[104-10217-10223.pdf — page 197]
2resolved before being taken up with Q, and thus he has a somewhat rosyview of the operation. The satisfaction of accomplishment (i.e., beingable to produce useful answers to our questions) is surely a factorin his present attitude.Though light-skinned, with a voice and accent which would beconsidered acceptable in any POPRIL society, Qis extremely sensitiveto the fact that he is a Negro. He has not said or suggested any suchthing to Rodigast, but this is so obvious a facter in his correspondence(even discounting the extent to which the correspondence is part ofhis conscious cover) that it seems to Rodigast that it must be a factorin his life. On the other hand, kodigast has knom another llegro whowas a close friend of Q (and now one of his major enemies, as a resultof the Paris forged letter incident and contributing events) who wasso sensitive about race that he makes Qin retrospect seem like anUncle Tom.Still, Rodigast does not believe Q could be handled by someonewho is not genuinely a "niger lover", i.e., who could not conveya convincing image of a person for whom a color difference was not abarrier (Q would surely detect the false "pal"). Q has mentioned anti-Negro prejudice as a reason for his refusal to cooperate with ODYofficers who talked to him while he was in New York. In fact, Q deais,with his present case officer as a possible if not a true friend;they share an interest and involvement in writing, English literature,living happily abroad, etc.; Rodigast has tried to read Dante in theoriginal and Q has done so; Rodigast would like to write a novel andQ has published one; Rodigast doesn't know much about the post-logicalpositivists who interest Q but probably gives a convincing impressionthat he would like to know about them, and just might be capable ofunderstanding them. What all the foregoin" means is that in Q we havean accomplished person, and it is a useful tactic to treat him ifnot as a superior than at the very least as an equal.There remains the possibility that opportunistic reasons areprimary: Q joined the organization and stayed with us because he couldnot do as well in any other job, could in fact get no job (because ofhis background, his alien status abroad, etc). Rodigast does not excludethis, although he feels that whatever the original motivation, it hasbeen strengthened and perhaps converted into something more worthy.But even if his primary motivation remains material, the history of theproject over its first nine months suggest it is a viable one.C. Q has lived in the underground for so many years withoutbreaking that it is likely he will be able to continue to do so. He thinksfast, handles himseli well in matters presenting security problems.He is not fully trained for clandestine activity. Rodigast's longmeetings with him always include advice on one or more specific aspectsof clandestine work, which when added yp may be taken to represent ashort course, but that is all. The lack of training has led Q to do orsay things which Rodigast would not have wished him to do or say, andwhenever possible this has been brought to Q's attention, and he seemsresponsive to such instruction.Rodigast would not recommend that Q be given a training course,but this would not preclude more formal sessions with Rodigast duringwhich Rodigast could give more complete instruction on various phasesof clandestine work.1