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We believe that Subject is sentimental but is ashamed of beingso; he cakes a Joke of it. He wants to be liked by people and realizesthat cost peoplo find him interesting, entertaining and attractive.Wo think that Subject unconsciously gives an important place tocomradeship. He can influence poople and be influenced by them. Hois mature about such things but still we think he would stick by afriend in trouble, perhaps to the point of foolishness. BecauseSubject has the winning personality he does, he has never been obligedto retain friends and/or acquaintances because he knows he will al-ways be able to find new ones. Interestingly enough Subject more thanonce distinguished between a friend and an acquaintance, and in so manywords stated that he has had very fow friends as such.Subject dezonstrated that he is able to reason and to do sovery well. He saw the solution of logical and algebraic problems hewas given remarkably quickly. While attempting to solve these problems,Subject reasoned well enough but showed that his memory is perhaps notas good. Subject knew his own date of birth and hardly any other; ofcourse, he had no interest in the others.Subject is perceptive and is able to combine his perceptionwith his ability to reason. He made several remarks which indicatedthat he saw through the behaviour of certain personalities, politicalquestions, etc., which were discussed. Subject is observant but wedid not have sufficient time with him to know whether his powers ofobservation are excellent or simply above average.Subject has a winning personality and is quite capable indealing with people. He listens well, talks rapidly and at lengthwithout attempting to monopolize the conversation. He is quite will-ing to climb out on a conversational limb, listen when he hears someoneelse speak up who is apparently better inforried, and asks questionsif his interest has been aroused. We would guess that Subject wouldbe particularly well suited to dealing with the public. He nicelycombines pseudo-attentiveness and Gallic charm.We doubt that Subject has much resolve and almost certainlywould not stick to a boring, difficult job for very long. We doubthe would simply quit in a huff; he would far prefer to rationalize and,if necessary, to manufacture excuses for release. Connected with thisis the possible character weakness in Subject concerning his reliabilityto fulfill any given set task. We doubt that he would oversleep orget drunk but if he personally did not understand and appreciate theImportance of the job, he would be inclined to let it slide or ignoreit. An excellent point in subject's favor is that he could not bebrow beaten or easily dominated. For instance, we doubt that even thethreat of physical torture would force Subject to tell something hedid not wish to say. To precludo any such crisis, Subject would beglib, second guess his interrogators, invent facts or at least re-arrange them to suit whatever purpose he might have in mind. Subjectcould probably be dominated by a man of superior intelligence (atleast considerably superior to his) who spoke native French and wassufficiently informed about Subject's background so that he couldcatch cut Subject in any one of his evasions.Subject is a materialist because he has the idea that materialsuccess is necessarily the passport to respectability, social success,happiness and a host of other such abstract Imponderables. Not thatSubject is too unhappy or emoticnally ambalanced at the pressnt time;ho enjoys the very carefree life he leads. We think that becauseSubject has this desire for material gain and hence respectability,the promise of a sizeable financial reward would by itself be sufficientto win his loyalty and holchearted cooperation. This is not to saythat the anti-Communist struggle for good and against evil Eeansnothing to him. It does, of course, and he might undertake dangerous.work for the love of adventure, but he would do so with a great dealmore verve and conviction if he were sure of the pot of gold at theend of the road.