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# SECRETOFFICE OF PERSONNEL## SECTION C NARRATIVE COMMENTSIndicate significant strengths or weaknesses demonstrated in current position their relationship to overall performance. State suggestions made for improvement of work performance. Give recommendations for training. Comment on foreign language competence, if required for current position. Amplify or explain ratings given in Section B to provide best basis for determining future personnel action. Manner of performance of managerial or supervisory duties must be described, if applicable. During the reporting period this employee as a staff agent has continued the solidification of his cover and the expansion of his operational activity within his cover to a point where he represents as deeply buried a staff officer as can be found in anyone with his past organizational background. From the point of view of the host country authorities he appears to be completely legitimate. From the more important point of view of his targets, he also apparently has, been accepted, and not through a lack of opportunity for scrutiny, for what he claims to be. He thus represents for KUBARK an asset who has not only solid status and access cover, but also the demonstrated capability for exploiting his cover for specific and aggressive operational undertakinge.As has been stated in past fitness reports, his present capability directly and openly to approach operational targets through the vehicle of his cover is the result of his own efforts, in which he has devoted a tremendous amount of work not only to establish and enhance the foundations of the cover, which requires a considerable amount of work for the cover company, but to devise and exploit ways and reans by which the cover activity may be applied directly to operational tasks and programs. In addition to operational activity in his country of assignment, he has also been used in Hqs-directed activity in other countries, usually involving direct contact with target individuals, and in addition he has contributed greatly to the acquisition of operational information for the use of Hqs components in their overall approach to Soviet scientific and technical targets.It would be difficult to fault this employee with respect to energy, professional skills, and mental capacity. He is a keen student of his operational environment and very skillful in analyzing the possibilities it offers for application toward operational objectives. He shows considerable resourcefullness in devising logical and credible (continued)## SECTION D CERTIFICATION AND COMMENTSBY EMPLOYEEI CERTIFY THAT I HAVE SEEN SECTIONS A, B, AND C OF THIS REPORTDATE1 June 1965SIGNATURE OF EMPLOYEE/s/ Thomas B. CasasinMONTHS EMPLOYEE HAS BEENUNDER MY SUPERVISIONBY SUPERVISORIF THIS REPORT HAS NOT BEEN SHOWN TO EMPLOYEE, GIVE EXPLANATIONDATE1 June 1965OFFICIAL TITLE OF SUPERVISOROps OfficerTYPED OR PRINTED NAME AND SIGNATURE/s/ James M. FlintBY REVIEWING OFFICIALCOMMENTS OF REVIEWING OFFICIALSince the Reviewing Officer in the field has not indicated his views on this Fitness Report, I would like to make a comment of my own. Without vishing to detract from anything the Supervisor has said about Subject's performance, I feel obliged to note that the ratings given him in this report are higher than those given, for example, to any Branch Chief in this Division, and, as such, are inconsistent with the grading pattern of the Division as a whole.2 June 1965 Chief, External Ops /s/ Robert E. Owen Reviewing OfficerDATE24 June 65OFFICIAL TITLE OF REVIEWING OFFICIALDC/WETYPED OR PRINTED NAME AND SIGNATUREEdward RyanSECRET