“middle of the road direction and it succeeded. I don't know whether you informed yourself about the magnitude of our political action 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 ”
“although not always to be trusted. One inci- ident was recently uncovered in which sulfur was capsuled and sold |as an antibiotic. Medical facilities have recently been improved by the opening of a new hospital which meets United States standards. Physicians and surgeons are ”
“opez, of the HSCA If, was also present, but did not have access to the Mexico City Station material. 2. Mr. Blakey was furnished the following sanitized portions of the Station history which he read in my presence: a. Volume I, Chapter II (C) Station Expansion and Joint Operation”
“(name of person un known) f) Suderman & Horacio - facilities for three lines. Formerly processed the Czech lines. Now nothing but being hold open. g) Cuautla 131 - 3 Soviet Embassy (tappod la the Central) 1 Soviet propaganda office (tap in box) terdeaAe —”
“13-00000 SECRET L September 12, 1995 WORKING PAPER Notes from meeting w/ ARRB staff Sept. 11, 1995 Issue: Presentation to Board at Sept. 20/21 meeting It was agreed that “STATIONS” would be the focus of the presentation 10:00 am, 20 Sept., one hour. Marwell recommended”
“previously mentioned in connection with Soviet operations, resulted from an approach six years ago 24 from President Lopes Mateos. After considerable discussions, the a , operation was approved, providing the Mexican Government would 1a- 29, 34 clude Soviet and Satellite targ”
“effect, the whole history of Station activity for subsequent curiousity seekers, is to reverse the process, releasing the digraph and protecting the root - specifically because the text identifies each crypt. The Board is familiar with the decision to release almost all LI-cry”
“-UAR Ejercito Nacional 540 (name of person un known) f) Suderman & Horacio - facilities for three lines. Formerly precessed the Czech lines. Now nothing but being held open. g) Cuautla 131 - 3 Soviet Embassy (tapped in the Central) 1 Soviet propaganda office (tap in box)”
“sly designated by Mr. Gary Cornwell as being of interest to the HSCA. Mr. Edwin Lopez, of the HSCA - if, was also present, but did not have access to the Mexico City Station material. 2. Mr. Blakey was furnished the following sanitized portions of the Station history which he rea”
“14-00000 ft "I SUBJECT: Unidentified Man Seen Going into Cuban and Soviet Embassies in Mexico City in Oct 1963. Photos Taken by Mexico City Station”
“13-00000 8 ECR ET vE-e. Exclude routine travel information and CI/CE information from TDCS and reports, and. d. Use the cable channel only for reports that are perishable or are of special intelligence interest. Organisation for Administration 56. As in his direction of ”
“-0A6600--------- . '[104-10301-100101 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECRET with a limited number of people. We believe the direction of the station is of high caliber, but not all the station effort is carefully directed ”
“13-00000 SECRET 2A. Faction to counter these activities as they might affect U.S.- interests. While all the U.S.S.R. diplomatic missions are targets of vital importance for U.S. intelligence, the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City has special significance bece or its* proximity”
“the Soviet merstion in Mexico City and now covering a 3 many 0a thirt. lines in n given month. The project - 1a staffed by an "outs:de" cage officer (Career Agent David M. WILSTAD (p) of Project ICG), four contract a ento who Jo ad- . ministrative work, and twenty-one field a”
“Through its technical coverage of the Soviet Embassy, 24 the station has been able to spot and, through subsequent action, to thwart a number of such Americans, several or whom might have done untold damage to U.S. interests had they not been apprehended. 20 In this respect, ”
“Station’s only secure surveillance asset. It is a very anall untrained unit at present, but through this project it will be developed Into a useable, valuable asset. 4. We are not passing FI/OP's comment to the field, because WH Division believes that unilateral assets should”
“14-00000 CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH SECRE T/hipp 'HMMA-20393 15-69-87 Soviet Embassy (Military Attache) 15-61-07 Soviet Embassy (Commercial Office) 15-12-64 Soviet Embassy (Film Representative) 45-61-80 Czech Embassy 45-61-81 Czech Embassy KA. B. Material Processed In N”
“13-00000 SECRET 61. We found the Registry to be a controversial matter between Headquarter and the chief of station. The newly assigned deputy chief of station, who primarily had supervisory responsibility over the chief of Registry, was making a determined effort to reduc”
“office Campos (travel agency) 1spare e) Uristoteles 80) UAR Ejercito Nacional 540 (name of person un known) 29 f) (Suderman & Horacio - facilities for three lines. Formerly is processed the Czech lines. Now nothing but being held open. n24 g) Cuautla 131 - 3 Soviet Em”
“ECRET/SENSITIVE Mexico Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies (1963) 1. Unilateral Coverage: From the time the Mexico Station was opened in April 1947 unti the arrival of Mr. Win Scott as Chief of Station in 1955. the Station had developed a support apparatus to exploit l”
“years at the station, the primary objective of recruiting a Soviet a- national has not been achieved. Although the station’s knowledge of Soviet intelligence activities centered about the /exbesay in " + 32 Mexico City has been greatly widened, it hear led to little positive ”
“13-00000 -SECRET.! SUBJECT: Release of Information on Mexico City Teltaps 1. Protection of sources and methods and liaison equities / require that references to the Mexico City Station teltap activity be excised from any documents released under the auspices of the JFK A”
“including some raises to some of the agents. He told me that on his last round of pay raises he had some -mat AWT difficulty here at headquarters. If any difficulty seems forthcoming , this time, I should like to have the matter brought to my attention 1. because, as you kn”
“Satellite Branch, Covert Action Branch, Communist Party Branch, and operational catch-all which is called the ’’Operational Support Branch." This letter branch is headed by senior operations officer who, has two assist- ante, but the branch in reality 1 extension of the chie ”
“13-00000 SECRET SUBJECT: Release of Information on Mexico City Teltaps 1. Protection of sources and methods and liaison equities require that references to the Mexico City Station teltap activity be excised from any documents released under the auspices of the JFK Assassi”
“13-00000 SECRET now working in Mexico City, had recruited three sub-agents before leaving Cuba but his channel of communications with them has been severed. Another station agent is in a good position Cuba to obtain intelligence from foreign telephone communications. The ”
“a 200) A S G -ie k ^ ^ 33.0 W-8-7 May05 2 S June 1960 - MEMORANDUM FOR THS RECORD SUBJECT : DSARDFING or tavrn H. wistsp (pa) 1. On 1 June 1960 Mr. John 0. Kayn and Mr. John Kennedy of WHD, Mr. Robert Brown of GI/OrS, Mr. Robert Bryant of FI/OPS and Mr. Charles Bray ”
“14-00000 -no€D; /* •354 ST SCTIGA LUE/SD . : JANSEKING / ,j 10 Chief, WH Division - FCTNOT ‘?In DLoLNuBitU xx NO IND. 3. QUIPID A/Q.. ONLY C^ .3 DESK per CSN 43-43 FROM Chief, WOMOLD - Chief of Station, Mexico City W. MICROFILM LIENVOY/Completion of Training Re”
“30000 9 / Page 2 - 5. Experience in other latin American countries where liaison has boon established, has shown that many Station’s tend to reduce their unilateral operations and capabilities in favor of the liaison. Under these circumstances, the production of the Stat”
“uing operational support in the CI/CE field, the following informational reporting was provided. :.. HMM-6626, 10 August 1962 (Soviet Scholarship for the Daughter of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Imprisioned Communist) HMM-667, 24 August 1962 (Mexican Delegates to Technical Movie Congr”
“Mexican military intelligence counterparts and their reports are received citizens. Information about 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,”
“14-00000 6 June 1960 MEMORANDUM FOR THS RECORD SUBJECT: DEBRIEFING Or DAVID M. WILSTED (ps) 1. On 1 June 1960 Mr. John G. Heyn and Mr. Jolin Kennedy of WHD, Mr. Robert Brown of CI/OPS, Mr. Robert Bryant of FI/OPS and Mr. Charles Bray of FI/D met with David M. WILSTED (p”
“btained selected letters from a subagent employed by the Mexican postal system. 2. Liaison Coverage: Liaison coverage was unreliable and insecure as characterized by the nature of the Mexican services at that time. The Mexican Direction of Federal Security (DFS), with which we co”
“ECRET/SENSITIVE Mexico Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies (1963) 1. Unilateral Coverage: From the time the Mexico Station was opened in April 1947 until the arrival of Mr. Win Scott as Chief of Station in 1955, the Station had developed a support apparatus to exploit ”
“ECRET/SENSITIVE Mexico Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies (1963) 1. Unilateral Coverage: From the time the Mexico Station was opened in April 1947 until the arrival of Mr. Win Scott as Chief of Station in 1955, the Station had developed a support apparatus to exploit ”
“Division to have made significant contributions to the Station's well developed, high priority Soviet Operations Program. During the past year the various LIEMPTY base house installations produced valuable information in the form of photographic coverage and physical surveil”
“13-00000 (two case officers outside the station under non-official cover: Bob embassy. The FBI officer had left the FBI to come with the stationt but pains have been taken to conceal his CIA employment1 Driscoll, t a retired operations officer now working under con- order to”
“btained selected letters from a subagent employed by the Mexican postal system. 2. Liaison Coverage: Liaison coverage was unreliable and insecure as characterized by the nature of the Mexican services at that time. The Mexican Direction of Federal Security (DFS), with which we co”
“Fenway opr 14-00000 V. DISPATCH 114-19 19 .E0L1-1892 10 • *‘ *1a: e* Fi. >> Chiat, WH DNV ‘ton. NO -y-1-16 Chief, KUDLSK FROM 15*7 Chief of Station, Mexto filly i 19 July 1962 smile* ‘ Rt TO r - (OHIC W ONS Mexico Guy Station Security MASkED FOR NONG ACTION P0UB”
“MBC AND NO DISPATCH SECRET HMMA -19233 0-1880 ro utADuAEitaS HU N°, Chief, WH Division CO[NOITI7PD 751 +3 50-6-75/1? INFO FROM Chief of Station, Mexico City LDENSITIZED ger CSN 43-43 DafE 19 June 1962 SUBJECT RE: "43 3” - (CHECK "x" ONE Monthly Activities Report o”
“l coverage on it if possible; however, the switchboard was beyond the Station's capability tohandle. Maryknoll priest Felix McGOWAN contacted the Cuban Embassy on 31 July 1963. MEXI-5565 reported details of this contact. This cable was sent to Headquarters for dissemination and a”
“O AAAAA____ . ,104-10413-10053, 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 yeersilf RICH, 28C83 AV- S0 je SECRET AL . A; LIN06 HIM 6 June i960 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD PROJECT COVERS SUBJECT t DEBRIEFING OF DAVID M. WILSTED ”
“14-00000 I S EC3 E.T 20 September 1972 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Western Hemisphere Division SUBJECT : Termination of Project KDAFGHIAN 1. Project KDAFGHAN, approved for FY 72 and FY 73 in the amount of $11,950 each year, covered Mexico City Station's observation post t”
“14-00000 4s” 5. Seeking approval of Station Mexico City for the release of the total report seeEs violate the concept of Headquarters control of operational information. Would It not be more appropriate to ask Station's opinions only in areas of doubt in the matter of sou”
“nterest have become evident, both of which involve sensitive operational considerations: Mexico City •. Mexico City is considered one of the most important bases for Soviet clandestine operations against the United States. As a result Soviet and Cuban diplomatic installations hav”
“13-00000 MAR 18 '97 06:53PM P.3 SECRET Question # 5: We have been working to identify all technical and surveillance operations in and on the Cuban and Soviet consulates and embassies in Mexico City between September 1 and December !, 1963. How can we frame a search query”
“# 14-00000 CIA had seven different microphones in the Cuban Embassy, one hidden in a leg of the coffee table in the Ambassador’s office. Like most audio operations, this one produced a lot of chaff, but it also yielded bits of operational information showing connections be”
“KDFACTOR - Mexico City, Mexico — Photographic Surveillance Team Support •- FY 1972, Cost $19,000 and FY 1973, Cost $20,000 i Fiscal Tear Approved Obligated 1971 $23,635 $27,586 Changes: 1. The processing of photographs obtained through this project now is performed inside ”
“KDFACTOR - Mexico City, Mexico -- Photographic Surveillance Team Support- FY 1972, Cost $19,000 and FY 1973, Cost $20,900 Fiscal Year Approved Obligated . 1971 $23,635 $27,586 Changes; 1. The processing of photographs obtained through this project now is performed inside the”
“request. CIA - IR-15 - Mexico City Station electronic surveillance and surveillance tapes (S) The Directorate of Operations has checked Headquarters records for files referenced in HMMW 12454 20 .”