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AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 

195 BROADWAY NEW YORK 

EXCHANGE 3-9800 

LAURENS E WHITTEMORE 

SPECIAL RADIO REPRESENTATIVE 

June 10, 1935. 

Major William F. Friedman, 

Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 

War Department, 

Washington, D. C. 

Dear Major Friedman: 

We have just completed a careful search around 

here for the old printer telegraph cipher machines referred 

to in your letter of May 7, 1935 and am sorry to advise you 

that we cannot locate any of this equipment. Upon further 

investigation we learned that the set I mentioned in my 

telephone conversation with you was junked several months 

ago. This may have been the equipment referred to in your 

letter but we are at a loss to know how the information on 

it reached you. However, I suppose a layman should not 

expect to understand the working of the Army intelligence 

service. 

I am sorry we did not know of your desire to have 

this equipment at the time it was junked. However, we believe 

we can assemble a new set in accordance with the original 

specifications if you feel that this would be worth while and 

I shall be glad to go into this question in more detail if you 

are interested. 

Yours very truly 

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M::·. Laurens E. ~nrlttemori;;,, 

J.meric3n Telephone & T~legraph Co., 

19.5 B:rosdway > 

N~'W Yoz·:t City, :N. .I• 

Deal' Laurena; 

lay 7f 1935 

l understand that tr1e 1'. '?. & 'l'. Co. are disposi.'Qg 

of a number of those very old printing telegraph cipher ma-' 

chines which were developed in 1918, 1919 or thereabouts, and 

that there ia a possibility we might be able to get one for 

purposea of adding to our historical collection of cipher 

gadgets. Would you be good enough to see what you can find 

out and drop me a line quite informall~ telling me what the 

situation 1~? If there is a possibility, please indicate 

what f'orm of request should be made, what the coat would be, 

etc., and I will attend te the rest of the details. 

I missed you down here laat week during the hearings 

on the international service. Ion would have been interested 

perhaps in the det&Ued discuss±ona on code language. I .tbarn.ght 

the.t Madame Cortina was dead but she was resurrected at Uadrid 

once ar..d buried and now I think there will be a second resur- r~ction at Cairo. 

With vary b&3t regru-ds to ab:·a. Whittemore and yourself, 

I am 

Very sincerely yom·s, 

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