WE PREPARED FOR YOU TODAY EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL FOR THE WEEK AND INCLUDED VARIOUS ENCLOSURES RECEIVED AND ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000100060009-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 11, 1945
• Content Type: LETTER

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WASHINGTON DOCUMENT CENTER (ADV)
NYK BUILDING'
TOKYO
11 November 1945
Dear Co].. Marland:
We prepared for you today extracts from the journal for the week and
included various enclosures received and issued by this office. I hope that
this will give you a clear picture of our progress. Our account does not
mention many of Commander Reierstadls activities; this does not mean that
he has not been operating. He has already procured from NamTechJap 10
Navy linguists with whom he has been working at Yokosuka. It is his plan
to exploit all of the easily accessible targets listed in the Navy Target
Book. He has given us the use of one linguist whom we are sending to
Kokubunji. Naturally since he has the linguists at hand and many Navy
Al/ targets in our proximity are the most important in Japan, he will see_tOt
Navy.interests. Fortuhately IS personnel are definitely underway and by
the time you receive this letter our people should be here, else the arrangement
would threaten to be a Navy show.
As indicated in the journal, I have with Col. Wood's blessing seen
as many men who will do the work in the field as I have been able to reach.
I find that although directives may be sent out, though the G-2 may be well
informed, the "loot" in the field with his Nisei assistants is not always
apprised of decisions and agreements made "up there." In every case I
have been gratefully received and have been promised hearty cooperation.
Inventories have begun to come into the office today--sizeable lists and
all from 8th Army units. So the activity has born some fruit.
The periodicals which we received yesterday have been about one-half
completed. I have drawn up long lists of boA titles, journals, periodicals,
reviews, and annuals which I shall submit to Foreign Liaison within the next
two or three days. I spent an afternoon at the Imperial University Library
and from a librarian there, a Harvard graduate, I got .the names of leading
Japanese economists, historians, jurists, and scientistt. The names which were
given me will prove of some assistance in mak- intelligent selections.
ing
Once the two men get here whom we have ear-marked for this job, their paths
will have been lubricated and they can carry on where I have left off. In
addition to the University catalogues, I have found The Publishers' Annual
very heloful.
I have read Major Stremlauls account of the ATIS billeting situation and
I am afraid that when you rend it, it will sound as though ATIS were using
dilatory tactics. I assure you that this is not the case. I have ascertained
to my satisfaction from Co].. Doud's secretary that ATIS, as well as ourselves,
was on the spot. Col. Mashbir may have spun a good yarn to the Major, but
I don't think that too much credence should be out in some of the claims and
accounts in Major Stremlauls letter. As for the necessity of having a full
colonel here to help us in our difficulty, I take some exception to that statement.
We have not experienced any difficulty more acute than the inconvenience of
waiting and uncertainty, and that I believe is tantamount to being in the Army.
I have not felt when facing unfamiliar and high ranking officers that my rank
was to my disadvantage. Col. Wood, Col. Smith, et al whom I have seen, to whom
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I have given information, and to whom I have gone for help, have proven
most obliging and understanding. What we need, and I think that you came
to the conclusion before departing, is an energetic and resourceful administrator
who is more eager to get things done than make deals. There are mazy details
in administration that should be attended to eight hours a day, and I have been
at a disadvantage because my job does take me out of the office a good deal.
However WDC is holding the threads, a bit slack here and there, but they are not
dragging.
Billeting arrangements have been completed--and I fear some of the men will
be in for a bit of a shock. The billets are billets. It is our plan to move
men out as quickly as possible to field units, in order to relieve congestion
in the NYK Building, and, of course, to get things on the road.
I had fine hunting last night in the building. It was evacuated yesterday
by all GHQ officers and that gave me the opportunity to select a number of choice
early Grand Rapids pieces for my room. It accomodates four, is very small, but
enjoys much sunlight during the day, and boasts of a rending lamp and a fine
dwarf tree by courtesy of some director of the NYK. I have not forgotten
the office. On the safe is a lovely dwarfed walnut tree such as one we saw
in Yoshida. It is.trained over a sizeable piece of rock. On a book case
is the pride and joy of WDC-a gnarled, westherbeaten apple just beginning to
sprout.
Last week I had several interesting evenings. One was spent in the British
Embassy with Captain Cowan, some Navy, and Royal Marines. It was a delightful
conversational evening. Although the British officers_to a men have been in the
service seven years, their intellectual life and their reading haw not stopped,
nor may I add, long week-ends, snort, and the amenities of civilized living.
You will perhaps remember that a lady pianist named Inoue plated with the Tokyo
Symphony abut three weeks ago. I had the good fortune to meet her through
a student of mine who is in the Navy. She invited us to her home and were it
not for yellow complexions and almond eyes, I would have saieAnn Arbor, Michigan.
Her husband is an industrialist of considerable fortune. The home is "western
style" including two Steinways. We had three uninterrupted hours of music. I
believe that I played more than I have since entering the Army. Both husband
and wife were educated in the States and in Garmany and speak English and German
very fluently. The association eromtes a pleasant respite.
I ?hope that you found your family in the very best of health and that you
enjoy a pleasant Thanksgiving with them. It will be the first for you for a
long time. I assume that Sarah is no longer trudging the mountains and has sought
softer climes. I have not yet heard from herg' but hope for the "jack pot"
soon. Please.give my best regards to the boys at Pacmirs and accept my sincerest
thanks for the privilege of accompanying you on this trip. I have enjoyed the
association more than I can express and look forward to a continuation of it
when this job is done.
Yours sincerely
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