REVISION OF OKINAWA HOUSING REQUIREMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020106-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: April 30, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, aarviess Asia
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1. It to believed that requirements for .~artess family bwAns
at the proposed Akin . st-,tioa c aaanot b* reducgrd. It I. eaartais that staffing
the poposed latreeast will bon a sore difficult xr oblan than an itbsrta as..
countered by V$!J, and probable that eaayeslusi os of .aasartesaaa .sp-l"oO feet lies
would result is at-standard eperRttoa largely anlltfyrtag the inveeteest is
the station.
3, this condition may not ssaessaarilpr apply to foreign national aarplayosa.
.Ut oagh It will sadsabtadly- sake rearsitaent more difficult, at stteeaapt can
be made to ?esfiaar the projected foreign national staff to single psrsenael.
A rar ui reaseat of too bachelor quarters s. therefore be substituted for ten
fam ly units It the tatter cannot be sonstruetsd within funds limitations,
3. It is believed Impracticable, t1 house bachelor personnel in barra*s?
type, bet ldl sass for the following rasosss
a. Irragularityr of duty bear* consequent upon tvanty-four hour
operation of Me station would preclude regular aeeesa&otion
at the Air Force sees.
b. Aceaea iatioa of foreign anti oaals at the far Torso a sss would
Present a prebla.
c. Aeeasodateoan and protection of woman would be more difficult.
d. Liaaaitati an of bachelor personnel to a single barratks?typo
rose would be destructive, of morale eaaad sate sattsfaatery ra.
crultaest tspessiblc.
s. 'laotireaaaa.nt far quonset banning for sinle personnel sonar be soaaawbat
roduoed, howmnr, by assigning two amplsycee to the large bedroos is sank
m ascot by reducing the at to of the ltIll ..SCsI tO 1 d ib
roon. vndeer this arrangement such qusasot' MNIdA t i fins tay-abcai,'
S. Revised requirements for staff housing may therefore be stated an
follow:
Pswily quenses
enssts altered as above for fit
personnel
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Sash a r.vistos reduces the original
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Chief, 3wrmt.ss It"Ok
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G- It 18 ssph"lss4 that l*+mvsrd revision to this start rse*1r~t
is not 4*sirab3e, aad is is b. ngft as it *&8V*tdabts.
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SUM
11a4A >taslriag* in agltsh to the Philippines, for Zealand, a*stralia*
and the nth Pacifie, aW. 28, 1948. 5130 a.m. Jfli-p
(Corm stary, *low Atomic S'eapeas*)
(lceespt)
"tktriag the past few &qs, following the .snsuaeemeat that the
vatted Sts.tes forces have tested ow weapons soawhere, there has been
a new series of rumors *boat an improved type of the atosie weapon that
aaee ruined ITiresbisa and 8agasnkl. Some who have given detailed information
on the sebjest have implied that the Vatted States is therebj safer than
evrar, rile *there have pointed to the added danger every nation runs is
a Enure waver. That has bees the attitude toward the ato is bosh aed atosis weapons
over since the world learned of the now mass destruction weapon after the
Hiroshima b rung. a
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This doct, eat is part of classified
ted iron file, document 18
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unclassified. -
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