MY DEAR COLONEL QUINN:-

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200100032-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: June 17, 1946
• Content Type: LETTER

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D?PARTPMNT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
June 17, 19L6
State Dept. declassification & release instructions on file
Colonel William W. Quinn
Director,, Strategic Services Unit
War Department
25th & E Streets, N, W.
Washington 25# D. C.
My dear Colonel Quinn:-
Through an oversight in my office your memorandum
of June 3rd came to my attention only today. Slips of this
sort are. not common with use,, and I am very sorry to have had
this occur. I hope you will pardon it.
With regard to' the substance of this memorandum,
I am perfectly willing to take up with the proper authori-
ties here your request for perH.ssion to extract material
from the State Department cables. I do think, though, that
before proceeding along this line', you would be well ad-
vised to take the matter up with General Vandenberg. It is,
after all, one of 1,d s functions to see that the various intel-
ligence agencies have such material made available to them as
they need in the conduct of their operations. I should be
greatly surprised if General Vandenberg were not able to make
the necessary arrangements, either through his o stag' or
through MIS.
Ny hesitancy about taking up this :natter in the
Department derives from the fact that the Arno and Navy are
already performing the exact task which you propose. I am
almost sure that a reply to your request would, be that since
this material already goes to the Army,, and since SSU is a
part of the Arry', the obvious thing would be for you to get
the material through MIS.
As I spay, I airi quite ready to do whatever you wish
but just. because I understand your problem and hope for a
solution of it, I would recommend that you take the matter
up with General Vandenberg in the first instai cc.
Sincerely yours
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