Whose Collection Requirements Should Enjoy Priority?

Like the previous item, this one (dating from late December 1963) consists of two directly related memoranda documenting operational component chiefs addressing higher echelons. In this case, two HUMINT components located in separate divisions are each asking their division superiors to mediate and resolve a dispute over who actually ‘owns’ the Harbin Public Security Bureau’s prized Agent 151 (Yang X, whose closed Agent Personal File provided the records translated in Part V above) and whose information needs the agent was henceforth to prioritise. History is never irrelevant in disputes like this one and how far back in the past one is able, or chooses, to go in one’s argumentation can often make all the difference when it comes to staking a convincing claim to something in the present.