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MEMORANDUM POR THE RECORD
SUEJCT: Conversations with TaaBBaaaaTaaWdon1 March and in Geneva on2
1. At our meetingarch aaBBaBamafammlvery pesBlmlstic about the future of the operation and erpreBsed hla personalhat bbbbbbbbbbbI had been ccannxodsed by overly enthusiastic photographic endeavour, possibly at the Main Artillery Headquarters after BUZIHOV'Srlu-", psaassaasssal repeated his previously expressed vlevs that themeetings vere such less likely to have caused trouble, but did admit thatbehaviour at the last twondanuary) vas noteworthy in that It reflected, for the first time, some ooncern on his part about the security of the meetings. Onanuary; vhen bbbbbbbWM met bbbbbbbbbI at tba Praga and lea her to the street and entry vhlch he had selected, he told her that ha felt they had been overdoing the shop routine, and that tha next time he vented her to go straight to this asm* doorway. Onanuary, vhen bbbbbbbbbI name down the street and started to enter the designated doorvay, she sov bbbbbbbbbbbI in the phone booth directly aero en th? strert making (or pretending tohone call. Be vasosition to see the length of the street in both directions. BaaaaVsaal joined bbbbbbbbbI in thehort time later and the meeting took place as olresdy reported, without any occment on his pert a* to why ha had been In the phone booth, bbbbbbbbbI left first and has not seen bbbbbbbbbb1 since.
2. arch, vhen we related the substance of the firstvithBBBBBBBBBlfl took some pains to review the record In the light of the fresh Information end to admit, in effect, that be had been wrong about the risks Involved In the street meetings. bbbbbbbbbbbbb toldhat onanuary, vhen bbbbbbbbbb1 was taking the bus to her ballet class shearurn In front of tbe bus to follow it. This vas the first and only time that she noticed anything that might be construed as surveillance of her. (She did not observe any surveillance vhen she vent from theg to the meeting vith
In subsequent discussions at Geneva about future ocxanunlcatlons
' with bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb on his ownook the position
that ve should abandon street meetings aa tbe primary meana ofith bbbbbbbbbbbI snd that ve should accept reduced production as the price of increased security. This, of course, is our own vlev, and
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vhatever tbe peat difficulties may have been. It appears that we will not Have any trouble vltbon this ccore In the future. It waa agreed with ammfammmmmml llml Imlli aides would at rive to place peopleosition to have aoclal and professional contact vltbthat we would try to Imrnxrve the Impersonal commo arrangements in the operationrelan, hannel, better dead drop,nd that if need be, we would simply be patient during the Intervals between iJJJJJJJjafJJ trips abroad. It was recognized that ve might veil have some trouble vith amntmmnmml himself when it comes to cutting down personal meetings in the USSR, but it vas nonetheless agreed that we would do everything possible to achieve this.
5- aammammmaamt fully agreed to the revised planroadcasts which ve presented.
6^flBBBBBBBBBBBBB agreed to our proposal that it would be desirable
oet of prepared postcards which he could mail to accompodatlon addresses in. to signal certain key situations. To forestall BBBBBBaBBBBB objections to the use of bis own handwriting, these postcards vould be furnished him vith cover texts already written in (ln English). Each postcard vould stand for one simple message, the key to vhlch could be the signature, the picture on the postcard, the acennmcdation address, or any other identifying mark agreed on vith BBBBBBBaBml It waa tentatively agreed that the following messages were the most important:
am under suspicion."
am on an internal trip."
tar. ready to do business again."
vlll be coming to tbe West soon." ays notice)
Appropriate picture poDtcerdii vert selected, andundertook toatch of them prepared vith various British handwritings and innocuous tourist texts to several accommodation addresses in.
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