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104-10120-10376 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (02/03/1961)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72648 and id is 1 raw text is: 14-00000 104-10120-10376 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SR/10-61-0066 - -3 February 1961 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Central Cover Group ATTENTION : Mr. Thomas Strange SUBJECT : Basic Proposal to Cover yield 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 ofzthe Assessment and Evaluation Staff, OTR, under suitableQnon-official) cover. - Conferees were Messeurs Thomas Strange and (John Lynch) f Central Cover Group, John Gittinger of TSD, Dr.34!ames Lau')and r. John Golder of the A&E Staff, TR, and Fielder Dudley of SR/10. The problem discussed in para 2 below 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. Furhe~rmreL.thee _casef oficersrevealtheir.gency connection on initial contact supported by credentials in alias. Thus algent'ca3a~'fte~l~:erxad~tfi the~ield become. aware'Ot- Atgfy i~nTes t ~ axoi l_gal travel to the USR hor `ntelligence puroose. 'hese ~include a considerable perceitge who are ecreened 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 Agency 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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