Memorandum 092447: Majic Black Book summaries (1948)
by Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

Memorandum to President Harry S. Truman, received March 1948

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MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT:


Subject: "Majic"

I have learned that you seldom see the army summaries of "Majic" material. For some time, the last two months in particular, I have had our intelligence liaison organization concentrating on a workable presentation on "Majic" for my use, as well as for the other officials concerned, particularly yourself. A highly specialized organization is now engaged in the very necessary process of separating the wheat from the chaff and correlating the items with past information in order that I may be able to quickly and intelligently evaluate the importance of the product.

Recently I have had these summaries bound in a Black Book both for convenience of reading and for greater security in handling. Sometimes two or three of these booklets are written [ ] in a single day. I think they contain all the worthwhile information culled from the tremendous mass of material now available and that are assimilated each twenty-four hours. The recent discovery of the machines has added a tremendous amount of such material and will continue to give us a great deal from day to day. The problem is how to avoid being buried under the mass of information, and I think the present arrangements satisfactorily meets that difficulty.

I am gathering two of the current booklets which I hope you will glance through in order to familiarize yourself with the manner in which the information is presented. I will send these booklets each week to you direct at the White House.


cc NSC
USAFOSI
ONI
JA
R. H. HILLENKOETTER

Rear Admiral, USN

Director of Central Intelligence

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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