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sTawagae rome nn. 64 Office Memorandum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : THE DIRECTOR / DATE: March 9, 1948 a wine FROM : THE EXECUTIVES CONFERENCE “gy : ieee M~ SupyecTI~RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITH ICPC HEADQUARTEAS IN pants ° aes we In October, 1947, the dureau indicated to the International Ce Pear 2nftaa Criminal ¢olice Commission tnrough our Paris agent that we would agree i. nase to the estaolishment of & radio link. between washington and raris. \ Under date of Janusry 13, 1948, all preliminary matters naving been taken care of, Bureau letter to Telford, our Paris agent, furnisned detailed information concerning schedules and procedures to be followed, . the first schedule to begin on January 23. Since that time tnere have been four uses or atteapted uses of tne radio iink. The first was a message originating: lie ~ in Copenhagen, relayed to us by Peris, requesting information from a New York ieee bank for use in connection with an alleged violation of the Danish Exchange : Control Act. The second was a request for us to relay a message to Santiago. ml This was refused since no arrangements for a radio link between Vashington and ~ Santiago have been made. The tnird was a letter from a volice official -in Prague reyuesting information to aid in establishing the identity of an reds aengh Miss joleas_______ wiose picture was seen in a local magazine. The pserents of a youth reported dea | thougnt the picture was possibly that of their son. The letter requested tha Pe the reply be via radio to Paris. radio communications between wasninzston and yy Paris had not deen satisfactory either due to the poor cuality of the eoui ment . in raris or because of use of & radio irequency which is unsuitable. Accordingl u e information was furnished by letter to Prague. This was crior to February 2 ~ The fourth case was a radiogram from Paris which recvests information in connee~ ‘tion with some American Express Company traveler's checks. None of the radio traasmissions from Paris nave been in conformity with . -j|the proeedure outlined in dureau letter of January 13. ihe corammications have 7 The Foreign Liaison supervisor urity Livision advises tnat the ° total requests from foreign police mee ieee of fingerprint matters, a anount to three to five ser month. Additional collateral information is tnet tre Annual Convention of the I1CPC is scheduled te Se “eld in PTs 2s in Septeaber. ‘ anong the Vice cresidents of ‘3ggC- are resresentatives of Yuroslavia and lzecno- a slovacia. wast summer Teiford reyorted tnat tne »2w.2ice reoresentatives of tne various coun trias attendinz the convention were of a ita wsl2@ and that tre ,aiscussions sere londeliticsl in enarecter. Teitord tavises taat ne felt trat , 128 Con TACts wita saenosrs of tia ut -C wera aS oh GUS bo him. 7a3 ; ; “SO ee sens —_—— me thes vd; Maye 7 OF OL a we adj ia (AL ie? | : & Lae wel. "ey : Som TCT | A