104-10246-100 Chief of Station, WH/Miami _Chief, western Hemisphere Divimion Chief getstatton, Mexico city\ ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES . AMMA-41087, -29 2 soptenier GG Mgeh, Te uealne MEXICO. CITY 18336, 24 Novem 2 aad HMMA-41240, 5 November |1 Taps HMMW¥-18065, - 24. August{19 ace wg MEXICO CITY- -18654, ca smut 93 “References: A Be Cc D ic] Action Required: . Paragraph 9° 1. Summary: Information came. to t during this: ‘period: which causes the. ‘Station .to: believe. ne to fagnigari may.:be under ' the control of,.or known to,.AMSTAFF. ...The. Station mounted: an j:%% | - operation to determine. if.this is true, but was unable to complete it. Our efforts continue. Details are given.-below,..: Production | quality and the percentage of identifications. inereased . Costs = remained within the allowed AMOUNTS es Dh He tS pL! 2. Security: As Headquarters is. aware , “TYPIC ‘operations. cat. . this Station have been unproductive since early 1968. Consequently, _ ‘the COS, the DCOS and;. more lately, -the TYPIC Chief, have begun.to -* plan and work TYPIC operations on the assumption that AMSTAFF: is on to us. An incident in. thé2(KDAFGHAN operation.-in the past quarter - tends to add weight. to. our hypothesis. In submitting his: November | accounting DAF GHAN-1 inadvertently. included a bill fora long- . distance Call to. PBRUMEN (Reference B).o2@ While this in:itself is not enough to. convict (KDAFGHAN-1 (or (KDAFGHAN-2,; ‘there is no :.-+ indication on the bill“as. to which one of: them made the call), it» : is enough to show extreme indiscretion on his part: ..This prompted : the Station to make a complete review of fhe case and to plan ve CT : Operation designed to show whether or not (KDAFGHAN-1 and’: ony (KDAF GHAN-2 was under control of,. or _ being monitored : PY. “AMSTAFF . The Fesults : are as follows: voy eae fees ud o Continued eee Wa Lest Distribution: - Orig. & 2 - Chief, WHD © a ‘1 ~ cos, iiH/tiiami -C}P DISPATCH SYMBOL AND HUMBER “~ HMMA - 41490 - 3 to assets (including CRDAPGHAN photos), there 1S Sti a possibility that misuse of GDAFGHAN photographs by either JKLANCE or LNERGO overozthe» years may have also been a contributing factor. We note that they were shown. to, {KDTUCK-4 on various occasions in the past and that he ‘Kas: ‘been recently terminated because of our doubts about him. ae oe Continued
Troe = .. DISPaTEy aie ee 3. The review Showed: —— view a, The agent Was Originally. a walk-in to the former JKLANCE Station in Havana, He was later referred to this Station, This in itself is €nough to nake him Suspect He still has Close Telatives in PBRUMEN and corre- Sponds with these relatives by letter - and Probably by telephone. Four of these relatives are the Sisters of (KDarGHanes and the threat Of pressure on these would Probably be €nough to make her Subject to AMSTAFF control . Assuming that AMQUAKE controls all i ©. Since the incident mentioned in Reference C, we can. | further assume that AMQUAKE has made some, if not a determined, effort to locate the (kDarcHan Site. This This is a building formerly occupigh by &DAFGHAN 4 and 2, Only Within the last two weeks has’ an AMFINK employee moved into this Site, rt would also be employees and Visitors Shaking their fists at the former Site, Hindsight now leads us also to conclude that it would be a very easy Matter to investigate d. While it has always been the Practice Of the Station to Sterilize all Photographs, fiven LNERGO Or shown in = S been Tecently terminated because of our doubts about him, that nto? DTUCK~4 On various SOCCasions a (UPL , ax CLASSIFICATION pa PAGE NG. 2 of 40 SECRE?D a -
0 PISPATGrH, e. The simple length of time that this agent has been in operation could also be considered aS a possible factor in exposing him sooner or later. We also note in passing that his home telephone line shares the same pole distribution box aS that of the AMFINK consulate. oo, oo. f. One item that becomes evident when reviewing (KJAFGHAN files is his repeated failure (with some few ~~. exceptions) to get photographs of suspects or agents that the Station knows visited AMFINK while he was SeerEnttensenet purportedly on watch. 4. Given the above the Station decided to%mount an Operation designed to determine once and for all if the (KDAFGHANS were oe either under control by AMSTAFF or if their activities were being monitored by audio coverage of the Safehouse or OP site. The — DCOS designed a sophisticated scenario to be played out by the Case Officer which would, one by one, eliminate or prove each of the above possibilities. No other Station assets were used, this to eliminate any possibility that they might be the source of a leak. Without going into a mass of details, the plan basically involved letting enough information slip bit by bit to, KDAFGHAN~1 so that he, or some AMSTAFF Case Officer on the other’énd, would draw the wanted conclusion; namely, that 201-327262 was working for us, Unfortunately, just aS we got into the preliminary stages of the plan, 201-327262 was recalled. It is our opinion that the operation had not yet gone far enough to consider this recall as proof of our suspicions, but that it was mere coincidence. Hoy~ ever, two points that arose during this operation do bother us. At one meeting KDAFGHAN-1 mentioned (or let slip) that the AmMFINK chauffeur had gone on vacation. - While the Station was aware of this we are hard put to understand how he knew it. Then, during the same conversation with the Case Officer (perhaps realizing his mistake? )» KDAFGHAN-1 began to backtrack and started to talk about how he“''thought" the chauffeur "might havet gone on vacation, The second. point is that he almost invariably reports within a few days when an AMFINK employee drops out of Sight. He has yet to mention the departure of 201-327262. ‘This attempt by the Station to resolve the matter having come to an inconclusive end, we are starting over again and will soon begin another similar operation. j2- 5. Plans: We are working under’ fhe assumption that AMQUAKE/ AMSTAFF either looked for and found &DAFGHAN-1 or that they found him through checking out his mail and calls to and from relatives in PBRUMEN 7 We are further assuming that they then either doubled -him or (KDAFGHAN-2 or that they are successfully monitoring the operation through a combination of physical and audio surveillance (we note the fairly recent arrival of an AMFINK referred to as "el tecnico" ~ 201-886735 - whom we believe to be the younger brother of 201-812106. The latter, our records show, was last . known to be the Chief of the JKLANCE section of AMSTAFF.) While ia KDAFGHAN~1, and KDAFGHAN-2, will obviously have to be terminated, (Al je’ we first intend to do our best to prove our hypothesis. If this wh: can be done, we may be able to put this to our advantage. In the%\/"} meantime, he will be handled under the strictest of compartmen- l% tation. He will be given no further lookout assignments, be given /}p no indications of our particular interests in any individual AMFINKS or their activities and, obviously, we will not proceed with the plans for the audio operation which we Suggested in qin} ee | | Continued...... PAGE NO, 3 of 4 ' CLASSIFICATION - Tottetag J Xi CONTINUED SECRE mo USE PREVIOUS EDITION:
DISPATSH paragraphs 14-16 of Reference. A. We) will start _a search for a replacement site and agent as oo ‘as Hea Quarters indicates at they believe @ continuance o uch an operation is worthwhile 6 Sratr i~eves it is). We inte o contr Oo handle the agent just as before, indicating our greatest confidence in him. We will proceed to improve his equipment and operation and go ahead with the planned technical consultation (Reference E) to demonstrate this. No sensitive equipment or information will | be involved. We further intend to SGSWIRL this agent at the first opportunity. He was last SWIRLED on 18 April 1967. 6. Other Operational Developments: Other than the above, the operation continued as usual. The Case Officer had another dawn to midnight stay with the Agent to observe AMFINK and its. activities and to work with the Agent on improving his. production. Quality of the photographs has improved and TER) passport p of the PBRUMEN visitors has, with the use of KDGL, CIER) passport photos increased drastically - we are now hit ring over eighty percent identification of TDYers and transit personnel. The planned MO studies mentioned in paragraph 12 of Reference A have not been as successful as was hoped for .02. KDAF GHAN=1 and 2 are so set in the routine they have established over the years that the above mentioned instructions to change their way of operation have met with resistance. This is being overcome. The one outstanding event of the period was our obtaining a photo of (SIICEMENT-6' Ss alternate courier (to which ‘SDAP GHAN-1 had not beer“alerted). qT. Agent Personnel: No changes. The break in their regular routine occasioned by our requests for more work on their part and by the extra and irregularly scheduled meetings caused by our CI operation seemed to have increase JAFGHAN-1's already bad state of nerves. The Case Officer sent “him on a three day’ vacation to Acapulco to calm him down - and it did somewhat. 8. Administrative/Finances: No changes. 9. Headquarters Action Required: { a. Advise if Headquarters concurs with the Station as to the desirability of continuing with this type of eReration after the projected termination of the ov{KDAFGHANS. b. Please pass this dispatch to the JMROD unit. Their suggestions are solicited. c. Please retrace all known relatives of (KOAFGHAN-1 and 2 and advise the Station of the results. Bee Vee pe FESS R. GARDALPHE a WO Leb vrneo CLASSIFICATION SECRET USE PREVIOUS EDITION. PAGE NO.