107X - 0 SECTION 107. @oarn INFORMANTS AND CONFIDEQMJAL SOURCES proteot his security. Fellow members of the pertinent subversive organization may be aware of his unemployment status and would expect him to epply. Where a state requires notification of Bureau payments to informants thet would necessitate disclosure of their identity, then Bureau payments should be discontinued during the period they receive unemployment compensation benefits, 9. Handling money and property received by double agents a. Double agents must turn over to the Bureau any money or property received from their principals in connection with the double agent intelligenoe operation, This should be made clear to the double . agent at the. inception of the operation (consider obtaining a signed . statement to this effect), Exceptions to this rule must be specifi~ cally approved by the Bureau, Entirely separate arrangements must be made for payments to double agents.for services rendered to the Bureau, be <Any money or property received by a double agent from his principal represents possible future evidence and the double agent should execute a statement describing the money received by type of currency, denomination, series of issue, and serial number and appropriately describing any other property received, This statement should be [ signed by the double eagert's code ‘name, cc. Money or property receiv -2 from double agents. should be retained as evidence in acoordance xw..sh section 3, part II, Manual of Rules and Regulations, a. Bureau Agents receiving such money or property from double agents. should make independent records for rétention for purposes of refresh~ ing recollection in the event testimony is later necessary, O. SEMIANNUAL LETTER A semiannual letter should be submitted to the Bureau by each office as followss 1. List the symbol numbers of all security informants and confidential _ Sources being paid for services or expenses on a regular basis, If such confidential source has no symbol number, list his name, 2. Also list the symbol numbers of all unpaid security informants, 3, Set forth any comments concerning the present status of the informant coverage of the office, together with information concerning what actions are being taken to improve the security informant coverage, 4, As a separate section of the semiannual letter, list under "Headquarters City" and each resident agency all subversive organizations broken down into each division and unit thereof, such'as clubs, committees, and chapters, Under each unit the approximate membership, together with the symbol numbers and positions of security informants affording coverage, should be set out, Where no informant coverage exists or where coverage is provided by informants or sources who are not members, such factors should be shown relative to each unit, Semiannual Letters may include any edditional pertinent information re - informant coverage that may be helpful in over-all evaluation, such as ‘ informants in other divisions who are occasionally utilized and highly placed informants who furnish ereaewide, national, or international information, 22 6—13~61 MW 35072 Doold:32899529 Page 1527
, (6) (7) ts) 10) ; ( (12) (12) SECTION 107. D occerey INFORMANTS AND CONFIDENTIAL .SOURCES 107¢ Informants should include in the body of their statements specific dates and places; purpose of the meeting or. activity being related; identities of speakers and persons present, plus their known status in any group; specific activity engaged in by each individual present; and comments made by each individual. Informant should identify each page at the bottom by affixing his code name. Any corrections, erasures, changes, or additions should be similarly identified. Agents! names should never appear on any page, Informant should refer to himself in the body of the statement by his true name and he should use the third person, Agent receiving written statement should not make any corrections, additions, deletions, etc., thereto, nor should he place any markings thereon, such as his initials, date of receipt from informant, permanent symbol number of informant, file numbers, indexing symbols, eto. Do not block stamp or sérialize, Receipt and serialization should be recorded on form FD-306 or on 2 chi. :nelizing memorandum which should contain the applicab”.: items set forth on form FD-~306, Extraneous material should be kept to an absolute minimum, Informants should leave out such items as: a) Any reference concerning the Director and the Bureau b) References to other documents and statements submitted by , the informant . : (c) Obvious administrative material, such as operational instructions given by contacting Agent to informant These data should be furnished orally by informant to con- tacting Agent who will record the information in memorandum form for the informant file. b. Furnished orally by informant ; . (1) (3) (4) (5) Contacting Agent should promptly reduce information to writing so that it will be accurately recorded as contemporaneously as possible with the making of the oral statement by the informant to the Agent. The following items furnished by informant should be left out: a Any reference concerning the Director and the Bureau b References to other documents and statements submitted by the informant (ce) Obvious administrative material, such as operational instructions given by contacting Agent to informant These data should be recorded in memorandum form for the inform ant file. Prepare on paper devoid of any Bureau markings or identification. Dave it at the top with the date the informant furnishes the information to the Agent. No other date is desired except the date of the meeting or activity which shall be set forth in the body of the statement. Separate statements should be prepared for each meeting or each separate activity in which informants engage and should be dictated by the Agent as if the informant were preparing them himself, The information, after being reduced to writing, should then de read promptly by the informant and acknowledged by him by affixing his code name on each page. In espionage and foreign nationality matters authentication by informants is necessary only where future prosecution is possible, LL NW 35072 Doocld: 32959529 Page 1526 6~13-61
SECTION 107. s@ux THFORMANTS AND conrrpant@® SOURCES . (6) After informant authenticates his statement, contacting Agent should prepare a caver sheet, form FD-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) Oral 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. Transmission of information a, Statements should be personally delivered to contacting Agent by informants whenever possible. Careful consideration should be oa given to full security of all such personal contacts. They should never be mailed to field office or resident agency. If they cannot be obtained personally by contacting Agent, obtain confidential post office boxes, for their receipt. Confidential post office boxes should be obt.: ed under fictitious names and not under names of persons who may liste” in post office — vos directory, More than one informant may send st.tements tu a specific post office box, but consideration should be gi “2n to obtaining post office boxes in different post office stations +. prevent suspicion on part of post office employees. . nvelope enclosing statement should +e return address of another “oynfidential post office box obtain: . ander a fictitious name in the vame manner as d., . an Statements should be collected at post office boxes regularly, but 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 ex’: “ded period of time, When infor» .4 receives information of vital and immediate interest to Bureau, “.2 should furnish it as promptly as possible to contacting Agent or «fice by most appropriate means of communication, Office should ts any necessary action without delay. Mego? Handling of :ad information Be be Handling documentary material furnished by informants Pamphlets and similar documentary material furnished by informants ae ba BDoeld: 32969529 Page 1529 personnel, ALL lead xnformation obtained from informant must be run out to a logical conolusion, If there is only partial name of individual or meager descriptive data, and if there is sufficient data available to do so, file should be opened and assigned to effect an identification and to take any necessary action, If there is insufficient information to warrant opening case, a tickler card should be 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 investigation 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's subfile. If an identification is made, a file should be opened and any necessary action taken in connection . therewith, should have placed thereon the informant!s code name. i Informant should affix date he received the material. If informant cannot recall date of receint, the date he furnished material should be affixed. 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 Re ty ancl? rae fern te pe EE war. view es ~ e maseree S 12 6-13-61 ‘ phase eran gens
Ad ROR pee Lay a el en eae ere ead 6 Rhee aT en a an ae FOR te AB Br EF ERE AT AE i OEE EN a Mk FS Salt VA A Skee A IN RT MA ih MS AT A ed Mapa REA NER RRO NFA Op REE | Frade BTL ee SO RRS 2 ne ERG I de a NET TAPIA REALE PED AIO LG EORTC EN alt sts. eee aca WW S5072 Doold: 32369525 Page 1530 SECTION @ SECURITY INFORMANTS AND CON@@RENTIAL SOURCES LO7N letter, merely state "no change.") 3) Current membership[and position heldjin subversive organizati ons [(When justification is submitted for racial informants, sub- . stitute the word "racial" for the word “subversive.")] (4) Summary of information furnished and/or services rendered during pertinent period (5) Amount paid for services and expenses by month (Initial justification letter should set forth amount, if any, ever paid under SAC authority.) . tS} Type and number of meetings attended and other activity Number of written and oral statements submitted (List separately.) 8 Information furnished of unusual value . 9 Approximate number of persons on whom informant furnished coverage and their importance {20} Steps being taken to advance informant Stability and reliability . - (Set forth personal weaknesses, domestic difficulties, indications of untrustworthiness or unreliability, or other similar problems presented by informant, and steps being taken to prevent any such situations from later becoming source of embarrassment to the Bureau. ) (12) Indoctrination against disclosure (State whether every opportunity has been taken to properly indoctrinate informant against making any disclosure of his relationship with Bureau through any media. 13) All necessary action taken on information furnished 14) Miscellaneous (Any other matters concerning informant's operation which should be brought to Bureau's attention) (2) Residence and employment (If no change since last justification ( (Where applicable, substitute potential informant, confidential source, panel | source, or source of information for the word "informant,") When payment to an informant hes been authorized for a definite period of time, advise the Bureau at least two weeks in advance of the expiration of the period for which payment has been authorized as to whether the services of the informant are to be continued, Every four months a letter of justification should be submitted to the Bureau requesting continuation of payments. Follow form in subsection 36. Létters requesting authority to continue (increase, decrease) payments to an informant should be submitted in duplicate except that the copy should consist only of the first page of the letter. When payments as reqtested by the field are approved, the single-page copy will be stamped "Approved" at the Bureau and returned. If the recommendation is not approved, correspondence will be prepared and transmitted to the field. In order for this system to function properly, payment letters must be explicit. When payments are authorized by the Bureau, it is the personal responsi-~ bility of each SAC definitely to assure himself that full value is being received. Discontinuance of payments If at any time it appears the information being produced by the informant is not commensurate with the payments being made to him, the payments should be immediately discontinued or adjusted acoordingly and the Bureau promptly advised, Extraordinary expenses In connection with the operation of paid informants, if any extraor- dinary expenses are anticipated for which approval hes not been given, obtain specific Bureau authority. 1S 10-13-61