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Mr. Irving Plai~1bers 

2S ~iest 73rd Street 

!fow York City, 1!.Y. 

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J~cb 23, 194~ 

Your letter of r.!t:.rch 9, add.reseed to ;;q brothor in Chioac;o 

was i'on.>ardod to mo by him. 

It ia apparont that ~ ot~ioe did not Got the £ull details 

of tho case. Tc ~ko tho story nhort. t~.e on]¥ th::.nG~ that we 

would be in a ?OSition to do at thia titlO would bo to try to 

tako your son on in :i. civilian capacity. Ii' ho r.mJ .. -cs sood in 

the work then thero micht be a possibility la.tor on that his 

physical do.feat mic;ht be -;.-.uivod so that he could G&t .into tho 

arr.iod forces as a soldior. I know .that he is not interested 

in a civilian job but ·that o.p~ears to be• at the cori•.mt. the 

only door through Ylhich ho mcht la.tor on ontor the a.rr.iod 

services~ :'horo ia 110 pos~ibili·l;;y that 'if'a could obtain from 

hero a waivor .i'orhis ir1duotion into ·the sen'ioe no Ilatter 

where he is now• 

3incorcly yourc. 

-.lilliaI:l F. Friedman 

Director of Communications 

Research 

pproved for Release oy NSA oh 03-24-201-4 pursuant to E.O. 

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THE CAMPE CORPORATION 

85 FRANKLIN STREET 

NEW YORK 

March 9, 1943. 

Mr. Harry Friedman, 

300 West Ad.ams Street, 

Chicago, Ill. 

Dear sonny, 

After the kind interest you displayed in trying 

to get Morton into the service the least I owe you is a 

letter getting yOll up to date as to progress made. 

several days after talking with you in the city 

I received a letter from your brother advising that he was 

having a questionnaire sent to be ~illed out for the purpose of either getting Morton into the service or into a . 

civilian job. It was his opinion that if Morton agreed to 

accept a civilian job it might be a lot easier to then get into service. :Morton was not interested in a civilian job 

and I so advised your brother, but nevertheless he filled out 

the questionnaire. 

A few days ago I received another letter, from a 

captain Smith of the Signal Corps, copy of which I am herewith 

enclosing. As you can see from this a duplicate questionnaire 

was sent to be filled out. 

I am of the impression that they are not altogether 

clear as to the status of Mor~n. although I tried to 

explain it in a letter to your brother. Were it not for 

the physical disability of his shoulcii.er. he would ha:ve. no 

difficulty into getting in any one of the services, as a 

matter of f'ac t the draft boa rd would have taken him. What 

is nov1 proposed is that he get into the anny, but nothing is said as to h0\'1 that can be done. Apparently there is 

no way of getting a waiver on the physical and without that 

I don•t see how he can get in. 

My purpose in writing you this is not to burden 

you any further, but in talking with Artie today he thought that possibly in the near future you might be talking to 

your b~other and if so you might inquire as to the possibility of waiving on the physical. If you can do that conveniently 

I wish you would, if not I want to assure you that I nevertheless 

apprec::S. te the interest you have shown •. 1 / . 

IF :BY~. 

With kindrst regards. r ,1J Si'1~y, 
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REF ID:A700 ••. 

WAR DEPARTMENT 

. HF.ADQUARTERS,S'ERVICES OP SUPPLY 

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER 

WASHINGTON,D.C. 

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In reply refer to: 

SPSIS 201-Flamberg,Morton 

(3-2-43} 

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Mr.Irving Flamberg 23 West 73rd Street 

New York City; N.y.-· 

Dear Mr.Flamberg: 

March 2,1943. 

Your letter of February 19th to 

Mr. VJilliam Friedman has been forwarded to this office 

for reply. 

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It is not possible to arrange a commission 

for your son from civilian life in this branch of the · service. Exceptionally qualified applicants are considered 

as p:i rsons 'for~·whom requests for assignment to the Signal 

Corps as enlisted men might be arranged. 

If your son is interested in entering the 

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Army as an enlisted man with the opportunities open to every soldier for applying for the Officers Candidate School, he should 

complete the inclosed qiest1onna1re and notify this office 

of his desire in this respect. Then, when he is inducted and 

notifies this office of the date of his induction, his 

<1&11ficat1ons will be further considered. 

Your pitriotic cooperation in seeking this 

information 1s greatly apprec1ated. 

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very truly.yours, 

Rhea M. Smith 

Captain, Signal Corps. 

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