GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
1 May 1946

AG441.1 (1 May 46) PH
(SCAPIN-913)

MEMORANDUM FOR	IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
Subject	Custody and Distribution of Japanese Military Medicinal Narcotic Stocks.

1. Your attention is directed to the Memorandum from GHQ, SCAP, file AG 441.1 (4 Dec 45) PH, 4 December 1945, subject: “Custody and Distribution of Japanese Military Medicinal Narcotic Stocks”, and to the list of wholesale drug houses submitted in your C. L. O. No. 322 (1.1), 22 January 1946. The list as submitted is approved.
2. You will designate an agency of the Imperial Japanese Government to receive, receipt for and deliver the narcotics into the custody of approved wholesale drug houses.
3. Security and hand to hand receipt for the narcotics will be maintained.
4. Further distribution and accounting will be in accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5 of the referenced GHQ, SCAP memorandum.
5. Direct communication with the Narcotic Control Officer, Public Health and Welfare Section, GHQ, SCAP, is authorized to effect release of the narcotics from the custody of United States Forces to the Imperial Japanese Government.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

B.M.FICHI
Brigadiar General,AGD,
Adjutant General