ACCESSIONS AND OPENINGS he Archivist of the United States is authorized by law to accept for accessioning as part of the National Archives of the United States the records of a federal agency or the Congress that the Archivist of the United States judges to have sufficient historical or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the U.S. government. In addition, certain personal papers and privately produced audiovisual materials that relate to federal activities may also be accepted. Normally, only records at least thirty years old are considered for transfer; the chief exceptions are essential documentary sources of federal actions and the records of terminated agencies. Classified information accessioned into the National Archives will be reviewed when it becomes thirty years old. File series concerning intelligence activities, intelligence sources and methods, and cryptology dating after 1945 are not to be systematically reviewed before they become fifty years old. Priority is given to records of research interest and where there is potential for declassifying a significant portion of the information. Researchers should address any questions about recently accessioned, opened, or declassified records to the unit holding them and should bear in mind that other restrictions may prevent the release of some of the records though they have been declassified. RECORDS DECLASSIFICATION DIVISION. The Records Declassification Division systematically reviews security-classified documents accessioned by the National Archives under the terms of Executive Order 12356, “National Security Information," effective August 1, 1982, and the implementing directive issued by the Information Security Oversight Office. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF Submarine War Patrol Reports, 1941-1945 (25 cubic feet) have been opened. Contact the Military Reference Branch, 202-501-5385. (Record Group 38) RECORDS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE Aircraft reports used in the preparation of committee reports on production, 1945-1947 (2 cubic feet) have been opened. Contact the Center for Legislative Archives, 202-501-5350. (RG 46) GENERAL RECORDS of the DEPARTMENT The following records are now open: State Department, 1950-1954, central decimal files on Diplomatic Representation-601 decimal (48 cubic feet); Political Affairs and Conditions-700 decimal (10 cubic feet); Economic Conditions— 800 decimal (12.67 cubic feet); and General Communications-900 decimal (3.67 cubic feet). Also declassified were the following lot files: Lot 428 Bureau of United Nations Affairs, 1945-1949 (2 cubic feet); Lot 53D65 Files of Ambassador-atLarge Philip C. Jessup relating to the United Nations General Assembly, sixth and seventh sessions, 1951-1952 (1.33 cubic feet); Lot 53D470 Records of Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup, 1948-1953 (1.33 cubic feet); Lot 57D134 Records of the Office of Congressional Relations, 1945-1959 (7 cubic feet); Lot 57D448 Subject Files of the Special Assistant for Fisheries and Wildlife, 1943-1959 (8.33 cubic feet); Lot 58D245 Records of the Division of Research for Far East, 1946-1952 (3 cubic feet); Lot 60D24 Records Relating to the Exploitation of Captured German Records, 1945-1948 (3.33 cubic feet); Lot 60D216 Subject Files of Francis O. Wilcox, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1958-1959 (1.33 cubic feet); Lot 62D205 Office of the Legal Adviser, Division of United Nations Affairs, 1945-1959 (1.67 cubic feet); Lot 70D254/70D246 Records Relating to the Eric Johnston Mission and the Jordan River Waters, 1945-1959 (2.33 cubic feet); Lot 79D273 Records Relating to the Bricker Amendment, 1952-1960 (3.33 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5395. (RG 59) RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS Declassification review was completed on the General Correspondence File, 1951, and part of the Enclosures to the Secret Correspondence Files, 1948 (75 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 72) RECORDS OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE POSTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE Declassified were various refiles and accretions to Post Files, 1936-1961 (17 cubic feet); Post Files from Ciudad Trujillo, 1958-1960 (1 cubic foot); and Post Files from Bonn, 1959-1961 (1 cubic foot). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 84) RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE TERRITORIES Central classified files relating to departmental administration of United States territories, 1907-1951 (78 cubic feet), have been opened. Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-5015395. (RG 126) RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND Declassification review has been completed on portions of the General Correspondence Files, 1918-1966 (1,108 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 143) RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND Subject files from the Office of International Trade, 1945-1950 (23 cubic feet), and Records of the National Production Authority and the Business and Defense Services Administration relating to textiles, 1950-1957 (1 cubic foot) have been opened. Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5395. (RG 151) RECORDS OF NAVAL DISTRICTS AND SHORE ESTABLISHMENTS Declassification review has been completed on Headquarters Support Activity, 510, Naples, Italy, General Correspondence Files, 1952-1954, and the Rhine River Patrol, Secret Correspondence Files, 1951 (22 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 181) RECORDS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION Declassification review has been completed on Federal Facilities Corporation, Records of the Tin Program, 1941-1957; Federal Facilities Corporation, Office of the Secretary General, Subject Files, 1942-1952; Land Grant Program, 1940-1957; Office of Synthetic Rubber, Research and Development Division, 1938-1955; and the Metals Reserve Company, Subject Files, 19401951 (273 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 234) RECORDS OF THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Declassified at the headquarters level were Country Files Colombia Section, Latin American Branch, Operations Division, 1959-1974 (1 cubic foot). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 286) RECORDS OF THE ARMY Staff Declassified were records relating to the Army Equipment Board and Policy Council, 1950-1951 (approximately 113 cubic feet). Contact the Military Reference Branch, 202-5015385. (RG 319) RECORDS OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Declassified were transcripts of the Personnel Security Board Hearings relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1954 (2 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5395. (RG 326) RECORDS OF HEADQUARTERS Declassified were records relating to training exercise Operation Long Horn, 1952 (11 cubic feet). Contact the Military Reference Branch, 202-501-5385. (RG 337) RECORDS OF U.S. ARMY COMMANDS Declassification review has been completed on the Twenty-second U.S. Army Prisoner of War/Civilian Internee Information Center, Secret and Confidential Files, 1945-1973; U.S. Army, Alaska, Decimal and Subject Files, 1947– 1951; European Command, Adjutant General's Section, selected boxes, 1951-1956; the Seventh Psychological Operations Group, Japan Detachment, Subject Files, 1951; and the Hawaiian Department, Adjutant General's Section, Decimal Files, 1916-1945 (88 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 338) RECORDS OF HEADQUARTERS U.S. AIR FORCE Selected boxes were declassified from the Top Secret Decimal Correspondence File, Office of the Director of Plans, 1942-1954 (63 cubic feet). Contact the Military Reference Branch, 202-5015385. (RG 341) RECORDS OF U.S. AIR FORCE COMMANDS, Declassified were records from the Air Materiel Command, Engineering Division, WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Research and Devel opment Case Files, 1926-1950 (94 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-7637410. (RG 342) RECORDS OF INTERDEPARTMENTAL AND Lot 54D5 Records of various Inter- and IntraDepartmental Committees, 1942-1952 (6 cubic feet) have been opened. Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5395. (RG 353) RECORDS OF THE U.S. HIGH COMMISSION Declassified were Inspection Reports, Prisons Division, 1945-1954 (6 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 466) RECORDS OF THE U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE Declassified records at the headquarters level include files from the Office of the Controller, 1953-1957 (9 cubic feet); Office of the General Counsel, 1956-1958 (5 cubic feet); Office of Industrial Resources, 1948-1955 (9 cubic feet); Office of Management, 1951-1963 (11 cubic feet); Office of Operations, 1952-1958 (20 cubic feet); and Office of Technical Services, 1949-1955 (10 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 469) RECORDS OF THE U.S. ARMY, VIETNAM Declassification review has been completed on Command Historian, Operational Reports and Lessons Learned, Subject Files, 1965-1973; II Field Force Vietnam, Artillery, Signal Section, G-3 and G-4 Daily Journals, 1969-1970; Second Signal Group, Subject Files, 1970-1974; and the Fifth Special Forces Group, Detachments A-341, B-34, and A-342 (73 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 472) TUAL PROJECTS DIVISION GENERAL RECORDS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT An accretion to the series of Ratified Amendments, consisting of documents relating to the ratification and certification of the Twentyseventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and an accretion to the following series of presidential documents: Presidential Proclamations numbered 6176-6398, September 11, 1990-December 23, 1991; Executive Orders numbered 12729-12787, September 24, 1990– December 31, 1991; and Presidential Documents other than Proclamations and Executive Orders, June 3, 1990-December 30, 1991 (1 cubic foot). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-5015425. (RG 11) RECORDS OF the Federal DEPOSIT Failing Bank Transactions Assistance Files, 1969-1971 (less than 1 cubic foot). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 34) GENERAL RECORDS OF THE Records of Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson relating to the Committee on International Conferences, 1945 (less than 1 cubic foot); Records of the Petroleum Advisor relating to Axis Oil, 1942-1944 (2 cubic feet); Office Files of Ambassadors Karl L. Rankin, 1932-1961, Elbridge Durbrow, 1934-1965, and Loy W. Henderson, 1948-1959 (3 cubic feet); Records of the Bureau of African Affairs, 1956-1962 (2 cubic feet); Records of the Plans and Development Staff of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1955-1960 (20 cubic feet); The Current Economic Developments Master File of the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, 1945-1957 (3 cubic feet); Organization Files of the Executive Secretariat, 1945-1960 (2 cubic feet). The materials are security classified. Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5425. Background and press briefings of the Office of Press Relations of the Bureau of Public Affairs, 1961-1975 (5 cubic feet); and a microfilm copy of the Records of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1918-1940, on 56 rolls of 35mm microfilm (1 cubic foot). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5425. Correspondence relating to Visas and Immigration, 1960-1970 (87 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 59) RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI investigative case files relating to various persons, events, or organizations investigated by the bureau during World War II. Subjects include the eight Nazi saboteurs placed in the United States in 1942, the War Relocation Authority, and the internment of Japanese Americans, as well as a history of the FBI during World War II (39 cubic feet). There is an unclassified version of the records available along with an index. FBI investigative case files, Class 87, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, 1934-1940, cover investigations of the interstate transportation of stolen property valued at five thousand dollars or more. The class also includes forged securities, con operations, international jewel thieves, and all stolen property valued at fifty thousand dollars regardless of whether it crossed state lines. Both headquarters and field office files are represented (2 cubic feet). Materials are open but require screening. An accretion of FBI investigative case files, Class 44, Civil Rights, 1949-1952, covers actions or conspiracies by two or more persons to stop citizens in the free exercise of their civil rights. They include investigations of the Ku Klux Klan, violence against labor unions and organizers, racial disturbances, and police brutality (37 cubic feet). The material is open but requires screening. Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5425. (RG 65) RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM An accretion consisting of Minutes of the Meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, 1991 (less than 1 cubic foot). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5395. (RG 82) RECORDS OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE POSTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE Records of the former U.S. mission to Berlin, 1945-1990 (273 cubic feet). The materials are security classified. Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 84) RECORDS OF THE FOREST SERVICE Speeches, budgetary records, Forest Service regulations, and records relating to the Crested Butte Ski Area, 1924-1990 (24 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-7637410. (RG 95) RECORDS OF THE BUREAU of Labor STANDARDS (RECORDS OF THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION) Draft proposals of Model Labor Legislation of the Administrative and Legislative Standards Branch, 1934-1970 (1 cubic foot). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5395. (RG 100) RECORDS OF THE FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION Reports, conferences, and publications, 1973– 1990 (6 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 103) RECORDS OF THE AMERICAN BATTLE Records relating to the establishment and maintenance of American Battle Monuments and Cemeteries, 1918-1965 (34 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-7637410. (RG 117) RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS Records relating to the construction of buildings used as housing for the 1980 Olympic Games, 1979-1981 (9 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5425. (RG 129) RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL SUPPLY SERVICE Records of Willis M. MacLeod, Director of the Standards Division, relating to the development of Standardized Procurement, 1942-1952 (54 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5425. (RG 137) RECORDS OF THE AGRICULTURAL STABILIZATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICE Publications of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, 1936-1991 (3 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202501-5425. (RG 145) RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF Minutes of meetings of the Experiment Station Committee on Operations and Policy (ESCOP) accumulated and maintained by the Office of the Administrator of the Cooperative State Research Service, 1941-1979 (2 cubic feet). The administrator served as an ex officio member of the committee. An accretion to a series of Terminated Regional Research Fund Project Case Files, 1960-1973 (2 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5425. (RG 164) RECORDS OF THE COMMODITY FUTURES Records of the Commodity Exchange Authority and earlier predecessors of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, consisting of Monthly Statistical Reports of Commodity Futures Transactions, 1921-1974 (45 cubic feet); Summary Statistical Data for Corn, Oat, and Soybean Transactions, 1921-1974 (less than 1 cubic foot); and Exchange Trading Rules, Charters and By-laws, 1971-1974 (2 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5425. (RG 180) RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES An accretion to the Office of Strategic Services' Secret Intelligence Correspondence, 19421946 (138 cubic feet). The materials are declassified. Contact the Military Reference Branch, 202-501-5385. (RG 226) RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS Program Files of the Office of the Associate Commissioner of the Office of Prices and Living Conditions, 1946-1979 (21 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5395. (RG 257) RECORDS OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Records relating to the Doolittle and Hoover (Clark) Investigations of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1954-1956 (less than 1 cubic foot). The materials are security classified. The History Source Collection consisting of the primary and secondary source documents collected and used for writing CIA histories, 1946-1966 (2 cubic feet); the first nine chapters. of the "Organizational History of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1950-1953," written by George S. Jackson and Martin P. Claussen (1 cubic foot); and an index to the five-volume history General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950-53, written by Ludwell Lee Montague (less than 1 cubic foot). Contact the Military Reference Branch, 202-5015385. Directorate of Operations personality files on Lee Harvey Oswald, a subset of the agency's Kennedy assassination files. Arranged chronologically, ca. 1959-1964. Contains many nonagency documents, especially from the FBI and Department of State (6 cubic feet). Access to these records is determined by the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Contact the Access Staff, 202-501-5368. National Intelligence Estimate entitled "Soviet Forces for International Conflict Through the Mid-1980's" (NIE 11-3/8-76), Volume I, Key Judgments and Summary, dated December 21, 1976 (the Team A report), and a commentary on this estimate entitled "Intelligency Community Experiment in Competitive Analysis-Soviet Strategic Objectives, and Alternative View, Report of Team B," dated December 1976 (less than 1 cubic foot). For more information contact the Military Reference Branch, 202-501-5385. (RG 263) RECORDS OF THE SECURITIES AND Registration Statements, 1943-1959 (1,664 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 266) RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING General Correspondence Files, including Correspondence Files of the Assistant Chief (Ansel Cleary), 1943-1950, and various other series relating to equal opportunity and implementation of the Manpower Development Training Act and the On-The-Job Training Program, 1942– 1967 (18 cubic feet). Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202-501-5395. (RG 300) RECORDS OF THE U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY Research reports and research projects reports, 1981-1988 (2 cubic feet). The materials are security classified. Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 306) RECORDS OF THE ARMY STAFF Administrative and other records transferred by the U.S. Army Center for Military History, 1941-1988 (93 cubic feet). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 319) RECORDS OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Records of the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission consisting of minutes and reports of meetings, 1947-1974, a topical index to Chairmen's Reports of Meetings, 1975, and reports relating to the history and operations of the General Advisory Committee, 1952-1956 (6 cubic feet); records of the Division of Research consisting of Correspondence relating to High Energy Physics, 19571964 (5 cubic feet); and records of the Argonne National Laboratory and its predecessor, the University of Chicago Laboratory, 1942-1965 (175 cubic feet). Except for the reports relating to the history and operations of the General Advisory Committee, all materials are security classified. Contact the Civil Reference Branch, 202501-5395. (RG 326) RECORDS OF U.S. AIR FORCE COMMANDS, Records relating to the Junior Air Force ROTC Training Program, 1968-1981 (less than 1 cubic foot). Contact the Suitland Reference Branch, 301-763-7410. (RG 342) |