IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 753 
Honoring and thanking the soldiers that served the top secret units for 
the United States Military Intelligence Service under the project name 
‘‘Post Office Box 1142’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 17, 2007 
Mr. MORAN of Virginia (for himself, Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia, and Mr. 
WOLF) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Armed Services 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring and thanking the soldiers that served the top secret 
units for the United States Military Intelligence Service 
under the project name ‘‘Post Office Box 1142’’. 
Whereas Fort Hunt Park along the George Washington Me-
morial Parkway in Fairfax County, Virginia has a long 
and storied history in the preservation of our Nation’s se-
curity and safety; 
Whereas the coastal defenses and cannon batteries protecting 
Washington, D.C. were stationed at Fort Hunt until its 
gradual abandonment after World War I; 
Whereas on May 15, 1942, Harry L. Stimson, President 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Secretary of War, obtained 
from the Department of the Interior a special use permit 
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which gave the United States military virtually unlimited 
use of Fort Hunt for the duration of World War II, plus 
1 additional year; 
Whereas the military immediately initiated construction of fa-
cilities to transform Fort Hunt into one of the more vital 
posts for intelligence gathering during World War II; 
Whereas over the ensuing 4 years, two elements of the top 
secret Military Intelligence Service (‘‘MIS’’) operated 
clandestinely at Fort Hunt, the MIS–X program that 
communicated with captured American soldiers to coordi-
nate their escape, and the larger MIS–Y program that 
carried out the interrogation of prisoners of war vital to 
American interests; 
Whereas because of its top secret operations, the post re-
mained unnamed known only to its soldiers that served 
there as Post Office Box 1142; 
Whereas the Army hand-selected intelligence officers for their 
ability to speak fluent German, many of whom had 
friends and family perishing under the tyranny of Nazi 
Germany; 
Whereas the intelligence officers conducted interrogations of 
nearly 4,000 enemy prisoners of war and scientists; 
Whereas these interrogations resulted in the discovery of 
many of Germany’s secret programs, including research 
to develop the atomic bomb, plans for the jet engine, 
blueprints of V–2 rockets, and secrets originally destined 
for Japan before the end of global hostilities; 
Whereas the work at Fort Hunt not only contributed to the 
Allied victory during World War II, but also led to ad-
vances in military intelligence and scientific technology 
that directly influenced the Cold War and Space Race; 
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Whereas the detainment and interrogation of high-ranking 
German officials, such as Reinhard Gehlen, a prisoner 
who ran the German intelligence operations in the Soviet 
Union, proved instrumental at aiding the development of 
U.S. intelligence operations on the Soviets during the 
onset of the Cold War; 
Whereas the more effective interrogation techniques included 
entering into discussions with the captives, building up 
trust and not threatening violence or torture; 
Whereas the current intelligence community is interviewing 
former Post Office Box 1142 interrogators to learn which 
humane practices facilitated the best intelligence; 
Whereas the intelligence activities at Post Office Box 1142 
were only recently uncovered after Park Rangers from 
the George Washington Memorial Parkway came across 
former soldiers and reviewed declassified documents 
about the top secret facility; 
Whereas the top secret nature of the activities at Post Office 
Box 1142 remained closely held secrets by the veterans 
of the post, many of whom never told their families, wives 
or loved ones about the invaluable service they provided 
this nation during World War II; 
Whereas under the encouragement of the leadership of the 
National Park Service, these Park Rangers identified the 
veterans of Post Office Box 1142 and conducted profes-
sional oral history interviews with over half of living 
members; 
Whereas after two years of research and planning, the Na-
tional Park Service held the first ever reunion for the liv-
ing veterans of Post Office Box 1142 on October 5 and 
6, 2007; and 
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Whereas at exactly 11:42 a.m. on October 5, the National 
Park Service and the living veterans of Post Office Box 
1142 raised an American flag in the post’s original flag-
pole setting, and forever memorialized the grounds as the 
home of Post Office Box 1142: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors 
and extends its sincere appreciation to the soldiers of Post 
Office Box 1142 for their sacrifice to our Nation during 
a time of war, their pursuit of necessary intelligence 
through humane means and their service that went too 
long unacknowledged. 
Æ 
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