REDS SPREAD SPY NET FROM MEXICO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190069-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: September 11, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190069-3
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MEXICO % rn% Sept: 10?Thil existent. They couldn't Cate!' a fly
Ss the actual operating center for a gn bowI even If they
all Communist edit-it-lee in the ?tek,d_e
Americas, peelieularly for e.epiei.
age against the United Stites..
From. the bldek?seetiare, iic
and heavily guarded Russian Eln-
bassy-ntere not a single Meet
can notionni is einployed-the
viets today are directing their
battle of subversion, orgenizatian
and prepaganda: in the American. THE RIISSIANS bie:e 123 So.
Al' TRIr.? HEART of the colD iet eitizense-enest -ohethem qtr.
?
paign is an unceasing' flow of trained-on their Embassy staff
Cornmunist and Soviet- hooka,. in Mexico City. plus 11 Spanish
pamphlets and .0ther'printed ma- Conempnists trathed- in Moscow.
terial, the distribution of. Which The spy ring for Latin America
Is financed in part by US. lax- is headed byRonstantin Tikhorni
ayers through mall subsidiee. rote whose title is "corrunerei
f
way: ? counselor.' Russia's Ambassador, works this
ms 05,..Red orooaga.nde meter. yoly-poly Vladimir Bazikin. is
- minor figure lit the espionage
. .
ials tillivo? In Mexico each Month! Propaganda picture.
In bulk Additional .tons arel sovi-et?ritibrislW in W
_ . as
turned out by seven Soviet--
financed printing -plantS here. Al legton-oue largely ttemot .
t sue
the Soviet Embassy, this materle3 velliante-ts no longer 'a major
.14 split up and redireeted to eine spy station. Red agents operating
ioua feet n? American countries
More 'Ittan 90 percent Is routed
throtiglt Nee.v Orleans,
Mexico has been the principal
Soviet espionage headquarters in
the Western ? Hemisphere since
shortly after World War II. when
-in the wake of the Canadian
spy .scandals- the Reds . wer
forced to move from Montreal.
VARIOUS SEA and air 'carrier:
-reOciel.ng millions of debars an
nualleo in mail subsidles-carre
the material to Central andSoutl,
American counttiae. The shiP-
mente are tagged In trarisit" ant
cannot be opened in the U. S
under preeent regulation& I
House ? of Repiefsentative.s -sub
-committee bee collected sevcne*.
hundred examples of this posta
abuse ? butt. astee.et, has come uj
?with no eteirelocbie plan to put e
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who never go within a mile of
known Sovie.t contacts," says .a
:top .111, S. !Intelligence official
"We have doeniereined proof that
several large and
business firms in Mexico ere
finadered by the Soviet. Their
purpose is to finalist] legitioutt-e
excuses for executives and tech-
inelens.do travel openly between
Itlexicit tint! the U. S."
? Prep!Iganda-wise, aside froen
strfpnients of material from here,
the Russians in Meeico City di-
rect and control some 250 or more
CO.mmuntet publications- in Latin
-America. Soeiet-bloc and Chinese
Con-lint/nisi propaganda beamed
at Latin America now totals about
'S5, hours weekly in Spanish and
Portuguese and 21 hours in Polish
find other languages, according to
Gen. C. P. Cabbil, USAF, Deputy
Director of the U. S. Central In-
telligence A gedey.
1 lig SOVIET Embasesy also
In the l'eS. DOW report, tiliac ily to
has well-oiled machinery for get-
bosses in Illexiee City. . ? ting ? occasional defectors out of
New agents arriving from Mos- the U. S. and safe behind the Iron
tow first check in at Mexico City Curtain. .
for orders. They can cress the e- .
Row '?senoothly 4 h la under-
2,013-mile. lightly guarded bordel-1. ..e.
e,?-eend railroad week* WAR dem-
at easeedisguised as tourists, bus- wleeeeeee, eif __
Inessrnen, students. The extent of or -Tei;;;;;I:r 'Frit, trtkelleT 717 7.7:i
this .croSs-border. -traffic is inell- ?,01-441? U. martm, 2.,3. the Amer.
cated by a recent. report of the 1,,,,,? mute eierice who twirled op
U. S. Border Patrel,which saye: '?'
in Moscow after -? disappearing
.. i'llETWFXN D'S and 300 pastiehlie on eiteation from their jobs
'and present members of the Com-late the niteresee.ret National Se-
rnunist Party cross from luarereettirlieAgency.
Mexi6-0, Into 81 Paso daily'.: '' On June 25, after tolling their
? "nit big courier nraffie le Wee: saperiere they. were beaded for.
?
? OW sthie, "%Vest Coast. .the two men
?
fltiev Via., Eastern "Mr Lines to
? Meetico -City--Thy checked into
1a doublerooin at the Vireyes Ho-
-
:I tel 'that night, moving the follow-
ing dhy to a small hotel, the New
Itorker. On July 3, armed with
I falseepesSporth. rind false names,
e, they flew to Havana, where they
' ? -.took a ship.
, . 'Dr. Maurice Halperin, known
- ., as "The Professors Is another ,ex-
J ample. -A former. professor' at
Boston University, now a Latin-
' American specialist in the Soviet
Academy of Sciences, he made
news -from Moscow recently by
applying for a visa en his U. S.
? passport. . ,? . . ?
? A IVARTDIE CHIEF of the.
LaetreAinerienn division of the
Moscow isn't particularly lifter Reemingi ?r
esteel in stirring up anti-ging(
feeling here. The realistic Russi-
ans want to keep things quiet, con-
centrating political activities in
other countries while using Mexi-
co as a base.
, Mexico also Ft used as a stable:
unmolested egpionage heariquar. ?
ters, from Where agents from
Rttaela can check in and -out on l?
their way to and from the United
States.
WEE NEUTRAL Sweden and
. Switzerland in World Wars I and
II, Mexico is unusually tolerant of
what other governments do from
diplomatic bases Inside Its bor-
ders.
4`aletelon today Is probebly the
biggest spy center In the?world."
eaye a leading retropean spy chief
operating here. "The Internal se-
curity eyetem le prey:Welly note
?
U.S. Office of Strat?egic S4heeeee
Halperin was accused of eueply
ingSovietagents with sect of 1The
tunentS. In 1954, in the wake
the McCarthy Committee hem?
ings, Halpern-' and his family
along with s'ome, 100 or so-- eche
American Communist f Mines
moved to Mexico wheleenecord
lag to. top' Western- heel igenee
agents, -"The Professor"
working directly for the Seene
spy apparatus.
One of his top etssibeinents
say these sources, was toeet, ur
the flight of ?Alfred and ,,Iarth?
Dodd Stern from the U. nflei
they had been 'Indicted ai spies
The ? Sterns, -using only ?Itouris
papers, came to: Mexico, ? pieke
up Paraguayan .passpoi-' s 'oh
tabled by Haporin, and w 0
to Russia-7e% erything heink plot
ted and controlled from Vex-let
City.
?(Tontorrow: - Art iele ? Two
? will tell how Red spy activi-
ties, directed fronT 5i :deo
City, are eoncentrated elcmg
the U. S. border close. to
? America's top missile i and
atomic (en t?eee.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190069-3