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STANDARD FORM NO, 64 kd Office MemorSdum e UNITED state GOVERNMENT TO : Fal. POLSON fA DATE: January Ley boa? ° a oe A. y a & Ss SUBJECT: TDENUTIUCATECN OF LABS Ti SHORT Pe sarsoH ° r. nee, of. nerbo. ir. Hendofi__ a 7 . - Pt Quinn fee At 6:10 p.m. yesterday £ received a call from warren ‘eie“Roon rr * h jte * ° - aI. ASE Francis of the Los Anceles Times. He stated he was inguiring Hee sem “Yecardine our identification of the murdered rcirl found in Los dAn-eles cay before yesterday, that the Los An-eles Examiner hac sent her prints to .ashinvton via wirephoto and that the Bureay hac identified the cirl and informed the Lraminer and the Los Anneles police. Jf told him this mas correct, that we hat mace the identification, that since tt tinvolvec a local cas @ any jurcher comment would have to core from the Caier of wolice. e asked for the nrirl'’s name and £ tole him. e mas x. nerp anorectative. _ aw, uit 7100 Dm. si11ftetentns son of £*S called. He asked if ne coulc ~ine ther a statenent' at 9 o "clock, as he would be smack in the i ~técle since they had recetved a previous inquiry from the Jerald Eenress av, the day paper, and he had celiberately declined to answer this inquiry anc t%& worle he very embarras sina unless they carrted somethin” on their \ mire. Of course, at 9 o'clock the Szaminer was on the street. bg At 6:40 pom. F received a call from the Associated #ress statind that their Los Anceles Bureau was makina inguiry recardin~ the case, that ~_ the Los Anvreles imaminer had the pull details, the Times had a story. ~ f also ascertained that ited #ress had a similar inguiry. Adccurdirrin, | at 8:50 p.m. £ issued the following statement to INS, which was riven to the AF at 6:55 and to MF at 9:05. All were dppreciative. )fij - "J, Edear Eoover, Director of the FBI, annovnced thdty finc-er- prints sent to the FBi by wire photo of an wnidenti fied murdered otrl whose hody was located by local athorities in Los Anceles were identi sied when searched throuoh the finserprint files of the F5L, containing some 104 million sevs of finzerprints. re we "The finoerprints, taken by Los Angeles Police, were trans- mitted to vashineton hi the Los yinceles Lzeaniner today over the facilities of the Enternationglediews Lhotos. "oon receint in vashinoton they vere Gelivereti to the FRI identification Dit viston DY a representative of the Los dnreles Ap pine ]- Df, J aw) de - peconne COPY FILED IN "Only 8 finserpré “ts appecnecrer bir Parmwan 3 others mere fu badly blurred, yet it was possible or tirerbrint experts to a search them throwch the files ange fFect’ in identification with i two fincrerprint car's previovsly on “ile/bearine the name of blisabeth Short. £4 wey "One of the Pincerprint cards#as eubri cued oY authorities at Carp Cooke, Casijornia, on January 59, 1045, in aicatin” that B2K a iA 1947