ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PACIFIC MILITARY INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH SECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000100010082-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: May 10, 1944
• Content Type: MEMO

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FILE NO.
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SUBJECT Establishment of the Pacific Military
Intelligence Research Section
DATE
10 May 1944
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Submitted herewith is a study on the above subject and request that
proposed allotment of personnel be authorized therefor.
CLAYTON BISSELL,
Major General,
A. C. of S., G-2.
1 Incl.:
Memorandum for the C/S, dated 10 May 44,
re above subj, with Tabs A and B.
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1. PURPOSE. Summary Sheet functions as means of furnishing Office, Chief of Staff
and Office, Secretary of War with brief or summAry and necessary background infor-
mation on matters for action or signature in these offices.
2. USE. In general, use of Summary Sheet is limited. to following:
a. As brief for long Memorandum for Chief of Staff (three pages or more). This
brief should be short enough to be contained on face of SummAry Sheet. Carbon copies
of Sheet are not necessary.
b. As brief or summary for letter to be signed in Office, Chief of Staff or
Office, Secretary of War. Although this brief should include necessary background
information, it also should be short enough to be contained on face of Summary Sheet.
Carbon copy of Sheet is prepared for Office, Chief of Staff.
c. In place of short Memorandum for Chief of Staff (2 pages or less). Second
page (if any) of Summary Sheet used for this purpose is typed on plain bond, and
same number of carbon copies of Sheet are made as for Memorandum for Chief of Staff.
3. ROUTING. Routing information and action requested are indicated by "x," check
(V), or number in appropriate box. As Summary Sheet clears each office, abbreviation
of that office in rOufing'box i6 lined out, and papers are forwarded to next office
indicated on Sheet.
4. IDENTIFICATION. Summary Sheet is filled outin Major Command or General Staff
Division office where recommended action or paper for signature is prepared. Symbol
or abbreviation of this office and grade, surname, and telephone number of dictator
are typed in appropriate boxes. File number and subject should be as brief as
possible consistent with clarity.
5. COMPOSITION. Brief and background of recommended action or paper for signature
are prepared in body of Summary Sheet under heading SUMMARY. Second part of body
is fined:out under heading COORDINATION and contains names of organizations and
individual officers with whom coordination has been effected by office of preparation
and from whom concurrences or nonconcurrences have been obtained. In event of un-
resolved nonconcurrences, consideration is given them in this section.
6. INCLOSURES. Inclosures are listed according to military practice and begin not
more than three or four line spaces below last line of COORDINATION section.
7. APPROVAL. When prepared in Major Command, Summary Sheet requires approval of
commanding general of Command or authorized representative; when prepared in General
Staff Division, that of head of Division or authorized representative. Such approval
is indicated on face of Sheet by initials of approving officer above stamped signa-
ture or approval stamp.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
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SECRETARY OF WAR
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Maj. Gen. Bisse11/2968
FILE NO.
111.0.,A.C.0.14ano ho. 520
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Transmission of Captured Japanese Documents
to Assistant C114E:If of Staff G-2 Washington DC
DATE
May 1, 1944
Japanese military documents are captured in the various theaters of
the Far East and sent through channels to the theater headquarters.
Only those documents of immediate operational interest are translated
and exploited.
The attached study for the consideration of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff has been prepared so that theater commanders will send all
captured Japanese documents to the A. C. of S., G-2 in Washington
where they can be systematically exploited by a combined staff of
research specialists for all types of intelligence.
CLAYTON BISSELL,
Major General,
A. C. of S., G-2.
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1. PURPOSE. Summary Sheet functions as means of furnishing Officelgief of Staff
and Office, Secretary of War with brief or summary and necessary background infor-
mation on matters for action or signature in these offices.
2. USE. In general, use of Summary Sheet is limited to following:
a. As brief for long Memorandum for Chief of Staff (three pages or more). This
brief should be short enough to be contained on face of Summary Sheet. Carbon copies
of Sheet are not necessary.
b; As brief or summary for letter to be signed in Office, Chief of Staff or
Office, Secretary of War. Although this brief should include necessary background
information, it also should be short enough to be contained on face of Summary Sheet.
Carbon copy of Sheet is prepared for Office, Chief of Staff.
c. In place of short Memorandum for Chief of Staff (2 pages or less). Second
page (if any) of Summary Sheet used for this purpose is typed on plain bond, and
same number of carbon copies of Sheet are made as for Memorandum for Chief of Staff.
3. ROUTING. Routing information and action requested are indicated by "x," check
('/), or number in appropriate box. As Summary Sheet clears each office, abbreviation
of that office in routing box is lined out, and papers are forwarded to next office
indicated on Sheet.
4. IDENTIFICATION. Summary Sheet is filled out in Major Command or General Staff
Division office where recommended action or paper for signature is prepared. Symbol
or abbreviation of this office and grade, surname, and telephone number of dictator
are typed in appropriate boxes. File number and subject should be as brief as
possible consistent with clarity.
5. COMPOSITION. Brief and background of recommended action or paper for signature
are prepared in body of Summary Sheet under heading SUMMARY. Second part of body
is fined out under heading COORDINATION and contains names of organizations and
individual officers with wham coordination has been effected by office of preparation
and from whom concurrences or nonconcurrences have been obtained. In event of un-
resolved noncancurrelices, consideration is given them in this section.
6. INCLOSURES. Inclosures are listed according to military practice and begin not
more than three or four line spaces below last line of COORDINATION section.
7. APPROVAL. When prepared in Major Command, Summary Sheet requires approval of
commanding general of Command or authorized representative; when prepared in General
Staff Division, that offhead of Division or authorized representative. Such approval
is indicated on face of Sheet by initials of approving officer above stamped signa-
ture or approval stamp.
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