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4mia 90x)
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT NUMBER:
9007-II
SESSION NUMBER: 1
DATE OF SESSION:
20 Mar 90
DATE OF REPORT: 21 Mar 90
START:
0752
END: 0816
METHODOLOGY:
solo
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 018
SG1A
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1.
(S/STD)
MISSION:
Provide information on narcotics-
smuggling operation involving a series of callsigns.
2.
(S/STD)
VIEWER TASKING:
Encrypted coordinates plus listed
callsign
(See attached tasking sheet)
3.
(S/STD)
COMMENTS:
No Physical Inclemencies.
4.
(S/STD) EVALUATION:
Since no "ground truth" operational
data is known for comparison, no objective evaluation can be made
of viewer 018's results.
Information provided is within realm of
possibility given the overall context of Project 9007, and
consistency of reporting gives some confidence to data.
Confidence estimate:
55%
5.
(S/STD) SEARCH EVALUATION:
Same as para 4.
MONITOR:
N/A
CLASSIFIED BY:
OSD
OADR
DECLASSIFY:
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₩/STD
WORKING PAPER
16 MAR 90
TASKER
1.
PROJECT:
9007-II.
ENCRYPTED COORDINATES:
220493/579178.
BACKGROUND;
See vessel call-signs provided with EEI below.
4.
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION:
Determine the following
for each "call sign" listed below.
a.
Provide the true name of the person associated with the
call sign.
In lieu thereof, provide phonetics of the true name.
D.
Describe the vessel associated with the call sign.
C.
Determine the current location of the vessel
associated
with the call sign.
d .:
Determine the destination (s) of the illegal drugs.
Determine the nature of the illegal drugs.
THE CALL
(14)
SIGNS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
SG1A
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Project:
9007-II
Date:
900320
Time:
0752-0816
Viewer:
018
Session:
01
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
1.
(S/STD)
Provide the true name of the person associated with the call
SG1A
sign
This question has no meaning. Several people work the
radio and use the callsign all the time: at least 8 males and one female
have used it recently. There was a perception that no one there knows about
the female using it. She is up to something which is against the others.
I
get the further impression that the "person" of importance to the question
has never seen this ship, and is only remotely/financially connected to it.
There was a fleeting impression of the name "Jones" or "Johns ... " connected
with this person, but this was not further pursued.
2.
(S/STD)
Describe the vessel associated with the callsign
SG1A
The vessel is roughly the size of a large shrimp vessel. It can sail under
both sail and diesel power. It uses diesel almost all the time; the sails
being almost completely for emergency purposes, or for extremely quiet
operation. There are tall, thin "things" sticking up off the deck, and one
thick, sturdy "thing" which leans off the back (see Fig. 1). The "house" (I
do not know nautical terminology) has a main mast sticking out of its top.
There is also a radio antenna on top of this mast.
3.
(S/STD)
Determine the current location of the vessel: At 08:15 on 20
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MAR 90, the vessel was located in the southern Mexican coastal area between
Manzanillo and Acapulco de Juarez. It is located with at least one other
ship of roughly equal size and type at a distance of approximately 1/4 mile
off shore. The shoreline where it is located is uninhabited, white-looking
sands and fairly thick, very low vegetation.
4. (S/STD) Determine the destination (s) of the illegal drugs:
No drugs
were on board as of 8:15, 20 MAR 90.
5.
(S/STD)
Determine the nature of the illegal drugs: See item 4, above.
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13,
FIG. 1.
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[handwritten, upper right]
20 MAR 90
0752 HRS
FT MEADE
SOLO

[handwritten, centre]
P.I. HUNGRY
A.V. NONE.

[handwritten, left, struck through with a large X and with a line through the top number; a long arrow runs from the numbers to the right]
220493
579(?)178

WRONG TASKING -
SAME COORDINATES STAND
FOR 14 DIFFERENT TARGETS.

[handwritten, left] TIDAL(?)   [sketch: ideogram, a long horizontal line running right with a wavy thickened section and a heavy stroke at its end]

[handwritten column, right]
A:  ACROSS
    SMOOTH
    FLAT
B:  WATER

A:  WAVY
    SMOOTH
    HARD
B:  LAND

A:  ACROSS(?),
    SMOOTH
B:  [blank line]

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[handwritten, top right, circled: 2]

JI 2AL(?)      [ideogram: a long horizontal wavy line with a loop near its middle]

                              A:  OVER(?)
                                  LOOP
                                  [illegible]
                                  SMOOTH
                                  SMOOTH

                              B:  ENERGETICS(?).
                                  [arrow from the S2 bubble below pointing up to this line]

S2:   [the next three lines are enclosed in a large hand-drawn bubble whose tail/arrow runs up to "B: ENERGETICS"]
      GREEN
      PALE GREEN [overwritten / struck through]
      FLUFFY FEEL
      SOFT   (AMBIENCE)
      [illegible, begins G]
      STILL

      FLAT
      WIDE

      [ideogram: a horizontal line with a small dip, then a long nearly flat line to the right]

      GREEN
      BLUE [the last letters scribbled over / struck through]

      WIDE
      OPEN
      FLAT
      ANGLED(?)
      NATURAL
                              AI(?) BRK(?)
                         REALLY NICE HERE!

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[handwritten, top right, circled: 3]

S[illegible, heavily overwritten character]-

[sketch: a bundle of long horizontal handwritten strokes crossing at a central point, fanning out left and right; no labels]

S3
[sketch: a long horizontal line with a dense scribbled mass on its left half; three arrows point down to it from labels]
GREEN(?) [arrow to the scribbled mass]
WHITE [arrow to the line just right of the scribbled mass]
BLUE [arrow to the plain line at the right]

S4 :

S2        D        AI        EI        T        I        AOL        A/S.
                                            LAND
                                            WATER
                                            LAND
WHITE
SANDY
          LOW
          WIDE
          ISOLATED
PEACEFUL(?)
CALM(?)
QUIET

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                                                        [handwritten, circled:] 4

[all handwritten:]
S2        D     OT(?)    EI(?)    T       I     AOL    N/S ,
                                NATM(?)

WARM(?)   WIDE
CALM      FLAT



                        SHIP
                [sketch: a ship seen from the side, with a tall mast or superstructure rising from the hull, heavily scribbled]


S4 1/2        2 [interlinear: OR MORE] SHIPS  TOGETHER  IN  A
PLACE  OF  CALM  WATER,  WARM  SUNSHINE.
±  1/4  MILE  OFF  SHORE  FROM  LOW-LYING
WHITE  SANDY  LAND  W/  LOTS  OF  VEGETATION.







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[handwritten, top right, circled: 5]

[entire page handwritten]

S4 1/2      SAILING   +   DIESEL   BOATS

                                    AOL BRK
                                 "ST. MARTINIQUE(?)"

QUESTION  A:      TRUE NAME OF PERSON
  ASSOCIATED  W/  CALL SIGN

QUESTION DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. [underlined: QUESTION DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.]  SEVERAL
PEOPLE WORK THIS RADIO ALL THE TIME
AT LEAST 8 MALES + 1 FEMALE
HAVE WORKED IT RECENTLY.  NOONE
THERE KNOWS THAT THE FEMALE USED IT.
SHE IS UP TO SOMETHING.

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[handwritten, top right, circled: 6(?)]

[all following handwritten]

QUESTION B:  DESCRIBE THE VESSEL:
     [first letters overwritten] EQUIPPED FOR SAILING + DIESEL.
     USES DIESEL ALMOST ALL THE TIME. -
     SAILS ARE FOR EMERGENCY ONLY.
     LOOKS LIKE LARGE SHRIMP
     BOAT.  SOMETHING LEANS(?) OFF THE
     BACK; + OTHER "THINGS" STICK UP

     SK:
     [sketch: side view of a boat hull with three upright lines and a thick line slanting up from the deck to the left, a tall scribbled upright at the right end, no labels]

TALL MAST STICKS OUT OF CUPOLA.

QUESTION C:  CURRENT LOCATION OF
     VESSEL?

          BETWEEN MANZANILLO +
     ACAPULCO DE JUAREZ, ON PACIFIC SIDE
     OF MEXICO.          (AS OF 0815 LOCAL TIME.)

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[entire page handwritten, hurried capitals]

QUESTION D.       DESTINATION OF ILLEGAL
   DRUGS?

        NO DRUGS ON BOARD(?) AT PRESENT
   TIME.

QUESTION E:     NATURE OF DRUGS?

        SEE ABOVE.



                    SESSION END 081[final digit heavily overwritten, illegible].




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