GENERAL: OFFICE OF SECURITY SURVEY SPECIFIC: <SANITIZED>

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430440
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 11, 1973

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
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1. At the Director's instruction, and with the concurrence
of the then DD/P, the Office of Security developed informants in
RID to report on the activities of RID employees on whom security
questions had arisen. This program, which included upwards of a
dozen informants at its peak, has declined to its present level of .
three, only one of whom is reporting regularly on matters of current
interest. � __.
Z. The principal object of Security's interest through
informant is a female who was employed in RID for a number of years
until she resigned in 1969. Her resignation coincided with the initiation
of a security review on her by the Office of Security, but Security does
not know whether the employe % was aware of this s-ecuri,ty review at.
the time of her resignation. s
3. Security's interest in this employee was occasioned by
reports that she had developed an increasingly intimate acquaintance
with a Cuban national. Reporting by one informant, who was also
being developed by the Cuban, suggested that the Cuban might have
an intelligence interest in the female.. The same informant also sub-
s equently reported that the Cuban had .nuMeroas other' contactsamong
clerical and secretarial employees of thJ Agency.
� 4. Subsequent to her departure from the Agency, the ex-RID -
employee entered into a common-law marital relationship with ther'
Cuban and joined him as partner in a photographic business. In this
capacity she solicited business among CIA employees, especially
those requiring passport photos. Recently, she and the Cuban sought,
. to employ Security's informant in this business on a part-time basis.
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5. Information on the background of the Cuban is fairly extensive,
but it is inconclusive. I-Te is known to have been a member of anti-
Castro organizations in this country. There are also reports that
his mother was imprisoned in Cuba at one time. There are other
episodes in his life that suggest intelligence involvement on his part
with some hostile service, but this is not yet definitely established.
6. The Office of Security has had at times a second informant
in this case. His reporting has tended to confirm reporting by the
principal informant.
8. The Office of Security has been running this operation for
over two years, in an effort to obtain conclusive proof of its intelli-
gence nature. CI Staff has been kept informed. The FBI, which
was informed of the case at an early stage, has declined to take re-
sponsibility for it, on grounds that it concerns CIA's internal security.
As a result, the Office ofSecurity has been inhi bited in the actions
it can take against the Cuban suspect. On the other hand, Security
has not taken any action against Agency employees for fear of com-
promising the operation.
9. It would appear to me that the Office of Security has dallied
with this case long enough. Apparently unable through positive measures
to resolve doubts about the case, 0/S has followed the course of watch-
ful waiting, hoping the Cuban would take precipita t action himself that
would give us the evidence we seek. In the meantime, our knowledge
of the relationship between the Cuban and the several other current
Agency employees with whom he is known to have contact continues
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The possibility that the employee in SB Division may be passing
information on CIA's Soviet operations is too great to warrant further
delay in moving against her.
John 0. Lawrence
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