Willoughby Gives Report on Norman to CIA

The Attorney General [USA]

Director, FBI

Egerton Herbert Norman
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Reference is made to my memorandum of April 15, 1957 containing a succinct summary of the highly publicized matter involving Egerton Herbert Norman, a Canadian diplomat who committed suicide in Cairo, Egypt, on April 4, 1957.

In my memorandum I advised that an inquiry had been made of the Department of the Army to ascertain whether the memorandum of November 1, 1950, was disseminated outside of the Army. It has now been determined that portions of this memorandum were incorporated in a study on the “Japan Council, Institute of Pacific Relations,” prepared by the Far East Command, Department of the Army. This study was prepared in 1950 and 1951 under the personal direction of Major General Charles A. Willoughby, the then G-2 of the Far East Command. It has also been determined that a copy of this study was given to the Central Intelligence Agency by General Willoughby in October, 1951, after his return to the United States from the Far East. The Army is continuing its efforts to trace the leak of this information to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Any further information developed along this line will be furnished to you.