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104-10120-10376 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/3/1961)

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                                     .          sR/10-61-0066

                             DO NocBpodc
                                                3 February 1961



        MEMORANDUM FOR:  Chief, Central Cover Group

        ATTENTION     :  Mr. Thomas Strange

        SUBJECT       :  Basic Proposal to Cover Field Assessment
                           of Potential REDSKIN Agent Candidates


             1.  A meeting was held 1 February 1961, to discuss the
        feasability of conducting field assessment of potential REDSKIN
        agent candidates by staff psychologists ot2phe Assessment and
        Evaluation Staff, 0T,  under suitable             cover,
        Conferees were Messeurs Thomas Strange and            f Central
        Cover Group, John Gittinger of TSD, Dr.3         and  r. John
        Golder of the A&E Staff, OTR, and rielder Dudley of SR/0. The
        problem discussed in para 2 b-elow was recognized And tentative
        agreement reached on. the basic proposal discussed in para 3
        below.

             2.  Heretofore field assessments have been conducted by-
         SR/10 case officers whose capabilities in the rather esoteric
         science of psychological assessment are, at best, based fundA-
         mentally on intuition and subject to variable degrees of objec-
         tivity. Furth           e case officers reveL their Agemay
         connection on initial contact supported by credentials in alias.
         Itt101(E~luI~e             reeT~~        il   become.awareUt~
         A               oit lgal travel to the fSSorteigece
         purs  a.  Tese  include a considerable pereeteag-vE-iiae creened
         out during the initial interview or subsequently as a result of
         Headquarters assessment.

              3. The Problem:

                 a.  To screen out unsuitable REDSKIN agent candidates
              without revealing Aggncy interest and to reduce possibilities
              of irrational reaction, i.e., going to the Press or writing.
              letters to the President when later approached by an Agency
              representative proposing an intelligence mission.

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