Description of Dead Drop Number 1
Address and Location:
Moscow, corner of Proezd Khudozhestvennogo Teatra and Pushkinskaya ulitsa. The dead drop is located in the main entrance (foyer) of Number 2, located on Pushkinskaya ulitsa – between the store Number 19 “Myaso” and the store “Zhenskaya obuv’.”
The main entrance is open 24 hours a day. The entrance is not guarded, there is no elevator.
In the entrance (foyer) – to the left /upon entering therein/a dial telephone, No. 28, is located. Opposite the dial telephone /to the right as one goes into the entrance hall/ is a steam heat radiator, painted in oil paint in a dark green color. This radiator is supported by a single metal hook, fastened into the wall. /If one stands facing the radiator, then the metal hook will be to the right, at the level of one’s hand hanging from the arm./
Between the wall, to which the hook is attached, and the radiator there is a space of two-three centimeters.
For the dead drop, it is proposed to use the hook and the space /open space/ between the wall and the radiator.
Method of Using the Dead Drop:
It is necessary to place and camouflage any written material, for example, in a match box, then the box should be wrapped with soft wire /of a green color/, and the end of the wire bent hook-shaped, which will permit the small box to hang from the hook (or bracket) of the radiator between the wall and the radiator.
The location of the dead drop is on the unlighted right-hand corner of the entrance hall. In the entrance hall it is convenient to make a call on the dial telephone and it is very simple and easy to hang some type of small object on the indicated hook.
The site for placing the signal indicating that material has been placed in the drop, is located at a five minutes’ ride from the dead drop /or a fifteen minutes’ walk/. Thus the time that the material is in the dead drop can be held to a minimum.
I will await the signal indicating placing of the material in the dead drop after 12.00 and after 21.00 each day, beginning with 15.8.60.