14-00000 DISPATCH I _ PROClSSING l'CIION ______ _ $ tlCATll fril h • 'C IIU•IO ICI 1•D1 111 1 NO tftDOIIIG RIQVJRlD ·--- - -· - ·-------··--- C l Y Ql AllrJID O SK CAIi JUD t•DUtllQ --------- lltCROrJl■ SIJDJlCTfl Monthly Operational Report Co r P r o _ e c t L lE N V e O Y ' ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __J 1 · AC I IQN R QUIRlO RUU NC 'S o None Re erence For Headquarters intormation HMMA-22135 13 September 1963 l There follows the monthly operational report for Project LlENVOY activities during September 1963 2 Target Lines - September 1963 The following lines were c ver d during the month of September General Lazaro Cardenas del Rio General Lazaro Cardenas dcl Rio - Braulio Maldonado Sande ✓ -·Melquiades Maldonado Sandez -···Alfonso Aguilar Monteverde r •·Jorge L Tamayo Castcllcjos 1 1 -'' -David Alfaro Siqueiros ·· Francisco Galindo Ochoa -Enrique Gonzalez Pedrero 1 1 I -Ignacio Acosta Lagunez 11 11 -Roberto Ron1ero - dan1e -- 20-30-18 20-83-46 L -1-18-18 43-01-85 23-85-25 2-1-61-75 45-59•5L 13-ll-14 43•15-06 11-16-48 19-15-06 - l' I I co tinued I Enclosure Production Report Di ribution WH w cncl v1 - -- · -- C'10SS RH Rt NCE TO I °'5PATc H SYMBOt ANO NUMBCA 1 1 HMMr • 222 67 et SSfrlC _TtON ---- -t -- - 6 -- -·· --r ------------ ·--- --------- I DATE t ✓a October 1963 -- R E T _i q a iljiiii HQS FIL NULtO A so-6-1s 2 14-00000 ' I CONTINUATION Of _- _ I• r'l -- I -S Ii C R - - H tMA• ' t f DISPATCH --·-----········ ---·-· --'------ --------10-29-i 9 46-12-i0 46-11-30 ·16-09-S0 35-36-5 46-60-15 46-60-lt 14-42-37 14-9 -l-l 2 5-07-95 14-13-26 15•60-SS _11- 1-ss 15 69-87 ''ts-61-01 15-1 -6-l 45-61-80 45•61-81 20-38-98 20-68-69 2 0-68-23 -c-• --------------· ··--·--•- - Mo -imie t de Li b raclon Nacio nal -c T A L D F S -D F S dis - nnectcd 18 September 1963 Politica Re i11t 1• Manuel Marcuc Pardin aa -PrensJ Latina Prensa Latina Cuban Emb- 1 uy Cuban Embas sy disconnected 3 Septem r 191 3 Cuban Emb usy partment i Ramon Sin bas disconnected on 3 September 1963 v - hcn ap irtment became vacant Cuban Embassy Soviet Emb ' ss · Chancery Soviet Emb usy Chancery Soviet Embassy Military Attache Soviet Embau-r Commercial Office Soviet Embassy Film Rep ·eae1 tative Czech Embassy Cze h Em asey Yugoslav Embassy connected 18 Septemb 'r 19 3 Yugoslav Embassy connected l3 Septem r 11 t'd Yugoslav Embassy cc nnocted 3 September l 1 3 Headquarters will note from the ab e th t thrce linet1 were discounected in order t cover three Yugoslav linct1 Tw o f the lines which were disc nneckd were Cuba n Embassy lines both were not in ueo by the Cubans One was in the apartmcnt which had been vacated by Ramon Sinobat1 and not occu ied bf other Cubans The other was i l telephone in the Cuban Rm bassy which was neve1• anowered The Cubans arc trying to get Sino baa I line m vcd to the Emba s ey They have also asked fo r- the telephone company to rep tir U-9 •14 As soon aa these lines are working again coverage 0£ two of the Yu osla • Embasoy lines will be dropped in order to pick up all the Cuban lines which are presumed to have a much higher priority 3 Proce1111ing of LIENVOY Information The Station contmues t rcct 'iv foll transcripts in Spanish on the Cuban lincl l three the Soviet Embassy lines ive and l l of 18 and J S tptembcr the Yugoslav lines thr •e The it ' transcripts a re recei ·ed -' lCh morning £or the day before During St pt 'mber the LIENVOY m nitors transcribed 1396 pages m addition to the·daily resumen The outside translators now workin on LIF NVOY transcripts are Orville HORS If ALL stafi agent who is used for lmost any backlog which begins to occur David B SCHLAGETER fic ld contract tgent who transcribes the Czech take Victo1· W OBOLD career bt•nt who trar1scribcs the Yusosl iv portion 0£ the Yugoslav take nongla11 T FF TNGt ASS Rt if -'£ Pnt who rontiruteR to trilnRcrih • the Russian langu 1ge p rtion ·0£ the So ·iet take 4 Exploitation of LlENVOY lnform t1on Two leads from LIENVOY of operaum al interel lt m Srptember 1963 were - - -·- · '- • ---- --- ·-- ---·····------ - --- - _ -----••---v-- S3n ' - I _J 14-00000 CONTINUATION·Of DISPATCH S S C R K T ii -T HMMA-U267 ______________________ _____________ ····-·-- ·---- ----------------1 a On S-eptember 1963 a Ruseian 11peaking female contacted the Soviet Embauy ai1d asked for Svyatoslav Fcdorovich KUZNETSOV KGB She identified herself by na·me and as a profossor from New Orleans Sile gave the adore es of her partment and_aaked for a meeting Thia lead waa prompUy follow d up by station investigative asacts who identified the woman and learned tha she· was attending a philosovhers' conference at the Univer•ity o Mexico She rctul 'ned to the Un_ited States on 17 Septembel' All available info maUon was forwarded to Headquarters Cor passing to ODENVY b · MEXI- 135 reported the contact between an unidentilied Csech woman and the Czech Embassy S Liaieon On 18 September 1963 Oliver Ci GALBOND and Willard C CURTIS met with LlELEGANT and LlERGO They also saw L LEGANT on ZO September 6 Security There were no security problems during this month 7 Technical There were no technical prohlema which AREHART could not handle 8 Personnel ' Robert B RIGGS continues to meet Arnold AREHART each morning belo_re 0800 hours to receive all LIENVOY tapes and traecripta from the previous day The daily meetings with Victor W ODOLD and David B SC ·ILAGETER the two EE translators tranHfe1•red on 18 September 1963 from the Station EE case officer to the KUIUOT technician Gregory D PARMUTH who delivers and receivea reelB and transcripts from them each day PARMUTH also acts as a cutout for Douglas J FElNGLASS Paul V LEVISTER Hendqu arters KUTUDE officer visited the Station from 22 September to l Octo er to cor sult with LIENVOY and LIFEAT caea officers in preparation for a report to be written on the two projects as examples of tap operations which produce both positive intelligence and operational leads There is attached a list of reporte cables and dispatchee forwarded to Headquarters during this month 50 -- 14-00000 I tmNOY PROOO ION - S TI 1963 MEXIs MFXI 6 IM-1 7812 Ml I 6 2 te-lM 7SW Mr XI 6519 Ml I 6302 ME XI 62· 1 Ml I 6215 MEXI 6205 MEXI 61 5 MEXI 613J Hr-NA Z-2194 Hr-NA 2 2193 IM- A 22159 HMM 7804 1 -IM 78ol HMM 7787 IM-1 7761 779 j- 778 1- -N Ti70 - 7767 IDN 7742 HMMA 22149 HNMA 221 5 Hr-MA 2' 116 H -K 22115 HMMA 22 ' lo HMM 2N52 HM-1776o HMM 774 ··-- Tf25 l-J N 7724 m-t 'TT23 MKXI 6129 HMM 77l l Ml I 6107 MEXI 610l1 HMM T7 6 MJ- XI 609·1 ID -l T72S t 'J• xr 6C42 l'J N 7711 MEXI 6058 l IM TIO MEXI 60511 t U• XI bO O WM 7706 MEXI 6029 m 7707 18 9 G l J I 1ct '2 r ta -r r i- l t ' '2 35 14-00000 PERSONALITY BRIEF l General Lazaro CARDENAS del•Rio As a pro-Communist anti-United States former 1934-1940 President ot Mexico CARDENAS plays an important role in the political activities of Mexico by virtue of his being the spirtual leader of a great part of the Mexican left His leftist sympathies appear to fall primarily with the current r ime in Cuba He a1lcdgedly is a close personal fd end of Fidel CASTRO secondarily with Communist China and lastly with the USSR 2 Braulio MALDONADO S1111dez MALDONADO is a politically unscrupulous pro-Communist former Governor of Baja California He is a national leader of at least three Mexican leftist organizations 1 FEP People's Electoral Front united single front of Mexican Communists and Leftists 2 MLN National Liberation_ Movement rabidly rnti-U S pro-Cuba Communist Front and 3 CCI Indcpend nt Peasants' Center radical anti-Mexican Government organization Having been banished from Mexico until after the 1964 elections for anti-government activities A LOONAOO is currently in Europe and seeking admittance to the USSR obstensibly to visit his daughter who is a student at the Friendship University in Moscow 3 Alonso AGUILAR Monteverde AGUILAR is a prominent pro-Communist Mexican intellectual who is the titular head of the MLN National Liberation Movement rabidly anti-u s pro-Communist front le is a full-time professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and maintains active contact with several international leftist and Communist figures He has recently travelled to Cuba and Warsaw 4 Jorge Leonidas TA tL YO Castillc_jos TAMAYO is a Communist professor at the National Autonomou University of Mexico Heis a leading member of many Communist front activities in Mexico including the CMP Mexican Peace 14-00000 · Committee- the ·liL - Sational Liberation Movement and the CEM Circle of Mexican Studies He has been in contact with several leftist figures of various echelon including Gen a zaro RDENAS the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico and Polish Soviet and Chinese Communist officials TAMAYO's son bas studied in Warsaw and travelled to the USSR and Communist China 5 Jose David ALFARO Siqueiros ALFARO one of Me ico•s most prominent artists has been imprisoned for eight S years as a consequence of the role he played in the Communist-inspired railroad stikc of 1959 He is a leader of the PCM Mexican Communist Party and hns visited the Soviet Union Ho fought for the Loyalist Army in the Spanish Civil War and was later arrested in Mexico or complicity in the murder of Leon TROTSKY's secretary ALFARO has a long history of pro-Communist anti-U S leanings 6 Roberto ROMERO Adams ROMERO is an informant for the Cuban Intelligence Service in Mexico 7 Enrique GONZALEZ Pc-drero Pro-Communist professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico GO 'ZALEZ Pedrero has contribute to the writing or editing of at least five 5 leftist publications in Mexico He i's a member of the National Committee of the MLN has alledgedly received training in the Soviet Union and has travelled to Cuba twice in recent times 8 Ignacio ACOSTA L ls nns Pro-Communist ACOSTA a lawyer is an aide of General C RDENAS and a leading me ber of the Mk He frequently has contact with high-level personnel of both the Cuban and Sovkt Embassies in Mexico City llis political activities include travel to Cuba and the Soviet Union aid in the management of the Communist Trade J o'ai r in Mexico and a great deal of participation in promoting sympathy for the Cuban Revolution in Mexico 14-00000 -3- 9 Direccion FederaJ de Seguridad - Federal Security Police The principal functions of this security unit are to 1 Provide a plain-clothed security detail for the President 2 ma·intain ari extensive telephone tap· activity on both the Rightist and Leftist political opposition forces and 3 · perform investigations and arrests of primarily political offenses The unit's ·agents arc largely poorly tt ained insecure and unreliable Their professional characteristics are best described as being dishonest cruel and abusive Tfie position at this moment of Manuel RANGEL Escamilla as Director General of-DFS is precarious 10 Politica A Marxist anti-U S semi-monthly magazine published in Mexico Politica is printed by Talleres Graflcos de Mexico th same shop whi h prints La Voz de Mexico In addition to the modest revenues derived from n circulation of 15 000 to 25 000 Politica is financed by the Soviet Embassy the MLN the PPS and possibly the Cuban Embassy As an indication of the Mexican government's assessment of the capability of this magazine to influence public opinion it is worthwhile noting that Politica frequently experiences a great degree of difficulty tn printing and circulating itself due to the government's repressive efforts 11 Movlmiento de Liberacion Nacional MLN Organized under the influence of the PCM in August 1961 the MLN today is dedicated to the furtherance of the mutual interests of its adherents who are found primarily in the ranks of the PRI the PPS the PCM the CNC and the UGOCM The MLN's objective ts to gain leftist political representation in the government by inciting PRI to accept leftists into its camp As a consequence of this objective the mission of MLN is to generate evidence of popular leftist sympathy by means of fom entirig agitation among the popular labor and peasant masses 12 Confederacion de Trabajadores de la America Latina CTAL The CTAL has recently been replaced by the CUTAL Single Confederation of Latin American Workers Until recently the 14-00000 -4- pro-Communist CTAL which is described as being the liaison bureau of the lffTU World Federation of Trade Unions whose headquarters are in Prague was head N by Vicente LOMBARDO Toledar o 13 Prcnsa Latina Operati ng directly under the Cuban Communist regime Prensa Latina is obstensibly a press service In reality however it is the official propagAnda organ of the Cuban Government Prensa Latina works closely with Tass the Sov J et Agency with Hsintiua the Chin se Agency and with Cetepka the Czechoslovakian Agency