THERE FOLLOWS A PARAGRAPH QUOTED FROM A MEMORANDUM FROM THE DIRECTOR OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DATED 21 OCTOBER 1944.

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: October 23, 1944
• Content Type: LETTER

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23 October 1944.
Dear Colonel Rasmussen,
There follows a paragraph quoted from a
memorandum from the Director of Naval Intelligence dated 21
October 1944:
"As for enlisted translators, the U.S. Navy has none. All
Navy translators are commissioned officer graduates of the Navy
School at Boulder who have completed the equivalent of the Army
School at Savage plus the remaining four books in the full seven
book curriculum of the Navy basic course used at both schoolAv
Boulder graduates have had indoctrination of one month at the
Advanced Naval Intelligence School in New York, and two months
in actual translating in O.N.I. Five of these can be made avail-
able immediately and three additional in the near future. Wien
the flow of air intelligence documents and the work load thereof
requires additional personnel, it is hoped more Navy translators
can be made available."
It is
with the subject, that you a
of the reference to the four
at due to your familiarity
Vaware of the exact meaning
i in the fall seven book curricu-
lum. Please advise me the exact implications of the paragraph.
Would the Navy personnel trained as indicated
therein, be materially better than our graduates of MISLS for
document translation work?
Give me as complete information as you can.
4incerely,
CLAYTON BISSELL
Major General
A.C. of 6., G-2
Colonel Kai E. Rasmussen
Commandant
Military Intelligence Service Language School
Fort Snelling
Minn.
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