PROGRESS REPORT FOR PERIOD 1 OCTOBER THROUGH 31 DECEMBER
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: COS, MEXICO CITY
To: CHIEF, WH DIVISION
Document date: 01/11/0000
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES

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Summary:

Information came: to

lighteduring this period.on

which causes the Station to believe that (KDAFGHAN may be under

the control of, or known to, AMSTAFF. :.The Station mounted an

operation to determine if this is true, but was unable to complete

Our efforts continue.

Details are given.below.: production

quality and the percentage of identifications increased. Costs.

remained within the allowed amounts.

Security:

As Headguarters is aware, TYPIC operations at

Station have been unproductive since early 1968.

Consequently,

the COS, the DCOS and, more lately, the TYPIC Chief, have begun.to

plan and work TYPIC operations on the assumption that AMSTAFF is on

An incident in theKDAFGHAN operation in the past quarter

tends to add weight to our hypothesis.

In submitting his November

accounting, KDAFGHAN-1 inadvertently included a bill for a long-

distance

call to PBRUMEN (Reference B) •02 While this in itself is

not enough to convict (KDAFGHAN-] (or (KDAFGHAN-2, there is no

indication on the bililas. to which one of them made the call),

is enough to show extreme indiscretion on his part...This prompted

che Station to make a complete review of

was under control of, or being monitored by, AMSTAFF. The

are as follows:

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to assets (including

O KDAFGHAN photos),

a possibility that misuse of KDAFGHAN

photographs by

either JKLANCE Or LNERGO overo the years may have also

been a contributing factor.

We note that they were

shown to, KDrUCk-4 on various occasions in the past anc

Has-been recently terminated because of oui

doubts about him.

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3. The review showed:

a.

agent was originally a walk-in to the former

JKLANCE Station in Havana.

He was later referred

to this station. This in itself is enough to make

him suspect

b.

He still has close relatives in PBRUMEN

and corre-

sponds with these relatives by letter - and probably

y, telephone

Four of these relatives are the sisters

f KDAFGHAN-2 and the threat of pressure on thes

would probably be enough to make her subject to

AMSTAFF control. Assuming that AMQUAKE controls all

nail and telephone calls,to PBRUMEN, they would soor

some across the fact that KDAFGHAN-1 and 2 live

directly across the street from AMFINK.

At the last

meeting with

"KDAFGHAN-I he mentioned that they were

still corresponding with some twenty relatives in

PBRUMEN and they with him.

This increases the odds

that AMQUAKE has uncovered them.

We have no idea how

long this correspondence has

been going on but assume

that it has been long enough to have been uncovered.

d.

Since the incident mentioned in Reference C, we

further assume that AMQUAKE has

determined, etfort to locate the DAF CHAN site.

if not a

is confirmed by our recent discovery that AMFINK has

been paying the rent on a vacant apartment directly

across from their entrance for the past two years:

This is a building formerly occupied by (KDAFGHAN-1

Only within the last two weeks has an AMFINK

employee moved into this site.

It would also be

relatively easy for AMFINK to check all possible OP

If they did, and encountered a PBRUMEN exile

with family still within PBRUMEN, we are afraid that

the conclusion is self-evident.

On this particular

point we are now particularly struck by,KDAFGHAN-1's

repeated and unsolicited assurances that AMFINK has

0 idea where the KDAFGHAN site is located. He ha:

acked up this claim with photos of various AMFINI

employees and visitors shaking their fists at the

former site.

Hindsight now leads us also to conclude

that it would be a very easy matter to investigate

and determine who had moved out of the former

site and

where they now were. If this has been done, (KDAFGHAN-1

would stick out like the proverbial sore thumb.

now conclude that Reference D was, unfortunately,

only too correct.

While it has always been the practice of the Station

to sterilize all photographs, given LNERGO OI

to assets (including (KDAFGHAN photos), there is stil.

a possibility that misuse of, KDAFGHAN photographs by

either JKLANCE Or LNERGO over the years may have als

been a contributing factor. We note that they were

shown to, KDTUCK-4 on various occasions in the past and

that he has been recently terminated because of our

doubts about him.

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The simple length of time that this agent has been

in operation could also be considered

as a possible

factor in

exposing him sooner or later.

We also

note in passing that his home telephone line shares

the same pole distribution box as that of the AMFINK

consulate.

f.

One item that becomes evident when reviewing (KDAFGHAN

files is his repeated failure (with some few

exceptions) to get photographs of suspects or agents

the Station knows visited AMFINK while he was

purportedly on watch.

Given the above the Station decided to mount an operation

designed to determine once and for all if the KDAFGHANS were

either under control by AMSTAFF or if their activities were being

monitored by audio coverage of the Safehouse or OP site.

DCOS designed a sophisticated scenario to be played out by the

Case Officer which would, one by one, eliminate or prove each of

the above possibilities.

No other Station assets were used, this

to eliminate

any possibility that they might be the source of a

Without going into a mass of details, the plan basically

so that he, or some AMSTAFF Case Officer on the other

the wanted conclusion; namely, that 201-327262 was working

Unfortunately,

just as we

got into the preliminary stages

of the plan,

201-327262 was recalled.

It is our opinion that the

operation had not yet gone far enough to consider this recall as

proof of our suspicions,

but that it

was mere coincidence.

ever, two points that arose during this operation do bother us.

At one meeting KDAFGHAN-1 mentioned (or let slip) that the AMFINK

chauffeur had gone on vacation. While the Station was aware of

this we are hard put to understand how he knew it.

the same conversation with the Case Officer (perhaps realizing

gone on vacation.

The second point is that he almost invariably reports within a

few days when an AMFINK employee drops

He has yet

to mention the departure of 201-327262.

This attempt by the

Station to resolve the matter having come to an inconclusive end,

we are starting over again and will soon begin another similar

operation.

AMSTAFF either looked for and found KDAFGHAN-1 or that they found

him through checking out his mail and calls to and from relatives

in PBRUMEN OZ We are further assuming that they then either doubled

operation through a combination of physical and audio surveillance

(we note the fairly recent arrival of an AMFINK referred to as

"el tecnico" - 201-886735 - whom we believe to be the younger

The latter, our records show, was last

known to be the eDArGHAN-2, will obviously have to be

of the JKLANCE section of AMSTAFF.)

While

terminated,

ve first intend to do our best to prove our hypothesis.

can be done, we may be able to put this to our advantage.

If this v

In the

meantime, he will be handled under the strictest of compartmen-

He will be given no further lookout assignments, be given

no indications of our particular interests in any individual

obviously, we will not proceed

with the plans for the audio operation which we suggested in

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paragraphs 14-16 of Reference A. We will start a search for a

replacement site and agent as soon as Headquarters indicates that

they believe the continuance of such an operation is worthwhile

(the Station Delieves it is). We intend to continue to handle

the agent just as before,

indicating our greatest confidence in

him.

We will proceed to

improve his equipment and operation and

go ahead with the planned technical consultation

(Reference E)

to demonstrate this.

No sensitive equipment or information will

be involved.

We further intend to SGSWIRL

this agent at the first

opportunity. He was last SWIRLED on 18 April 1967.

Other Operational Developments:

than the above,

the operation continued

as usual.

The Case Officer had another

dawn to midnight stay with the Agent to observe AMFINK and its

activities and to work with the Agent on improving his production.

Quality of the photographs has improved and identification of the

BRUMEN visItors has, with the use of KDGLACIER passport photos

increased drastically - we are now hitting

over eighty percent

identification of TDYers and transit personnel. The planned MO

studies mentioned in paragraph 12 of Reference A have not been as

successful as was hoped for.UZKDAFGHAN-1 and 2 are so set in the

routine they have established over the years that the above

mentioned instructions to change their way of operation have met

with resistance.

This is being overcome.

Agent Personnel:

No changes. The break in their regular

occasioned by our requests for more work on their part

and by the extra and irregularly scheduled meetings caused by

our CI operation seemed to have increased KDAFGHAN-I's already

bad state of nerves.

The Case Officer sent him on a three day

vacation to Acapulco to calm him down - and

it did somewhat.

8. Administrative/Finances: No changes.

9. Headguarters Action Reguired:

a .

b.

Advise if Headquarters concurs with the Station as

to the desirability of continuing with this

operation

after the projected termination of the

OZ/KDAFGHANS.

Please pass this dispatch to the JMROD unit.

suggestions are solicited.

Please retrace all known relatives of (KPAPGHAN-1

and 2 and

advise

the Station of the results.

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