Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

Those reports cite an internal memo to the bank staff later posted on the internet, dated April 9, 2007, in which the World Bank's general counsel, Ana Palacio, states that the Bank's legal staff was scrutinizing two articles by investigative reporter Richard Behar published on the website of Fox News on January 31 and March 27, 2007.

* The Observer publishes what it claims is a leaked memo dated January 31, 2003 ordering members of the NSA to spy on UN Security Council members, focussing especially on members from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea, and Pakistan to try to determine how they will vote.

A JCS / Pentagon document ( Ed Lansdale memo ) dated 16 March 1962 titled MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT, 16 MARCH 1962 reads: " General Lemnitzer commented that the military had contingency plans for US intervention.

A memo dated 30 May 1878 defined as public places the entrance hall, staircase and first floor rooms ( including the Cabinet room ), and specified that these should be furnished at the state's expense.

" A memo to Rand dated May 4, 1964, mentions the unauthorized adaptation, but there is no indication that she took any legal action.

According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975, Zapata Petroleum began in 1953 through Bush's joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business, but who continued to work for the CIA under commercial cover.

The State Department memo, dated August 25, 1976, was declassified on October 8, 1999, together with 1, 100 other documents released by various US agencies which dealt primarily with the years leading up to the military coup.

John Dean's cover memo dated 16 August 1971.

An official USAF memo dated January 13, 1981 documents the incident.

In addition, the scope of the project was outlined in a memo dated January 1952 that stated, " Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation?

An internal memo by tobacco company Philip Morris, dated March 1994, indicated that representatives of Philip Morris had collaborated with McCaughey when she was writing " No Exit ", stating: " Worked off-the-record with Manhattan and writer Betsy McCaughey as part of the input to the three-part exposé in The New Republic on what the Clinton plan means to you.

In a memo dated 6 July 1920, Tudor justified the scheme on the grounds that it would take too long to reinforce the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) with ordinary recruits.

Another FBI memo dated five months later noted that the Bureau was constantly considering counterintelligence measures designed to neutralize Pratt " as an effective ( Panther ) functionary.

* Robert Benders, Calma memo dated December 18, 1973

The paper cited a military record showing that Col. Walter " Buck " Staudt was honorably discharged on March 1, 1972, while the memo cited by CBS as showing that Staudt was interfering with evaluations of Bush was dated August 18, 1973.

A memo dated 16 January 1933, sent to the senior Air Staff Officer, Wing Commander Modin, stated:

However, state records reveal a memo dated March 1999 from Emmett " Bucky " Mitchell, a lawyer for the state elections office who was supervising the felon purge, asking DBT to loosen its criteria for acceptable matches.

In doing so, it did not mention the advice of the Ministry of Defence's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Roy Anderson, who had called the study " robust " and its claimed methods " close to ' best practice ' in this area, given the difficulties of data collection and verification in the present circumstances in Iraq ", in an internal memo on the day the study was published, dated 13 October 2006.

In a memo dated July 2, 1964, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described the nascent OAAU as a threat to the national security of the United States.

In a memo to all Microsoft employees dated April 21, 2011, chief executive Steve Ballmer announced the company would make explicit the Vitality Curve model of performance evaluation: " We are making this change so all employees see a clear, simple, and predictable link between their performance, their rating, and their compensation.

* Thomas B. London and John F. Reiser, A UNIX Operating System for the DEC VAX-11 / 780 Computer, internal Bell Labs memo dated July 7, 1978, online copy available at Dennis Ritchie's home page, or.

UNBRO operated on the basis of five working principles, laid out in an internal memo on policy guidelines dated July 1982.

These principles were revised and updated in an internal memo on policy guidelines dated 2 August 1989.

Part of 5 March 1940 memo from Lavrentiy Beria to Stalin proposing execution of Polish officers

In another case, March 28, 2007, the broadcaster paid almost $ 400, 000 in legal fees in a London court to keep an internal memo dealing with alleged anti-Israeli bias from becoming public.

The European Commission, in its March 24, 2004 decision on Microsoft's business practices, quotes, in paragraph 463, Microsoft general manager for C ++ development Aaron Contorer as stating in a February 21, 1997 internal Microsoft memo drafted for Bill Gates:

* A March 1, 1967 memo directed to all USAF divisions, from USAF Lt. General Hewitt Wheless, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, stated that unverified information indicated that unknown individuals, impersonating USAF officers and other military personnel, had been harassing civilian UFO witnesses, warning them not to talk, and also confiscating film, referring specifically to the Heflin incident.

In a memo written by Blair's chief foreign adviser, Bush is paraphrased as saying: " The start date for the military campaign was now pencilled in for March 10.

In a March 15, 1932 memo to Groener, Schleicher wrote in reference to the date of the presidential election :" I am really looking forward to 11 April-then it will be possible to talk to this lying brood with no holds barred ... After the events of the last few days, I am really glad that there is a counterweight the Social Democrats in the form of the Nazis, who are not very decent chaps either and must be stomached with the greatest caution.

Beginning in September, 1948, it was syndicated by ABC, though CBS executive Davidson Taylor expressed an interest in the show, writing in a memo in March 1948, " I like this show a lot and believe we could get it if we wanted.

In March 1997 Magnoli sent a memo to board members outlining the financial situation of the university and reported that the school will have a $ 1. 5 million cash flow shortfall by the end of the fiscal year.

In March 1986, Truly noted in a memo that there were several actions NASA needed to accomplish before launching another Shuttle.

A subsequent memo written on 7 March 2003, was eventually leaked to the press, which led to its official publication on 28 April 2005.

The executive producer of the ABC evening news, Av Westin, wrote a memo in March 1969 that stated:

In March 1934, a British Foreign Office memo stated “ Part V of the Treaty of Versailles ... is, for practical purposes, dead, and it would become a putrefying corpse which, if left unburied, would soon poison the political atmosphere of Europe.

According to the petition's description of a redacted classified Defense Department memo from 17 March 2004, its contents say " officials suggested sending Ahmad to an unspecified foreign country that employed torture in order to increase chances of extracting information from him.

For instance, a memo prepared by the CIA and Army Intelligence and published on March 5 indicated that South Vietnam could hold through the current dry season — i. e. at least until 1976.

Even as that memo was being released, General Dũng was preparing a major offensive in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, which began on 10 March and led to the capture of Buon Me Thuot.

On March 6, 1968, Hubbard issued an internal memo titled " RACKET EXPOSED ," in which he denounced twelve people ( Peter Goodwin, Jim Stathis, Peter Knight, Mrs. Knight, Nora Goodwin, Ron Frost, Margaret Frost, Nina Collingwood, Freda Gaiman, Frank Manley, Mary Ann Taylor, and George Wateridge ) as " Enemies of mankind, the planet and all life ," and ordered that " Any Sea Org member contacting any of them is to use Auditing Process R2-45.

As a result of the discovery of the Watkins memo, and based upon a suggestion from the Office of Independent Counsel, on March 20, 1996, Attorney General Janet Reno requested that Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr expand his inquiry to specifically include the travel office affair, in particular allegations that White House employees had lied about Hillary Clinton's role in the firings, and that David Watkins or Hillary Clinton had made false statements in previous testimony to the GAO, Congress, or the Independent Counsel.

In a March 13, 1985 " Eyes Only " memo to Pat Buchanan, then-White House Communications Director, the S / LPD bragged about the recent results of its " White Propaganda " operation in support of the Contras.

National media outlets began reporting the existence of the memo shortly thereafter on March 18, 2005.