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Notes to Pages 253-259
dated May 18, 1942).
such information he received is difficult to
15. HQ Allied Air Forces SWPA Directorate
Intel, Serial No. 1, May [ 19J 1942.
16. General Willoughby’s story and the
narrative of GHQ SWPA Intel is told in
the multivolume Brief History of the G-2
Section, GHQ SWPA, and Afiliated Units
determine; by the time of the Philippine
campaign, the SSOs in Brisbane were a
conduit for intelligence from China-
Burma to the SWPA forces (see SRH-
127, pp. 145-148) as well as from outside
the theater. In any event, Kenney had
vokyo: July 8, 1948), 710.600. Some- daily briefings from his intelligence staff
thing of a summary appeared in GHQ Far and from the SSO assigned to HQ FEAF.
East Comd, Operations of the Military Kenney’s papers contain no remarks to the
Intelligence Section GHQ SWPMFEC/
SCAP [Supreme Commander Allied Poweffect
that he resented Sutherland’s control
of special security information or that
ers] (Tokyo: Sep 30, 1950). The quotations
are from vol 3, Sep 30, 1950, p. 4,
and chap 2, n.p. See also Willoughby and
Sutherland kept anything of importance
from him. Kenney knew so much of Sutherland’s
bad side that he must have under-
Chamberlain, MacArthur.
17. Allison Ind, Allied Intelligence
stood the SSO problem, yet Kenney had
been content to work with theater data and
Bureau, Our Secret Weapon in the War
Against Japan (New York, 1958), pp.
1-13; Lewin, American MAGIC, (New
York, 1982), pp. 181-184; Desmond J.
Ball, “Allied Intelligence Cooperation
with what MacArthur told him of air
operations matters in SSO reports. See
also the Brown Report for a description of
the beginning of American Army intercept
operations in the SWPA.
Involving Australia During World War 20. Hist, 13th AF Intel Sec 1943-1945,
11,” Australian Outlook, Dec 1978, pp. 750.600.
299-309; Homer, “Special Intelligence in
the South-West Pacific Area,” pp. 310-
327; D. M. Homer, High Command:
21. Memo, Van Slyck for Brock, ca.
Mar 1943; ltr, Col L. C. Sherman, AC/S
G-2, US. Army Forces in South Pacific
Australia and Allied Strategy, 1939-1945
(Canberra, 1982), chap 10, “Allied Intelligence
Co-operation in the SWPA,” pp.
224-246.
18. Papers of General George C. Kenney,
entries for Aug 1942, AFHSO (hereafter
Kenney Papers); George C. Kenney,
General Kenney Reports (hereafter Ken-
Area (USAFISPA), to Col William C.
Bentley, Dep ACIAS, Intelligence, AAF,
Mar 5, 1944, vol 7, doc 38, 203.6; ltr,
Sherman to AC/S G-2, WDGS, subj:
Intelligence Net, South Pacific Area, May
29, 1943, in 705.603.1.
22. Diary, L. C. Sherman, AFHSO, pp.
12, 17, 21, 26-27.
ney Reports) (New York, 1949; Washing- 23. Lect, “Intelligence Experience
ton,D.C., 1987), pp. 31,6142. during World War 11,” Col Benjamin
19. Haywood S. Hansell, Jr., The Stra- Cain, Dec 10, 1946, Air War College,
tegic Air War Against Germany and Japan
(Washington, D.C., 1986), p. 148;
Lewin, American MAGIC, chap 12; Reports
by US. Army ULTRA Representatives with
Field Commands in the Southwest Pacijic,
K239.7 16246-6.
24. Air Eval Bd, SWPA, “Combat Intelligence
in SWPA,” Jun 1944,730.601-2.
See also,e.g.,5th AFADVON,“Summaries
of Principal Activities,” 730.606. The
Pacific Ocean and China Burma India
Theaters of Operations 1944-1945,
Summaries for Oct 30 and Nov 26,1943,
are illustrative, but there are many others,
SRH-032, pp. 5-17; Kenney Reports, pp. including Brief History of the G-2 Sec-
26-28, 52-53; Kenney Papers, Aug 4, lion, vol3, p. 31.
1942; Use and Dissemination of ULTRA in 25. “Air Forces and Units in SWPA,”
the Southwest Pacijic Area, I943-1945, 706.204; Brief History of the G-2 Section,
SRH-127, pp. 6-28. Kenney’s regular, pp. 9-10; 13th AF Intel Sec Hist.
direct access to ULTRA material sent from 26. Brief History of the (3-2 Section,
Washington seems to have begun late in
1943 or 1944. The amount and type of
pp. 86-87; Eric A. Feldt, The Coast
Watchers (New York, 1946), pp. 143,
449