LETTER TO MR. ROBB SAGENDORPH, PUBLISHER OF YANKEE, INC. RE: MATERIAL SUBMITTED BY REVIEW BY C.I.G.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64-00658A000100100007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 3, 1946
• Content Type: MEMO

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X from Chief, Central Planning Staff
3 June '46
X action
Draft of letter
to Mr. $agendorph
SUBJECTS Utter to Mr. Robb S.gendorph, Publisher of Yankee, Inc.
Re: Material Submitted for Review by Q.I.G.
1. The two looseleaf notebooks received from dir. Sagsndorph in response
to the request of the C.I,G. have been examined by the Central Planning Staff.
These books contain newspaper and magazine clippings and some tabulated data
concerning t reraft of the kited States and of a number of foreign countries.
to The source of much of the information on foreign aircraft is not
shout but it is know that this data is in the possession of the Navy and the
Army Air Forces and my have been obtained from these sources in the course of
', $asendorph's official duties with censorship activities.
$. A,nual 45.59.1 contains lists of classified material in the
Army Air Forces and also indicates the releasable technical information on
each item of equipment mentioned therein. A spot check of the information eon-
tained in Mr. $agendorph'e record against the AA? Manual disoloses that the
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information is of an unclassified nature and had been officially released
for publication,
4. The Army Air Forces established the AAF Committee on the Release
of Technical Information in October 1943 for the purpose of controlling
the release for publication of data on United States aircraft. As collab-
orating members, this committee had representatives from non-AU agencies
such as Joint Security Control, the War Department Bureau of Public
Relations, the Office of Censorship, the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, the
Office of War Information and the Royal Air Force. Soon after its activation,
this committee etfectiTely controlled the release of information on U.S.
aircraft and related equipment and succeeded in eliminating almost entirely
the unofficial releases mentioned by Mr. Sagendorph, which were frequent
occurrences in the early stages of the war.
5. A, review of these records and consideration of the other factors
mentioned herein leads to the conclusion that the material submitted by
Mr, Sagendorph can serve no useful purpose in connection with the 0.1.0.
study of censorship matters and that it should be returned to him.
d. Action recomiendeds that the attached draft letter to Mr
Sagendorph be approved and di spatchad.
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RE,ap a
Acting Chief, Central Planning Staff
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