FORM 8-64 140) 53a -way: 5. -The photographic equipment used by the KDAFGHANS at ~ present consists of a Bausch and Lomb spotting scope with 20-X eyepiece, and a Pentax H-3. camera. This equipment is not satisfactory (see below). ~ Except for the printer, all darkroom equipment is located in-a darkroom on the first floor. The darkroom is well equipped and adequate. - KDAFGHAN-1 makes ho attempt to conceal the darkroom. His cover for the darkroom is that it is his hobby. tables are Pie GB GO cable fetisetachscates t pr If the Station ~ is looking for confirmation of an agent report or a surveillance | report, they are some imes consulted.  ADOQUD CY CV Geet shipped to Headquarters fOr eh ST Dads ide chives. Cc negatives and contact prints are handled in same way. Te The (enlarged photographs are processed in the following Be Certain photographs of unidentified persons are. - . .sterilized and forwarded to the local office of LNERGO. The Station receives no feedback or identification of these individuals from LNERGO. Photographs of’ PCS or known TDY Embassy personnel , are kept and used for identification purposes at. the Station and some are forwarded to Headquarters for the same reason. - Lo Photographs of other identified persons are placed ain Station personality files. - 7 ee ATL other_photographs—(the-major—portion) are Simply (destroyed. / oo ot, oo 8. LNERGO was recently queried on the value of this operation to them. They replied, "(these photographs) are compared with the photographs of known leaders of extremist groups in WOCORK as well as with photographs of persons who are subjects of Identification orders prepared on badly wanted fugitives in WOCORK. It is requested, therefore, that you continue this service if 4t does not cause problems or. unusual. costs to your office."' While this project may be of some value to LNERGO, it is of little value, a8 presen ens of obtali to the Station.” There are other, and cheaper, means of obtaining photographs of PCS and TDY personnel. No identification or operational use is made of the photographs of the unidentified subjects - at least by JKLANCE - and no operational use is made of the timetable. For instance, license plate numbers are not now traced as either a possible means of identification, or leads to CI or recruitment targets. A previous effort at analyzing the timetable for possible patterns of activity was unproductive and has not been repeated. Only in selected instances do we try to correlate the information received from . KDBADGER coverage of the Embassy and that provided by. the KDAFGHANS. But generally this has not been successful, since most often people with previous appointments are soing to the Consulate (which we do not cover with KDAFGHAN), Or too many, unidentified people arrive around. the same: time at the gate, precluding a positive identification. While, the above evaluatio. “Continued......+++ 1 CLASSIFICATION PAGE NO. USE PREVIOUS EDITION. . | { an |x| | SSECREF LX} connnveo 3 of 6
we an Mie ee ee & | percent passengers can easily be raised to near one-hundred ‘identify mre and more of the in-bound in-transit. personnel. Technician and Support Section of some of their work Load. may read more like a project termination request than a progress report, the Station does believe that this project could be made productive if not extremely valuable to both JKLANCE and LNERGO if. faces could be related to names and other operational leads . inherent in the KDAFGHAN production were abstracted and followed out. Our plans to do so are outlined below. ; 9. PLANS: Technical quality needs to be improved. The present enlargements are only poor to fair in quality. This is ‘due to the lens now in use, which only has an effective aperture of £-22. The Station WOACRE officer will soon initiate corre- spondence.to obtain a better lens which will not only result in higher quality photos, but extended coverage in conditions of - darkness or twilight by increasing the light-gathering capability of the camera. A camera with a behind the lens light meter will | be used from now on to prevent underexposures in poor light conditions. The present enlarger lens has a fungus growth which lowers photographic quality. This will be repaired or replaced. - 10. Since the move to this OP, a street sign in the line of sight to the target area obstructs-or spoils over. half of the’ photographs. This prevents the Station from using the photo- graphs with agent personnel or contacts who might be able to identify the subject of the photograph. . For, unless heavily sterilized, it provides a very easy means. of identifying where the photograph was taken, and conceivably, by using a theodilite, . determining the exact location of the OP. An operation, throug liaison, to remove this obstruction has been initiated. } ll. Identification of PCS personnel, out-bound TDY and in- percent. The Station will arrange for our current KDGLACTER | passport coverage to be passed on a routine basis to KDAFGHAN ‘and, using these, he should be able to identify all of the subjects that fall in the above category. He will also be’ instructed to start a photo file on all TDY and in-transit personnel and, as he builds this base up, he should be able to Consideration is also being given to have him develop and process these passport photos for both himself and the Station. This would not only speed up identification of these subjects - and the exploitation of possible ops leads - but relieve the Station. 12. The exploitation of potential operational leads through the compilation of data on license plates, servicemen, known visitors and arrival and departure times, has previously been tried by the Station on a sporadic basis with no success. This is primarily .due to the fact that the workload involved on Station personnel has prevented a continuing effort. Since KDAFGHAN-1 and 2 are underworked (and would probably welcome © some change in their incredibly boring routine), this job will be given to them. They will be required to submit monthly reports on: - Soe : mo, a. All vehicles that call at the compound (frequency figures). wt b. All service calls. c. All visitors and or servicemen who get inside the compound. pomp = Continued...... CLASSIFICATION feet. a . . PAGE NO. USE PREVIOUS EDITION. po me CONTINUED | 4 of 6
“AMMA =~ Aron? ba. d. All visitors and or. servicemen who get inside the gate. Pe the e. Compiled. statistics on the arrival and departure time (and method) of each known | or suspect intelli- . me gence officer. This should considerably improve the Station’ s ability to exploit . any leads that might arise. 13. The one problem area remaining, and the one where we stand to’strike the most "pay-dirt" is that of identifying the photographs of non-Cuban personnel who visit the Embassy or the -. Consulate. While, true, we are unlikely to identify any DSI i agent personnel or illegals, we would be most likely to obtain i ~: identification of subversives traveling to Cuba and on local. [ sympathizers or contacts who could possibly serve as access i agents. Linking unknown faces to names can only be done by ' . technical means. The target Situation and our proposed means © a ' of attack are given below. 14. . Since the arrival of. the new DGI Chief of Center and the DSE security officer last year, security at the Cuban Embassy and Consulate has tightened drastically. Metal shutters have een placed on all but one of the windows in the area suspected of being the DGI center. Not even a crack of light now shows from these windows at night. The entire’ compound and the sur- rounding wall have been floodlighted. In KDAFGHAN's words, "the only shadows in the place now are during the daytime". The former open grill gate to the automobile entrance has been re- placed by an electrically operated solid metal. garage door. Passerbys can no longer look into the compound or gatehouse and KDAFGHAN can no longer observe the latter. The door into the gatehouse, which is in the outer wall alongside the automobile entrance, has been changed to a heavy metal door with a one-way 7 mirror for observation. No vehicles except those belonging to the Embassy are now allowed inside. All delivery trucks must park outside and carry their items inside. A completely. new, and unknown, telephone system has been installed. Access control is now rigorous. When a visitor now calls at the Embassy he must ring the doorbell, wait for the door to be opened slightly, and, if he is not recognized, announce his name and business. The door is then shut in his face, the gatekeeper calls the person he wants to see and the person is then either let in or turned away. If let in he no longer is allowed into the ‘lise compound = with some few rare exceptions - ~but_is led into the pt former gatehouse w. se which has just" _been _converted into a reception area. The person he came to see 2 comes to the ¥Yéteption area and interviews him there.. Very rarely is the visitor let into the compound. If the visitor calls at the Consulate he may freely enter that one room on the ground floor, but is allowed “no further. Usually the secretary handles all requests. Some times a visitor to the Consulate who requires an interview with one of the consuls is taken or sent to the Embassy entrance. @ ,and interviewed in that area. Our chances of implanting an audio . [device inside the Embassy, the Consulate, or the gatehouse with our current assets and under these conditions is nill. { 15. There are seven telephone lines into the Cuban compound. . Five of these go directly to the Ambassador's office, | the Cultural Office, the Press Office, the Commercial Office and the Consulate. As far as we know, the DGI center has no- | } } | meee es Continued. .....58 . watt t CLASSIFICATIO = PAGE NO. __ FORM 53a : 8-64 | USE PREVIOUS EDITION. 5 of § (40) CONTINUED. 5 of 6 -AW 53199 DoclId: 32353660 Page 6
its iN al on direct lines. Two lines go to a Switchboard of unknown ‘capacity ‘in_the gatehouse/reception room. These lines receive an average oF two-thousand Salle cach pe per month. Many times, in reading © the take, we note that a person will call and say that he is. coming by at a certain time - or he will be called and told to come at a certain time. If KDAFGHAN could corelate these calls with the photographs he takes he could make many identifications ‘Which, in turn, could be exploited by other Station assets, ; KDGLACI ER, or LNERGO. Even of more assistance would be the hot “miking" of these lines. That way we could not only identify “any caller to the Consilate or gatehouse, but also who the gatekeeper calls inside to announce the visitor. In addition, we-would. also expect to pick up quite a bit of conversation of interest, for the gatehouse seems to be a favorite hangout in the Embassy for DGI personnel. KDAFGHANS 1 and 2, being experienced LP Operators, : could easily handle the take. KDAFGHAN-1, being fluent in English, could also handle the English language portions of any take - which in view of the number of English-speaking visitors would probably be considerable. . 16. Therefore, we. request that we be advised what technical information is necessary for WOACRE to determine the feasibility of a hot mike installation into the gatehouse and Consulate ; (assuming no access to the instruments). serviced by an LP located ~ in the current KDAFGHAN OP. “Tn the meantime, we will investigate the possibility of tapping one of the gatehouse telephones currently monitored by KDBADGER and running it into the KDAFGHAN - OP where it will not only be transcribed but live monitored. Seat teny ee toro errr. 17. PRODUCTION: ‘production figures for this period. were normal. KDAFGHAN provided an average of 600 contact. prints and. 150 ) enlargements per month. No new identifications were made. y - 1B SDUINESERATIMB on Bhere: were-no-chang esc costs": ae -personnel.d Eng. ~thi ASe. 3D Pee. eek: wie tee 19. ‘SECURITY: There were no security incidents during this period.. To improve. security, meetings have been reduced to an -average of one every two weeks. Use of the safehouse is now held to a minimum and wherever possible meetings are by car pickup. While KDAFGHAN-1's cover for his darkroom is that it is supposedly his hobby, there is not one photograph or camera visible anywhere . "in his house. . He has been instructed to correct this deficiency . oN: ; Mikel sse_ &. GAR ALPHE | aa ES ta eel ome a ti one CLASSIFICATION - PAGE NO. NO | 6 of 6 CONTINUED FORM s-64 53a USE PREVIOUS EDITION. (40) J -