702.0065/28: Telegram

The Chargé at Algiers ( Chapin ) to the Secretary of State

995. From L’Heureux. Reference Department’s 705, March 7, 9 p.m. Chief of Staff26 has approved cablegram F 22464, March 24 to Agwar27 expressing view no cipher facilities should be granted Consuls in Italy other than American and British. Consuls of countries represented on Advisory Council may communicate with their Governments through their representatives and pouch facilities should be granted between United Nations Consuls and their Governments.28 [L’Heureux.]

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  1. Lt. Gen. J. A. H. Gammell.
  2. Adjutant General, War Department (Washington).
  3. In his despatch 147, July 28, 1944, Alexander O. Kirk, American Representative on the Advisory Council for Italy, indicated that the original telegram from the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater, Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, to the War Department and the War Office contained the additional requirement that “the transmission of pouches would be effected where necessary through Allied military channels.” He added that the policy of bag and cipher restrictions was reaffirmed on June 9, 1944, in a memorandum from the Offices of the United States Political Adviser and the British Minister Resident in reply to an inquiry from the Communications Censorship Branch, Information and Censorship, Allied Force Headquarters. (702.0065/7–2844)