The phrase "asked to memo" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression, possibly intending to convey a request to write a memo or note.
Example: "I was asked to memo the meeting details for everyone involved."
Alternatives: "requested to write a memo" or "instructed to draft a memo."
Students are, for example, assigned to advise "an employer about the desirability of purchasing a type of airplane that has recently crashed," and are shown documents, such as news articles, an F.A.A. accident report, charts, and so on, and asked to write memos.
Variety reported that she was so inexperienced that when she was asked to take a memo, she asked, "What's a memo and where do I take it?" In her 20's she worked for the casting director Miriam Brickman and was greatly influenced by her work with the director Lindsay Anderson, who she said in a letter to The Guardian in 1994 "took me on an unremitting journey of truth".
Mr. Ijaz said in October that he was asked to convey the memo to Adm. Mike Mullen, who was then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
An American businessman of Pakistani descent, Mansoor Ijaz, said in October that he was asked to convey the memo to Adm. Mike Mullen, who was then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Justice Department was asked to prepare the memo about the time of Mr. Zubaydah's capture in April 2002, the officials said, in an effort to clarify the permissible limits of interrogation because of questions raised by the treatment of Mr. Zubaydah and a few other Qaeda operatives then in custody.
UPDATE: Several readers have asked to see the memo itself.
Asked to explain the memos distributed at the psychiatric hospitals and the statements by workers about the ban, Mr. Klingman declined to comment.
"I was asked to write an informal memo based on the assumption that there was a business purpose," said Mr. Kuller, who is now with McKee Nelson Ernst & Young in Washington.
In 2001 Allen was asked to draw up a classified memo for Blair's office on what might happen if the US toppled Saddam Hussein.
The families were given the option to proceed with therapy and were asked to sign a treatment-specific memo.
