TO SFRAN - ANNEX A

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02532360
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-01010
• Publication Date: November 14, 1952

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ANNEX A
14 NOV 52
TO: SR REP, FRANKFURT
OUT 68841
DIR 28195
TO: SFRAN CiTh: DIR
PERSONAL FROM STARKE FOR
RE: DIR 23476 (CUT 61265), DIR 24651 (CUT 63146)
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2. AS A FURTHER GUIDE FOR YOUR PLANNING, THh FOLLOWING TIME-TABLE
OF ACTUAL CUTS SEEMS REASONABLE, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION FACTS (A) THAT
GERMANY WILL CONTINUE TO BE BASE FOR NUMEROUS TYPES OF AGENCY ACTIVITY
NOT COMMON TO MANY OTHER STATIONS,
AND (B) THAT ORDERLY ABSORPTION OF PERSONNEL RELEASED
FROM GERMANY INTO OTHER AREAS OR HEADQUARTERS PRESENTS MAJOR PROBLEMS AT
THIS END. * * * * *
3. * * * * *
A. NOW IS THE TIME TO REORGANIZE THE MISSION INTO AN INSTRUMENT
FOR LONG-RANGE, STRICTLY CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS UNDER NSCID 5 AND
NSC 10/2.
B. OUR COVERT INTELLIGENCE MISSION IS PRIMARY AND PERMANENT.
NO PP, PM, OR ANY OTHER ACTIVITY WILL BE APPROVED WHICH BY ITS NATURE
IS IN CONFLICT WITH Tilm PERFORMANut, OF THAT MISSION.
C. REGARDLESS OF PREVIOUS COMMITMENTS AND URGENT PRESSURES YOU
ARE TO CONFINE YOUR ACTIVITIES IN GERMANY TO THOSE (1) FOR WHICH
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SUFFICIENT HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL IS AVAILBBLE WITHIN THE AGENCY:
(2) WHICH CAN BE CONWCTED SECURELY,
(3) WHICH OFFER PRACTICAL
HOPE OF SUCCESS AGAINST SIGNIFICANT TARGETS. * * * * *
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
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