3490000 ut i { ; CLADE PCa TEC Gree te? GOL ANY NUBMOCH CONTINUATION OF i “ “eyes meg eee DISPATCH SECRET Ta 41087 ’ ; 5. The photographic equipment used-by the KDAFGHANS at a present consists of a Bausch and Lomb spotting scope with 20-X ° eyephece, and a Pentax H-J-camera.  This-cquipment is not satisfactory (see below).  Exeerpt for the printer, all darkroom’ : equipment is, located in a darkroom on the rirst floor. The , ; darkroom is well. ‘oquipped and adequate. KDAFGHAN=L makes no “Poo. - attempt to conceal. the. darkroom. His cover for the darkroom is that it is his hobby. 7 ee ence SION TSENG SUGSEPMAMRS ch MEME ARESNEiR Nb eaichASaeisl Sunnie . G.  STATION:-PROCESSING OF THE XDAFGHAN PRODUCTION: ' Time- tables are © filed and no€ processed > at present, Tf the Station obs is looking for confirmation of an acent report or a‘surveillance mo 7 report, they are sometimes consulted.. About every year they are ‘ : ‘Shipped to Headquarters for retention in the Archives. The negatives and contact prints wre handled in the same way, rn oe _. %,: The enlarged, photographs are processed in the following an. Certain photographs of unidentified persons are sterilized and forwarded to the locnl office of LNERGO. The Station receives no feedback or identification of these individuals from LNERGO. b. Photorraphs 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. , i ce. Photoweraphs of other identified persons are placed in Station personality files. ad. All other photographs (the major portion) are simply destroyed. 8. LNERGO was recently queried on the value of this eperation 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 Ovders prepared on badly wanted fugitives in WOCORK. It is requested, therefore, that you continuc 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. "THOYG@ 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 thé timetable. ‘For instance, license plate numbers are not now traced aS either a possible means of identification, or leads to CI ov 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~ Bit 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 thé same time at the gate, precluding a positive identification. While the above evaluation Continued. .... 0 eee “TRPAGE NO. Ss ECRET _. LEX] conmmven 3 of 6 I