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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901 190016-2 SECR ET Alice Michelson 25X1 On September !5, 1984, the asset traveled to Mexico City and met at the Soviet Embassy with two Soviets, one of whom is a known IO. The KGB directed the asset to make telephonic contact on September 20, 1984, with a woman identified by the KGB as Alice _ Michelson at a number in New York City. The KGB officer provided the asset with a photograph of Alice Michelson and instructed the asset to arrange a meeting prior to September 29, 1984, inasmuch as Michelson would be departing the country thereafter. The purpose of the meeting was to practice exchanging information using concealment devices given to the asset by the KGB. During the meeting on September 15, 1984, the KGB officer also provided the asset with a miniaturized tape recorder and instructed him to either read aloud into the recorder directly from classified documents or to dictate classified information into the recorder from memory. The KGB further instructed the asset to then place the tape into a concealment device (a false cigarette pack) supplied by the KGB and pass the device to Michelson. SECR ET - 27 - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901190016-2