CABLE RE TRAINING OF AMLASH-1.
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 03/25/1965
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. HOS PLANNING FOR Q-I DIRECTED TO MAXIMAL AND MINIMAL

GOALS BOTH OF WHICH SUBTENDED BY ONE BASIC FACT, L E.. TO BE

EFFECTIVE Q-1 MUST BE AS THOROUGHLY TRAINED IN TRADECRAFT AND

CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATIONS AS IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE BEFORE HE

DEPART'S MADR. GENERAL OUTLINE THIS PROBLEM IN PARA THREE BELOW.

2. MAXIMUM GAIN FROM Q-I WOULD BE CONVERT HIM INTO INTERNAL

COMMUNICATOR FOR AMLASH, PROPERLY TRAINED AND EQUIPPED Q-1

COULD SERVE AS BASIS FOR REALISTIC EXPLOITATION AMLASH-I POTENTIAL.

HOS BEGGING NO QUESTIONS BE AMLASI, SIMPLE FACT IS SUBARK HAS YET

• TO GRAPPLE WITH SUCH BASIC PRAGMATICS OF AMLASH PROBLEM AS WHO

•IS WHERE, WHO CAN DO WHAT. WHAT ARE AMLASH'S MATERIEL AND OTHER

BASIC NEEDS, ETC. INTENSIVE SYSTEMATIC INTERROGATION Q-I THESE

MAITERS WITH RESULTS KEYED TO HIS ROLE AS COMMO LINK TO ODYOKE

AFFORDS SOUND OPPORTUNITY PUT AMLASH IN BUSINESS OR LAY MYTH TO

REST FOR GOOD. OBVIOUSLY THESE INTERROGATION TRAINING PLANNING

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SESSIONS WOULD BE INTEGRATED AND PURSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY BY

Q-1 CASE OFFICER,

3. MINIMUM AIM WOULD BE SOUND STEADY FLOW INSTANT INFO FROM

WELL PLACED INSIDE ASSET. THIS GOAL WELL WORTH MAJOR KUBARK OPS

EFFORI. CHANCES VERY GOOD THAT HARD LEAN ON Q-1 RE AMLASH

Due WOULD EXPOSE ETHEREAL NATURE AMLASH PLANS AND ACTIVITIES. A

WORTHY GAIN PER SE AND AN EXCELLENT VEHICLE FOR TRAINING Q-I IN

PITFALLS TO BE MET IN DEALING FELLOW CUBANS IF HE RETURNS AS

SINGLETON WI AGENT.

1 COMMO TRAINING: THIS MOST COMPLEX MATTER SINCE MORE

THAN HALF THE WISDOM NECESSARY TO DO JOB GOES BEYOND MERE

TECHNICAL, ASPECTS OF GRASPING MEDIUM SPEED TRANSMISSION, OWVE SW,

MICRODOI. PROPER STAGING THIS TECHNICAL TRAINING DEMANDS FULL

TIME CASE OFFICER PARTICIPATION TO ADVISE ON INNUMERABLE

TRADECRAFT ASPECTS OF COMMO. WHEN, WHERE, HOW OFTEN TO SEND

AND RECEIVE, WHERE AND HOW TO CACHE GEAR, TYPES AND AMOUNTS

OF KEY TEXT, SW MATERIALS, HOW GEAR IS TO BE CONCEALED FOR

RETURN TRIP, RESUPPLY ARE SAMPLES OF CRITICAL QUESTIONS WHIC:

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BEST ANSWERED ON BASIS OF GIVE AND TAKE BETWEEN AGENI, CASE

OFFICER WITH FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE HOW SUCH MATTERS HAVE BEEN

HANDLED IN PAST. HOS AND WAVE EXPERIENCE HAS DEMONSTRATED

CLEARLY THAT COMMO OP STAGING CUBA CANNOT BE ADEQUATELY

COMPLETED BY PERSONS WHO HAVE NOT HAD DIRECT INTENSIVE

EXPERIENCE IN ALL PHASES OPS COMMO.

5. HOS FEELS THAT THE SEVERITY OF THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS,

DEPTH OF THE INTERROGATION-BRIEFING PROBLEM, SET AGAINST A TIME-

SHORTAGE ARGUES FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF A CASE OFFICER WHO

NOT ONLY

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FULLY EXPERIENCED EASEE CUBAN OPS MATTERS JED CLANDESTINE

WE HAVE FELO PECUMAR TO CURRÊNT GES SIQUATION.

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