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Handling of SourcesBy U.S. Army
The following manual was "Declassified by authority of the Secretary of the Army ODCSINT # 19,19 Sep 96" and each page was marked with the following stamps:"SECRET""Dissemination and Extraction of Information Controlled by Originator""Warning Notice - Intelligence Sources and Methods Involved""Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals"Note that the document contains numerous errors in its format, spelling, and grammar. We havetried to remain faithful to the original but some of the errors may have accidentally beencorrected. The information is scanned from documents provided by the US Army under theFreedom of Information Act.STUDY MANUALHANDLING OF SOURCES1989INTRODUCTIONThe purpose of this booklet is to provide the basic information on handling of sources. Thisbooklet in dedicated to CI concepts in the handling of sources; obtaining and utilization, locationof the placement of employees, training of employee, communication with the employees,development of an identity, scrutiny of employees, reparation of employees. And control of employees. The term Special Counterintelligence Agent (SA) refers to all those persons whoconvey or contribute in to counteract the collection of information of the multidisciplinaryintelligence of hostile services. This booklet is primarily directed to those persons involved in thecontrol or execution of CI operations. Likewise, this booklet has a significant value for other members of the Armed Forces who function in the security areas or services and other intelligence departments.HANDLING OF SOURCESCONTENTPageINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER I. Obtaining and utilization of the employee 1CHAPTER II. Location of the employee 22CHAPTER III. Investigation and Initial Contact 40
 
CHAPTER IV. Assignment of Tasks 57CHAPTER V. Placement of employees 70CHAPTER VI. Training of employee 82CHAPTER VII. Communication with employees 109CHAPTER VIII. Development of an Identity 128CHAPTER IX. Scrutiny of Employees 140CHAPTER X. Separation of employees 150ATTACHMENT A. Control of Employees 161CHAPTER I: OBTAINING AND UTILIZATION OF EMPLOYEEINTRODUCTIONThis chapter has as objective to present the procedures that must be followed on obtaining andutilization of personnel required to gather information with intelligence value for the government.Also discussed is the need of:a. Rely on government sources in places and organizations that fall in the hands of insurrectionelementsb. The types of sources (employees) used in the intelligence system of the government.c. Exploitation of the inherent weaknesses to all insurrection movements.d. The mission and analysis of the objective.e. The procedure relative to obtaining and use of the employee's services.DEVELOPMENT:a. THE EMPLOYEE: We can define the "employee" as that person who renders his services inexchange of remuneration or compensation. Since the insurrection movements could emerge indifferent zones of economic, political and geographic influence, the government is not able todepend only on the information provided voluntarily by faithful citizens or information obtainedinvoluntarily from insurgents who have been captured. There must be some incentive to assurethe continuous supply of information to the government. Consequently, it is necessary todisseminate in all, society segments individuals suppliers of information whose services may beremunerated. An employee is that person who provides information of value to the intelligence inexchange of some compensation whether in money or some other kind. This person could be apeasant. Of the hamlet, a member of the cell of the insurgent organization, or a propagandaleader.The suppliers of information must be dispersed in all places considered important, in all popular organizations, regardless of their size and in all places where could appear some insurrectionoutbreak.
 
B. TYPES OF EMPLOYEESThe CI agent must use the services of a variety of persons in order to be able to evaluate allaspects of national life. These persons represent a diversity of characteristics. Each employee isan individual with his own personality and he must be treated as such. The tasks that theseemployees have to perform are also of individual nature. There will be tines when the supervisorswill be forced to direct the activities of various employees.1. The Supervisor: A supervisor is the chief of a network of employees, organized to performspecific tasks of information collection. When the government CI agent is not able to supervisethe employees or he does not do it for security reasons, he tries to find a supervisor whom hetrains to deal with this task. Said supervisor responds before the CI agent and works under hisdirection. The degree of orientation that the agent provides to supervisor shall depend on hiscompetence, training, trustworthiness, function, personality, etc. On planning informationgathering activities, the agent must use a supervisor only when it is necessary.a. Tasks: The supervisor must direct the activities of the group of employees and provide thedirection and control that the agent would normally provide. Must perform administrative as wellas operational functions. In addition, it is his responsibility to evaluate the work of the employeesin order to test their motivation, discipline and security measures which they observe in their operations. He could demand to obtain employees so that then presents them with fictitioushistories. The supervisor on performing these serves as a screen for the CI agent and acts as anintermediary between him and the employees.2. The Information Collectors: The information collector is a trained and remunerated person tocarry out tasks related to gathering of information. Said individual could be asked to affiliatehimself to a syndicate, who attends the meetings and who reports above all what happens. At thesame time, he could be asked to obtain information from merchants why certain primary needarticles are not available.He could present himself as a disagreeable individual, who fits well in the insurgent organization.The information collector is a person directly linked to intelligence mission. It is bestowed on himto obtain the requested information and to report on the same.3. Support Personnel: As support personnel are known those persons who collaborate with theinformation collectors. These persons do not participate directly in information gathering activities,but without them the information collectors could not carry out their assignments. The agent usesthe support personnel to carry out security, communication, technical assistance tasks and anunlimited number of various projects.a. Security Personnel: Security personnel include the intermediary, the vigilant and theinvestigator. The intermediary is the connection between the members of an informationgathering organization who do not know each other. He can transmit information or could deliver documents or other objects. His principal function consists in watching over the security of operations. The vigilant is to observe and report on the activities of other employees, of individuals that could be considered as employees in the future and other matters of interestrelated to intelligence personnel administration. The investigator conducts discreet investigationsabout an individual supposed to be employed as information collector for the government. Hecould also investigate specific organizations and persons to provide the agent information onwhich to base future operations.b. Technical Personnel: The technical personnel provide the support necessary to perform certainmissions. They could be demolition specialists, carpenters, tailors, preparation of documents or any other specialized branch.
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