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T 6041036 Aaaao 1-10139] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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6 February 1997
MEMORANDUM FOR : Fred Wickham
DO Focal Point for JFK Board
FROM : J Barry Harrelson
DCI/CSI HRG , JFK Project Officer
SUBJECT : ARRB Request for Additional Information
and Records No CIA-7
REFERENCE ARRB Memo dtd 8 Nov 95 _ same subj
sub-para (2) The Mexico City Station
(attached)
1 In his review of the history Of; the Mexico 'City
Station, Jeremy Gunn
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ARRB Staff_ cited the five footnotes
annotated below as possible assagsination-related records
and, requested copies of the source documents For your
assistance in identifying the documents following the
footnote citation is the text (in italics) to which it
refers_
Footnote 39 HMMA-17494 , 4 Aug 61, sub: Data
on Case Officer work and Operational Projects at the
Mexico City Station, WH/HO _
pg 38 /39 , Vol I_ The Cuban task force and
related activities caused an increase in the Mexico
City_ Station (Eo 76 Americans 74o were Tocated inside
Ehe Embaggy using OffTgTal cover and 36 were QuEside
uder nonofficial_ cover Indigenous agents numbered
@ver 20g
Footnote 55 _ Ibid. (Ft 54 _ ISTHMUS No - 62 ,
6 Dec 63 WH/HO . )
pg 44 _ Vol I Tater in the year Diaz became
the PRI candidate (tantamount to.election) which
assured LIENVOY of an extended_ six years_under
virtually the_ Same management; (54 )
In 1963 the routine reporting
of an operational lead by LIENVOY developed into a long
investigation_ A man with a US accent_ speaking broken
Russian_ telephoned both the Soviet and Cuban
Embasssies on 26 September and 6 October 1963 _ He
identified himself as Lee Oswald and Harvey Oswald.
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This information was cabled to Headquarters for traces
and identifying data_ After the assassination of
President Kennedy on 22 November 1963 in Dallas , Texas ,
the Mexico City Station spent several months
investigating leads in connection with Oswald' s visit
D} to Mexico _ (55)
Footnote 61 _ IER Report_ Dec 64 , 185215 TS
Pg 47/48 , Vol I 6 A team from the Ingpection and
Review (IcR) Staff at Headquarters conducted a thorough
review of the Mexico City Station administrative and
operational program in July 1964 _ They wrote: The
Mexico City Station approaches the classic type station
in_epportunities and in operationg_ UE had high-Tevel
Zai80p perationg uilateral operationg andjoint
@peraions wiEh the hosz government as well as Soviet,
Satellite_ Cuban , and lindigenous] Communist Party
operations _ There was local Collaborative liaison with
other US agencies (the State Department_ the FBI _ the
Immigration and Naturalization Service (ICNS) and the
military attaches) To accomplish this wide range of
tasks _ the station was organized into Soviet, Cuban ,
Satellite Covert Action, Communist Party, and
Operational Support Branches _ The last branch was an
operational catch-all respongible for direction of all
technical surveillance_ Gnd_ liaigon operations _ In
reality operational support operations were an
extension of the chief of station" 8 personal
clandestine capabilities_ particularly those projects
znvolving Mexicanofficials_ (61)
Footnote No_ 139 _ ISTHUS No _ 29 8 Mar 61, WH/ HO_
Pg 229 ; Vol II_ During_February 1961 (Ehe first
transmieter Was installed in the Office of_ the Cuban
Ambassador to_ Mexico} (139)
#Between 1961 and 1968 , lat least a @ozen audio
installations were made in Cuban installations and
residences; but all of them even tually failed. TI-
ROMANCE and LISAMPAN are two projects which provided
for short-term multiple audio installations _
Footnote No_ 190 Project LILINK File Nos 201-226902
and 50-6-99/1 , Job No 68-494/28 _ Space 60793
Pg 353 Vol II. "LILINK"
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2 _ Mr Gunn will be at IP the week of 24 February to
review additional material related to CIA-7 _ Please provide
the documents , or a status of the search , by 20 February
1997
J_ Barry Harrejson
Att : Ref Document
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CSI_ 'HRG/MAQ (3 Feb 97) (BKH-6Feb97)
Distribution:
Adse wlatt
HRG w/o att
1 JBH w/o att
1 DO JFK Team wlatt
ARRB Request File
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