PROGRESS REPORT FOR PERIOD 1 JANUARY THROUGH 31 MARCH
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: COS, MEXICO CITY
To: CHIEF, WH DIVISION
Document date: 05/02/0000
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Chief, Western Hemisphere Division

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c (KDAFGHAN/Progress Report for Period I January Through 31 March 1972

Action Required:

See Paragraph 10

References:

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B.

C.

D.

E.

HMMA-41490,

11 January

1972)

"MEXICO CITY-18887

MEXICO CITY-18889

HMMW -18913,

10 March (1972)h

HMMY-18914, 10 March (I972)

1. Summary: The project continues as before, routinely ?

producing photos and information of the activities

of. AMFINK

personnel and their visitors. 2(KDAFGHAN was able to implicate.cume

one AMFINK in a criminal activity,

but unfortunately the GOM epipos

whitewashed the case."

Another possible lead to a

ur security problem has cropped up in the form of kDArchan-l's.

girlfriend. We have had no luck in locating a new OP site to

replace: this-one.oKDAFGHAN-1 continues to have his personal. ai?

problems, but they have yet to reach the point where they affect

the security of this operation.

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2. Operational Activities: With the exception of the month

of March the KDAFGHANS carried on their activities as usual, pro-

viding photographic coverage of the entrance to AMFINK from 0900

to 1800 each working day.:: In March, we had KDAFGHAN change his

nours to from 1600 hours, when the AMFINKS return from lunch, to

2300 hours; when the last one usually leaves for home. This

coverage convinced us that most, if not all, AMFINK clandestine

activity is carried out in the afternoon and evening hours.

are extremely active during this part of day in the sense of the

Theyl an

number of trips they make outside of AMFINK. : Some even disappeared

completely during most of the afternoon. This information should

help our efforts to surveill the AMFINKS.:: A lucky break was had

when (KDAFGHAN witnessed the return of the Subject of 201-886893 from

Distribution:

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WH/Miami:

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# 10709

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HMMA - 41906

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hE stells tu

vecoming nore and more passive.

his observation of AMFINK he gains a great deal

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of information of

While our files

show that once he used to report

this, we now find that it has to be pumped out of him bit-by-bit,

with he apparently either not recognizing or being interested in

its significance.

(KDAFGHAN-2 is long overdue.

In our opinion, an extended vacation away from

Production continued as before during this

with the exception of the month of March when no photos were

taken because of the hours.

We have, begun showing some of the

photographs of local contacts to the

have been negative.

KDSALEMS.

To date the results

We continue to pass the appropriate portions

"4P) of KDAFGHAN production to LNERGO.

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the incident in which he was involved.. We were able to pass

this information to the police through the KDGLACIERS)." Up until

that, time the police had been after another AMFINK.

With this

information they were rapidly able to identify the culprit.

Our technician paid a visit to the KAGHAN site during

period and spent most of one day on updating his techniques.

has resulted in a further improvement in the quality of his

photographs.

He was also briefed on and given a night-viewing

device to use during the March evening surveillances.

tunately this device proved of no use because of lighting condi-

The Case Officer and the (KDCALVERTS have spent a great

deal of time during this period looking for an alternate OP site.

The KDCALVERIS have been looking for one to serve as a basehouse

fortheir surveillances of the AMFINKS and we for an OP to replace

the present KDAFGHAN site.

Neither of us has had any luck.

area is highly desirable because of its proximity to excellent

transportation and because it is a middle class residential "oasis"

in a heavily commercialized area. We continue to look, but are

now less optimistic on our chances of finding a new site.

Security:

(DAFGHAN-I was SGSWIRLED during this quarter

with no signs of deception.

(References B and E)

The SGSWIRL

revealed a girlfriend

and confirmed his correspondence with

relatives in PBRUMEN.

It also revealed that he assumes that

•2(KDTUCK-19 works for us since he had recommended him to us at

least three times.

After the last recommendation (KDTUCK-19 told

J4KDAFGHAN-1 that somebody had been investigating him and

drew the obvious. conclusion.

interesting.

An East European immigrant, we have one card showing

that she was the object of the attention of the Subject of 201-

012972, a suspect intelligence officer.

Unfortunately, neither

we or Headquarters have been able to locate the basic document,

НМИН-13665,

Because of this

and her sharing one

to check her out throughly (see plans and Headquarters' action

required below).

Because of our suspicion that, KDAFGHAN-1 or

KDAFGHAN-2 is possibly being monitored by the AMFINKS, we have

cut our meetings with him to two a month and taken special counter-

surveillance

precautions at each meeting.

So fax, we have noted

nothing unusual.

Our plans for a CI operation designed to smoke

out any possible AMFINK monitoring of this operation are being

abeyance pending the results of our investigation of the

Subject of Reference C.

Agent Personnel:

There have been no meetings with

KDAFGHAN-2 during this period except for

the one visit by our

technician to the site.O«KDAFGHAN- continues to show sporadic

signs of extreme nervousness,

if not mental instability.

addition he

seems to be becoming more and more passive.

his observation of AMFINK he gains a great deal

of information of

interest to us.

While our files show that once he used

to report

we now find that it has to be pumped out of him bit-by-bit,

with he apparently either not recognizing or being

interested in

its significance.

opinion, an extended vacation away from

KDAFGHAN-2 is long overdue.

Production:

Production continued as before during this

period with the exception of the month of March when no photos were

taken because of the hours.

We have

begun showing some of the

photographs of local contacts to the KDSALEMS.

To date the results

have been negative.

We continue to pass the appropriate portions

•KDAFGHAN production to INERGO.

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Administrative/Finance:

new

We provided the (KDAFGHANS with

passports in March. Costs continued within the programmed

amount.

9.

Plans:

As mentioned above we will be investigating the

Subject of Reference C during this period.

this is accom

plished we will begin a CI exercise based

on a piece of misinfor-

mation tailored to make the AMFINKS take overt and verifiable

action.

In the meantime we will continue our search for a new OP

site.

On FORTAW's arrival he will start looking for a new OP team.

When

recruited, this team will be given the task

of finding their

own site

and we will cease our activities along this line.

seep the KDAFGHANS on until the new team is in place and the new

OP operating.

If by the end of this calendar year we are unable

to locate a new site we will terminate the KDAFGHANS, let the

current site cool-off for a while and then place the new team in

the same place...

The costs of terminating these two agents will

exceed six thousand dollars.

We expect them to resettle in either

WOCORK with the rest of their family or in Spain where they have

property. We foresee no problems in the termination.

10. Headquarters Action Required:

a. Please try again to locate HMMN-13665 of 7 June 1965

(File # 50-8-2/2-1).

b.

Please review 201-012972 for any other possible

information of the Subject of Reference C.

*A Garlane

esse R. GARDALPH

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