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then transmitted to the Document Room of
the Office of United States Chief of Counsel, with a covering sheet
prepared by the screeners showing the title or nature of the
document, the personalities involved, and its importance. In the
Document Room, a trial identification number was given to each
document and to each group of documents, in cases where it was
desirable for the sake of clarity to file several documents together.
"6. United States documents were given trial identification
numbers in one of five series designated by the letters:
"PS", "L", "R", "C", and
"EC", indicating the means of acquisition of the documents.
Within each series documents were listed numerically.
"7. After a document was so numbered, it was then sent to a
German-speaking analyst who prepared a summary of the document with
appropriate references to personalities involved, index headings,
information as to the source of the document as indicated by the
Field Branch, and the importance of the document to a particular
phase of the case. Next, the original document was returned to the
Document Room and then checked out to the Photostating Department,
where photostatic copies were made. Upon return from photostating, it
was placed in an envelope in one of the several fireproof safes in
the rear of the Document Room. One of the photostatic copies of the
document was sent to the translators, thereafter leaving the original
itself in the safe. A commissioned officer has been, and is,
responsible for the documents in the safe. At all times when he is
not present the safe is locked and a military guard is on duty
outside the only door. If the officers preparing the certified
translation; or one of the of officers working on the briefs, found
it necessary to examine the original document, this was done within
the Document Room in the section set aside for that purpose. The only
exception to this strict rule has been where it has been occasionally
necessary to present the original document to Defense Counsel for
examination. In this case, the document was entrusted to a
responsible officer of the Prosecution staff.
"8. All original documents are now located in safes in the
Document Room, where they will be secured until they are presented by
the Prosecution to the court during the progress of this Trial.
"9. Some of the documents which will be offered in evidence
by the United States were seized and processed by the British Army.
Also, personnel from the Office of the United
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