Sm apparent nationality, apparent cccupation, etc. In addition 1 i | HW53320 Docld:32392929 Page 2 ee en i ‘Chief, ' Western liemisphere _Division No INDEXING REQUIRED | NFO. . ONLY QUALIFIED DESK. Chief, WOACRE | CAN JUDGE INDEXING Chief of Station, ‘Yexico City § MICROFIUA SUBJEC , 0 KDAFGHAN Progress _Report: ‘1 July -:30 September 1971 ACIION REQUIRED - REFERENCES —, ee Action Required: Paragraph 16 (WOACRE) 1. SUMMARY: “Dar ing the. reporting period this Project ‘coutinued with no change. The KDAFGHANS continued to provide the Station with photographic coverage of visitors to the Cuban Embassy. . A new case. o1ficer took over the Project at the beginning of the period. and ‘has spent the major part of his mectings with KDAFGHAN-1 and 2 on dis- cusSing and planning ways to improve the percentage of identifications made by them. What follows is a description of the operation as at OW stands and the Station's plans to improve it. 2. PRESENT T_KDAFGHAN ROUTINE: Vi ual coverag e of ‘the ‘entrance to the Cuban Embassy compound is provided from 0900 to 1800 (the “anproximate hour at which lighting conditions prevent further. qpiuotography. with the present equipment.) - Embassy hours are 0800- #2100, approximately. KDAFGHAN-1 provides the majority of the man- Tpower, with KDAFGHAN-2 filling in for rest breaks, lunch and while KDAFGHAN-1 processes the previous day's take The general praciice ts to observe the entrance without optical assistance until a-person - ov vehicle is seen to be entering or leaving the gate area. Theo restricted size of the aperture possible in the OP for this viewing a rectangular opening approximately four by five inches) prevents simultaneous viewing of any other area of the compound. When a tavset is seen, the observer shifts his head a few inches to the meflex finder of the camera and is given a 20 x magnification of ‘the target. This.is more. tian adequate for identification of any. target. If the target is unknown and/or a previous photograph has ‘not been taken, the observer takes one. At the same time he records the time of arrival/departure, whether the target is known or . unknown, and records any obvious identifying data-such as license’ Continued. 6... “Attachments: Be Say MET es SOT eg A - as Stated. b/w , Le Distribution: WV Orig. & 2 - Chie? 1 - Chi ie: WHD (w/atts. A and B bhi & uw! 's/c) WOACRE (w/o/atts.) - tee Se the BL ae Se a Sy COPY a Se FOSS REFERENIE 13 ; DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER . DATE : a 7 HMMA 41087 a 29 Septenbex 1971
with no problem. She was observed carefully while manning the not permit photography, except on a selected basis, because of a ae aha GFE Apu be to the above general visual surveillance, the agents are occasionally provided with photographs of targets the Station believes might visit the compound and on whom we wish a specific alert - such as visiting agent personnel and third country subversives known.or believed to be in the area. Each day, KDAFGHAN-1 processes his notes and the photographs taken and submits them to the Station in the following form (one day's production is illustrated in Attachment A): a. A timetable of arrivals and departures (the number in the left margin indicates that a photograph was taken). b. The original negative. The daily. average seems to be about eighteen photographs. c. A contact print of the above negatives (the inked ' numbers on the photographs correspond to the marginal numbers on the report). d. Enlargements of selected subjects. (not included). 3. ‘THE AGENT PERSONNEL: GARDALPHE spent one day, from 0645 to 1800, inside the OP, observing the agents and their routine. Both - seen to have adapted to a very boring routine quite well. Their eyesight, which has been the subject of quite a few off-the-record comments at both Headquarters and at the Station (viz, that they are blind), was checked out thoroughly, but innocuously, by asking them who such and such a person was at the gate or in photos and by asking them to read some very small print film-processing instructions... While KDAFGHAN-2's ‘ eyesight is definitely poorer than that of KDAFGHAN-1, she easily *“ identified the subjects. and was able to read the test literature OP and she missed no one in that one and one-half hour period. Previous cases of missing known targets scheduled to visit the Embassy are more probably the result of boredom and a resultant lack of attention. Their job requires them to be hermits. They have very few friends and even fewer visitors. To break them out of this rut, the Station will soon start altering their work . hours to provide more extended coverage of the target, and give them more interesting work to ‘do. 4. PRESENT KDAFGHAN FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT: The present OP is located on the roof of a three- -story apartment house located about eighty yards from the compound entrance (see Attachment B). Concealment is excellent. Windows on other floors allow visual observation of most of the compound facing the CP and of the entrance to the Consulate. However, they do the concealment problem. : The OP proper is a small bathroom about five by six feet in what used to be the maid's quarters A captain's chair, the tripod, camera, lens and a small worktable have been fitted in between the various plumbing fimtures. Adjacent to this is another room'of approximately’ twice the size which contains a desk,. cot, the printer and-a wardrobe for’ storing photographic materials. ‘This room has a large picture ~~ window overlooking the entrance to the Consulate. Continued....... " 53a Tae) _ AW 353320 PAGE NO. 2 of 6 CLASSIFICATION 5 E T USE PREVIOUS EDITION. | CONTINUED Docld: 32392929 Page 3
re smymerewrmeeagrer— ies “Ol, AUMUEURIING STE UL UTR aE RETA OST Se A ca I TR ENA eipnner ane veecamrareRmemnrs mmm! . . - . , : sy - . owe . . . : : 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 no attempt to conceal the darkroom. His cover for the darkroom is “that it is his hobby. oo Hs T. The enlarged photographs are processed in the following way: a. 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. b. 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. c. Photographs of other identified persons are placed in Station personality files. d. All other photographs (the major portion) are simply destroyed. —— a Ces 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 it 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, as presently constituted, 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 Jeads 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 going 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 evaluatior Continued......... , 1 PAGE NO. CONTINUED 3 of 6 FORM - . 8.64 53a USE PREVIOUS EDITION. ¢ y . . . 1 | thr .53320 DocId: 32392929 Page 4 E =
NTT OS St 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. a 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 _j sterilized, it provides a very easy means. of identifying where ‘3 the photograph was taken, and conceivably, by using a theodilite,. determining the exact location of the OP. An operation, throug! vg liaison, to remove this obstruction has been initiated. / & - 11. Identification of PCS personnel, out-bound TDY and in- , transit passengers can easily be raised to.near one-hundred , 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 4 " ‘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 | ‘identify more and more of the in-bound in-transit personnel. i ‘Consideration is also being given to have him develop and process these passport photos for both himself and the Station. This é would not only speed up identification of these subjects - and | the exploitation of possible ops leads - but relieve the. Station Technician and Support Section of some of their work load. 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 1g tried by the Station on a sporadic basis with no success. This bo is primarily due to the fact that the workload involved on i ‘Station personnel has prevented a continuing effort. Since KDAFGUAN-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: a. All vehicles that call at the compound (frequency .. figures). b. All service calls. c. All visitors and or servicemen who get inside the compound. © . joe Continued...... ° ~~ 6LASSIFICATION i te ; PAGE NO. FORM “ ; . : : : 8-64 53@- USE PREVIOUS EDITION. (40) E Teo X | continueD 4 of 6 HW 53320 Docld: 32392929 “Page 5 cee ae aemnnemmmammnmnnnmenmnmnenan es 5 FG ence