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# CONTINUATION OF DISPATCHCLASSIFICATIONPRIORITY SECRETDISPATCH SYMBOL AND NOCELA-42,7509. How about his ideological motivation? We had hoped for some more concrete expression than we got, on this score, but what we have is not too bad. He states that he will not be "intellectually dishonest" to the point of becoming a "professional anti-Communist," by which he means a propagandist. At the same time, he agrees that he has no desire to be a professional revolutionary. Again we note that he is not blindly or unduly critical of ODYOKE. Granted, he criticizes many elements of ODYOKE policy and tends to defend some enemies of CDYCKE. A failure for him to do so would be sufficiently remarkable to make us totally suspicious of him. Note further his comment that he would havebeen perfectly willing to talk to us a year ago in Faris in the same fashion as he has here. This would sound rather suspicious and difficult to believe, were it not for the fact that he did show himself to be candid and cooperative in his Paris interview with a FBSWING officer.10. How badly blowm is GIBSON, then, if we are thinking of using him. After all, he has been publicly labelled a "CIA agent." Could he, then, work for AUBARK successfully? GIBSON himself is certainly a better judge of that than the London Station, and we feel that there are only two indices that can be used to judge the matter. The first and most immediate is GIESON's own opinion, since he has lived with the problem, and has tested the idea in practice. He feels that he could still operate ("Love" is his tern) in most of the desirable arees successfully, provided he has adequate cover for being where he is and doing what he does. The second inder would be for us to test his continuing access to targets of interest. It should not take too long to make such a test without putting anything into real jeopardy.11. Cover for GIBSON, of course, would be a serious problem. He himself proposes the obvicus answers: some kind of vaguely left journalistic tie-up. We should think that such cover could be arranged. And we propose to disucas a number of possibilities with Headquarters in due tine.12. Utilization and lccale are most closely related, of course. From our vantage point here, it would appear that Algiers would be the rost desirable home base for GIBSON. Fe could range out from thers into Europe or the rest of Africa (the two best targets, apparently) and maintain a reguler flow of information on Algerian affairs while "at home." He has spoken several times of the ease with which he is integrated into the Algerians environment, and he has a fairly well established base there from which to expand his operations. He has said that he would be willing to go there, or France, or most any other place where his children can continue their education in French. And Algiers appears to be, for the foreseeable future, a worthwhile target in its own right, as well as the site of a growing number of internationel front organization meetings, for which GIBSON would appear to have exceptionally fine credentials. As he says, he could go elsewhere in Africa, but Algiers is where he would fit best. We would be inclined to keep him, for the kost part, away from the Cuban milieu (except, perhaps, incidentally) to avoid straining his reportorial objectivity. In the African, Buropean, and international front areas, we suspect that careful checking would ensure such objectivity.13. His utilization could best be considered on a straight information-collecting basis. To use him as a propaganda tool would be not only repugnant to him but destructive of his utility as well. Presumably he could be permitted to continue to write, not only for his overt emplyers (in a straight news fashion), but perhaps occasionally for leftist periodicals of his own choosing, in order to maintain his own cover. (This is, admittedly, seeing rather far into the future.) We do feel, however, that GIBSON could be an admirable and highly valuable collector of positive information on that whole spectrum of the left with which he is already so familiar.CLASSIFICATIONFORM10 57 530USE PREVIOUS EDITIONREPLACES FORMS51 29 5: CBA ANG 51 29PRIORITYPAGE NO