nw7G SECTION 107, @:ccar INFORMANTS AND com Qa SOURCES (6) After informant authenticates his statement, contacting Agent - should prepare a cover sheet, form PD~306, which should be stapled . to it and thereafter the statement should be handled as a ( written one in accordance with instructions set out in 2, a, (10), and (11). ° (7) Oval information furnished by informant purely of lead value , should be incorporated in an office memorandum by the Agent and should not be initialed by the informant or exhibited to him or treated as evidence, 3. Transmission of information a, Statements should be personally delivered to contacting Agent by ~ informants whenever possible. Careful consideration should be given to full security of all such personal contacts. bd. They should never be mailed to field office or resident agency. ec. If they cannot be obtained personally by contacting Agent, obtain confidential post office boxes for their receipt, ad. Confidential post office boxes should be obtained under fictitious names and not under names of persons who may be listed in post office directory. e, More than one informant may send statements to a specific post office box, but consideration should be given to obtaining post office boxes in different post office stations to prevent suspicion on part of post office employees. £. Envelope enclosing statement should have return address of another confidential post office box obtained under a fictitious name in the Same manner as d. g. Statements should be collected at post office boxes re;ularly, put time of pickup should be varied. Work out system of rotation whereby same Agent or Agents will not appear at same post office box for any extended period of time, h,. When informant receives information of vital and immediate interest to Bureau, he should furnish it as promptly as possible to contacting Agent or office by most appropriate means of communication, Office should take any necessary action without delay. 4, Handling of lead information ; a. <All lead information obtained from informant must be run out to a logical conclusion, bd. If there is only partial name of individual or meager descriptive data, and if there is sufficient data available to do so, file shovld be opened and assigned to effect an identification and to take any necessary action, e, If there is insufficient information to warrant opening case, a tickler card should »e prepared to follow with the informant and . take other logical steps in an effort to obtain additional identifying data concerning the individual. Tickler cards should be restricted to information which would warrant investigatil . if an identity.is established, This will eliminate inconsequential items, but at the same-time definite steps must be taken to run out affirmative informa tion. If no identification is made after reasonable effort, prepare memorandum for informant'ts subfile. If an identification is made, a file should be opened and any necessary action taken an connection therewith, 5. Handling documentary material furnished by informants a. Pamphlets and similar documentary materi .! furnished by informants [ should have placed thereon the informant's code name, b. Informant should affix date he received the material. If informant- cannot recall date of receipt, the date he furnished material should be affixed, ec. No additional markings of any kind, such as initials, date received, permanent symbol number of informant, file numbers, indexing symbols, etc., should be placed on documentary material by Agents or clerical personnel, 12 6—13—61 “NW 55072 Doold: 32989529 Page 1535
: SECTION 107 Quer INFORMANTS AND conri@ SOURCES 107M 4, Subfiles “ a. <A subfile is required on each informant wha submits statevents, written . or oral, except in espionage or foreign nationality matters where a I subfile is necessary only in those instances involving possible prosecution. The original of each statement, whether personally written by the informant or furnished orally and reduced to writing by contacting Agent, should be filed in this subfile, “Executed form FD~306 or a channeliging memorandum containing all.applicable items set forth on form FD-306 should be stapled to the original of each : such statement. toe b. Holes may be punched in original statements of informants for secure é filing, but care must be taken to prevent obliteration of any portion so of statements or notations thereon. . 5. Channelization ; Excerpts from the informant’s statement are to be included in the regular , investigative case report when information of value is submitted, Form : FD-306 may be used to disseminate this information to the case file in lieu of a channelizing memorandum if desired. If so used, prepare copies ae of PN-306 as needed for dissemination and staple one copy to each copy of the informant!s statement being channelized. Channelization should be noted on original FD~306 and on all copies under "Remarks." 6. Channelizing memoranda ~ destruction of following submission of reports Q in security cases For instructions concerning the destruction of channelizing memoranda [ in security cases following submission of reports, see[Manual of Rules and Regulations.] 7. Dissemination of information . Information submitted. by informants, potential informants, confidential souroes, or sources of information should be reported to the Bureau and interested offices and other agencies whenever necessary by the appro- priate means of communication under captions showing the subject matter of the infarmation. 8. Correspondence = f Correspondence submitted 1° security informant and potential security : informant matters should * strictly limited to the administrative handling of the informant wad should not contain infor’. tion more prop- erly furnished to the Bureau under a substantive case ption,. 9,.- Maintenance of files a. All pending files on security informants shall be maintained under look and key under the personal supervision of the SAC, ASAC, or field supervisor as the informant indices are maintained and desoribed in subsection X, b, Subfiles containing written statements may- be maintained in the open files section, provided there is no Gisclosure of the informant'ts identity on the statements ec. ALL informant files should be maintained in such a manner as to *: sure that all information furnished by a particular informant will + immediately avallabl: u-on the request of the Bureau. : ad. In addition, these £ : +s should be maintained in such a fashion : -% the identities of ths cases in which an informant has furnished competent evidence can be furnished immediately to the Bureau by simply referring to the file of the informant and without the necessity of conducting extensive research, 10. Use of informant by Department ~— filing correspondence re ; From time to time, the Department expresses an interest in using a partic~ ular informent for testifying when he becomes available as a witness, As a result, there will be correspondence Showing this situation between . the Bureau and the field. Place copies of 211 such correspondence in the informant's file, Occasionally such correspondence may be volu- minous and apply to more than one informant, In those cases, summarize the information concerning each particular informant and place the summary in the appropriate informant's file. ll. Form FD~238 Form FO-238 (printed on pink paper) has been approved for use in security informant and potential security informant files, It is toe be used in the nature of a table of contents or as an index to show where in the, file particular data can be found. This form is to “2 kept as the top permet LAE pti toner le tne pAb NSR NE alkane eRe RE eo AT, 17 4-18-62 Hw S5072 Doold: 32989529 Page 1536
107M — N SECTION ,& SECURITY INFORMANTS AND cons. fIAL SOURCES Gocunent in the pertinent informant file and is not to be serialized, Ife particular section of this form is not applicable, such should be noted thereon, If it later becomes applicable, the serial number can be noted at that time. { 12.1] Bulky material submitted by informant 2 Where informant or source submits bulky material other than a statement : and same pertains to a specific investi “ative matter, bulky material may be filed in the investigative case file, together with a copy of executed form FD-306 or a channelizing memorandum containing all applicable items } set forth on form FO~306, In such a case, the original form FD~306 or channelizing memorandum should be filed in the subfile of the informant or source and the file and serial number where the bulky material is located should be noted thereon, N. PAYMENTS TO INFORMANTS AND HANDLING MONEY RECEIVED 1, No gifts to informants a. Gifts should not be given to informants since such actions might be misconstrued, b. Relationship between Agents and informants shall be maintained on a businesslike basis. ec, Expenditures for gifts to informants will not be approved as blue slip items. ; a. Investigative employees must not approach, directly or indirectly, representatives of companies, private industries, or insurance companies and reguest assistance regarding payments of money, gifts, or products of such companies to informants. 2. SAC authority to pay informants "a, In specific instances in which it is necessary and expedient to expend money to obtain information concerning matters or persons under investigation, which is not otherwise obtainable, or to advance expense money to enable an individual to obtain such information, SAC may approve payments of amounts up to $200 and totaling not more than $200 on 2 c.o.d. basis regardless of the number of payments. This applies only to individuals who have never been regularly paid for services or expenses on Bureau authorization, In other words, once an individual has been paid on Bureau authorization, regardless of the amount, this authority of the SAC may not be utilized, b. Individual who is paid on SAC authority should not be described in correspondence as an informant or source who is being paid on a "regular basis" or on "Bureau authorization," ec. The blue slip reclaiming any of these payments authorized by the SAC must clearly an? accurately explain the circumstances and summarize the information obtained so the Bureau will be in a position to pass - intelligently such blue slips for payrent. d.- Prior Bureau authority must be obtain-<. to make any additional payment to an individual who has received payments totaling $200. 3. Payments on continuing basis — Bureau authority a. To pay anyone on a continuing basis, obtain specific Bureau authoriza— tion. b. In requesting this authorization, a justification must be set forth containing the following items and using the subheadings shown. (In espionage and foreign nationality matters, use subheadings where applicabte. ) . 1 Recommendation (Use following wording as nearly as possible: "I recommend that authority be granted to continue (increase, decrease) payments to the above informant up to $ {amount ) per_ (month, wee, for services, plus up to $_ (amount) per (month, week) for expenses actually incurred for a period | of months, effective ___(date).! i; MW S5072 Doold: 325895259 Page 1537
10, 12.6 13, SECTION 107. Our INFORMANTS AND CONFID EY &. SOURCES 1078 ~- U Instruct each interested Bureau office which has made further dis— semination of such information to follow the instructions set forth aboves, . Also set up a control file regarding this corrective action, and upon completion of same submit ta the Bureau 2a final letter under the ine formantfs caption identifying each case by title, charaoter, Bureau file, where known, and date of communication, This Letter will be used to check all pertinent Bureau files to see that necessary corrective action has been taken in cach instance, If neces#ary, other field offices which have received information from the informant should also be requested to submit summary letterg shove ing what corrections have been made, It is imperative that all information from the informant be correctly Lebeled ang great care must be taken to see that this is done. Occasionally, an ex-informant through his speech, writings, or actions raises 2 doubt as to his reliability subsequent to the time he was an informant, It is not necessary to go back and change the evaluation of: the information attributed to that individual in the absence of a definite indication that the informant furnished unreliable information to the Bureau while he was an informant, Dissemination of information from sources of questionable reliability and known unreliability should be made in accordance with part IT, section 5, of the Manual of Rules and Regulations, | fT, CLASSIFICATION - 134 U. CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES 1. 2. 7 NW 35072 Doold: 329895209 Page 1538 Definition See page 3 of this section. . Assignment of symbols a. A symbol number may be assigned if an unusual security problem exists, or if typing would be saved. ; b. Advise Bureau by letter giving name, address, business affiliation, symbol number, reason for assigning a symbol number, and a brief statement concerning type of information furnished, c, The abbreviation "CS" may be used in intra-Bureau communications for confidential source. Communications relating to espionage and foreign nationality matters should in addition have a character indicating the country involved; e.g., IS ~ R for Russia. ad, When a permanent symbol has been assigned to a confidential source, -the abbreviation "CS" is to appear before the symbol number$ e.g., cS NY~-000-S, 2, e. Symbol numbers assigned to confidential sources are to be taken from the series of symbol numbers used for your security an@ oriminal informants, Ind ex a. Index cards [on form FD-348] like those prepared for informants must be made up and filed as an adjunct to the criminal informant index or the security informant index, depending on the type of information furnished, . . b. The symbol sndex is handled similarly to the symbol index on inform- ants. . ec. Duplicate confidential source cards may be maintained with the ‘ criminal informant index and the security in“srmant index if the source furnishes information of value in both types of investiga tions, Files When active investigation is initiated relative to an individual who has potential as a security confidential source, 2 i°+ classification file should be opened and maintained in a pending status until efforts- to develop the individual are discontinued, The same procedure should be followed concerning racial confidential sources, the classification being 137. Files may be opened on confidential sources in criminal matters in a manner identical with that for handling criminal informant files in the discretion of the SAC, 518-62 |