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AN AIR LEITER SHOULD NOT CONTAIN ANY 

ENCLOSURE; IF .IT )?OES IT WILL BE SURCHARGED' 

OR SENT BY ORDINARY MAIL. 

roved for Release b NSA on 08-22-2013 
REF ID:A65659 L$ 14 Jan 57 

Dear Mr. Friedman, 

I finally hgve something c~ncrete to report. I have just 

finished typing up a first draft of the article you described 

last summer. It is gbout 3500 words lone at pref!ent, l::efora 

editing, rei·:ritin~, and puttine in footnotes. I'=i not sure this 

is the length you wanted, but the materi9l seemed to form up 

that way, eo I h?ven't triej to do Any serious cutting yet. 

My most diffi~ult proble~ in doing the Rrticle has teen, 

not keapine: a·11f:!.y fro~ clasr.ified m~ter19l, but remembering 

correctly the unclassified material I have read. I have used 

material ,,ihich I think I remP.ml::er saeinP: in "The Ble.ck Ch9.mber", 

the "Pearl H!'lrbor Report", "The 3:yee of-the Navy", and a few 

other sources, but it has been five years since I read some 

of these t:o'oks, and t'hey are not 1n1tx easily obtained. ayer here, 

in 6heltenhern. · I went particulBrly to check mgny of my references in the ~rticle, not only to provide putlic domain footnotes for it3ms 

which Ii.'!i€ht ot~erwise te ree-arded ( by AUs;>icioue people} as compro~ises, but slso to ~aka sure I hove reported historic~l 

events correctly ( or at least as other people have rep~rted t~e~). 

Eefore I re?.lly do any serious v~rification of dPt91le, 

hov;ever, 1'ihich '.-Jill taka n. f::i.ir a:nount of rere~dine: of the£e 

various books, I thouEht it would be test to let you see the 

erticle in e rel~tivaly unpolished state, tecause we re8lly h3V9 

not discussed it at all since August, and I'm not at all sure that 

the article IBve written rese~bl:e the one you h~va tean thinkinf ofThe ideas, tho ~riting, and ~he authentication of the 

d=tails all have tQ be consi~cred. The test \~ay ttat I can think 

of to do this is to let you hnv~ ~te ~hine to read and criticise. 

If it's not at all ~hAt you want, we ~an drop it. If you think 

I should go ahesd, you can indicate idaas a~i ctan~es you w~nt 

included, And I would rsther put formal footnoting , etc. off until 

we have an P.rticle that reads effectively. 

I shall play with the srticle for ~ few more dsys over 

here, to try to smo::rth out the ~·1ri tine, ~rnd then route it to 

you thr~UEh official channeY., probably Dr. Leibler at NSA,. 

Although I believe that all the 1nformotion I have used is really 

putlic do-:neiin, I iriill, as e matter of pi~oceeJ.ure, l"bel the 

envelo:pe Confi,d:::ntial, eo if I h~ve slipped up, it will hAve 

received proper handling. You can ch~nge to clP.ssific~tion to 

suit. 

:-rhethar this· paper materializ.es er r.ot, I r.mst say that I 

have had an anjoyAtle/ ( if somewhat: challenginf } time Mritine 

it, and I hope you do not fin1 it all ~alderdash. 

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