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Remove per E.O. 10501

USE OF INFORMANTS:

PURPOSE: Gradually decreasing number of agents and value of informers

DESCRIPTION AND TYPES.

1. VOLUNTARY: Will approach you in person or by mail without any solicitation on your part.

2. KNOWINGLY: Will get information to you by talking around a point or else by talking loudly to someone else in your presence. Mainly because he wants to avoid being known as an informatnt.

3. INVOLUNTARY: A rrestee who will reveal (squeal) to save himself, or to protect his own good health.

4. UNKNOWING: Talks in your presence or the presence of an informant without knowing it. Best example is a tapped telephone conversation.

NOW GO INTO DETAILS OF MENTAL MAKEUP OF VARIOUS TYPES AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, AND HOW TO FIND THEM, AND HOW TO MAKE BEST USE OF THEM.

1. VOLUNTARY found in civil service, among old line anti-Nazis, petty chiselers, gossips and cranks. (anonymous)

2. KNOWING found at social gatherings or political meetings or chance meetings on the street or in public places.

3. INVOLUNTARY in jails or PW compunds.

4. UNKNOWING same as KNOWING, except that you can add tapped telephone conversations.

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### III. WHERE ARE WE TO PLANT INFORMANTS, OR RECRUIT THEM.

1. Political organizations. Best place for subversive organizations to form a nucleus. Also most easily accessible to informants. See CI Report.

2. DP organizations or organizations handling DP problems. Possible Germans hiding out under false documents. Also ex-collaborationists. UNRRA or Red Cross

3. Large industrial organizations for possible financing "Nursery Case".

4. SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATIONS. CI undercover man in recent Munich case wherexx Edelweiss Piraten were reported to have scheduled large meeting.

5. Colleges, Schools & universities. Past influence of HJ on present generation of students. Use of children of persecuted people.

6. CIVILIAN ADMIN. already mentioned.

7. The Church .....most generally informants of the unknowing type. People tend to relax in church, consider it a refuge from prying eyes and ears. Many cases of arrests under Nazis in churches.

8. Newspapers & publishing concerns. Possible use of technical facilities & talents for subversive publications.

9. Mail system. CCD. also telephone lines.

### METHODS OF PLANTING OR RECRUITING.

1. Recruiting people already in organization.

2. People who can be placed in organ without arrousing susp.

3. People who are likely to be approached because of background to join an org.