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Nothing came of the check and there is no reason to believe that Subject will be troubled further. But the prespect of complications with the French authorities, who are cow-a-days frequently in an angry mood anyway, distorted Subject so tint he was not as pliable or as intent on the exercise with Jäantity en he had been. Also, not kicking what could have been behind the police check and not wishing to take unnecessary risks in the cireimstances, we did not dally with the resalning things which needed to be done. Identity was finished with Subject shortly before noon, whereupon se instructed him to check out of his hotel and have ale picture taken, the latter because we had not received by post the negatives he claims to have sent, we met Subject at the Gare Montparnasse at 1500 hours to discover that he had not been able to get the negatives owing to the reluctance of the photographers to part with them, or so he claimed.. Instead, we got several "Photogat" shots and accompanied Subject to the vicinity of his hotel near the Gare St. Lazard where we waited until we saw Subject depart from the hotel after checking out with his things. This we knew that he had departed safely and that he had not got involved in a police follow up.## 7. Arrangements with Subject:By the time we left subject on 9 January we promised him that we would write him within five days to inform him of the approximate date of the next meeting and/or give him a general answer whether he will be transferred to Germany; 1.e.. whether he has been hired. DIR 07455 had not yet been received by us in Paris. Before leaving Faris on 10 January we received DIR 07455 which requested that no definite commitment be asce to Subject and we accordingly left a draft letter with the Paris Station which will be sent to Subject on or about 15 January. In double talk this letter will tell Subject that we (the undersigned) have not received a definite answer, that we shall try to get cne for his sake, and that we expect to have one by about 1 February. In the asantine Subject should make no definite plans one way or the other. We trust that it will be possible and convenient to reach a decision con- cerning Subject by about 1 February. In the course of the Paris zeeting we also informed Subject that we (the undersigned) would probably come to fetch him, which tentative assurance was given in order that subject would not have reason to think that he would lose contact with someone he knows and thereby to help buck up his morale. Subject was also told that he would probably go to PEPRIMS if hired. Otherwise, no plans or tentative arrangerents were discussed with Subject.## 8. Identity's Assessment of Subject:Case officer discussed Subject at length with Identity and we believe it is safe and fair to state that there is complete general agreement concerning Subject. We may disagree on the point of pairing Subject with ASSATCHEL, but so far this would seem to be a minor matter. Identity struck the phrase that Subject "satisfies all selection criteria" used in PARI 4625 and will have concurred in this dispatch. Identity would prefer not to write a precis of his assessment at this time; he would rather subalt his full assessment which will cover his views concerning pairings with cther possible candidates after his return to Headquarters. There is little we can add and trust that this will suffice for the time being. In general we believe that our assess- ment subaitted as Attachment C to EU7A-24034 is not wide of the mark. We do not, however, wish this to be construed as an indirect report on Identity's assesszent or Subject; he will submit his own report. In- cidentally, we have enjoyed working with Identity on this case and have learned from his techniques and approach. His trip has so far been most salutary.## 9. Comment concerning a decision on Subject:The decision on Subject's candidature for SELSOX cugat not be delayed any longer thn is necessary. Identity agreed that Subject will keep for a time and that he very rich wants the job with us. There are several reason's why we think that it would be unwise to delay the decision to remove Subject from France to Germany where he can be hald without undue difficulty. Firet, he is naturally impatient and will not be happy if he is obliged to wait