TRANSMISSION OF CAPTURED JAPANESE DOCUMENTS TO THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF, G-2, WAR DEPARTMENT GENERAL STAFF.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000100010080-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: January 1, 1944
• Content Type: MEMO

Declassified and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2013/12/12 : CIA-RDP81-00706R000100010080-2
WAR DEPARTMENT
War Department General Staff
Military Intelligence Division, G-2
Washington 25, D.C.
SUBJECT: Transmission of Captured Japanese Documents to the Assistant
Chief of Staff, G-20 1;far Department General Staff.
MEMORANDUM BY THE UNITED STATES CHIEFS OF STAFF:
1, The United States Chiefs of Staff have directed the Commander-
in-Chief, South West Pacific Area, the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Ocean
Area the Commanding General United States Armed Forces in China,
Burma, and India and the Commanding General, Alaskan Department to
send all captured Japanese documents to the Assistant Chief of Staff,
G-2, War Department General Staff, Washington, D. C., so they may be
systematically exploited bye combined staff of research specialists
as is now being done in London for captured European documents. It
is requested that the British Chiefs of Staff send the attached
message to the Supreme Allied Commander Southeast Asia Command in
order to obtain similar action from that headquarters.
Declassified and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2013/12/12 : CIA-RDP81-00706R000100010080-2