Instructions Received at Dhahran:

TO: MACHPHERSON                                 FROM: SAN FRANSISCO 16 APRIL 1946
    BAHREIN       CODE C                        RECD: DAHRAN        20 APRIL 1946

450: OSCAR WOLFE LEAVING FOR FIELD PLANE SEVENTEENTH. JOHNSON AND WOLFE SHOULD


     EXPLORE FOLLOWING PROJECTS

         1. POSSIBLE ROUTE FOR LINE FROM GULF AQABA TO MEDITERRANEAN POINT

            EITHER PALESTINE OR EGYPT AND FROM SUEZ EITHER TO ALEXANDRIA

            OR FOLLOWING CANAL

         2. POSSIBLE LOCATION BIG LINE FROM HASA TO GULF AQABA WITH

            POSSIBLE DIRECT CROSSING TO PALESTINE OR EGYPTIAN

            TERRITORIES

         3. POSSIBLE TERMINAL SITES AQABA SUEZ AND MEDITERRANEAN

         4. REEXAMINATION TRANS-ARABIAN ROUTE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE

            SCHEDULING PRELIMINARY WORK REQUIRED FIRST NORTHERN ROUTE

            SECOND GULF AQABA ROUTE WITH WESTERN END ACROSS EGYPT OR

            PALESTINE DIRECT TO MEDITERRANEAN THROUGH SUEZ TO ALEXANDRIA PARA

AT LEAST PRELIMINARY REPORT DESIRED HERE NOT LATER THAN JUNE FIRST AND THEY

SHOULD BE GIVEN ALL FACILITIES INCLUDING USE OF PLANES FOR RECONNAISSANCE. MAYBE

WELL HAVE JOHNSON MEET WOLFE IN CAIRO WHERE THEY WILL BE EXTENDED EVERY FACILITY BY

EGYPTIAN GOVT. WOLFE WILL CARRY LETTERS FROM ATAFI IPASHA TO EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES

OSBORNE SHOULD SEE THAT SAND-TIRED CARS ARE AVAILABLE FOR SINAI EXAMINATION


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