Guardian WW
D/G Int WW                                      9 March 1970

               Re: Successful and Unsuccessful Actions

Dear Jane,
      The following is a list of the successful and unsuccessful actions
used by intelligence .

SUccessful






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  Contacting the secretary or aide of the person you are interested in and chatting
  them up. Note this is very successful in getting tricky information
  that is not available in other areas. Is Dr. so and so on his vacation
  now. Where is he?" How long will he be gone.
  I nvent
  xxx letterhead of some organisation that is curious, i.e. have it printed
  up and use it to make queries. Use some fairly safe address but don't be
  over cautious. If you have a letter head nobody seems to bother checking it.
  Examples " Ford Foto Features " or " The Council for Human Relations
  in Industry" . If you have a letter head of any sort you will get answers
  to your questions %95 of the time. Of these using a phoney News Agency
  is the most successful.

  Using 2D on someone high in the government to seduce them over to our
  side. This particular action was not started as an Int action but
  was more personal. It did however move into a B2 activity.

  were fifths hand information based on hearsay by the fourth person.
  Although our info didn't specifically affect the case it did give our
  legal more certainty to press on.

  Infiltrating an enemy group with the end to getting documents.  T hese
  can either be about their own plans or what they have on us.

  Covert third partying with forged or phony signatures.

  Anonymous third partying. Particularly the Internal Revenue service
  appears to follow up every tip off they get.

  Getting information out of files. This is of course only vital files,
  not just any files.

  Direct theft of documents.

  Org Lines
  Taking over and doing Sec checks on certain possible sec risks rather than
  letting HCO Continue.

  Insisting that old recognised Sec Risks be kept off lines. Best terminal
  for this is whoever is the most security concious on the H CO line.

  Insisting that Troublesome sources policy be kept in.