BSC 393 Herbert Norman to Norman Robertson, October 1945 (transmitted via General Carter Clarke and Group Captain Eric Jones), October 1945

Norman requested relief from his repatriation work in Manila. He felt that joining the staff of US General Elliott Thorpe, Chief of Counterintelligence in Tokyo, "was a most interesting prospect."

The  message itself offers a glimpse of the high degree of integration of the American, British and Canadian (ABC) signals communications networks and intelligence communities in 1945. Norman's request was transmitted to General Clarke (G2) in the United States, then sent to Canada's Department of External Affairs (Ottawa) by a British signals intelligence liaison officer in Washington, Group Captain Eric Jones.