DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 4/24/20] Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10199-10220 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  62-9-9-1ST NR 1232 4, Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC, CG TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 04/04/1963 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C ~ CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 01/06/1995 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 . 11 | Docld: 3227868444 Page 1
are. under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Use 210 hotey DATE: 11-14-7017 : ~ “o™, : “ f _ _ BECRED . DIRECTOR, FBI [(105~71932)| >. 7 4/4/63 17 \ Sac, cuicaco {(105~14568) ]($) Attention: FBI Laboratory IVAN A. BELOV - ae Lp. : New York Pee Acie oe / pK Re Chicage letter dated and captaonbiZl. bove, Chicago letter to Director dated 2/13/63 vaptioned. “CRIMINAL © INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM, CHICAGO DIVISION", (Chicago file 92-350) and Bureau letters to Chicago dated 2/18 and 27/63 in response thereto, | Re Chicago letter dated February 13, 1963 and Bureau letters dated February 18 and 27, 1963, pertain to the war encealment of a Robot Star II camera in a small men's shaving ~ kiipnich was made. up by the Laboratory and furnished to the * CHitage Office on February 27, 1963. - Chicago has a definite and current need for another conceale obot camera in a shaving ki o be used in eonnection© 4 with the coverage at the Greyhound Bus rmninal in above 2 captioned case and to be used as a supplement to/tke camera Ks) 4 furnished by the Bureau on February 27, 1962. oS It is worthy of note that this disguise has been utilized to extremely. good advantage in providing Seg > photographic coverage in the BELOY]case as well as in the Criminal Intelligence Program at Chicago. Chicago wiskes to point out that the [shaving kit with zipper around the middle(_ of.three sides has proved very beneficial in providing discreet access to the rewinding nechanisafflien necessary. Chicago wishes 2, to suggest that alblack leathere it with a round opening thec U_) ye) size of the lens-opening only (se as not to. celpoe the lens y a we. 8 barrel facing with its more obvious appearance e employed in { making up a second kit since this will probab afford more & discreet usage as well as to give a variation to the one now being s, i ayes by Chicago. It is also suggested that + a[Fl. 9. Jens aS) ae A R@) 2 Bureau (RM) - 62-9-9 (Criminal _ Intelligence Program) a3 3 oy 2-= New York (RM 105-31290) (5) # 3: = Chicago iigeass  =—Sti(tt*é‘é‘«* AA Pw ; NOT RECORDED GOAPR 191963 TB apr 15. 1983 SECREP 7 TQVTD ne 7 - mer et ee ard on. — ji LEED, 2 7 “ogrerwan FILED Le Z _Docld: 32288444 Page 2?
feleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19929 (44 USC 2107 Hotter fo ; DATE: 11- 14-2017 % oy : ote 2 3 . CG FissuseZ]s) ee. ; furnished to replace ‘th Tara ‘38mm F2,8 lens number 6262130 on the. Robot camera number L173776¥ejchicago has experienced that even whenATri-X film is developed in Baymann Special . developer, affording up to ASA 4,000 ratings otographs of moving subjects under existing lighting conditions in rail, bus and air terminals: necessitatése@{shutter speed of. 1/250th ..of a second, and the. ¥F2. 8 opening at. this spe provides ' . extrenely thingflat Gees HMan exposure of [t/I25th of :a. | : . -$@cond at F2.8¥ias resulted in good exposure,: however, if. :.. there. is a great@éxrelative movement (o£ both subject as voll as panning movement of the camera) enol /200¢0 a second Speed is necessary, therefore, . the need for theft g ens, . Re Chicago. ‘letter dated April. 4, 1963 disclosed. that. “sno fon ‘ary fixed observation post at. "the. Greyhound: Bus: Ternina ay no longer:be available after May 1, 1963; further that fixed observation vostdtovering various banks _ 4 of lockers located on various elevations. in ‘the Sus. ce : -. is not feasible, therefore, the need for more than, one .. : Goncealed. ‘semi-mob leftamera.| Chicago has. concluded that 9) i nstallation of a (concealed, fixed, renote-controlle caners Oud . cannot be justified in this matter in view of obvious limitations, excessive expense and ‘the tying-up of an a phece, of equipment fof . an indefinite and prolonged period of ( tinetyit out. specific. information re. possible | future. travel | | offphtony is cttceeeatene. \ oa , tn view: of . ‘the, foregoing, - as Bureau: is. requested. to J , - consider. furnishing. the - Chicago Office camera. equipment. as. | _ outlined ‘above. at the . earliest possible: date... an RE: rye — | : 7 Pe SECRED , —_ | DocId: 32288444 Page 3