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LA 77-1627. @ © Gm PAGE fourTEEN . Gk-10%, SERIAL NUMBER 599 306, AND FIVE GAS MASKS, MODEL NUMBER NO MK V. IT IS NOTED THAT THE DECEASED SLA MEMBERS WERE APPERENTLY WEARING THIS SAME TYPE OF CAS MASK AT THE TINE OF THEIR DEATH. THE SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION HAS ADVISED THAT THE ABOVE DESCRIBED .22 CALIBER PISTOL WAS REGISTERED WITH THE OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1962, BY QE. SAN FRANCISCO ADVISES THAT Q3iiSSS/AI00:000icgs GUM.» susPecteD assocrATE OF MEMBERS OF THE SLA. INQUIRY AT THE MARINE CORPS SUPPLY CENTER, BARSTOW, CALI~ FORNIA, CONCERNING THE ABOVE DESCRIBED GAS MASKS HAS RESULTED IN THE TENATIVE IDENTIFICATION OF THESE MASKS AS BEING AN OBSOLETE MODEL ONCE MAMIJFACTURED FOR AND UTILIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF NAVY. THE MANUFACTURE DATE ON SOMF OF THE FILTER CANISTERS WAS DETERMINED TO BE FEBRUARY 1956. THE MASKS WERE MANUFACTURED BY VARIOUS COMPANIES, ONE OF WHICH WAS B. F. GOOMRICH. THE MASKS WERE DECLARED OBSOLETE IN 1965 (R 1966 AND PHASED OUT OF NAVAL UNIT INVENTORIES. THE MASKS WERE TO BE DESTROYED AND NOT TO BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR CIVILIAN USE. FURTHER INQUIRIES BEING MADE CONCERNING THESE MASKS TO CONFIRM THIS INFORMATION, INASMUCH AS IT APPEARS THE HARRIS’ AND HEARST MAY BE WITHOUT GAS MASKS, AND DUE TO THEIR INDOCTRI NATION IN THE SLA, WOULD LIKELY ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN NEW END PAGE FOURTEEN aril nt