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[11]oo. Chief, Western Hemisphere Division x X No wate erguiety
[12]nro Attention; Chief, WH/1 ONLY QUALIFIED OES
[13]_-Chiet,_.WH/MHSPAWN Pan rq mo
[15]__ Chief of Station, Mexico City |. \, MIEN
[16]ett OPBRATIONAL/LIANCHOR .
[18]Progress Report | for December 1967 = May 1968
[20]ion Rrougto REFERENCES
[22]Action Required: None; FYI
[24]References : A. HMMA-33670, 13 December 1968
[25]B. Mexico City-5688, 25 May 1968
[27]SUMMARY
[29]1. During the reporting period the LIANCHOR leftist
[30]writer press service produced 35 individual articles and
[31]serialized political feature articles which were distributed
[32]‘to 20 newspapers throughout Latin America and are known to
[33]have been published regularly by at least 12 newspapers.
[35]Despite this acceptable production rate, the project has not
[37]achieved the objectives set for it by the Mexico Station and
[38]in the Project Outline.
[40]2. Prior to submission of a project renewal request in
[41]late June, 1968, the Mexico Station will attempt to convert
[42]the LIANCHOR operation into a more effective and politically
[44]‘more leftist operation. Four of,six LIANCHOR press service
[45]writers will be dropped and P/A(LINLUCK)will be replaced,
[46]hopefully by Identity-1, a respectedlindependent leftist
[47]Mexican editorialist for the prestige center-left daily
[48]"EXCELSIOR". If by the end of June, 1968, the operational
[50]Continued....
[52]Attachments:
[53]&. Identities (u.s.c.)
[54]/B. Translation & Articles (u.s.c.)
[55]C, Handbill, Brochure, Open. Letter (u.s.c.)
[57]Distribution:
[58]=- C/WHD wo/atta CS COPY
[59]- C/WH/1 w/atts A, B and C (u.s.c.)
[60]l- C/WH/MESPAWN w/atts A, B pnd | C (u.s.c.)
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[77]CLASSIFICATION a Has HE nUMBER
[79]50-126-38/3
[81]SECRET
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[100]mechanism of LIANCHOR (a cooperative and self-supporting press
[101]gervice not subsidized by WOFIRM) does not seém operationally
[102]--~ywiable, the LIANCHOR project renewal request will be submitted
[103]fs an administrative and financial roof project for the indi-
[104]vidual bandling and exploitation of singleton leftist write
[105]assets. . .
[107]INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION
[109]3. One information report was disseminated in May, 1968,
[110]based on information acquired by (LINLUCK.
[114]OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
[116]4. Formal Organization of LIANCHOR Press Service:
[118]a. The Reference "A" project proposal reports all
[119]significant incidents in the development of the
[120]LIANCHOR press service by' (LINLUCK and the Mexico +
[121]tation through the first week o December, 1967, when
[123]ol LINLUCK)set about bringing together the candidates for
[124]fembership in the cooperative press service. As Head-
[125]quarters will recall the project, involved paying a |
[126]salary of U.S. $700 per month ta dincuck )in return for
[127]which he was to persuade a number of leftist and center-
[128]left writers to join together as contributors to the
[129]LIANCHOR (Identity-2) press service. The contributing
[130]writers or members of the press service were to agree
[131]to waive fees for a trial period during which the press
[132]service was to develop paying clients among Latin
[133]American newspapers and periodicals.
[135]0 F
[136]b. (exmiuts) nora three meetings of candidate members i
[137]of the p¥Yess service during December in the home of i
[138]_Identity-3. The gSetings were unruly but everyone at 7
[139]the meetings agre to contribute material to the press
[141]service and submi o editing and control of the material
[143]by (LINLUCK o| Howe¥a , what with the 20 day Christmas
[144]festivities which faralyze all Mexicans from 15 December
[146]to 5 January of each year, none of the LIANCHOR members
[148]other than Identity-4 submitted a manuscript to (LINLUCK of
[150]until late January. . ,
[152]oO
[153]c. LINLUGt) dusted off the best and most timeless of
[154]his fall“1967 articles and mailed them out with a pro-
[155]spectus to newspapers suggested by third country station
[156]throughout Latin America, At the end of December (LINLUCK, |
[157]became seriously i111 and the project was dormant until
[158]. mid-January. In the latter part of January LINLUCK) held
[159]\ a sober business meeting of the LIANCHOR press’group at
[160]his home and by the end of January the members began to
[161]submit manuscripts.
[164]5. The Search for a Replacement for P/A(LINLUCK:
[166]a?! INLUCK) was formally terminated in the summer
[167]of 1966.” He spent much of his termination bonus on
[168]sending his family back to France (the wife is French) :
[169]and setting the family up there in an apartment and plac-
[170]ing his sons in school. Following the termination, INLUCK
[171]was again placed on salary while WOFIRM subsized the~ *
[172]publication of a book which he had written in support of
[174]eens ee TAN WAT. She hank anta wall in Mavien and
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[183]in South America accepted the book but would not send
[184]| GINLUCK) his share of the sales, wiich was to be used
[185]‘to repay WOFIRM the cogt of publishing the book, in
[186]the late fall of 196% (LINLUCK) spent six weeks in
[187]Guatemala where he reached agreements with the Guate~
[188]malan Defense Minister, Rafael ARRIAGA Bosque, whereby
[189]the Defense Ministry was to pay LINLUCK U.S. $4,000
[190]for the right to publish 10,000%copies of, his first
[191]book. The U.S. $4,000 was to be paid by, LINLUCK) to
[192]WOFIRM as partial reimbursement of the costs of pub-
[193]lishing the JMROD book. During the visit to Guatemala,
[194]ol (LINLUCK) was told by ARRIAGA and other Guatemalan
[195]. government officials that he couli expect a consular
[196]appointment by the summer of 1965.
[198]bv. Headquarters and the Mexico Station were agreed
[199]that as soon as he could organize LIANCHOR and find a
[200]suitable replacement” (LINLUCK should be terminated and
[201]leave Mexico. Following the’receipt of the LIANCHOR
[202]project approval in early 1968, the LIANCHOR case officer
[203]told, (LINLUCK) that he was expected to find a replacement
[204]meeting WOFIRM approval and be ready to turn the opera-
[205]tion over to his replacement by the end of March, 1968,
[206]o((LINLUCK) proposed: Identity-4, who had shown the most
[207]intérest in the LIANCHOR press service and had been the
[208]first to submit articles. By accident the case officer
[209]was forced to. listen to an hour's conversation between °
[210]Identity-4 and,LINLUCK Jafter Identity-4 came to (LINLUCK's
[211]home, interrupted a meeting between the case officer and
[212]ol CLINLUCR) and the case officer sat trapped in a separate
[213]room uibeknownst to Identity-4. From the conversation
[214]the case officer observed that Identity-4 was actually a
[215]political rightist, believed LINLUCK)to be an LNHARP
[216]agent, had grandiose plans #ds using’ LNHARP funds to
[217]mushroom LIANCHOR into a continent-wide anti-Communist
[218]movement and was married to a neurotic woman who had
[219]hired a private detective agency to check on her husband's
[220]activities | (LINLUCK) was instructed to quietly ease
[221]Identity-4 out of LIANCHOR, to cease holding group neet=-
[222]ings of LIANCHOR writers and to try to prevent further
[223]contact between Identity-4 and other members of LIANCHOR.
[225]c.d|Identity~5 was selected as the next candidate to
[226]replace (LINLUCK\as P/A. Identity-5 was technically,
[227]linguistically, intellectually and professionally well
[228]qualified to head LIANCHOR. During the period of develop-—
[229]ment and assessment of Identity-4 by (LINLUCK)oltdentity-5
[230]wrote an excellent article on Soviet intelléctual piracy.
[231]However, Identity-5 proved difficult to contact and
[232]control and turned out to be leading a personal life
[233]which would have detracted seriously from his ability
[234]to administer LIANCHOR ( (LINLUCK) was told to keep in —
[235]touch with Identity-5, but to look for still another
[236]candidate.
[238]d. In early April ARRIAGA squé’ was exiled to Miami,
[239]With the Station's concurrence (LINLUCK\went to Guatemala
[240]. during Easter to confer with Guatemalan President, Julio
[241]. MENDEZ Montenegro, and the new Defense Minister concern-
[242]ing his own future wo} The President said he had not
[243]forgotten (LINLUGK) but would not-be able to give him a
[244]os consular post until the outset of 1969. The President
[245]an also said he would not be opposed to LINLUCK's)returning | .
[246]oN to Guatemala and entering politics. ; of
[249]. . . . Taye t ~
[251]conimuanion oF] rar a aia —-
[252] OISPATCH 6] SECRET - HMMA-34792 ©
[254]of So /
[255]6. Upon (LINLUCK "s return to Mexico .he asked Phether
[257]there was any possibility that he could be kept on after
[258]30 June 1968 for an indeterminate period as LIANCHOR P/A
[259]until some outside job showed up. The case officer gaid
[260]he would discuss the matter with Headquarters, but felt: ~.
[261]that in the interests of (LINLUCK ‘h family and his own: ,
[262]career it was high time’that (LINLUCK @trike out on his own.
[263]Replacements were again reviewed and it was decided that ,
[264]the best candidate would be Identity-1, who had turned °
[265]down membership iin LIANCHOR because he wanted immediate
[267]fees for anything he wrote. Identity-6 of the LIANCHOR
[268]group, a friend of Identity-1, war queried as to Identity-1's
[269]personal life and, as far as can be discovéred, Identity-1
[270]lives a quiet life with his wife and family and is highly
[271]respected in Mexican intellectual circles both as an author/
[272]editorialist and as an independent leftist. Reference "B"
[273]and "PLANS" below report the Station's plans for possible
[274]recruitment and subsequent utilizrtion of Identity-1 as
[276]P/A of LIANCHOR.
[278]; 6. Production of Articles and Features by LIANCEOR: of
[279]Separate cover attachment "B” contains a transtation of a Grntucy)
[280]report written J] May 1968 on articles and feature articles pro-
[281]duced and distributed during the period 15 December 1968 to
[283]30 April 1968. Case officer comments are included along with
[284]information about articles prepared and distributed in May.
[286]v) .
[287]7. Cimcvew Involvement in Covert Action Operations Targetted
[288]Against Soviet Poet Yevgenyl YEVTUSHENKO (March-April 1968):
[290]re)
[292]a, In March (inten) drafted an open letter to Soviet
[293]poet Yevgenyi YEVTUSHENKO asking the Russian to use his
[294]influence to persuade the Soviet government to-end the
[295]persecution of Soviet intellectuals, artists, writers and
[297]- poets .o| LINLUCK managed to obtain the signatures of stu-
[298]dents, professors, actors, dancers, writers and intellec-
[299]tuals for his open letter and then persuaded the publisher
[300]of his books to print thousands of copies, which were
[301]distributed by other assets of the Mexico Station. A
[302]copy of the open letter was published in "EXCELSIOR" on
[303]the day of YEVTUSHENKO's arrival in Mexico for what was
[304]originally billed as a personal trip. Because of the
[305]open letter and critical press. coverage of YEVTUSHENKO 's
[306]rude behavior towards the press on arriving at Mexico
[307]City airport, the Russian Eubassy called a special press
[308]conference the evening of the day of the poet's arrival.
[309]At the press conference YEVTUSHENKO spoke with outrage
[310]of the open letter, carefully dodging a number of questions
[311]asked by the letter, and chided the signers of the letter
[312]for claiming there was absolute literary freedom in Mexico,
[313]asking how there can be freedom anywhere in the world as
[314]long as there is no freedom in Vietnam, YEVTUSHENKDO 's
[315]remarks about the open letter left no doubt that he had
[316]come to Mexico as a Soviet propagandist and not as a rebel
[317]poet, a
[319]Epes ceenaemererent
[321]deatrarte meted
[325]b. Cinvuck) also produced a handbill quoting the
[326]telegram by Soviet intellectuals to the "Consultative
[327]“Conference of Communist Parties" at Budapest, asking for
[328]an end to Soviet persecution of intellectuals in the USSR.
[329]The handbill featured two pen and ink drawings of imprisoned
[330]Soviet poets Sinyavsky and Daniel. He also arranged for
[331]the printing in Spanish of an authoritative study of inci-
[332]dents surrounding the Galanskov-Dobrovolsky trial in
[334]‘brochure form, Thousands of copies of the handbill and
[335]Loe nk SR ALAA dd antethutend hw AQtatian aaagata during
[338]ere re Rt
[340]TATE ATES PGA TOE Ge SL, ARGO SAL
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[345]and the open letter are submitted as Separate Cover
[346]Attachment "C" to this dispatch. Costs of the print~
[347]ing and distribution were charged to LILISP-X.
[351]c. Via Identity-4 (LINLU K) passed guidance material
[352]to Mexico's top female poet, Margarita MICHELENA,
[353]‘concerning YEVTUSHENKO. MICHELENA published a series
[354]of professional criticisms of YEVTUSHENKO as a poor” ,
[355]poet and opportunist in the Mexican press. In April, .
[356]immediately following YEVTUSHENK)'s departure, & con-
[357]densation of the MICHELENA criti ques of YEVTUSHENKO were
[358]published in the leftist political illustrated magazine
[359]"IMPACTO" by LILISP-E.—
[361]d. Identities 3 and 6 of the LIANCHOR group also
[362]published articles against YEVTUSHENKO in the rightist
[363]daily "EL SOL", but the Station felt the articles were
[364]too vitriolic ani unobjective to be a credit to LIANCHOR.
[365]In fact, because of these articles the Station plans to
[366]remove both Identities 3 ana 7 from LIANCHOR; for it is
[367]obvious that both persons have long since lost all traces
[371]of their former leftism and are extreme rightists.
[373]EFFECT IVENESS .
[375]‘ 8. Views on LIANCHOR Effectiveness by Owner/Director of
[376]Guatemala Dally "EL IMPARCIAL”:
[378]ce)
[379]a, During Lintuck’a) Easter visit to Guatemala City
[381]oo he was told by the owner of “EL IMPARCIAL" that the of
[383]newspaper was only interested in publishing LINLUCK's
[385]articles. The newspaper owner stated that (L NLUCK )was
[387]a well-known personality in Guatemala and also wroté
[389]interestingly. The owner also said that he had pub-
[391]lished one series by Identity-4 because Identity-4 was
[393]a Guatemalan who at one time had been important. However,
[395]the owner pointed out that the other LIANCKOR writers
[397]were unknowns and did not write well. He singled out
[399]Identity-3 as being a "menace to journalism” because much
[401]of what she wrote amounted to libel or slander.
[403]b. The "EL IMPARCIAL" owner said that he received
[404]the newspapers "EL DIA" of Honduras, "LA PRENSA GRAFICA"
[405]of El Salvador, "LA PRENSA" of Nicaragua, "LA REPUBLICA" .
[406]of Costa Rica, "LA ESTRELLA" of Panama and "ULTIMAS
[407]NOTICIAS" of Caracas and had noted that these newspapers
[408]all published INLUCK 's) articles but had not, to his
[409]knowledge, published articles by any of the other LIANCHOR
[410]writers.
[412]; - re)
[413]c. When (LINLUCK) explained the coo erative! nature of
[414]-LIANCHOR, the "EL IMPARCIAL" man told (LINLUCK) that he -
[415]could never hope to collect fees for his news service .
[416]until the service became both famous and sought after.
[417]The "EL IMPARCIAL" owner advised (LINLUCK to find writers
[418]tter known in Latin America. °'He suggested that if.
[419]ol LINLUCK) could not afford to pay his writers fees, he
[420]should’persuade first class writers to contribute to
[421]. LIANCHOR purely for the prestige of having their material
[422]_ published araqund Latin America. 7 © _
[423]: 9. Effectiveness of LIANCHOR Writer Grou NLUCK) as
[425]r
[427]a Covert Action Production Unit: ~
[429]ad > -* ;
[430]Meee, Be LINLUCK) Learned quickly that it was best not to
[431]ae allow méewtings of members of the LIANCHOR cooperative
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[446]press group, Of nine persons who belonged to the group
[448]as of 15 January, three subsequently dropped out because
[449]of differences of opinion which developed at group meet=
[450]In addition? (INLUCK) learaed that persons he had
[451]because of their leftist records (Iden-
[452]d:long since ceased being leftists
[453]and were prone to submit manuscripts with texts politically
[454]harmful to the image of LIANCHOR. Confused political
[455]thinking and poor writing resulted in rejection of over
[456]20 manuscripts during February-April by LINLUCKI and the
[457]case officer. Rejection of manuscriptslin turn angered
[459]and insulted some of the writers.
[461]ings.
[462]selected partly
[463]tities 3, 4, 7 and 8) ha
[465]b. The personalities and cbaracter,,of some of the
[466]writers have presented problems to (LINLUCK in directing
[467]and developing the LIANCHOR group into,a productive unit.
[468]Identities 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 had jo be goaded continually
[469]by ILINLUCK)to turn in manuscripts on assigned themes.
[470]BothgIdentity-3 and Identity-7 turned out to be emotional
[471]extremists, suffering at times from deep melancholy and
[472]at other times from inexplainable rages which were re-
[473]flected in their writings. As of this writing the Station
[474]feels that the only reliable members of the group are
[475]Identities 6 and 9, who should be kept as members of the
[476]group as long as LIANCHOR is run as a group cooperative
[477]press service, The unreliable but brilliant and versatile |
[478]poet/writer/lexicographer Identity-5 should be continued
[479]as a contact of LIANCHOR for occasional emergency use
[480]provided(LINLUCK' replacement can obtain any cooperation
[481]from Identity-5.°| In summary the LIANCHOR group composed
[482]of Identities 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 has proved ineffective and.
[484]not too productive and the ineffective members should be
[486]replaced.
[487]of
[489]10. Effectiveness of p/a (LINLUCR): )
[490]6
[492]a. The list of articles and features by CINLUCKS
[493]under Separate Cover Attachment "B" is by no means the
[494]measure of the agent's writing and production capability.
[495]After the. agent dusted off and mailed out several of his
[497]_old article series in December 1968 the case officer
[498]instructed, (LINLUCK) to reduce his production in ratio to
[499]the manuséripts of other LIANCHOR writers which were
[500]mailed out, The case officer was concerned that LIANCHOR
[501]would appear,to potential client newspapers to be primarily
[502]a vehicle for LINLUCK's) Lengthy political essays in con-
[503]in the LIANCHOR prospectus that
[505]trast to the statement
[507]LIANCHOR was a press service combining articles on cultural, q
[508]educational, economic and social as well as political topics fi 2
[509]by many writers. During the agent's two final months of , x ©!
[510]service he has been given authorization to write as much ‘  &§ pa
[511]as be can on the Vietnam issue and other topics for the i >
[512]purpose of building up his name in Guatemala before he i &.
[513]> returns there to enter politics. i Fea
[514]. .) Bo oi
[515]b. While production of articles was not (uinLucK's} yO
[516]weak point, his selaction and handling of the LIANCHOR a!
[517]# press service writers appears to have been weak. He has aa
[518]been too long on the fringes of the foreign exile group 2,
[519]in Mexico and his contacts among leftists in Mexico are . ted
[520]no longer significant. In addition, the agent appears to_ 3+
[521]; _ have gone the way of many former Latin American Communists. ee
[522]a] _- gn that his theoretical solution to some of the political, al)
[523]economic and social problems of Latin America can no longer fl
[525]be termed leftist. \
[527]D000 on TINUATION OF .
[528]Hoo. 7, BusrarcH ee GB BCRET HMMA-34792  - .
[532]-c,. As a penetration of a Communist Party (rnLucr ;
[533]was a singleton. - Although as a former Communist leader
[534]he has had experience in handling people, he has not
[535]had experience in handling sub-agents for WOFIRM. There
[536]was evidence during the reporting period that LINLUCK)9 |
[537]was having real trouble managing his co-workers in
[538]LIANCHOR. However, handicapped by the fact that he was
[539]not paying his co-workers fees or salaries, (INLUCK xa
[540]probably did as well as he could in controlling his
[541]“ co-workers. The real fault Jay ir his poor selection
[543]of co-workers.
[545]ll. Effectiveness of LIANCHOR articies*had Features: in
[546]the Station's opinion thosa articles which(LINLUCK) wrote were
[547]forceful and effective, but too long. ‘fhe articles written by
[549]o| LInLuck's} co-workers apparently were ineffective to the point
[550]that they were not considered worth puLlishing. The Capriles
[551]newspaper chain of Venezuela apparently felt grat (LINLUCK ae
[552]articles were well worth running, despite the fact that they
[553]had to be published in installments. The leading newspapers
[554]in,each of the Central Américan republics appeared to belleve
[555]that (LINLUCK's articles merited automatic publication, It is
[556]assumed that(LINLUCK's articles were published regularly in =
[557]Bolivia du@\to La Paz~Station assistance. However, because no ° .
[558]newspaper felt like paying fees to LIANCHOR or answer ing (LINLUCK's)
[559]‘correspondence, it has not been possible to ascertain whether
[560]LIANCHOR articles have been published with any regularity in
[561]Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia or Ecuador, It is too much
[562]to ask third country stations to scan the press daily for articles
[563]by seven different people. The Mexico_ ation_has appreciated
[564]the assistance received from he Coardgaut) Ganesdde)@nd Guatemalal&
[565]City) Stations CK's) have been the principal source of the clip-
[567]pings of LINLUCK's )LIANCHOR articles submitted as Separate Cover
[568]Attachmaat "B" to this dispatch.
[570]SECURITY
[572]12... There have been no incidents of security nature
[573]hazardous to the LIANCHOR project during the reporting period.
[575]FINANCE AND SUPPORT
[576]13, Finance: During 1 October - 30 May the LIANCHOR.
[577]project expensesy{have consisted of U.S. $5,600 in salary pay-
[578]ments to (LINLUCK at U.S. $700 per month and U.S. $119 in cost
[579]of mailing out DIANCHOR articles. .
[581]14, Support: Reproduction of the LIANCHOR articles for
[582]mass distribution to Latin American newspapers was done by the
[583]Station using a Xerox machine.
[585]PLANS ol
[587]15. Replacement of (LINLUCH:
[588]= -
[590]; a, Provided Headquarters grants. POA and Identity-1
[591]accepts recruitment by a Station case officer, LINLUCK
[592]will be directed to approach Identity-1 some two weeks
[593]after the recruitment .o\(LINLUCK) will tell Identity-1 that
[594]he has come to Identity-I on the advice of Jdentity-6,
[595]LIANCHOR member and friend of Identity-1 ol UINLUCK) will
[596]. explain that he is returning to Guatemala to seek ‘a poli-
[597]“4 tical career and must give-up the direction of. LIANCHOR
[599]a
[602]vo KUNTENVALLUN Ue, hos -
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[608]16, Testing for Indications of Effectiveness to Determine
[609]Future Direction of LYANCHOR Project:
[611]_ because LIANCHOR cannot properly be run. from (Guatemala) .
[613]17. Conversion of LIANCHOR to Temporary Roof Project for
[614]Singleton Le st Writer Assets: If as a result of ciipping
[616]foe 2
[617]. we .
[619](6-2
[620]LINLUCK) will describe to Identity-1 the problems which
[621]he has’ had in developing LIANCHOR and, in asking Identity-1 ©
[622]to take over control of LIANCHOR, will suggest that
[623]Identity-1 use the LIANCHOR name and established publica-
[624]tion outlets to broaden his prestige. in Latin, America
[625]without any thought of trying to oarn fees.7 jINLUCK) will
[626]also suggest that Identity-] retaia Identities 6 and 9 to
[627]help fill out the service, but that he gradually try to
[628]draw in personal writer friends or definite leftist fame
[629]and persuade them to contribute to LIANCHOR urely. for
[630]the reward of increased prestige. Finally? LINLUCK} will
[631]offer to continue to contribute material from time to
[632]time from Guatemala which Identity-1, through his good
[633]standing in the Mexican press, perhaps can publish in
[634]Mexico. «ak .
[636]Soh.
[638]b. If Identity-1l rejects recruitment, the next candi-
[639]date for LIANCHOR chief is Identity-10, who has already
[640]toid @IN.UCK)that he is prepared to take over LIANCHOR
[641]on a pro o\.ionary. basis to see whether it will enhance his
[642]reputatio.. The Station feels that Identity-10 would be
[643]easier to recruit than Identity-1, However, Identity-10
[644]is not too well known in Mexico and is totally unknown
[645]abroad. One of Identity-10's virtues is the-fact that he
[646]never formally quit the Communist Party and has done nothing
[647]to irritate the Party. As economic and general reporter for
[648]"EXCELSIOR" he offers placement potential, If Identity-1
[649]does accept recruitment, the Station still intends to try
[650]to recruit Identity-10 as a singleton under Project LIANCHOR,
[651]possibly steering Identity-10 to Identity-1 and the LIANCHOR
[652]press service after due consideration. The Station is also
[653]interested in the possibility of recruiting Identity-10 in
[654]order to send him to the World Youth ‘Festival at. Sofia, ;
[655]since it is believed by!(LINLUCK) that Identity-1 still has
[656]access to some worthwhilé contacts in Central. American
[657]young Communist circles. a
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[670]$200 to hire clipping services in Buenos Aires, Montevideo,
[671]Santiago and Bogota for a three month trial period to test
[672]whether newspapers which receive LIANCHOR material in those
[673]cities are publishing the LIANCHOR material, The clipping
[674]services will be asked to watch for articles with the
[675]LIANCHOR by-line, the by-lines of LIANCHOR writers and the
[676]headlines or titles which are assigned by LIANCHOR to the
[677]articles mailed to the newspapers. oO
[679]be. If the clipping service tests show: that newspapers
[680]or periodicals in two of the above cited countries are
[681]publishing LIANCHOR material, Station will continueto.
[682]pursue the development of a small and responsive leftist
[683]writer group as one phase of the LIANCHOR operation. The
[684]rationale behind this decision is that there is little
[685]justification in operating a press service, even a cheap
[686]one, with a readership limited to Mexico, Central America,
[687]Venezuela and Bolivia. However, if the press service can
[688]acquire, or has acquired, readership in any two of the
[689]countries in 16-a above then it is felt that the total
[690]areu coverage is significant and worth maintaining.
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[707]service testa the decision is reached not to continue develop~
[708]ment of a leftist writer group press service, LIANCHOR will be.
[709]converted to a roof project for the administration and funding
[710]of singleton writer agents. Identity-l, if recruited, will be ~-
[711]told to use the LIANCHOR stationery and list of publishing
[712]newspapers to develop his own prestige and readership abroad,
[714]but he will not be ask. . to find addittonal writers for the
[716]press service. At the cond of FY 1969 the LIANCHOR project will
[717]be terminated as such and its funds and such agents as have
[719]been developed under LIANCHOR wiil be documented under net
[721]LILISP-E for FY 1970. _ \ , is , ih
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[744]IDENTITIES: 1 - /Ricardo'’ *GARIBAY Ortega ,< “independent Mexican
[745]socialist, political wditorialist in "EXCELSIOR"
[746]and prize-winning author of political books.+
[748]2 - ("prewaa SELECTA INTERNACIONAL" zy
[750]"3 -{Eunice ODIO Infante, axnaturalized Guatemalan og &
[751]-.- | { of Costa Rican origin w resides in Mexico City, \
[752]and writes for "EL SOL" and "EL DIA".>~—
[754]4- Alfonso ¥MARTINEZ Estevez, “former personal ar bas i
[755]secretary to deposed Guatemalan Communist presi-
[756]dent. Jacobo ARBENZ.
[758]5 -firebsto: de 1a%*pENA y Munoz, Jexicographer and)
[759]linguist employed by. ‘Bneyclopedia Britannica's
[760]Spanish language edition. He has a reputation o6 &
[761]as_a fair poet in Mexico and writes for the t
[762]\iettist —“EL DIA" and the center-left “BXCELSIOR
[764]in the Sunday Literary sections of Mexican ‘news-
[765]papers.
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[767]7 - hiicia REYES, writer for the newspapers "EL SOL"
[768]and "EL UNIVERSAL”. — ‘Once a member of the Mexican 06,00
[770]Toe \Cp_and i_resident of Moscow,
[772]8 = Franc iecsY*ZENDEIAS, book critic for "EXCELSIOR",
[773]:, Mexico City TV channel #4 and Radio Station XEW.
[775]He was once personal “sétretary to Leon TROTSKY. |
[776]Chronic alcoholic,
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[783]h torian and literary critic.
[785]Rodrigo’ ‘GARCIA Trevino, Mexican political meson ) obit
[787]; Rend X*ARTEAGA, former head. of the Young. Communists
[788]of El Salvador, Exiled to Guatemala and jater to.
[789]Mexico. Economic reporter for “EXCELSIOR" and
[791]| formerly for "EL DIA". No longer active in Cp.
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