“… on" from tapes. (U) In our search efforts we did locate approximately 185 audio surveillance tapes of the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City that were recorded during the immediate time following the assassination (22 November 1963 to January 1964). The fact that these tapes w …”

“… hat Kennedy's murder could precipitate World War III. n53 Oswald's time in the Soviet Union and his trip to visit the Soviet Embassy , in Mexico City just weeks before the murder pointed to Communist intrigue. n54 Such concerns were amplified because Oswald had identified himself with th …”

“… ty worked to learn everything it could about Oswald and his murky, superficially contradictory activities.' New intelligence reports from Mexico City suggested a link between Oswald and the Cuban government. The supersecret National Security Agency and allied eavesdropping agencies went …”

“… le, the CIA sought to protect a considerable amount of information involving the use of double agents to infiltrate the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. As Exhibit Three makes clear, the Agency originally wanted to protect broad sections of a message sent on November 29, 1963, one week af …”

“… mer Soviet government. Yet, in terms of the story of the assassination, knowing the quality of the effort directed against the Soviets in Mexico City was considered crucial. As Exhibit Four reveals, only weeks before Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for killing President Kennedy, Oswald h …”

“… ntly close to Castro to gauge the Cuban leader's evaluation of Oswald and the circumstances surrounding his visit to the Cuban embassy in Mexico City. n178 The FBI wished to redact much of this material. The FBI was concerned that Castro's tests were at variance with the FBI’s test resu …”

“CIA on November 23, 1963, only hours after the murder of the President, seeking information about a surveillance operation conducted in Mexico City. ni83 The message [*30] sought information about what the CIA operatives in Mexico City knew about the existence of tapes and transcripts …”

“harm, it would not disclose the name of one CIA official involved with the Mexico City operation, although the names of . other officials were released in cooperation with the CIA. _ _ - - - - - - -Footnotes- - - • nl86. S …”

“… 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 …”

“… 00000 10 SECRET 15 May 1995 FOR: David Marvell Executive Director, ARRB FROM: John Pereira CIA/Historical Review Group SUBJECT : Mexico City/Sensitive Information The Directorate of Operations prepared the attached statement to assist the Assassination Records Review Board. T …”

“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 …”

“… ve and complete list of all operations at that time? 6. How can a search query be framed to document all electronic take produced by the Mexico City Station in the immediate wake of the assassination (the first month) and during the period of Oswald's visit? How can we verify that what …”

“… No. CIA-13, dated November 1, 1996, contained the following questions: What forms of backchannel communications were there between the Mexico City Station (including the COS), JMWAVE, or Headquarters during 1963? By "backchannel" we mean, inter alia, any administrative, senior staff, …”

“… itional Information and Record No. CIA-14, dated December 23, 1996, documented our request for the annual or biannual Station reports for Mexico City Station for 1963 and 1964. Why has it been so difficult to provide these reports? 16. The attached Agency document released in 1996 cont …”

“… 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”

“… ive and complete list of all operations at that time? 6. How can a search query be framed to document all electronic take produced by the Mexico City Station in the immediate wake of the assassination (the fist month) and during the period of Oswald’s visit? How can we verify that what e …”

“… 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 to determine if we have a . comprehensive and complete list of …”

“… ns that may have picked up Oswald’s visit? Question #6: How can a search query beframed to document all electronic take produced by the Mexico City Station in the immediate wake of the assassination (thefirst month) and during the period of Oswald's visit? How can we verify that what e …”

“… d C o l e c t i o n Box 23, * Folder 9 CLASSUCalueN K. A, P O’ K SECRET .. ruoCiaSwG ACTION . MARID roe IMMUNO' " 16 ‘wtd.COS. Mexico City wo We*ING mequigD " ... ■ GAY Quasirigo besq CAN ltce NiOlklM' som " I - __Chief. NU Division Ss/tcf ■ . ■ PBRUMEN_ LIFEAT/LISRODE …”

“Attachment -u/s/a Distribution , 0 & 1 - COS, Mexico City w/att CROSS kuadEncE TO CS COPY OISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMEE CAM 50-6-32/6 HMMY 12454 1 April 1964 Sv.a 1 CLASSIFICATION usiitenuuse SE …”

“… hone -• taps. ■ CRYPTONYH B - Assigned on21 February 1959, to identify the Station’s unilateral telephone tap of the PBRUMEN TPELIDE in Mexico City. (See . MEXI 3382, February 21, 1959) .‘ CRYPTONYM C - Identifies the technical nomanclaturejof a . .. • hot mike telephone A/S installa …”

“… ich have no connection with the assassination or fall in only part of a relevant time frame. For example there are over 3000 pages on the Mexico City Photo operation covering the 1960's and 1970's. The only related material is that falling in the time frame of Oswald's visit to Mexico …”

“… s--financial records) 5. Issues/Problems (examples of postponed information) - Degree of sanitization Relevancy e.g., chrono cables from Mexico City (Chinese ops items) Privacy - Duplicates (Oswald 201 in microfilm)”

“… - - financial records) 6. Issues/Problems (examples of postponed information) Degree of sanitization Relevancy e.g., chrono cables from Mexico City (Chinese ops items) Privacy Duplicates (Oswald 201 in microfilm) Office of Personnel files Office of Security files”

“… nt of HSCA originated material*. These records cover a wide range of topics but focus on anti-Cuba/Castro activities and Oswald in USSR, Mexico City and New Orleans. Also included are responses to the large number of names traces requested by the HSCA staff, numerous copies of documen …”

“… equests, notes, memos, correspondence and final report, plots against Castro, photos of unknown man, defector study, Nosenko, name files, Mexico City - station files’, FBI reports, Warren Commission reports. / * approximately 30,000 pages of HSCA originated material has' been removed …”

“… UG-1 Reels 23-25 DO Project Files, Garrison investigation Reels 25-28 Cuban exile organizations Reels 28-30 Office of Personnel Files; Mexico City records Reels 31-44 Oswald files; 201 file is duplicate of hardcopy file Reels 45-47 Nosenko; Mexico City records Reels 48-49 CIA-HSC …”

“… w areas for CIA records . HSCA collection now housed physically just a few yards from here To be reviewed word by word Scelso Oswald in Mexico City by Hardaway and Lopez JFK Library Release this fall of many records related to Cuba I am pleased to say - and I offer this as my person …”

“… perational work against Castro in whom CIA lost - interest when he was not able to meet operation standards. - 4. Soviet official at the Mexico City embassy during Oswald’s visit, although he never had any personal contact with him. The Mexico City portion of his file ha been reviewed …”

“assassination. 7. CIA official in Mexico City who was directly involved in matters related to Oswald’s visit. Prior to and subsequent to the Mexico City tour, the officer was statione …”

“… und assassination dates of Warren Commission dates of Church Committee, HSCA investigations individuals of importance CIA officials in Mexico City David Atlee Phillips Win Scott CIA officials in HQ involved in investigation John Scelso JJ Angleton - geographical relevance (USSR; …”

“… /material that it is not feasible to review by 30 Sept, or extremely time-consuming for both staffs and marginal to the story (examples: Mexico City tapes, card files that duplicate information in the file) Other Topics for Discussion Final Declaration “Who signs” may come up. Tra …”

“… w government comes into power will be back in power at some point. Bill comments on specific stations If important to the story such as Mexico City and the surrounding stations which were involved in the cable exchanges re Oswald, then will release. 1 “Don't take it away from us for …”

“… onsibility for the protection of sources and methods must be defended; and we can be sure that it was not anticipated that a KGB officer in Mexico City would be transferred to another country and go on generating much operational information. Furthermore, we saw it as the Board's responsibi …”

“… e Cuban people. b. Concept: This to be accomplished by airdropping valid Pan American or KLM one-way airline tickets good for passage to Mexico City, Caracas, etc. (none to the U.S.). Tickets could be intermixed with other leaflets planned to be dropped. The number of tickets dropped c …”

“13-00000 Top-Secret seek Mexican concurrence In using new equipment (IL-18) on the Havana-Mexico City route. We should persuade| Mexico to refuse the new aircraft on grounds of safety, facilities, or other reasons. We should also encourage …”

“… 2. Please tell us which of the following crypts are still in use. (We understand that most of these pertain to surveillance operations in Mexico City): LICALLA LIEMBRACE LIENVOY LIERODE LITEMPO (or LITEMPOS) LCIMPROVE REDWOOD LIMITED LILYRIC LIFEAT LIFIRE MKCHARITY 3. Please …”

“… rveillance BaseHouse (LIERODE) Against Cuban Target AMKIRK-1 Cuban Access Agent (friend of LICOOKY-1) AMROD Sensitive Cuban Operation in Mexico City-(Explain?) ERTHYROID-3 Nicarguan Liaison Official 4. Please confirm the information we have on the following individuals and provide addi …”

“(Spanish), Mexico City station Tarasoff, Boris (Douglas J. Feinglass) - Transcriber/translator (Russian), Mexico City station Shaw, Robert T. (Lawrence P. Bark …”

“… 30 /95 11:49AM P.5 SECRET ARRB request, page 3 Zambernardi, Robert (Gregory D. Parmuth) Liaison between photo basehouses and station, Mexico City? Whitten, John (alias John Scelso) C/WH-3.________ _ Retired under cover to Vienna, Austria? Herbert, Radford W. (TN) Gallery, L.N. (T …”

“… llen Austin (T) ; alias Raphael G. Leminger (T) .- (201-0220680) 9. Joseph G. Sancho (T) 10. (See Secret bio summary attached) 11. DCOS/Mexico City under Scott (deceased) 12. Cynthia J. Hausman (T). 13. Staffer who was case officer for LIRING/3 14. Deceased; assassinated in Athens, G …”

“… ce (DCS) 33. Fidel Castro 34. Mexican asset 35. Postal Intercept Program 36. Allen W. Dulles 37. Double agent against Soviet target in Mexico City 38 . Technical surveillance operation against Soviet Embassy in Mexico City ;_______ 39. Fixed photo coverage of Cuban Embassy (unilater …”

“of November, 1996. CIA-7 (Histories) Mexico City. CIA has shown the Mexico City history to Gunn. CIA will compile the portion of the history that was shown to G. Robert Blakey, Board Me …”

“… Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union, and Os­ an important program and I am re daunting. However, it is wald’s subsequent activities in Mexico City and New Orleans. They Even in a time of 34- committed to making it work, also include a large number of name traces requested by the staff …”

“… ­ volume of material at one time. review of what could prove to be a large tion to the Soviet Union, and Oswald’s subsequent activities in Mexico City and Fifth, and finally, section 6 of the joint New Orleans. They also include a large number of name traces requested by the '. postponem …”

“… ate the assassination of President Kennedy. t. Undated summary of file information on Lee Harvey Oswald u. Incoming cable #83858 from Mexico City dated 20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald) v. Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico”

“13-00000 . 1 SECRET W. Incoming cable #36017 from Mexico City dated 9 October 1963 x. Outgoing cable #74830 to Mexico City dated 10 October 1963 y. Incoming cable #47041 from Mexico City dated 2 …”

“… te the assassination of President Kennedy.. t. Undated summary of file information on Lee Harvey Oswald u. Incoming cable #83858 from Mexico City dated 20 July 1963 (no mention of Oswald) v. Incoming cable #01325 from Mexico City dated 17 August 1963 (no mention of Oswald) W. In …”

“… ember 1, 1996. CIA-7 (Histories) Counterintelligence. CIA has made material available and Review Board staff examination is ongoing. Mexico City. The Review Board awaits CIA's compilation of the portion of the Mexico Station history that was shown to G. Robert Blakey. Board MEMBER …”

“… IA-IR-03 HTLINGUAL Documents, CIA-IR-04 Disposition of Angleton Files, CIA-IR-07 Claude Barnes Capehart, CIA-IR-15 Electronic "take" from Mexico City, CIA-IR-21 DRE Monthly Operational Reports, CIA-IR-22 "A" Files on Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison. Boaro MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim, Chair • H …”