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16 April 1951Chief, Foreign Division M
Chief of Station, Karlsruhe
. Operational •
. JUPITER - Statue Report as of 20 Marah 1951
REPi MOLA4455
• 1: To give a Wear and sensible picture of JOPITER.progress
through piecemeal reporting bee premed to be impospible. Time it
•has teoomenecessary to choose an arbitrary-date, in this cane 20
March, and strike a balance as of that date, to cover the entire
range of JUPITER progress and waoh allied Motors as budget, lessens
learned, technique's observed, and the like, mi first JUPITER report,
of /ate last year, closed with the remark that no mmmamentel progress
reports would be prepared in the future, This cannot be avoided;
however, I have attempted to break this present report into a group
of annexes, each treating one distinct topic. Yon maybe able to
nee it more easily in this fashion, It must be remembered that
'these reports are more orlon" hand-made, in that the data and de-
*.tailermust be laborionalymined . Out of a'mountain of operational,
:quiver% and administrative ceottvities which taleffbet, comprises
.'4UPITER (and, more and moreOUPITER is becoming synonymous:with
• the entire Sovsons militame011adtion apparatus). Mr.. PICHRE'end
"' qMr, OAY are gradually eitiOR glassifYin6 this datas vivir. •
and maintaining it in more accessible form) 11111ftend I have made
-aelOtilin that our itatiatioil'aid operational needs viii n the,
luture'be met by their estegorieaof data, Still, it has been hand
siOrk so Ear. r would SuggeWthetpaftermorretpure to Washington
.in. June, I sit down with thvinkiereeted party in your Om ao_VII::P07,
pave en outlinefor an SOPotYpe of periodic operational statue're.:.
009ring the Somme apperitus. This could be fired beak to'-:
who' aoeld then implement the requirement at reesonahle.
rain.
2. In practise, the. 4640 which GAY and' I expended duringi
'March had usefisreide . effeote, 'Resides giving we the materiallor
Ay end+Cf»tour report on JUPITER, it canoed OAT to shake hie data
into more usefC1 aunditioni'and the -results of our work were pre.
aented:by DAY at a joint AMeriaanaGerman operational (Miff briefing
on
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