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(Add) MAL August 26, 1942
INSTRUCTIONS
SAFEGUARDING MILITARY OPERATIONS AND SECRET WEAPONS
AND EQUIPMENT
The following notice dated October 10, 1944, from the Administrative
a &s’btt(f$ to the Secretary, is given for the information and guidance of
ail ’ I dither Bureau personnel :
’“rfnder date of hrch 11, 1944, I quoted ‘to you, at the direction of Hecmtary
Janes/{hea statements contained in a letter from thd President to the Secretary
reyarding aecrezy with respect tCJ projected military operation@,, and requetrtqd that
you be govorncd accordingly. One of thew: statements WRH:
Will you pleaae BBO that your particular department and i& various btirouus
and divisions issue instructions to their personnel to refruin from my apecu-
Etioq or diacyasion, either privately or for publication, regarding mcret
iveupons or equiphont, currcnt and futiire military opwiitions or plans and
: the n\ovoplente.@of troops and ships, prior to annouphent by the proper
military or naval or higher authority; and, in cws 05 hi h lOVOl conferences,
prior to authorization boing secured from thoExecutivebhco’of the President.
Notwithstanding the instructiop of the I’rwidont, which it is undertrtood bocume
available to all Government officers rind omployms, cornmntrr atid staternonts huvo
been made which huvo beim jireutly detrirncntnl to our wur objectives, uric1 may
have been the direzt mult of the 108s of muny pruciouv American lives. As n
reault, Admiral R. P. McCullough, Chairxnun, Security Advisory Board, hns
appealed to the Department asking that officers und orrrployeos rofruin from expres-
siOn of pcreonal beliefs, opinions, or conjectures concerning future military opera-
tions prior to nnnounwrnent from IL proper militury or rruviil HOUrce or highor
authority. In other words, if you know, boliove, or conjocturci tliat we have socrot
weapon@, or plan or probubly plan certain military vexitures or oporutions, otc., you
should not diac~oae nor repeut such inforrnntion.
It is now especially timely, when the tendency of reliixatiori of security sufoqiurds
mms to trta~id out prominently in the minds of muny of us, to cnll attention to
the fact that tho n d of accurity got oxisb, rind to urge that you br goveniud
nccordingly .
REVISIONS OF OBSERVATIONS MANUALS
The following changes should bo made in Circular Letter No. 78-44,
dated October 11, 1944, in order to bring it up-to-date.
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May IO, 1044
August 26, 1944
Spetember 22, 1044
September 23, 3944
Septeurber 28, 1044
October 6, 1944
All raob stations Dnmugo to Radiosondes
During 8hipment
All mob stations
All raob stations
&lected ruob statione
All mob stations
All raob stations
All ruob stations
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Disposition of Defective
Radiosonde Batteries
Disposition of Defective
Butturiee
360,000 8eries Itndiosondce
Mailing Rnob Forms
Good nnmic Ileight of
rid Stutions
CheckinR ltuob Form
Before Mailing