125. Memorandum From the President’s Chief of Staff (Leahy) to the Director of Central Intelligence (Vandenberg)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 218, Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Leahy Papers, No. 131. Secret.

126. Memorandum for Record

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Historical Files, HS/CSG–2227, Job 83–00739R, Box 2, Folder 3. Secret.

127. Letter From the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Hoover) to the Director of Central Intelligence (Vandenberg)

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Historical Files, HS/CSG–2227, Job 83–00739R, Box 2, Folder 3. Strictly Confidential.

128. Memorandum From the Director of Central Intelligence (Vandenberg) to Secretary of State Byrnes

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Records of the Department of State, Decimal File 1945–49, 101.5/9–1246. Top Secret. Similar memoranda were sent to the other NIA principals.

129. Letter From the Director of Central Intelligence (Vandenberg) to the Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (Braden)

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Historical Files, HS/CSG–2461, Job 83–00764R, Box 4, Folder 7. Secret. The date is handwritten on the source text. No drafting information appears on the source text but the tone of the letter suggests that it was written by Vandenberg.

130. Strategic Services Unit General Orders No. 16

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Historical Files, HS/CSG–601, Job 83–00036, Box 4, Folder 9. Restricted. Draft copies (dated September 5) of SSU Headquarters’ message to its field stations closing down operations and Vandenberg’s parallel message are ibid. Colonel Quinn’s October 16 memorandum to Penrose and others outlines administrative arrangements concerning the transfer. (Ibid.)

131. Instruction From the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (Russell) to the Minister in Tangier (Alling)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Records of the Department of State, Decimal File 1945–49, 101.5/1–347. Top Secret. More or less identical instructions presumably were sent to other posts, but no other instructions or list of other addresses has been found.

132. Letter From the Director of Central Intelligence (Vandenberg) to Secretary of State Byrnes

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Historical Files, HS/CSG–2227, Job 83–00739R, Box 2, Folder 3. No classification marking.

133. Letter From Secretary of State Byrnes to the Director of Central Intelligence (Vandenberg)

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Historical Files, HS/CSG–2227, Job 83–00739R, Box 2, Folder 3. Secret.

134. Memorandum From the Director of the Strategic Services Unit, Department of War (Quinn) to the Assistant Secretary of War (Petersen)

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Historical Files, HS/HC–804, Item 7. Confidential. The source text may be a transcript prepared for the CIA Historian in the early 1950s.

135. Letter From the National Intelligence Authority to Representative Clare E. Hoffman

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Records, Job 90–00610R, Box 1, Folder 3. Top Secret. Representative Hoffman (Republican, Michigan) was Chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments. At the time the letter was written, the committee was considering the legislation on armed forces unification, which included provisions establishing the Central Intelligence Agency on a statutory basis. The question of clandestine operations arose in the committee as a result of press stories and press criticism about the efforts to centralize all clandestine intelligence operations in CIG. See Document 319, which records the NIA’s discussion of the letter, which was proposed to the Authority by Hillenkoetter.

136. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Records of the Department of State, Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration—Subject Files, 1944–47: Lot 53 D 28, Special Assistant for Research and Intelligence, Box 19. Secret. Drafted by Humelsine and Armstrong.

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