FBIB COMMUNICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020026-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: April 8, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2008/12/08: CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020026-5
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8 April 1"8
Chief, FBI)
FBI) CoawIniestieata
1. Pursuant to your oral request the following interaatien
relative to ?BIB oomr.uniaations from Okinawa to Washin,gton- is
furnished:
a. *hen the C y headed by Chief 25X1
Engineer, FBI), QW Caratxw-ots See on, 3ervicss
draweh, visited Okinawa and Tokyo they were inforaed by
Brigadier Genera "oh, chief Signal Otfia-r, IBC, that:
1. FBI8's somraaia-tions require nts would be
!-aalu&d in any future oe>~wunioations cirouit plans for
Okinawa. This would assure delivery of 20.000 word.
groups per day to Washington, D. C. and a reass"W1s
amount of word-groups daily in the reverse direettoa.
2. A reasonable amount of wordage could be soat
by the survey party. While an Okinawa. to Tokyo and to
Washington, D. C. via a Signal 4orps radio teletype
eireuit.
b. When the Chief, ?k1b visited Tokyo in early February
of this year general Beath was again approached on this sub; got.
and gave unqualified a our nee that 16.000 ward-groups per day.
in addition to to. approximately 10,000 per day aiioh is now
w
being transmitted from Tokyo to Washington, could be handled
without any ditfiaulty whatever. He further stated that any
division of the origin of these 25,000 word-groups per day
Detseen Tokyo and 03ciaawa would after no oomplioations.
L. X. WHUB
LP/dt
Approved For Release 2008/12/08: CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020026-5