Cryptonym: LIEMPTY-14

Bill Simpich, State Secret, Chapter 4, http://maryferrell.org/pages/State_Secret_Chapter4.html

LILYRIC was run by a meticulous woman known as LIEMPTY-14. Unaware of any record of these logs and reports. LILYRIC provided the best vantage point for photos of visitors, as it was aimed at the Soviet embassy front gate.

104-10414-10124: MEXICO CITY STATION HISTORY, EXCERPTS

Goodpasture wrote that "The LILYRIC base was first opened in 1957 and was maintained by LIEMPTY-14 (formerly LIJERSEY-12). She was recruited by Raymond Gerende/Ramon Joseph Alvarez Durant. She became the best source among the photographic assets. Her daily logs and reports were detailed and complete. The photographs were sharp and clear."

Jefferson Morley, "She Took Lee Harvey Oswald's Picture for the CIA": https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/she-took-lee-harvey-oswalds-picture

"The son of the woman who ran the agency’s photo surveillance of the embassy in 1963 says his mother told her husband and children that she had taken multiple photos of Oswald and delivered them to her CIA handler. Her name was Greta Goyenechea, and her CIA code name was LIEMPTY-14...Andres Goyenechea said that while his mother was sure she had taken Oswald’s picture, she also said she never saw the photos themselves, which were developed by another CIA agent. No such photos have ever surfaced...From 1956 to 1973, Greta Goyenechea was a housewife in Mexico City with an unusual secret occupation: spy. A mother of five who never finished high school, she ran the CIA photo surveillance observation post, code named LYRIC, that took photographs of all foreign visitors to the embassy of the Soviet Union in the heart of the Mexican capital. 'Her daily logs and reports were detailed and complete,' said a CIA assessment of her work. 'The photographs were sharp and clear. … There was no question [she] was the best observer in the group.' Greta was the wife of Andres Goyenechea, an engineer and former lieutenant in the Mexican army who had worked for Colgate-Palmolive, the American multinational corporation. Recruited by the CIA for photo surveillance work in 1956, Andres Goyenechea (code name LIEMPTY-13) turned over the day-to-day management of the cameras to his wife and sons... Seeking a visa to travel to Cuba and the Soviet Union, he went to the Cuban Consulate on the morning of Friday, Sept. 27. That was the CIA’s first opportunity to take a picture of Oswald in Mexico. The entrance to the Consulate was monitored by a hidden pulse camera that was automatically triggered whenever a visitor entered or exited. In 1978, the CIA told the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) that the pulse camera frequently malfunctioned and wasn’t working on the day of Oswald’s visit. HSCA investigators reviewed CIA records and found the pulse camera was working on Sept. 27."

Jefferson Morley, "She Took Lee Harvey Oswald's Picture for the CIA": https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/she-took-lee-harvey-oswalds-picture

(continued): "They were not shown any photos taken by the pulse camera. After leaving the consulate, Oswald walked to the nearby Soviet Embassy, arriving shortly after noon at the front gate where Greta Goyenechea kept her camera trained... Andres Goyenechea’s story clarifies one of the enduring puzzles of JFK’s assassination: the so-called Mexico City Mystery Man. Goyenechea says there is no mystery. He believes the photo was a 'ruse' to conceal the fact that his mother had supplied the station with photos of the real Oswald. His claim is consistent with declassified JFK files and sworn CIA testimony. In the panicky hours after the assassination, the CIA station in Mexico City checked its surveillance records and discovered Kennedy’s accused killer had come to the gate of Soviet Embassy — the very spot that Greta Goyenechea was paid to watch from her hidden observation post across the street. Anne Goodpasture retrieved the photo of the 35-year-old man with an athletic build man who Win Scott had said was Oswald. The photo was shared with the FBI, and it was immediately obvious the photo did not depict the slightly built 24-year-old Oswald who had been arrested in Dallas. The CIA told the Warren Commission this was simply a case of mistaken identity. A photo was published in the Commission’s report. The man was never identified, and the photo has provoked speculation ever since about his possible role in JFK’s assassination. Goyenechea said his mother never would have mistaken the mystery man for an American. 'Nobody could have made a mistake and said, "this might be Oswald,"'he said. 'We knew who was American and who was not. We knew all types of nationalities. That man was not an American. Somebody did that on purpose. That was a ruse.' That somebody, according to Anne Goodpasture, was station chief Win Scott.

Jefferson Morley, "She Took Lee Harvey Oswald's Picture for the CIA": https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/she-took-lee-harvey-oswalds-picture

(continued) "In 1978, the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated the Mystery Man photo and found several CIA officers who said they had seen or heard that the Agency had indeed obtained a photo of Oswald. Joseph Burkholder Smith, a CIA officer stationed in Mexico, told congressional investigators in 1977 that the Mexico City station had been very proud of finding 'the picture of Oswald.' The investigators said that Smith mentioned the photo 'in connection with a woman who worked for Win Scott in Mexico,' possibly a reference to Greta Goyenechea. Deputy station chief Daniel Watson said he saw a surveillance photo of Oswald in the files of the station. The photo was taken from behind, he said, describing it as 'an ear and back shot.' He suggested Win Scott might have retained a copy of the photograph, saying the station chief 'kept highly sensitive information in a personal safe' at his home after he retired in 1969. Scott himself later wrote in an unpublished memoir that 'these visits were not hearsay for persons watching these embassies photographed Oswald as he entered and left each one and clocked the time on each visit.' Their accounts corroborate Goyenechea’s recollection that his mother took pictures of Oswald coming and going. As part of its investigation, the HSCA asked the CIA to make available the production of the two photo surveillance bases in Mexico City. 'The CIA has in part responded to this request,' wrote HSCA investigators Edwin Lopez and Dan Hardway in their final report. 'However, the production from LYRIC, the second base that covered the Soviet Embassy entrance, and the pulse camera that covered the Cuban Consulate has not been available for review.' LYRIC was Greta Goyenechea’s observation post, meaning the HSCA investigators never saw any of the pictures she took in September and October 1963."

CIA Protects Two Mexican Agents Who Surveilled Lee Harvey Oswald: https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/the-man-who-photographed-oswald

"Bill Simpich, civil rights attorney and author, provided the most up-to-date and granular reconstruction of Oswald’s time in Mexico City in his 2013 ebook, 'State Secret,' published by the nonprofit Mary Ferrell Foundation. ...Simpich recounted that Oswald visited the Soviet embassy on Friday, Sept. 27, 1963 between about 12:30-1:30 p.m. According to a photo log obtained by congressional investigators in 1978, the last LIMITED photo that day was taken at 11:46 a.m., before any of Oswald’s alleged visits to the Soviet compound. 'It seems unlikely that any Oswald photos were obtained from LIMITED,' Simpich wrote. The LYRIC observation post...was more likely to have captured Oswald’s visit, as it generally stayed open till 2 p.m...investigators from the House Select Committee on Assassinations were shown surveillance photographs taken by LIEMPTY-6 in the LIMITED base, but were not shown the photos taken by LIEMPTY-14 from the LYRIC base. ...Three CIA officers said they knew of at least one photo of Oswald in Mexico City. Joseph Burkholder Smith said that he had heard about it secondhand and that LBJ was so pleased that it made (Mexico City station chief) Win Scott his 'number one boy.' Joe Piccolo claimed firsthand knowledge and believed that it was taken outside the Cuban compound. Win Scott’s ex-deputy chief, Daniel Stanley Watson, also said that he saw the photo in Oswald's personality file, but that he believed that Scott was 'capable of phonying a photo' if asked to produce one... The ARRB’s final report in 1998 stated that its efforts to locate new photographic evidence of Oswald in Mexico City were unsuccessful. The Review Board explored the possibility that CIA had additional records pertaining to CIA photographic surveillance of the Soviet Embassy. Although the Mexico City Station ran three operations during the relevant time period, the HSCA investigators found photographic evidence and log sheets from only one of these CIA operations."