Cryptonym: LISIREN
104-10218-10047: (ASSET) (LIHUFF) OPERATIONS
6/17/64 dispatch HMMA-23708 from Chief of Station, Mexico City to Chief, WH Division: 1. Background: a. LIHUFF (Identity 1) was founded in 1953 by a group of Mexican businessmen to spread the principles of free enterprise and private initiative. Since then, it has established numerous influential contacts and relationships and engaged in a number of anti-Communist and other activities. It has held meetings of various types and congresses, in which the dangers of Communism was the central theme; it has published books, pamphlets, and newsletters on Communism as well as the dangers of economic socialism. It has organized a student group (Identity 2/MURO/LIEVICT, operating at UNAM)...LISIREN: This project is concerned with a mass propaganda approach to Communism in Mexico..." (at p. 143): LISIREN is headed by a group of businessmen known as the "Committee of Nine", overtly as the "Centro Nacional de Estudios Sociales".
The archives of JFK speechwriter and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Richard Goodwin has a possibly still-unreleased file on the "Committee of Nine".
104-10226-10346: CABLE RE: UNIDAD REVOLUCIONARIA, WAVE SUBSIDIZED EXILE ORG
4/8/63 cable WAVE 6898 from JMWAVE to Director: "Unidad Revolucionaria (note: AMSCROLL), WAVE subsidized exile organization, fulfilling requests from Centro Nacional de Estudios Sociales de Mexico (note: LISIREN) and Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Economicos de Colombia for 10,000 each booklet "If Communism Takes Over". Latter offered pay air postage to expedite. Please alert press assets..."
104-10218-10225: MEMO: COMMENTS ON PROPOSED PROJECT LIHUFF
4/8/63 memo for the record by SAS officer Gabe Lowe: Lowe recommended that the CIA not fund LIHUFF, not only because LIHUFF had other sources of funding but also because the similarity of operations between LIHUFF and LISIREN was so great that it would eventually "strip LIHUFF of its cover and create a potential security problem...Several members of the LIHUFF organization are also members of the LISIREN organization. One of them, Eduardo Prieto Lopez, recently discussed the LISIREN organization with the DCI in the latter's headquarters office and is aware of US government funding to the LISIREN complex."