“8 June 1960 KENORAN DIN: POR: C/WH/3/Mexico SUBJECT: LIFEAT 1. During my recent visit to Mexico I had a good chance to go over many of the ins-and-outs of this project with the Case Officer and with other officers in the Station. At Station staff meeting I stated that rep”
“ntribution in fulfilment the several priority objectives of the Station's Related Mission Directive. I. There is attached a list of the HMMs produced from LIFEAT provided material during the period July 1962 through May 1963, as a by-product of the project's prime responsibility ”
“of the project's prime responsibility of providing support to Station operations. ‘ 11. Progress of the Operation The objectives of the LIFEAT Project are of a continuing nature and are there fore not considered for fulfillment during any given period of time. For this reas”
“average number of lines covered per month being 18, and a high in October 1962 of 25 lines covered. NW 65990 Docld:32392451 Page 8 A 8 III. Planning for the Future ! As was.indicated at the time of the last project renewal, LIFEAT hopes to remain uncommitted to coverages that req”
“fiose) 8/-g. hH ET in addition to the normal coverage. The coverage of Soviet and Satellite . - : installations will remain basic to LIFEAT and will beexploited to the . maximum degree possible. Due to the increased importance of information on Cuban activities, coverage of”
“threat to LIFEAT operat tons. E. Technical New recorders provided in May to LIFEAT are now in operation and appear superior to previous models used. It is planned, with the approval of Project LIFEAT for FY 1963, to completely re-equip LIFEAT with new recorders and possib”
“substantial and essential contribution in fulfilling the several priority objectives of the Station’s Related Mission Directive. I. There is attached a cesplese list of the CHs produced trot LIFFAT provided material during the period July 1930 through May 1961 (see Attached p”
“CONTINUATION Of DISPATCH C. Coverage The total number of LI: lines died from ei to eleven during the reporting ricd. The normal breakdown is as follows: LIFRODE and related lines. •• LITMUS and related linen. .. •• American Communists. • P. •. Targets of Opportunity ...”
“assets in terms of personnel, time, security risks" and funds well justifies its renewal. The information produced by this operation has materially contributed to several priority—objectives of the Station' s Related Mission- - ■ Directive. • ,73;. . - p. . - 21/907 ■ - . $43, ”
“OACE*ani--aii-cir-t-Bntfe-tams -% - 2 . v s u e **R **B C CLASSIFICATION DISPATCH SECRET G- PRO POSf0| PROCESSING ACTION ACCOM FISH D DESENSITIZED to manato form Iori Chief, Wal Division XX No IVOI^ mocitO. INFO... nnir QuaLira Per CS# 42-43 M4bQ0A71(5 05* CAN ”
“HMMX-15319 DISPATCH SECRET lsfgofe. GE-ts- 1803 TO : Chief, WH Division INFO FROM DESENSITIZED ----- CSM 42-42 — oaf 30-5-32/3 - - CCK 0- ___ : Chief of Station. Mexico City 13 July 1960 subitc? —:------- ‘----------------------)- . REais — CM €a ONE) 0 wagild int I”
“activities, travel, and contacts of the ACGM. B. Processing of the Take LIFEAT processors continue to process all take for the LIFEAT operation except for the three ACGM lines which are processed by the - local ODENVY office. C. Liaison No change. D. Security. No s”
“Besides the usual coverage of day-to-day activities of the official Installation, LIFEAT leads have indicated the possi- bility of a successful recruitment of a Mexican employee of that installation. LIFEAT information will become even more valuable for continuing assess- men”
“April 1963 (Dr. Jesus LOZOYA Solis) Operational Support and Leads Provided other Station Operations During the past project year LIFEAT continued actively supporting the operations of Mexico City Station through the production of leads and the providing of information on selected”
“Exile and Revolutionary Activities LIFEAT continues to provide data on the exile and revolutionary groups active in Mexico. The bulk of the LIFEAT effort in this field was directed toward the coverage of the Nicaraguan exiles, and the results were most rewsrding in this area”
“above coverages, has provided information on the z daily activities of Individual Sovlet officials assigned to Mexico, including collection of travel and biographical data. (2) LIFEAT/POLISH LIFEAT coverage has been vital to the BEKNAVE/BECHICK operation. LIFEAT has even pro”
“CONTINUATION OF A€0 DISPATCH Cleg 1867 As a continuing asact, LIFEAT provided daily notice of the activities and movements of Polish officials. In one case LIFEAT provided advance information concerning travel plans of one Jan KRZWICKI, a person on the Polish Watch list. A ”
“DIS PAT CH J- 1HrMW-7955 TO t Chief of Station, Mexico City faDQuaurees file NO mO 50-6-32/1 FROM DATE ,% Chief,WHD 1:FUn 1950 SCBEct- RE 43-3 -(CHECK «• ONE) :LIFEAT Project Renewal MARKED FOR INDEXING X NO INDEXING REQUIRED ACTION MQUIDto . • F: INDEXING CAN BE JUDGED :”
“with Project LIFEAT is in passing reels from coverage of the American Communists in Mexico to ODENVY for their processing. No other liaison is considered necessary or desireable. d. Security LIFEAT/LIVERY continued to remain out of operation due to the extensive telephone c”
“carefully . any possible candidates before they are approached for use in this operation after 0 prior approval for an approach has been secured from Headquarters. ‘ Additional comments concerning the production, security and cover of individual agents will be found in the att”
“is believed that "hot mike" operations, supported and maintained by LIFEAT, can greatly aid the Station in its coverage of responsibilities under its present Related Mission Directive.= IV. Performance of Agents The overall performance of all agents employed in the LIFEAT ”
“4-00000 OrOnrT /VAnOr DLUNLI AAHA -6- toward fulfillment of the objectives can be noted in that 12,000 prices of : raw text were produced in-the period July 1960 through May 1961. LIFEAT :. has been in daily operation during the review period with the average number of l”
“DISPATCH SECRET/CE® HMMA-14688 uses 1756 TO ieo FROM Chief, WH Division DESENSITIZED - — per CSN:4341- DATE Chief of Station, Mexico 16 March 1960 pUtl 05 “a 3 - I: " CrE 0 LIFEAT Monthly Report - February 1960 waesgp for INDR UNC X NDIRCEUNG tauto ACtion stQuieto ”
“1 4-00000 CASSKATON DIS AHW $’#*?< AND NO CONTINUATION OF L. _DISPATCH_ WMW-7955 4. In addition to the formal comments cited above, during the process of "obtaining approval for LIFEAT, the Project was subject to various and sundry criticisms in its present form. Therefor”
“to Washington, and Boleslaw JELEN. HD LIFEAT/LIERODE continued to provide excellent operational leads concerning Cuban and exile operations. Of particular note was the ability of Station Mexico to warn an ODACID officer of a possible "walk-in" provocation attempt by an agent ”
“tise CEGRETAPON -4-2 E. Cuban Embassy - -. LIFEAT has provided 'timely information on the activities and • personalities ofthe Cuban Embassy. Of particular interest has been the indications provided by LIFEAT of closer relations and increasing contact between the Cuban a”
“() CLASSIFICATION DISPATCH PROCESSING 8EcaET actow ! PUSHED 10 uassir */<i Chief of Station, Mexico City X 1% i.lon morto INFO i cur CVAL191S . • 1~ADQUART(ES,DLSK Ican ioa iwrin FROM IRSTRACT Chief, 1S Division Vita SUBJECT LIFEAT Project Renewal ACTION atQUiCC REFE”
“ASN1K4:4 10 DISPATCH SECRET/a-i sp PROCESSING ACTION ACCOM. Plrwf D mansto tom mctaing Chief, WI1 Division NO INOIRING stQurgp FROM DESENSITIZED CAIT qoairb Starquan: as Mil CAN nic: CARING aBSteAcr -Chief of Station, Mexico City per CSN 43-43 LIFEAT Progress Repor”
“CONTINUATION OF HMMA-15394 DISPATCH SECRET M wights 1 805 which LIENVOY now provides. This is exactly the work previously done by ZINSMEISTER and the only difference is that tapes are made at a different location. However, this does require close coordination within the Sta”
“gout PROJECT LIFEAT PROJECT IlEVlEW I. Product of the Project A. Soviet Coverage As noted in last year’s Project LIFEAT renewal request, LIFEAT coverage of the official Soviet installation was discontinued on 22 June i960 when the parallel liaison project LIENVOY assumed”
“number of changes and additions required. The only changes made in the Project review —LIFEAT section was the deletion of several examples of reports originating from several LIF AT sources. These deletions (such as the last five examples of rehrts on Soviet. Commercial Activ”
“that LIFEAT is used primarily to support Station operations, some positive intelligence is gathered as a by product of the operation. The following reports were forwarded to Headquarters based on LIFEAT material: HMM-6421 HMM-6452 HMM-6479 HMM-6499 HMM-6565 3. The Statio”
“out, the telephone company had special police stationed in each central and spot checks made of linemen and crews to • prevent recurrence. It was therefore necessary for the LIFEAT linemen to refrain from any clandest ine activity for a period of almost four weeks so as not t”
“s interest or operations to the liaison forces involved in the LIENVOY operation. V. li Expenditures Approval for renewal of Project LIFEAT was granted 8 August 1962 for FY 1963 in the amount of $99,000.00. The proposed budget for FY 1964 is broken down in the attached Field Proj”
“coverage of the Polish Legation now Embassy--when it developed that LIENVOY did not have the ready capacity ‘O provide "take" from both the Crecroslovaxian and Polish official installations.) R. Polish Embassy During the past project year, LI:TAT r-nined the primary source”
“CONTINUATION OF ...HMMA-14856 DISPATCH SECRET, E-D Z1764 f. Coverage LIMERICK 5 lines LITMUS‘ 2 lines LIERODE and related lines 5 lines American Communists lline Targets of Opportunity 3 lines (two of these lines terminated 1 mid-March, and one terminated 3 March.)1 ”
“CONTINUATION OF HMNA-16838 DISPATCH eadaue 1881 No change. f. Coverage The number of lines covered by LIFEAT during the month of March 1961 was 12. The breakdown follows: LIERODE, and relaxed lines 4 LITMUS, and relaxed lines 4 American Communists 1 Local Communists 2 ”
“18 May 1960 (HMMA-14933)4201-262488) d. No personnel were dropped from the project during the past project year. 10. Operational Clearances: See section 9 above.. 11. Cover The cover of personnel employed in Project LIFEAT remains the same as noted in the last project re”
“s SMALL ΗΜΜΑ-21299,7 May 1963 (Charles SMALL and Noah SEBORER) F. Exile and Revolutionary Activities During the past year this area of activity, in addition to the already noted Cuban coverage, accounted for the greatest percentage of the LIFEAT effort. Most of the information pr”
“CLASSIFICATION 10 DISPATCH SECRET/ PostD PROCESSING ACTION mARNtO /* mpesiNG ACCOM FLISH(D Chief; WH Division DESENSITIZED s0 INCORING MQURED INFO AN x C'.*D CUAL3 HEADQUARTERS DSM A. CAN /00C JNMINcY AB FROM Chief of Station, Mexico City per CSN 43-43 AB”
“HMMA-14991 DISPATCH SECRET/eggs Cce 6-1773 3- cagastinet NO 9: Chief, WH Division *-50-6-32/3. FROM • .1 hay :—- I : Chief of Station, Mexico City AT w 1 20 May 1960 Gsg ---- = —---- -L-- — ' 0573 I 8! 43 3 - ICHICE 1 CNH - LIFEAT Monthly Report, Aprti 1960 w4 IMABCED for ND”
“CONTINUATION OF CISPATCH SECRETEr ENMA-20156 . 1 1887 (S) LIFEAT/American Communists 2 (5)'’•LIFEAT/American LIFEAT continues to provide information of interest to ODENVY (who initially requested this coverage and processes this take.) Local ODENVY has noted recently that ”
“4 the PS CONTINUATION OF HMMA-15319 DISPATCH SECRET 6*3-1803 soke Technical The only technical problems encountered were those falling within the province of the telephone company, as noted in i b above, or the normal malfunctions encountered in the aging LIFEAT equipme”
“emphasis on exploitation of operational information. In order to continue this aspect of the operation, the Station is faced with the difficult problem of selectivity in targeting and processing take from these two large projects. Every possible effort should be made to incre”
“-2- . "Projected Arrival in Mexico of Polish Travel Officials" - State Department said that this report was of moderate importance and the information was new and useful. They expressed a continuing interest‘ in this type of reporting. ' - - "New Policy of the Soviet Commer”
“Examples of the above conversations were forwarded to Head- quarters in reference dispatches. The conversations with FREDLUND resulted in the suggestion that KUTUBE D should regularly receive the LIFEAT material when it relates to Soviet messages. Also that KUTUBE D in forwar”
“"leads resulting from LIFEAT information are followed up by other Station assets" is meaningless without scans explanation of the lead follow ups, lleadeuarters would like to know the names and some operational information concerning the persons who seem to be of most interes”
“daadtheitiitten.ai SEGRET/KAPOK . R7A-15722, 30 September 1960 (Piotr WASILUK’s Order for Tape Recorder) ' . - . ' ' IMM-5338, 9 December 1960 (Appointments to Polish Missions in . Latin America) . . IO-TA-16255, 11 January 1961 (Gita STRN) HITA-16306, 20 January 1961 (SC”
“targets in Mexico City. In order not to indicate that the unilateral LIFEAT operation was providing this coverage, it was necessary for COS to agree to this suggestion. So as not to jeapordize LIFEAT operations and personnel, LIFEAT coverage was suspended on the Soviet Embass”
“JECT LIFEAT PROJECT REVIEW LONE MAS JULY 62 THRU MAY 63 I. Product of the Project A. Soviet Coverage Project LIFEAT has not provided coverage of the entire Soviet official installation in Mexico City since 22 June 1960 when Project LIENVOY assumed this responsibility. This freed ”