Doc 0000184412
CIA
This declassified CIA Office Memorandum from July 27, 1953, details the acquisition and delivery of a "Sidetone Delay" device and related parts.
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Ask the archive about this →----- -- ,-:,----.T-AN-0-AR-0-FO_R_M_NO,-8. -4- ·-· .;-} Office Me1tzoranau1n . uNrrEn sTATEs GovERNMENT TO File DATE: 27 July 1953 1 /( FROM SUBJECT: 3idetone Del2y - Attached ----- l. On the morning of Friday, 24 July l95J, ~r, ... , - ·.~- · - . ·. ·· · ·· --- and the i·ll'i ter visited the offices of o:r.d took deli ver;r on the Sldetone Delay device and related parts in accorance ;-Ti th pre-c>.rre>.nged agreement. -, 2~ For r1atter of· record, there ·,·rere no oaner:::, sp13cin. catlons or ~hotoc;ra:")hs connected 1-rith the Sidetone Del~.::r device and an examination of all the cr?.ting boxes, etc. failed to dis close cny such papers. J. 'L'he only paper obtained from was a copy of an - shinncnt orcer file T-Thich merely C:escribed the item as: '1 - Side-Tone Delay' • The •n·i ter sic~ned em~ C00;i 0f this document for the - files ar:d kept a copy ~ri1ich is atbchr:d. Th8 <ll'iter and his associates then novcd the ..::Jide tone Delay device im;nedi.:.-.tely to the Technical ~;r~.nch laboratory. 1Att. - . -:• T -. 1.,.'....,·•, '
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The document is a declassified "Office Memorandum" from the United States Government, dated July 27, 1953. It is a typed memo with handwritten annotations in the margins. There are no photographs, diagrams, or tables present. The content relates to a "Sidetone Delay" device and its delivery. Handwriting in multiple locations (top right "A/B, I, 42, 16", left margin "A", circled "B & C", and bottom right "A") indicates review or action by different individuals.
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