LETTER (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000200090023-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: October 7, 1973
• Content Type: LETTER

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Thank ynu for your letter of 2 October concerning your search far
information about the "Liberator" pistol being sent into Norway. It I?;
possible that this particular weapon was never recorded when It was
packed for drop in the containers.
Prior to receiving your letter I ohtained some infnrm;itinn rahnut
the particular 0 operation in Norway which was lrriinch,d f?rnrn I nur:t j-
It was called the "Bell Project" and was brought into beinu to nmj pnr
the Norwegian resistance ofte i? the H.A.F. dr>clinerl to supppl y them riuf
the longer daylight periods of the 5cand,:ina"i an surmnere?. fhn "!sell
Project" operated from July to September 1944 and completed thirty-
seven missions out of a scheduled sixty-four. flh ut 120 tr.inn of 0,,:
packaged cargo was dropped to the Norwegians as well as a fe ' nirr'ntn.
This equipment. came from the LI: H pockinii station nn?rr Oirrnirr rhr,rn,
F_nglnnd. STAT
The "Flail Project" wan only one of several hacked by l: ., rlrurini
the Norimay-Hwcdon op)uration under the ern x, aand of
Thn other projects were listed as; ":ionnin t'rn jrc
" 11:hUn and ihnre"
It tr)cedy froji ct"
" Dnlly Project
"
However, only the " orrnie-;hen and 'thorn-Hall" prr,jnctn +r ail r hive
pnrn,sihly involved Lim pi nt,'ls in querstinn& by sourrn or inl ern, tirnn
was o former Coionrl ns^ncintr,d with the "i, ill Prnj,,ct" tll.nr r,
pistols, at Louchnrs and learned that a nuntuur ref Lhi!m wo.re bring s nt
into Norway with other sabotage items.
Thank you i,gJin ['or your reply in thin, matter. It in much nliprr
and even a negative does indicate something.
ins ?rel.y,
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