#memorandum

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. ↗

— Cofer Black

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#authorities #communicated #covert #law #memorandum

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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#approved #before #general #getting #had

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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#memorandum #protect #reader #writer #written