LETTER TO JAMES P. HODGES. FROM CLAYTON BISSELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000100070117-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: September 15, 1944
• Content Type: LETTER

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MID 937
15 September 1944
Major General James P. 53dges,
Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence,
Room 3-5.130, Pentagon Building,
Ilashin ton 26, D. C.
Dear Hodges:
In Asrtherance of the approved agreement of service members
J.I.C. for coordination of intelligence on the Japanese 41ir Force, MID
has established an agency fbr the exploitation of related captured
documents. his agency now requires assistance of personnel as agreed
upon by the various interested agencies including your on.
Eventual personnel requirements for the exploitation of
documents will be based on the volume of rex material received together
with results obtained. Since proper determination of these facts will
require several months of operational experience it is planned to
initiate the undertakin,-, with minimum personnel from each interested
agency. It is therefore requested that AAP (ACAS Intelligence)
provide by 10 October 3.944 an initial allotment of five officers, below
the grade of lieutenant colonel and twelve qualified enlisted Japanese
language specialists, to be detailed for duty with MID, to assist in
exploitation of captured documents pertinent to the Japanese ,,ir broe.
Reports derived from the above will of course be immediately available
to you.
Sincerely,
CLAYTON BISSELL,
Majcr General,
A. C. of L., 0-2.
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Air Vioe Marshal F. F. Inglis
II( Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Intelligence)
Air Ministry,
London, England.
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15 September 1944
Dear Inglis:
In furtherance of our agreement for coordination of captured
document intelligence on the Japanese Air Force, arrangements have
been made in MID for exploitation of these documents in conjunction
with analogous exploitation of all available captured Japanese documents.
Centralisation has been initiated, by appropriate letters
to U. S. Army and Naval Theaters, directing transmission of the docu-
ments and existing translations, by fastest practicable means, to the
Military Intelligence Division, War Department, Washington, D. C. as
soon as theater requirements for the doouments.have been satisfied.
It is accordingly requested that you initiate corresponding action with
respect to captured Japanese documents obtained by the R.A.F.
It is believed that, in oaptured doouments, Air information
is often so integrated with information on Army and Navy matters that
initial separation of raw material into corresponding classifications
would risk a serious loss to eaoh. It is primarily for this reason
that we plan the concurrent analysis of all classes of documents. I
am transmitting an analogous request to the DMI for transmission of
Japanese documents obtained by the British Army.
Sincerely,
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/re
CLAYTON BISSELL
Major General
A. C. of S., G-2
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