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Office MemO ndu  UNITED STATES GOVERyMENT A/B 5, 124/1 TO Chief, Security Research Staff DATE: 6July1953

FRoM:. Chief, Technical Branch

1. Attached herewith is a brief statement'on background and the itinerary of the:trip he is to make into and

2. forwarded to me certain technical data, concerning botanicals that as promised to collect but I did not believe you would be interested in reading this data.

3. If you will return the original to me, I will retain it in our files.

4. I called and stated that you had obtained the\$100.00fund for Indy seemed tremendously puld uhdoubtedly prove a valupleased and assured me that able collector for us even if he did not knöw who was supplying him the funds