 5375 r DIRECTOR , GUATEMALACITY /------~ J PER UMES LIRING-3 LIRING-4 25AxEm98384‘ REFs GUATEMALA CITY 89. 0(3295700) 2 :. LIIEd- RECEIVED CABLE vgev myyyyan CONSULATE GUATEMLA CITY 24 APRIL STATIN …”
“… PERSAVAL VITH RESULT THAT MINISTER SENT MEXICAN CORSUL GUATEMALA CITY INSTRUCTIONS TO INTERVESS. 4. PER STATION BRIEFING LIRIRS-4 TAKING LIRING-3 LETTER TO LIRING 25 APRIL VITH VIEW ASK AID LIRINS-2 AND LIRING-9 AND USE LIRING-3 ARREST 70 TRY CORRECT ADVERSE REPORTS CIRCULATING RE H …”
“SECRET 23 April; 19681 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: LIRING-3 Visit To Guatemala With Guerrillas: FRANCISCO ADALBERTO LARRA BARRIOS and CARLOS MANUEL PERSAVAL MARCUEi 1. On 5 March 1968, LIRING-3 h …”
“enter Guatemala illegally. * / MEXI-47907 4. LIRING-3 reported on 27 March 1968, that one of the traveller to Guatemala is FRANCISCO ADALBERTO LARA BARRIOS. The group is of the opinion that L …”