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# PRIORITYTO : Chief of Station, HavanaFROM : Chief, KURIOTSUBJECT : AQUATIC/Operational ofSW Supplies for AMTRE-1REFERENCE : JAVA - 4089, 17 June 1960201(274049)8DATE 23 JUN 190RF: 403-CCCHARSO FOR INDE GINGNO MORING REQUIREDLY QUAL13 12 OPLY1. The SW supplies and instructions needed to establish two-way SW correspondence with AMIRE-1 are transmitted herewith. We realize that some of the instruction forms and supplies which are being transmitted are duplicates of those sent to the Station in support of other operations. However, in order to facilitate the handling of each operation, the supplies for each are furnished as a complete unit. This will preclude the need for borrowing from one agent's supplies to outfit another.2. AMIRE will write to the Case Officer, using carbon system $39337. Two unused sheets of carbon #39337 should be issued to the agent for this purpose. He should be told to store them separately to avoid accidental loss of his writing system. His carbon system is developed by means of tablet #30607. A supply of the developer material, in quantities sufficient for training purposes, accompanies this dispatch.3. According to the WH operational plan, SW messages written by AMIRE-1 will be mailed to accommodation addresses in various Latin American countries. In accordance with that, KURIOT will provide the appropriate (WH Field Station) 28 with the materials necessary for developing the operational messages.4. AMIRE-1 will develop the SW messages he receives by means of pill 99 ($58838.) He should be issued twenty pills $58838 for that purpose. It is recommended that the agent be told to hide his developer materials in a safe place. This should not present much of a problem because (the pills are so 99 small). We do not generally recommend that (pills be camouflaged as medicines). Even in cases where the SW ingredient (does have a bona fide medicinal usage,) the concentration represented by the SW pill would usually be in excess of the 99 normal dosage, and thus there would be a danger of having an unwitting person use them by accident. If the Case Officer feels that for operational reasons it is desirable (to camouflage them as medicines) they should only be kept in a bottle which is clearly marked (FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY)5. According to the operational plan, the Jace to agent 9: messages will be prepared for the Area Division by KURIOT at Headquarters. The Area Division will pouch the SW messages (as "blank" sheets of stationery) to the appropriate Field Station for application of the cover test and mailing.6. The AMIRE-1 Case Officer should familiarize himself with the accompanying supplies and instructions before any attempt is made to train and issue supplies to the agent. Experience has shown that it is advisable to plan for two or three short (2 hour) agent training sessions scheduled over a period of days, rather than to attempt to cram the training into one long session.7. Special attention should be given to planning the cover correspondence. It is usually recommended that the agent use (false name and return address) on his SW messages to the Station, thereby (dis-associating himself) completely from his SI reports once they are in the tail channel. This requires that the correspondence be fictional, and entails a certain amount of skill on the part of AMIRE-1 in fabricating; apparently (innocent correspondence) we have found that the use of a (false postal identity) frequently provides the agent with considerable psychological reassurance during the course of the operation.3. The cover/![photo of a form]