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AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Arthur L. Funk, Chairman Professor Emeritus of History University of Florida :)445 N.W. 30th Boulevard Gainesville, Florida 32605

Permanent Directors

Charles F. Delzell Vanderbilt University

H. Stuart Hughes University of California

atBan Diego

Forrest C. Pogue Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute

Terms expiring 1988

Brig. Gen James L Collins, Jr. Chief of Military History (ret.)

John Lewis Gaddis Ohio University

Robin Higham Kansas State University

D. Clayton James Mississippi State University

Agnes F. Peterson Hoover [n8titution

Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Simmons Marine Corps History and

Museums

David F. Trask Center of Military History

Russell F. Weigley Temple University

Terms e.l:piring 1989

Martin Blumenson Washington, D.C.

William H. Cunliffe National Archives

Stanley L. Falk Center of Military History (ret.)

Maurice MaUoff Center of Military History (reU

Ernest R. May Harvard University

Ronald H. Spector Naval Historical Center

Gerhard L. Weinberg University of North Carolina

Earl F. Ziemke University of Georgia

Terms expiring 1990

Dean C. Allard Naval Historical Center

Stephen E. Ambrose University of New Orleans

Harold C. Deutsch Army War College and University of Minnesota (emer.)

David Kahn Great Neck, N.Y.

Warren F. Kimball Rutgers University

Telford Taylor New York City

Robet1 Wolfe National Archives

Janet Ziegler University of California

at Los Angeles

Donald S. Detwiler, Secretary and Newsletter Editor

NEWSLETTER Department of History Southern Illinois University ISBN 0-89126-060-9

at Carbondale --~--

Carbondale, Illinois 62901 ISSN 0885-5668 Robin Higham, ArchivistSpring 1988No. 39 Department of History

Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66506

CONTENTS International Book

Review Coordination:

2 Arthur L. FunkGeneral Information 3445 N.W. 30th Boulevard Gainesville, ~'Iorida 32605

2The Newsletter The ACHSWW is affiliated with:

American Historical Association 400 A Street, S.E.

Membership 2 Washington, D.C. 20003

Comite International d'Histoire de la Deuxieme3Committee Elections Guerre Mondiale A. Harry Paape, Secretary

General and Treasurer

The 1987 Annual Meeting Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation

The Business Meeting 3 Herengracht 474 1017 CA AmsterdamThe Joint Session: "Europe under The Netherlands

the German Occupation". 5

Second Soviet-American Symposium on U.S.-Soviet Rela­tions and the History of World War II (October 1987) 7

Session on the War in the Far East at the 1988 Meeting 9

News and Announcements USAF Historical Research Center Research Grants 10 Air Force Academy Symposium on the History of

Intelligence (October 1988) 11 Call for Papers: American Military Institute

Conference at VMI (April 1989) 11 Call for Papers: Siena College Conference on World

War II--a Fifty-Year Perspective (June 1989) 12 A New Publication: "World War II Investigator" 12 Eisenhower Library Conference on Women in War,

Politics, and Government: 1942-1960 (October 1988) 1 2 Individual Appointments 12

Research Resources: The OSS Records (A Special Report) Correspondence with the Archivist of the United States 13 "oss Records at the National Archives" by Lawrence

H. McDonald, National Archives 14 Appendix 1: Record Group 226, Entries 1-86 (OSS Re­

search and Analysis Branch Records) 18 Appendix 2: Record Group 226, Entries 87-190 (the

OSS Operational Archives) 21 Selected OSS Operational Archives Folder Descriptions 24

GENERAL INFORMATION

Established in 1967 "to promote historical research in the period of World War II in all its aspects," the American Committee on the History of the Second World War is a private organization supported by the dues and donations of its mem­bers. It is affiliated with the American Historical Associa­tion, with the International Committee for the History of the Second World War, and with corresponding national committees in other countries, including Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, East and West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Po­land, Romania, the Soviet Union, Spain, and the United King­dom. The ACHSWW meets annually with the American Historical Association.

THE NEWSLETTER

The ACHSWW issues a semiannual newsletter (assigned Interna­tional Standard Serial Number [ISSN] 0885-5668 by the Nation­al Serial Data Program of the Library of Congress). Back is­sues of the newsletter are 'available through the ACHSWW Ar­chivist (at the address on the letterhead) from MA/AH Publish­ing (now an imprint of Sunflower University Press). The first eighteen issues (1968-1978) are available as a spiral­bound, 360-page xerox paperback (ISBN 0-89126-060-9) for $36.00. Subsequent back numbers are available as single, un­bound issues for $3.00 each. (There is no postal charge for prepaid orders to U.S. addresses; there is a $4.00 shipping charge for orders to foreign and Canadian addresses.)

MEMBERSHIP

Membership in the ACHSWW is open to anyone interested in the era of the Second World War. Annual membership dues of $10.00 are payable at the beginning of each calendar year. (Students with U.S. addresses may, if their circumstances require it, pay annual dues of $2.00 for up to six years.) There is no surcharge for members abroad, but it is requested that dues be remitted directly to the secretary of the commit­tee (not through an agency or a subscription service) in U.S. dollars. (The newsletter, which is mailed at bulk rates with­in the United States, will be sent by surface mail to foreign addresses unless special arrangements are made to cover the cost of airmail postage.) A membership renewal form is regu­larly attached to the fall newsletter.

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COMMITTEE ELECTIONS

The chairman of the committee, the secretary, and the eight directors listed in the lower left-hand margin of the first page of this newsletter were elected to three-year terms from January 1988 through December 1990.

THE 1987 ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the ACHSWW was held in 1987 in conjunc­tion with that of the American Historical Association at the Sheraton Washington Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, N.W., Washing­ton, D.C. 20008, 28-30 December 1987.

The Business Meeting

The 1987 business meeting was convened shortly after 5:00 p.m., Monday, 28 December 1987, in the Wisconsin Room of the Sheraton Washington Hotel, by the committee chairman, Prof. Arthur L. Funk of the University of Florida. The secretary and newsletter editor, Prof. Donald S. Detwiler, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, gave the treasurer's re­port, which was unanimously accepted, as was his recommenda­tion that student dues of two dollars annually be limited to six years.

An announcement was made regarding the joint session of the ACHSWW with the AHA, scheduled for Wednesday, 30 Decem­er: Director A. Harry Paape of the Netherlands State Insti ­tute for War Documentation, who was to have given a paper on Anne Frank and her diary, would unfortunately not be able to participate. His place on the panel would be taken by Prof. Funk.

Chancellor Alfred F. Hurley of the University of North Texas reported on plans for the 1988 joint session to be held at the annual meeting during the last week of December in Cincinnati. Plans were being developed for a session on air power in the Second World War in the Far East, with a paper by the author of a recent study on Chennault and with a con­tribution, if possible, by Prof. Alvin D. Coox of San Diego State University, on the Japanese perspective. (As noted elsewhere in this newsletter, the AHA Program Committee has meanwhile approved the proposed joint session.)

The committee chairman mentioned that the annual meeting in December 1989 is to be held in San Francisco, and there was a preliminary discussion of possible approaches in plan­ning a session appropriate for the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Europe.

Turning to the activities of the International Committee on the History of the Second World War, Prof. Arthur Funk (a vice president of that body), reported on the resignation of

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the Belgian historian Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen from the presiden­cy of the committee, noting that the circumstances that had constrained him to resign had also prevented him from repre­senting the International Committee at an important planning meeting of the executive committee for the International Con­gress of Historical Sciences in summer 1990 in Madrid. It had been suggested by the secretary general and treasurer of the international committee, A. Harry Paape, that the Norwe­gian historian Prof. Magne Skodvin, Oslo, be named interim president to serve until the 1990 meeting in Madrid. Prof. Funk said that he and Sir F. William Deakin, as vice presi­dents of the international committee, had concurred with this proposal, but that formal action had not yet been taken. Pro­fessor Funk also discussed plans being made for the program of the 1990 International Congress of Historical Sciences, mentioned above, and reported on the new Normandy Museum, soon to be dedicated at Caen. (The U.S. Committee for the Battle of Normandy Museum is advised by a Board of Histori ­ans, of which Prof. Funk is secretary, and on which a dozen ACHSWW directors serve, including Brig. Gen. James L. Collins, Jr., as the board's chairman.

Prof. Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Caro­lina, Chapel Hill, reported on the response of the National Security Agency (NSA) to the request he had made, with the support of a resolution passed at the ACHSWW meeting in 1986, that the NSA review for declassification the German cryptolog­ic materials that were captured at the end of the war and that have not yet been made available for research. The National Security Agency has during the past few years already re­leased a substantial body of cryptologic documentation repre­senting Axis messages that were intercepted and decrypted by the Allies, i.e., the British and Americans. The declassifi ­cation of this material has revealed that the Allied leaders had far more information about Axis operations and plans than was previously realized by all but an extremely limited cir ­cle. The material now in question, the captured German cryp­tologic records, should reveal what Allied traffic the Ger­mans succeded in intercepting and decrypting--and may thereby offer new insight into German plans and operations.

In response to his initiative, Prof. Weinberg was in­formed that the National Security Agency is in the process of declassifying one shipment of records, which should, in the near future, be transferred to the National Archives. In ad­dition, a second shipment is also to be processed and trans­ferred to the National Archives. Finally, the agency in­formed Prof. Weinberg, a number of cryptographic files, from other sources than the bulk of records held in joint British­American custody, would be released along with the latter (al ­though they would not be separately identified).

Prof. Weinberg stated his appreciation of the progress that the release of these records represents. He mentioned that the committee newsletter has periodically carried useful

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listings of the NSA Cryptologic Documents transferred to the National Archives and deposited with Record Group 457 in the Military Reference Branch, and trusted that the arrival of this new material would also be reported to the membership.

[Newsletter Editor's Note: While drafting this (in the third week of May) I telephoned the archivist specializing in these holdings at the Military Reference Branch of the Nation­al Archives, Mr. John Taylor (202: 523-3340). He said some of the new NSA material has come in, but he understands a good deal more of it is due to arrive soon. By the end of the summer, he hopes to receive a new cumulative inventory of cryptologic accessions from NSA, suitable for reproduction in the fall issue of the ACHSWW newsletter.]

Mr. Robert Wolfe, an ACHSWW Director and Assistant Di­rector of the Military Archives Division, introduced his col­league at the National Archives, Dr. Lawrence H. McDonald of the Military Projects Branch, who spoke of his work on the OSS Records Project, on which he is working with a group of nine volunteers. (The substance of his presentation, together with a listing of the OSS records and selections from the finding aids being developed in connection with the project, is included in this newsletter.)

At the conclusion of Dr. McDonald's very well received presentation and the questions, answers, and discussion that followed it, the committee unanimously resolved that the com­mittee, through its chairman, should write to the Archivist of the United states, Dr. Don W. Wilson, expressing apprecia­tion for and interest in the OSS Records Project, and should urge him to have a preliminary inventory of OSS Records pre­pared and published by the National Archives. (For the cor­respondence between Prof. Funk and Dr. Wilson, see below.)

Prof. Funk spoke on the Second Soviet-American Symposi­um on U.S.-Soviet Relations and the History of World War II, in which he had participated at the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, N.Y., in October 1987. (See also the report of the chairman of U.S. group, Prof. Warren Kimball of Rutgers University at Newark, which is summarized below.)

The meeting was adjourned shortly before 7:00 p.m.

The Joint Session: Europe under the German Occupation

The AHA-ACHSWW joint session was held on Wednesday, 30 December 1987, 1 :00-3:00 p.m., under the chairmanship of Prof. Donald S. Detwiler, Southern Illinois University, in Atrium 4 of the Sheraton Washington, in honor of the late founding president of the international committee, Henri Michel, on "Europe under the German Occupation." Papers were given by Prof. Margaret L. Rossiter of Eastern Michigan University, author of Women in the Resistance (New York: Praeger, 1986), on "The Role of Women in the French Resistance," and by Prof. John F. Sweets of the University of Kansas, author of Choices in Vichy France (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), on

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"Police and People under Vichy France: A Case Study in Duty and Loyalty." Director Harry A. Paape of the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation was unfortunately not able to attend and give his scheduled paper on "Anne Frank and Her Diary." His place on the panel was taken by Prof. Arthur L. Funk, University of Florida, who spoke on Henri Michel, stressing his role as an historian of the war and the Resistance.

The Washington historian Martin Blumenson began his com­ment with a tribute to Henri Michel, and then, before turning to individual issues raised in the two papers, made several general observations regarding the German occupation and the anti-German resistance.

"Mr. Henri Michel," he said, "laid much of the groundwork and established much of the framework for the study of World War II. He did so in three ways: by writing his magisterial historical works, by setting up and putting into place a mag­nificent archival collection system, and by guiding the organ­ization and proceedings of an international body of scholars. He sought to impose no boundaries on inquiry and knowledge. To my mind, all of us working on World War II are following in Henri Michel's footsteps. We are amplifying and fleshing out his explorations. This seems to be our function in our session this afternoon.

"The excellent papers, in their individual manners, make clear the difficulties Europeans had to live with and to sur­vive in countries occupied by the Germans and administered by the Nazis. Defeat and occupation required the inhabitants to make substantial adjustments and accommodations to an entire­ly new way of life.

liThe difference, or at least one difference, between san­ity and insanity is the ability to deal with reality. Reali­ty for many Europeans in 1940--even earlier in some places, for example, in Czechoslovakia--was the presence of Germans, military and civilian, in their midst. The military in their uniforms were more visible, but all personified not only the power of the German state but also the intent to impose a new system, a new order on Europe. People grumbled, but this was the reality, and at first everyone, or almost everyone, ac­cepted the new circumstances and sought to conform to the new conditions.

"It seems to me that recovery from the shock of defeat was the first reaction of conquered and overrun people and that an attempt to recognize and live with the occupation was the second. In the early days, I believe that the effort to accommodate to the occupation was labeled patritism. Love of country meant preserving something that was left of the enti­ty, of national feeling, of cultural bonds, all in the face of foreign domination.

"Patriotism later changed, at least for some, perhaps for most people. The Germans did not know how to occupy, and their early desire to be 'correct' toward the occupied popula­

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tions, a policy that I think was generally successful, dis­solved as the quality of life disintegrated. The curfews, the rationing, the regulations, the passes, the permissions, the censorship, the surveillance, the repression, the punish­ment, the executions, all grated on the soul. But most of all, the shortages of food, clothing, and fuel made existence virtually impossible, then unbearable. The continued deten­tion of prisoners of war and the forced labor of young people added to families' burdens. And finally, as a consequence, the German presence became intolerable. Their parades, their band concerts, their tourists were objects of scorn. Patriot­ism became the wish to be rid of the Germans.

"Contributing to the changing climate of opinion was, of course, the Resistance, the underground movement throughout occupied Europe. From my study, the initial Resistance peo­ple were, as a general rule, intellectuals. They understood better than others the meaning of Nazism, the prohibition of free academic enquiry, the false assumptions of racism, the drive to restrict individualism and to outlaw thought. And so the victims rebelled, in secret, of course.

"The Resistance did many things to challenge the occu­pation--intelligence gathering, sabotage, rescuing Allied fliers, escorting Allied agents, harassing the Germans and troubling their security. But to my mind the most important function was changing public opinion, from an attempt to live with the Germans to an unwillingness to do so .. .. "

The commentator discussed, in connection with specific questions raised in the two papers, how the activities of the Resistance contributed to a fundamental change in the atmos­phere of occupied Europe. "Finally," he said, "we must not forget the course of the war itself. As the struggle between regular armed forces continued, the Nazi victory seemed in­creasingly in doubt. This, plus the degraded living condi­tions and the opposition sponsored by the Resistance, eventu­ally decided the outcome of the occupation."

SECOND SOVIET-AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM ON U.S.-USSR RELATIONS AND THE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II

Following the meeting in Moscow in October 1986, of which an account was given in the fall 1987 issue of this newsletter, a second Soviet-American symposium on the war and Soviet-Amer­ican relations was held 20-23 October 1987 at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. (Prof. Funk, as a participant, re­ported on this symposium at the 1987 ACHSWW business meeting, as noted above). The second symposium focussed on the period mid-1942 through autumn 1943 and on topics ranging from mili ­tary events on the Russian front to images of the Soviet Un­ion in the American media. In his report, the head of the American group, Prof. Warren Kimball, Rutgers, wrote:

"Once again, we were a bit disappointed at the relative failure of the Soviet papers to analyze and question Soviet

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policy. Soviet historians continued to display a rally 'round the flag' approach during public forums. Private con­versations occasionally brought out criticisms of Soviet poli ­cies, but that is hardly a substitute for open scholarly de­bate. One good sign was that Soviet historians, when con­fronted with a hard question about Soviet policy formulation, this time often countered with the admission that they could not answer since they had no access to the archives. How­ever, no such statements appeared in their formal papers. Nevertheless, we did encounter repeated indications that Soviet historians were thinking about those kinds of issues.

liThe most striking evidence of such thinking came when the Soviets requested a change in the schedule in order to present a discussion of perestroika as it affected the study of history. Although we now realize that such displays of glas'nost have, in the last year, become de rigueur at Soviet­American academic conferences, that does not lessen their im­pact or diminish our hopes that these words will be translat­ed into reality. (The quotes and notes that follow are taken largely from the summary of the conference submitted by our excellent rapporteur, Ed Bennett.) One senior Soviet histor­ian said 'we are trying to examine the white [blank?] spots in Soviet history.' He went on to claim that the archives are more open and that they are trying to make more documen­tary material available.

II • Another Soviet historian told of once being forced to excise a statement he wrote arguing that Khrushchev had tried to improve Soviet-American relations. He criti ­cized that as the sort of thing that should not happen. A senior Soviet historian said that they are very defensive about the events of 1939 ...• A number of younger Soviet historians addressed the very real problem of reshaping atti ­tudes and coming to grips with change; a difficult task, they said, for bureaucrats.

lilt was the unanimous opinion of the Americans present that the Soviet historians honestly believed that major chang­es were in the making. For a group of prestigious Soviet his­torians to admit or even infer that much of what they had written was incomplete and even wrong, that their work was based on inadequate access to their archives, and subject to political censorship, is remarkable.

"A Soviet decision to publish in the Soviet Union many of the American papers from the first symposium may also be a glimmer of glas'nost. In addition, a number of those papers, both Soviet and U.S., will be published in the United States sometime in 1989.

liThe third symposium, which will deal with the conferenc­es at Moscow, Cairo, and Teheran (to the eve of the Normandy invasion), is scheduled for the Soviet Union sometime in Octo­ber 1988. As before, we will concentrate on broad issues of Soviet-American relations and Soviet-American perceptions of each other •. .• " (For the full text of Prof. Kimball's re­port, see Perspectives, the newsletter of the American Histor­ical Association, May/June 1988 [vol. 26, no. 5], pp. 11-12.)

SESSION ON WORLD WAR II IN THE FAR EAST AT THE 1988 MEETING

The Program Committee of the American Historical Association has approved the ACHSWW's proposal for the following joint session at the 1988 annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio:

WORLD WAR II IN THE FAR EAST: CHENNAULT, CHINA, AND AIR POWER

Joint Session with the American Committee on the History of the Second World War

Chair: Alfred F. Hurley, University of North Texas

Chennault and China, Martha Byrd, Davidson, North Carolina

Japanese Air Power in the China War, Alvin D. Coox, San Diego State University

Comment: Michael Schaller, University of Arizona Alfred F. Hurley, University of North Texas

The joint session will be opened by the chairman, Dr. Alfred F. Hurley, Professor of History and Chancellor, Univer­sity of North Texas. The first paper will be by Ms. Martha Byrd, whose Chennault: Giving Wings to the Tiger was pub­lished in 1987 by the University of Alabama Press. Her paper will provide an account of Chennault's work in China from his arrival, on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, as a retired U.S. Army captain hired as an aviation consultant by the Chi­nese government, to his retirement, shortly before the end of World War II, as Chief of Air Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and an American major general commanding the USAAF's Fourteenth Air Force. During the intervening years, he had played a key role in developing the Chinese Air Force, had or­ganized and led the American Volunteer Group (the "Flying Ti­gers"), and had build up and deployed U.S. air power in China, commanding far more resources than his theater commander or the War Department had wanted to allocate, thanks largely to the personal support he enjoyed on the part of both Chiang and Roosevelt. This paper will also note that after the war Chennault returned to China and established a commercial air transport company which was active during the Chinese Civil War and, after its acquisition by the CIA, in other Asian conflicts.

Dr. Alvin D. Coox' paper, on Japanese Air Power in the Sino-Japanese War, will complement Ms. Byrd's paper, which, by telling the story of Chennault's wartime career, will also provide an account of Chinese and American air power in the China Theater. Dr. Coox is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Asian Studies at San Diego State University

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and author of a widely recognized series of books and arti ­cles on Japanese military and aviation history and the World War II era, including a work reviewed in the last issue of this newsletter, Nomonhan: Japan against Russia, 1939, 2 vols. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985), and "The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Air Forces," in Air Power and Warfare, edited by Alfred F. Hurley and Robert C. Ehrhart (Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History and U.s. Air Force Academy, 1979). In his paper, Prof. Coox will be able not only to explain the role of air power in Japanese theory and practice during the Sino-Japanese War, but also to discuss the impact of Chinese and American air warfare on the Japanese in the China Theater, with particular consideration-­in connection with Ms. Byrd's presentation--of the role of Chennault.

The first commentator will be Dr. Michael Schaller, Pro­fessor and Head of the Department of History at the University of Arizona, author of The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975). As an authority on Sino-American relations during World War II, he will com­ment on the political and diplomatic implications of the is­sues raised in the two papers, including Chennault's contro­versial role in the development and implementation of U.S. strategy regarding China during the war.

Prof. Hurley, in his comments on the two papers, will fo­cus on the military question of the role of air power in the China Theater, comparing and contrasting its employment by the Chinese, the Americans, and the Japanese. He will con­clude the session with observations on the significance of air power in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War and the historical implications.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

U.S. Air Force Historical Research Center Research Grants

The USAF Historical Research Center (USAFHRC) announces re­search grants to encourage scholars to study the history of air power through the use of the USAF historical document col­lection at the center. The center will make several awards up to $2,500 each to individuals who meet the criteria in this announcement and are willing to visit the center for re­search during fiscal year 1989 (ending 30 September 1989). Recipients will be designated "Research Associates of the USAF Historical Research Center."

Criteria.--Applicants must have a graduate degree in his­tory or related fields, or equivalent scholarly achievements. Their specialty or professional experience must be in aeronau­tics, astronautics, or military related subjects. They must

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not be in residence at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, and be willing to visit the USAF Historical Research Center at Maxwell for a sufficient time to use the research materials at the cen­ter for their proposed projects.

Topics of Research.--Proposed topics of research may include, but are not restricted to, Air Force history, mili ­tary operations, education, training, administration, stra­tegy, tactics, logistics, weaponry, technology, organization, policy, activities, and institutions. Broader subjects suit ­able for a grant include military history, civil-military re­lations, history of aeronautics or astronautics, relations among the U.S. branches of service, military biographies, and international military relations. Preference will be given to those proposals that involve the use of primary sources held at the center. Proposals for research of classified sub­jects cannot be considered for research grants. As a general rule, records before 1955 are largely unclassified, while many later records remain classified. Examples of classified subjects include nuclear weapons and war planning, weapon sys­tems now in the Air Force inventory, and Air Force operations during the Vietnam War.

Application Deadline.--Applicants can request an applica­tion from the Director, USAF Historical Research Center, Max­well AFB, Ala. 36112-6678. They must return the completed ap­plications by 31 December 1988.

Air Force Academy Symposium (October 1988)

"The Intelligence Revolution: A Historical Perspective," a symposium sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Academy, is sched­uled for 12-14 October 1988. For information, contact Mark A. Clodfelter, Department of History, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80830-5701.

Call for Papers: American Military Institute (April 1989)

The Virginia Military Institute's Department of History and Politics will host the annual meeting of the American Mili ­tary Institute on 14-15 April 1989 in Lexington, Va. The conference theme is "Military Education and Thought." Pa­pers that treat the establishment of formal military educa­tion, the creation of academies and service schools, or the formulation and institutionalization of military doctrine through military education are invited. Papers may focus on any nation or period of history. Please send proposals be­fore 31 October 1988 to: Prof. Henry S. Bausum, AMI Confer­ence Coordinator, Department of History and Politics, VMI, Lexington, Va. 24450.

Call for Papers: Conference at Siena College (June 1989)

On 1-2 June 1989 Siena College is sponsoring the fourth in a series of annual multidisciplinary conferences. The subject of the 1989 conference will be "World War II--A Fifty-Year Perspective." The focus will be on 1939, but papers dealing with broad issues of earlier years will be welcome. Welcome topics include, but are not limited to, Fascism and National Socialism, the war in Asia, Spain, literature, art, film, di­plomatic, political, and military history, popular culture, and women's and Jewish studies dealing with the era. Post­Munich Europe, Danzig, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, etc., would be particularly appropriate. Please direct proposals or inquiries to Prof. Thomas O. Kelly, II, Department of His­tory, Siena College, Loudonville, N.Y. 12211.

A New Publication on the Second World War

An announcement has been received of a new English periodical, World War II Investigator. A monthly, it was scheduled to be­gin publication in March 1988. Its purpose is to deal with the whole war in all of its aspects, focusing on questions, events, persons, organizations, etc., that have been over­looked or ne-glected in the general literature. Articles of between one and three thousand words will be commissioned and authors paid. Those interested in becoming subscribers or contributers should write to World War II Investigator, 68 Staines Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3LF, England.

Eisenhower Library Conference

The Eisenhower Library is sponsoring a conference on "Women in War, Politics, and Government: 1942-1960" at the library in Abiline, Kansas, on 20-21 October 1988. For information, write to the Director, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abiline, Kansas 67410.

Individual Appointments

Dr. Carl Boyd, currently on leave of absence as Professor of History from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, is Visiting Scholar for two years (1987-89) at the U.S. Army Cen­ter of Military History, Washington, D.C. His research deals with "Magic" and the European Theater during World War II.

Prof. Warren F. Kimball of Rutgers University at Newark has been named the 1988-89 Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge, England. Estab­lished forty-four years ago, the professorship was named for the eighteenth-century British statesman William Pitt.

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RESEARCH RESOURCES: The OSS Records at the National Archives

As noted in the report on the 1987 business meeting, the com­mittee, after hearing a presentation on the OSS Records Proj­ect at the National Archives, resolved to recommend to the Ar­chivist of the United States that a preliminary inventory of the OSS records be prepared and published.

On 22 January 1988, the chairman of the ACHSWW, Prof. Arthur L. Funk, writing on behalf of the committee, congratu­lated Dr. Don W. Wilson on his recent appointment as Archiv­ist of the United States, noted the long record of coopera­tion between the committee and the National Archives, going back to the joint sponsorship of a conference in the early 1970s, and then turned to the OSS records.

"Recently, at the AHA meeting in Washington," he wrote, "Mr. [Robert] Wolfe arranged for a presentation, by Mr. Larry McDonald, on the status of the OSS records which have in the last few years been transferred from CIA. Mr. McDonald point­ed out that since 1980 the Archives have accessioned some 3,000 cubic feet of OSS records, and by now, with the help of talented volunteers, are providing finding aids, including excellent descriptive lists of some of the material.

"The members of our Committee who were present at Mr. McDonald's exposition were very much impressed by the quality of the work he has been doing, and also by the enormous amount of new research material available to historians. It was unanimously resolved by our Committee that we should urge you to give as much publicity as possible to these materials, preferably a printed handout or brochure or pamphlet which would disseminate to the historical profession information about the availability of this invaluable resource."

On 25 February 1988, Dr. Wilson responded to Prof. Funk: "Thank you for your congratulatory letter on the occa­

sion of my inauguration as seventh Archivist of the United States. My thanks, also, for your praise of the work of Lawrence McDonald, our volunteers, and other members of our staff in preparing the massive accession of historically valu­able OSS records for researcher use.

"We will consider publishing an inventory to the OSS rec­ords as soon as the bulk of those records have been trans­ferred to the National Archives. At present we are uncertain of the ultimate dimensions of that record group. Furthermore, because the CIA and other agencies continued to use OSS rec­ords well into the 1950's, the arrangement of the records suf­fered. A good deal of sophisticated archival processing will be required to prepare an inventory suitable for publication.

"Meanwhile, the computer-indexed folder title lists are available to researchers here and can be mailed to anyone who requests them."

For those unable to attend the meeting at which he made his presentation, Dr. McDonald, at the invitation of the edi­tor, kindly agreed to provide the following introduction and supporting material for reproduction in this newsletter.

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OSS Records at the National Archives

by

Lawrence H. McDonald National Archives

Once they are declared inactive, only a small part of the records generated by the Federal agencies can be permanently preserved. The records of the Office of strategic Services (OSS) are an exception; most of them will be assigned for permanent retention at the National Archives. All told, the National Archives has now accessioned some 4,000 cubic feet of OSS records.

OSS records (Record Group 226) draw heavy reference be­cause the nearly 3,000 cubic feet of records accessioned from the Central Intelligence Agency's OSS Archives, which have on­ly recently been opened for research, reveal information nev­er available before. They also offer the researcher a kind of precis of World War II in microcosm, providing a wealth of research material on almost every theater of the war in the form of intelligence reports and files on all aspects of OSS operations in combat and behind enemy lines. Except for the Pacific Theater, where the OSS was exluded at General MacAr­thur's request, one could write a history of the Second World War from OSS files alone. Moreover, they present a record of the administration and development of America's first nation­al intelligence agency, the predecessor of the CIA. The cour­age and daring of the men and women of the OSS is legendary, making cloak and dagger a byword; these records document the often incredible bravery of its agents and operational teams. Incredible is not too strong a word; the OSS Director, Gener­al Donovan himself, carried the OSS's ilL" tablet (potassium cyanide) when in danger to avoid capture.

On July 11, 1941, President Roosevelt established (6 F.R. 3422) the Office of Coordinator of Information (COl) to col­lect, correlate, and disseminate all intelligence relating to national security. He appointed William J. Donovan chief of this office. A corporation lawer and, in 1928, Acting Attor­ney General, Donovan had served with great distinction in World War I as an officer in the Forty-second Division, the "Rainbow Division."

On June 13, 1942, the President abolished COl and estab­lished by military order the Office of Strategic Services un­der the jurisdiction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). COl's records and all its functions, except for foreign infor­mation activities assigned to the Office of War Information, were transferred to OSS. JCS Directive No. 67 dated 23 June 1942 described and empowered OSS to prepare intelligence stud­ies, to plan and execute subversive activities, and to collect information through espionage. JCS 155/4/0 dated 23 December 1942 further authorized OSS to carry out psychological warfare in direct support of military operations; it defined psycho­

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logical warfare to include propaganda, economic warfare, sab­otage, guerilla warfare, counter-espionage, contact with un­derground groups in enemy-controlled territory and contact with foreign-nationality groups in the United states.

Cal had been a small civilian agency composed of little more than a handful of branches and offices; before the close of World War II, ass, a semi-military agency, would grow to consist of some fifty branches, divisions, and units with a well-chosen staff of almost 13,000 men and women.

When the ass closed down in October 1945, nearly all the records it had created were transferred to one of two agencies, the state Department or the War Department. Rec­ords of the Research and Analysis Branch (R and A), the branch that created more records than any other in the ass, were sent to the state Department where members of the old R and A staff eventually formed the Office of Intelligence Research. The exceptional style and scholarship often typi­cal of these records is not surprising when one considers that William L. Langer, the R and A chief, appointed some of the finest historians, economists, and social scientists in the United states to serve in the R and A Branch. Among them, to mention only a few, were Crane Brinton, Harold C. Deutsch, Hajo Holborn, H. stuart Hughes, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Her­bert Marcuse, Carl Schorske, Walt Rostow, and Charles Kindle­berger. Five of the R and A economists later became presi­dents of the American Economic Association; seven of the his­torians became presidents of the American Historical Associa­tion. In 1946, the State Department released R and A records amounting to more than 1 ,000 cubic feet of documents to the National Archives. R and A records include correspondence, cables, minutes of meetings, progress reports, budget stud­ies, press clippings, foreign publications files, POW interro­gations, target information, and the R and A map collection. The largest series by far, however, consists of informational intelligence reports on political, economic, military, and morale matters for almost every nation in the world. In 1975, the National Archives made the R and A records available for general research. Researchers interested in a wide variety of topics such as the Allied unconditional surrender policy, the Resistance, tensions among the Allies, Allied relations with the neutral nations, the question of a separate peace, German opposition to Hitler, and many other subjects have found valuable information in these records. (See Appendix 1, Entries 1 -84) .

On the same day that President Truman terminated ass, custody of all of its records other than those of R and A was transferred to the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), a War De­partment office made up of personnel drawn from the ass Se­cret Intelligence and Counterintelligence Branches. The rec­ords assigned to SSU comprised the files of the various ass branches, divisions and units from Washington, New York, and San Francisco as well as ass field offices from Casablanca to

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Shanghai. Bringing together close to 6,000 cubic feet of op­erational, administrative, and support records, the SSU care­fully arranged them according to point of origin, branch, and file type.

In 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency assumed custody of these records and organized various finding aids for them. In 1980, when the CIA began transferring its OSS Archives to the National Archives, security requirements made it neces­sary to retain all their finding aids.

For the 3,000 cubic feet of records it has already acces­sioned from the CIA, however, the National Archives has begun creating its own finding aids. Descriptive lists are now available for many of the OSS records open to research at the National Archives, and the lists, in turn, are now being com­puterized to make OSS records still more accessible. A compu­terized Core File, which arranges and sorts OSS records ac­cording to point of origin, branch, file type, associated lo­cation, entry, box, and folder, is already virtually complete. Another year or more will be necessary to complete the com­puterized Name File presently underway. The Name File will provide an index of project names, personal names, and key­words taken from the descriptive lists which the National Ar­chives volunteer staff is now writing.

Most of the different kinds of files found in the Rand A records also appear in the CIA's OSS Archives. However, un­like the R and A records, the CIA's OSS Archives comprise not only intelligence records, such as those found in the files of the Counterintelligence Branch, but also the records of co­vert operations and other functions performed by Special Oper­ations, Operational Group Command, Morale Operations, the His­tory Office, Maritime Unit, Schools and Training, the Field Photo Branch, and various administrative and support records.

Some of the subjects of research in the OSS records ac­cessioned from the CIA include the following: British ori ­gins of the OSS, American ethnic groups and the war, OSS mo­rale operations, OSS use of black propaganda and systematic misinformation, interrogations of POW's, special weapons, the Dixie Mission to Maoist Yenan, the correspondence of John Ford and John Steinbeck concerning the Nisei Japanese, Burma operations of the famed OSS Detachment 101, the special role of scholars and historians in the OSS, the tragic death of OSS Captain John Birch, the large OSS R&D collection of press extracts translated from German newspapers, early OSS con­tacts in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, the OSS Censorship and Documentation Branch collection of passports and credentials, plans for the use of skywriting to prey on the special fears of the Japanese, manuals on disguises, on guerrilla warfare, and on lock-picking, the V-1 and V-2 rockets, analysis of Hit­ler's speeches, reports on the German efforts to overthrow Hitler, the OSS General Counsel, and the war crimes trials. (See Appendix 2, Entries 87-190.)

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But this limited sample cannot convey the consistently high level of interest elicited by practically all series of ass records once they are described and open to research. Much of the ass material accessioned in recent years remains largely untapped.

Much more, of course, remains to be written about ass. Intelligence and Espionage: An Analytical Bibliography by George C. Constantinides (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1983) discusses many of the books on ass. Thomas F. Troy's Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency (Frederick, Md.: University Publi­cations of America, 1981), originally published by CIA, in­cludes an account of the origins and development of the ass. Federal Records of World War II, which was published by the National Archives in 1950-51, provides a brief description of the functions and administrative history of the various branch­es and units within Cal and OSS. The War Report of the OSS was prepared by the SSU History Project and published with an introduction by Kermit Roosevelt (New York: Walker, 1976).

Historians and OSS veterans have already done research in these records. We are confident that their work will cast greater light on the history of World War II and the achieve­ment of the Office of strategic Services.

Appendix 1: Record Group 226, Entries 1-86: Records of OSS Research and Analysis Branch, etc. (pp. 18-20)

Appendix 2: Record Group 226, Entries 87-190: CIA's OSS Ar­chive, accessioned in the 1980s (pp. 21-23)

Selected Box and Folder Descriptions [compiled by the newslet­ter editor from copies provided by the National Archives]:

Algiers Files (Entry 97), pp. 24-32, including a general de­scription of the files (pp. 24-26), and selected folder descriptions (pp. 28-32), listing, e.g., the contents of Folder 19 (with 210 pp. of intelligence on France), of Folders 247-253 with captured German materials, and nu­merous intelligence reports (Bern, Casablanca, etc.);

OSS New York and Field Station Records (Entry 168), listing Kunming files (pp. 34-37), including Folder 225 on the death of Capt. John M. Birch (p. 36); and listing, among

London files (pp. 37-38), files on guerrilla warfare in Russia and Poland, and on German weapons and armor; among

Madrid files (p. 39), Folder 472 on Iberian operations, organization, relations with the embassy, etc.; among

New York OSS Records (pp. 40-47), material on Yugoslavia (Folder 555, p. 40), research papers on German radio news (Folders 601 & 602, p. 41), and material on Japanese pro­paganda (Folders 817-820, pp. 43-44), as well as on Labor relations in occupied Europe (pp. 45-47); and among

Paris files (pp. 48-49), field war diaries (Folder 951) and material on German POWs, their backgrounds and person­al histories, POW School, etc. (Folders 962-966)

[APPENDIX 1] OSS R&A. VISUAL PRESENTATION. AND FNB BRANCHES RECORDS

RECORD nROup 226 ENTRIES 1-86 (STACK l5W4)

RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS BRANCH (ENTRIES 1-84)

ENTRY

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

BOX ENTRY. TInE .Q!!.:. LOCATION

R&A General Correspondence. 1942-46 5/l0/D-F

Correspondence Re the Civil Affairs StaRing Area (CASA) OutpoStSE the 2 1/l/A Presidio. Honterey c8t., 1945

Cablegrams Received by the COl, 1942 1 l/l/A

Despatches Received from Neutral ForeiRn Posts, 1941-42 3 l/l/A m "

CablegramB Received from OSS Outposts, 1942-44 5 l/l/B "tl

"0 c

CableRramB, To and From OSS outposts 14 5/11/E-F c: "m C

ChronoloRical File of CablegramB 3 l/l/C >­... R&A Reports re Political, Social and Economic Conditions, 1941-46 64 5/l3/A ...

:J:

'" zReports re European Railroads and BridRes 3 5/l0/B >­... Reports of the Joint Psychological Warfare Committee, 1942 1 5/9/V 0

z >­....

OSS Orders. Memoranda, Bulletins, Circulars, and Instructions 2 5/9/F >­:a " Economic Intelligence of British ~nistry of Econ. Warfare, 1942 1 l/l/C ::

Biographical Sketches and "Morgue 'Files" of the Populo D'Italia 27 5/11/A '"<

'" R&A Name and Subject Card Indexes to Entry 16 6/l/C

Descriptive ("Accession") Lists of Intelligence Reports for E16 8 4/l5/A

Regular Series R&A Intelligence Reports, 1941-45 1648 l/l/e tp 4/13/B

Name and Subject Card Indexes to Entries 19, 21 and 23 6/9/e

Descriptive ("Accession") Lists for RM Reports In E19 3 4/15/8

R&A Reports, "XL" Series, 1941-46 7 4/l5/C

Descriptive ("Accession") Lists for R&A Intelligence Reports in E2l 4 4/l5/D

R&A Intelligence Reports, "L" Series, 1942-45 457 11/6/A and l2/6/A

Descriptive ("Accession") Lists of R&A Reports in E23 2 4/l5/D

R&A Reports re Enemy Logistics, "Order of Battle" Series, 1942-45 231 5/l/A

Card Abstracts of Reports Arranged by dissemination ("A"-prefixed) 6/ll/C nunmer, 1942-45

11 5/l0/ASurvey of ForelR" Expert~ Interviews of RefURees in US

Cross-Reference Cards to Unidentified Reports re Europe and Asia, 6/11/E 1942-45

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29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

38

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

47

48

49

50

51

52

53

54

55

56

57

R&A ECONOMICS DIVIsImt (ENTRIEfi 27-36)

Correspondence of Emile Depres, Economics Div. Chief, 1941-45 2

Economics Div. Corr. and Reports, 1942-44 1

Reports Prepared by the Economics Div. of the Office of COl 1

Recovery of Looted Art Treasures in Germany, 1940-45 1

Agricultural Conditions in Europe and North Africa, 1941-44 1

2

Military Supplies of the Axis Powers, 1942-44

German Manpower, 1942-44

1

Industrial Resources of Axis Powers, 194)-43 1

German Trade and Shipping 2

Economic and Industrial Conditions in Germany- 1943-44 2

R&A ~UROPE-AFRICA DIVISION (ENTRIES 37-52)

Correspondence of the Division Chief, 1942-45 7

General Correspondence, 1941-45 6

Correspondence re Outposts, 1942-45 3

Correspondence re Europe and Africa, 1942-45 2

Cablegrams to and from Outposts 1

Hbnth1y Progress Reports, 1943-45 1

Contact File Interviews and San Francisco Conference, 1945 1

"Civil Affairs Guides" and Correspondence re Germany and Germsn 8 Occupied Countries

"Outpost Informational Letters," 1943-45 1

Algiers Outpost, 1943-44 1

Balkan Activities, 1944-46 2

Cairo Outpost, 1944-45 2

Outposts in France, 1944-45 2

outposts in Germany, 1945] 1

Outposts in Italy, 1943-45 3

London Outpost 5

Far East Div. Correspondence with Outposts, 1942-46 7

1Security-Classified Records 9 Fa~ East, 1944-45

4

Biweekly Latin American Situation Reports, 1944-45

Reports re China and Formosa, 1941-46

2

1 in Venezuela Latin American Div., Photographs of Fritz Ehemann, a German Merchant

517IA

517IA

517/A

5/7/A

5/7/A

517IA

51718

5/7/8

51718

517/8

5/718

517IC

517ID

517ID

517/D

517IE

517IE

517IE

517/F

5171

5171

5/8/A

5/8/A

5/8/A

5/8/B

5/8/B

5/8/c

5/8/D

5/8/D

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57A-D R&A Branch, Psychological Div.: Reading File, Reports, Research and Budget Records

58 Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Analysts, 1941-43

59 Projects Committee Minutes of Meetings, 1942-46

60 Projects Committee, Correspondence. 1943-45

R&AINTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR ACQUISITION OF FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS,

61 New Delhi, Correspondence. 1944-45

62 New Delhi. Reports re Southeast Asis. 1944-45

63 Stockholm, Correspond~nce

64J Correspondence from Washington. London. snd Paris. 1942-45

65 Correspondence from Finance Branch re Personnel. 1943-45

66 German POW Interrogations re Archives and Publishing

67 Semimothly Outpost Letters and Monthly Reports from Interdepartmental Committee, 1945 (cf' E70)

68 Foreign Publications Card File • 1943-45

69 Foreign Newspapers and Periodicals Card File

70 List of German Periodicals Maintained by the Stockholm Office. Dee. 1944 (Cf E67)'

71 Lists of Foreign Publications Microfilmed. 1942-45

72 Swedish Language Newspaper Clippings

73 ETO General Correspondence. 1944-45

74 William Langer and Chandler Morse. Correspondence. 1943-45

75 Allan Evans. Deputy Chief. Correspondence. 1942-45

76 Biographical Records Division. Correspondence. 1944-45

77 Enemy Objective Unit of the Economic Warfare Div•• Correspondence 1943-45

78 London Joint Target Group Correspondence. 1944 (cf E79 and E 80)

79 London Joint Target Committee. Oil Targets Reports. 1944

80 London Joint Oil Target Committee. 1944-45

81 OSS Mission to Germany. Correspondenee. 1944-45

82 Freneh Politiea1 and Eeonomie Conditions

83 MEDTO Correspondenee, 1943-45

84 China Theater Correspondenee. 1944-45

85 Records re Msps. Charts. Motion Pictures. ete. of the Visual Presentation Br •• 1942-45

86 FNB Correspondenee, 1941-45 (ef RlOO)

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[APPENDIX 2J ass OPERATIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT RECORDS

(CIA's OSS ARCHIVE) RECORD GROUP 226

·ENTRY ~TRY TITLE ~OX3 DTY LOCATION4

SF 115 ITEM #

DATE REC'D5

87 Austrian Applications for Nazi Membership (25 ) 1 (Microfilm)

+881 Overseas Cable File 668 19/2/F 2 01/10/85

89 Italian Intelligence Personalities (12) 3 (CI)

+902 Washington R+C & Field Photo Branch Records 49 l8/20/F 4 17/12/85

+91 History of OSS in London 34 II 8/9/0 5 03/01/80

92 @ Central Files 640 24/l4/A 6 30/10/86

93 Propaganda Charts (2.5 ) NNPD 7 03/09/85

94 CIG/CIA Organization Charts (0 .. 5 ) 8 (post-OSS)

+95 2 Combined Intelliqence Committee 10 2l/l/C 9 23/04/85

+96 2 Washington Communications Office 2 * 7/32/B 10 12/02/85

+97 2 Algiers File 45 19/1/C 11 03/09/85

98 Pictorial Records Section Files (Temporary)

+992

+1002

+101 2

OSS History Office Files

Foreign Nationalities Branch

Miscellaneous Files: YUgoslavia, Greece, and Bulgaria. Also: Special Teams

107

131

5

* 8/6/F * 6/2/A

* 6/6/A

13

14

15

03/01/80

03/01/80

03/01/80

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102 Burma Film (1) 16 08/07/86 > .... +103 2 Special Forces 5 * 6/6/B 17 03/01/80 ....

:z: +104 Communications Chrono File (1) l6/l5/C 18 12/03/86 '" z +105 @ Survey of Foreign Experts 3Z 16/15/E 19 01/07/86 > ....

+106 2

+107 2 @

+108 2

Secret Intelligence Operations

Survey of Foreign Experts

Washington Registry SI Branch Field Files

50

11

465

* 8/5/E 16/15/0

16/18/0

20

21

22

03/01/80

01/07/86

13/05/86 > ;xl n :z:

o z > ....

109

+110 2 @ Washington Registry Intelligence Files 124

Field Intelligence Reports; Theater Officer 53 Correspondence: Draft Histories

14/l/B

* 6/6/C

23

24

03/02/87

03/01/80

< '"VI

111

+112

Secret Intelligence "A"

Propaganda Samples

Reports (2)

1 * 6/7/E 25

26

(Microfilm)

03/01/80

+113 2 Censorship & Document Branch Files 7 * 7/32/A 27 12/02/85

114 Photo Copies of General Donovan's Files (Temporary)

+115 2 London Field Files 52 * 6/7/E 29 03/01/80

+116 Office of the Director, OSS 7 * 6/9/A 30 03/01/80 117 Special Devices (1) 31 (Sp. Devices) 118 Accession Logs 24 * 8/5/B 32 12/02/85 119 London Counter-intelligence Files (43) 33 (CI)

+ 120 Washington Counter-intelligence & TSS Files 46 15/7/B 34 08/07/86 +121 1

122

Field Radio & Cable File s

Miscellaneou'~) X-2Files

140

(3)

17/8/C 35

36

12/03/86

(CI) 123 Bern & Madrid Field Files (8) 37 (CI) 124 Field Files: Athens,

Bern, Heidelberg, Austria, Barcelona, Lisbon, London and

(17) 38 (CI)

Caserta; and Washington X-2

Field Files: Bern, Stockholm and Caserta 59 l5/5/F 39 08/07/86

+. Included in 1. Box List. 3. ( ) • cubic feet 4. Aisle/Compartment/Shelf computer lOcation in 16-W-4.2. Descriptive List. S. Day/Month/Yearindex. Entries in 13-W-3 noted by •

( ) - reason file Location omitted for files@. Not declassified by 01/06/87 withheld by CIA not yet accessioned. [21]

126 Caserta Counter-intelligence Files (28) 40 (cl)

127 Madrid Counter-intelligence Files (16 ) 41 (CI) 128 Paris Field Files (13 ) 42 (cl)

+129 Cable Logs ("A" Reports) 4 • 6/9/B 43 02/10/84 +1301 Budget Data for COl, OSS and SSU: 4 17/2/B 44 12/03/86

and Field Photo Negatives

+131 Washington/Field Office: Administrative 21 * 6/9/C 45 02/10/84and Support Records: Cables

+131A2 ERE: Emergency Rescue Equipment 5 • 6/9/B 45 02/10/84 +1321 Washington Services Branch Records 59 15/16/D 46 08/07/86 ~

+1331 Washington/Field Office: Miscellaneous "ll

171 15/8/C 47 22/07/86 ~ Administrative Records c

c o ",+1341 Washington R+D: R+C (with 30/10/86 increment) 372 * 7/32/B 48 12/02/85 c

+135 Washington Communications Branch Records 86 22/23/C 49 23/04/85 ~

+136 Field Files: Algiers, Austria, Bari; Burma, 187 20/20/C 50 03/09/85 ~

Cairo, Calcutta, Caserta, Denmark, J~nming, ",

zLondon, Paris, New York, washington > .... +1371 Washington Secretariate & SI Branch Recs, 28 16/17/F 53 08/07/86 0

+138 Washington X-2 Branch Records 4 l7/7/A 64 12/03/86 .-;+139 Washington/Field Station Records: 298 21/4/F 65 11/06/85 >

Cairo, Calcutta, Caserta, Honolulu, o;0

New York, Paris, singapore, .%

<,.,stockholm and Washington VI

Washington Pacific Coast Area/Field 94 17/3/C 66 12/03/86 station Records

OSS Washington Miscellaneous Records 6 17/2/E 71 12/03/86

OSS Washington Sectet Inte11igence/ 5 17/3/B 73 12/03/86 Field station Records

OSS Field Station Operations and 14 19/1/A 74 03/09/85 Services Records

+1441 Washington/Field Office: Miscellaneous 138 l8/22/F 75 17/12/85

+145 2 R+A and R+D Records 107 22/20/D 76 12/02/85 +146t. Washington OSS Operation & Support Records 267 20/14/B 77 06/08/85

+147 2 OSS New York/London Office Records 10 22/18/A 78 23/04/85

+148 2 OSS New York/Overseas Station Records: 136 21/1/E 79 12/02/85 Chungking, Dakar, Holland, Istambul, Kandy, Kunming, Lisbon, London, New York, Paris, Pretoria, Singapore, Stockholm and Tangier

+149 OSS New York Office: Survey of Foreign 1 * 7/32/B 80 12/02/85 Experts Records

150 OSS R+D Production Records (0.5) 82 (Sp. Devices)

151 OSS Map Records (0.5 ) 83

+152 2 OSS R+A Branch Records 4 22/23/B 85 23/04/85 (combined with Entry 164)

+153 OSS R+A Branch Records 14 16/14/E 86 12/03/86 +154 2 OSS Field Offices: Bari, Bucharest, Burma, 218 * 6/9/F 88 02/10/84

Cairo, Caserta, Kandy, Kunming

+. Included in 1. Box List. 3. ( , • cubic feet 4. Aisle/Compartment/Shelfcomputer location in 16-W-4.index. 2. Descriptive List. 5. Day/Month/Year

Entries in 13-W_3 noted by •( ) • reason file Location omitted for files,. Not declassified by 01/06/87 withheld by CIA not yet access!onQd.

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+155 2 OSS Censorship & Documents Branch Records 4 l4/4/B 89 03/02/87

1562 @ Secret Intelligence Branoh Indexes 275 l2/l0/E 90 08/07/86

+157 OSS New York George Office Records 20 l7/2/C 92 12/03/86

+1582 OSS Seventh Army Records 10 l7/6/F 93 12/03/86

159 OSS New York Secret Intelligence Branch (2) 94 (CI)

+160 OSS New York Secret Intelligence Branch 39 l7/7/C 95 12/03/86

+161 2 @ OSS Schools and Training Branch Records 12 l4/5/B 96 03/02/87

+162 Office of the Director, COI/OSS Records 9 l7/7/B 97 12/03/86

163 General Magruder Records and Papers 1 98 (post-OSS)

+1 64 2 OSS R+A Branch/Map Procurement 22/23/C 99 23/04/85 (combined with Entry 152)

+165 2 OSS operations: Mediterranean and Burma 44 l8/2l/F 100 17/12/85

166 China and Korea Counter-intelligence Files 101 (Microfilm/Cl)

167 Miscellaneous Top Secret Reports File 1 102 (CI)

+1682 Field Files: Kandy, Kunming, London! 95 22/l8/C 104 12/02/85 Madrid, New York, Paris, Shangha , Singapore, Stockholm

169 @ OSS Washington/London Special Funds Branch 16 l4/5/D 105 03/02/87

170 Strategic Services Unit Liaison Control (0.3) 106 of Records

171 Washington X-2 Branch Recorda (49) 107 (cI)

1722 OSS Cairo SI/X-2 Branch Records 6 l4/4/B 108 03/02/87 +173 Washington OSS Official Subject Records 12 l7/3/A 109 12/03/86

174 OSS/Rome X-2 Branch Records (97) 110 (CI)

+175 OSS R+A Branch, Latin American Section 2 l6/l4/E 111 12/03/86 +176 2 OSS Miscellaneous Records 2 l7/3/C 112 12/03/86 +1772 OSS R+A and State/ORI Records 15 l6/l5/A 113 12/03/86

178 OSS Washington Special Operations Branch (1) 114 179 OSS Miscellaneous Files (0.3) 115 (CI) 180 Director, OSS Official Records (0.3) 116 (Microfilm) 181 Microfilmed Official OSS Records (4) 117 (Microfilm) 182 OSS Field station Records (44) 118 (CI)

+183 @ OSS Washington SI/Special Funds Records 35 14/4/C 119 03/02/87 +184 Washington-OSS-Records 1 l6/l5/C 120 12/03/86

165 Washington-OSS-Communications Records (1) 121 (Microfilm) 186 Washington-OSS-Communicayions Records (2) 122 (CI) 187 Washington-OSS-Communications Records (2) 123 (CI) 188 Washington-OsS-Communications Records (5) 124 (CI)

189 Washington-osS-Communications Records (2) 125 (CI) 1901 Director1s Office & Field station Records 742 l4/l4/C 126 22/07/86

+. Included in 1. Box List. 3. ( J .. cubic feet 4. Aisle/Compartment/Shelf computer location in l6-W-4.index. 2. Descriptive List. 5. DayiMonth/Year Entries in l3-W-3 noted by * ( ) • reason file Location omitted for filesNot declassified by 01/06/81 withheld by' CIA not yet accesaioned.

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ALGIERS FILES BOX AND FOLDER LIST

RECORD GROUP 226 ENTRY 97

Quoted from the SF 115 dated 11 April 1979: o

"Documentation concerning operations in North Africa, primarily .., operational group command type activities: psychological warfare, subversive activity behind the enemy lines, exfiltration of allied prisoners, and situa- z

~tion reports regarding public morale and effect of allied and axis propaganda. ~

The file includes operational activity files, correspondence, intelligence ~ >report, and personnel folders. Covers period 1942-1945. Arranged by subject r

number and thereunder by folder number. Volume is 16 cubic feet. (CIA Job No. 58-31)"

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Revised description:

"Documentation concerning activities in North Africa of the Secret Intelligence Branch, Special Operations Branch and the Operational Group Command.* Raw intelligence and intelligence reports include information concerning battle order and other military information, defenses, bombing targets, transportation, economic and political situation, personalities and effect of psychological warfare in North Africa (Free French and ethnic groups), Italy, Southern France, Spain, Jugoslavia, Eastern Europe, Austria and Germany. The entry includes correspondence, telegrams and reports regard­ing special operations, organization and other administrative matters, personnel and plans for missions. (Many files on the results of operations have been withdrawn). Covers the period 1942-1945, with one 1946 file. Arranged by SSU file code. Volume is 18 cubic feet. (CIA Job. No. 58-31)"

*For description of Branch purpose and function see following page.

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SECRET INTELLIGENCE BRANCH

This Branch, which was known in the Office of the Coordinator of Informa­tion and in the early days of OSS as Special Activities B, was renamed the Secret Intelligence Branch on January 3, 1943. It collected secret intelli­gence in all parts of the world except the Western Hemisphere, evaluated such intelligence and disseminated it to authorized agencies, and established and maintained direct liaison with Government and Allied secret intelligence agencies.

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SPECIAL OPERATIONS BRANCH

This Branch, set up in the Office of the Coordinator of Information and ~ known in the early days of OSS as Special Activities/G, was renamed the Special ' Operations Branch on January 3, 1943. It was responsible for accomplishing ~ sabotage in enemy and enemy-occupied countries, for organizing and supporting :I:

underground resistance movements, for conducting such operations as were not a assigned to other Government agencies and not under the direct control of a theater or area commander of the Army or Navy, and for equipping and training individuals and organizations required for its operations. Under its Chief and his Deputy Chief there were two operations officers, one for Europe and one for the Far East. The Maps and Reports Officer was responsible for research and the preparation of reports in connection with special operations.

OPERATIONAL GROUP COMMAND

In December 1942 the Office of Strategic Services was authorized to conduct guerilla warfare behind enemy lines. This activity was assigned to the Special Operations Branch until May 13, 1943, when the first separate operational group was authorized. This group and others established later comprised the Operational Group Command, which at first was under the Office of the Deputy Director, Operations, but which later, by mid-1944, became more nearly independent. The Command aided anddirected open-resistance groups in carrying out guerilla warfare and in attacking selected targets. Unlike the Special Operations Branch, the Command activated guerillas as military units that operated in uniform and were not primarily concerned with individual acts of sabotage. Operational teams consisting of American volunteers who spoke the language of the target area were selected and trained by the Command for overseas duty.

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ALGIERS FILES ::0

BOX AND FOLDER LIST ~ RECORD GROUP 226 MENTRY 97 l:J

~ L ALGIERS: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON SOUTHERN FRANCE, NORTH AFRICA, SPAIN, ~

OPERATIONS PERSONNEL, ADMINISTRATIVE (Boxes 1-3, Folders 1-56) I;

2. ALGIERS: INTELLIGENCE ON NORTH AFRICA AND ITS ETHNIC GROUPS, COMPILATION OF ~ SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON FREE FRENCH IN NORTH AFRICA (Boxes 4-6, !:il Folders 57-85)

3. ALGIERS: REPORTS OF OPERATIONS, PERSONNEL, TRAINING REPORTS, ORGANIZATION, MISSION REPORTS, RELATIONS WITH FREE FRENCH IN NORTH AFRICA, (Boxes 6-10, Folders 86-149)

4. ALGIERS: MAPS (MIDDLE EAST, ASIA MINOR, TOWNS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE) AND PHOTOGRAPHS (HEADQUARTERS, INSIGNIA) (Boxes 10-12, Folders 150­ <

II>215) IT1

5. ALGIERS: SCHOOLS AND TRAINING (S&T) AND SECURITY (SEC) BRANCHES PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS, SECRET INTELLIGENCE (SI) BRANCH ADMIN­ISTRATIVE MATTERS AND SCATTERED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS (Boxes 12-14, Folders 216-238)

6. ALGIERS: SECRET INTELLIGENCE (SI) BRANCH: HETEROGENEOUS INTELLIGENCE COVER­ING NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, SOUTHERN FRANCE. SPAIN, BALKANS. EAST EUROPE, GERMANY, BATTLE ORDER AND OTHER MILITARY INFORMATION, DEFENSES, BOMBING TARGETS, TRANSPORTATION, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION, PERSONALITIES: ALSO SCATTERED ORGANIZATIONAL AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS (Boxes 14-29, Folders 239-507)

7. ALGIERS: SECRET INTELLIGENCE (SI) BRANCH; OPERATIONAL RECORDS INCLUDING CABLES AND CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT PERSONNEL, RECRUITING, PLANS FOR INTELLIGENCE/LIAISON MISSIONS TO JUGOSLAVIA, FRANCE, HUNGARY, NORTH ITALY, GERMAN AUSTRIA;ALSO RAW INTELLIGENCE REPORTS (Boxes 29-36, Folders 508-627)

8. ALGIERS: SPECIAL OPERATIONS (SO) BRANCH;PLANS FOR OPERATIONS IN EUROPE, DIRECTIVES ON RESPONSIBILITIES, RECRUITING OF JEDBURGH TEAMS, RECRUITING AND TRAINING OF FRENCH (Files on results of air and other operations mostly withdrawn (Boxes 36-45, Folders 628-800)

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ALGIERS FILES BOX AND FOLDER LIST

RECORD GROUP 226 ENTRY 97

1. ALGIERS: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON SOUTHERN FRANCE, NORTH AFRICA, SPAIN, OPERATIONS PERSONNEL, ADMINISTRATIVE (Boxes 1-3, Folders 1-56)

Box File No. Folder

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1) 321a, [Intelligence, Southern France] - Original intelligence reports, maps, plans, overlays of Southern France, partly in French, about 100 pp., 1943.

2) 321b, [Intelligence, Southern France] - Original intelligence reports, maps, plans, overlays, photographs of destruction in Marseilles and Toulon, TOMMY materials, partly in French, about 150 pp., 1943.

3) 322, [Intelligence, Southern France] - TOMMY disseminations, reports on transportation, coastal defense, and psychological warfare in Southern France, maps and photographs, partly in French, about 200 pp., 24 May 1943-1 June 1943.

4) 323, 7th Army - Correspondence between Reports Section Algiers and SSS, G-2, 7th Army on administrative matters and military intelligence requests and reports, about 125 pp., 7 Apr. 1944­14 Sept. 1944.

5) 324, Orders - Incomplete set of orders for SI, 2677th HQ Regt. appointments, move to Caserta, 60 pp., 9 Mar. 1944-23 Aug. 1944.

6) 346, Casablanca - Miscellaneous documents and letters between Algiers and Casablanca, administrative, intelligence (including report on German saboteurs sent to U.S.) 45 pp., 3 Mar. 1943­12 Sept. 1943.

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7) 349, [Fighting French] - Rosenborough memo "The Present Position of the Fighting French with Relation to Resistance within France and our Policy Toward the French", 11 pp., 21 Oct. 1942.

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362 - Map of Departments of France, Withdrawal Notice, 1 p., May 1944. 371, GINNY - OG operations in Italy, instructions, personnel, sketch of target, 95 pp., 26 Dec. 1943-4 Apr. 1944.

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10) 374, SPAIN, BATAAN - Exchange of messages between Madrid and Algiers on administrative matters and planning for Southern France, 1 Withdrawal Notice, 80 pp., 5 Oct. 1943-12 May 1944.

11) 377, Gorgona - Operations of OP 1 & 2, Gorgon (Seneca) and Capr~ia staffing, intelligence reports, casualties in German raid, 85 pp., 12 Dec. 1943-25 June 1944.

12) 378, Capraia - Personnel for OG OMAHA, report of operations, weather and shipping intelligence, 43 pp., 29 Jan. 1944­25 June 1944.

13) 382 [Intelligence on German Activities] - Information from interrogations about German code, enemy sabotage methods, escape plans for parachutists, sabotage reports, information sought by German agents in U.S., 57 pp., 29 June 1943­16 Apr. 1944.

14) 383 ALFA - Plans, equipment and personnel for special Fifth Army mission, 53 pp., 18 Dec. 1943-24 Feb. 1944.

15) 386, DALLAS - Coordination of OSS operations with ISSU6 and Air Force against enemy transport, plans for operations by Italian OGs in Appennine, maps and overlays, targets, ob­jectives, funds, 85 pp., 16 Dec. 1943-27 Mar. 1944.

16) 388, Test Drops and Others - Reports on test drops and blind landing equipment, 16 pp., 16 Dec. 1943-21 Feb. 1944.

17) 389, Central European S.O.- Possible Special Operations desk in Algiers for operations in Germany and Central Europe, 7 pp., 17 Feb. 1944-14 Apr. 1944.

18) 390, SIMCOL - Reports of operations of SIMCOL, an OG mission to aid escaping Allied personnel, interrogation report, reports by returning personnel, 25 pp., 14 Mar. 1944-26 Mar. 1944.

19) 425, Intelligence, France - Reports of conditions in France, on collaboration, political organizations, German cipher, French opinions 9 Battle Order and other military information on France, the Maquis, requests for intelligence, plans for combat intelligence teams in Southern France, partly in French, 210 pp., 12 Nov. 1943-21 July 1944.

20) 434, Advanced Base 2677th Hqs. Co. Exp. (Prov) - Personnel needs and table of organization for operational supplies, draft organization plan for Mediterranean area. 20 pp., 26 Mar. 1943-30 Nov. 1943.

20a) #358 - Table of Organization SAC, 1 p. n.d.

20b) #359 - Empty Folder [28]

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21) 446 [EAST SIDE] - Aborted plan for EAST SIDE team to infiltrate Genoa to collect intelligence, 3 pp., 4 Feb. 1944.

22) 447 - Administrative memos on mail, duty officers, use of vehicles, 22 pp., 28 Dec. 1943-22 Apr. 1944.

23) [Miscellaneous Intelligence] - Information on situation in Spain, Catalan problem, map of Dauphine, Savoie, intelligence on Southern France, Italy, part in French, part Italian and English, 1 Withdrawal Notice, 60 pp., 21 Apr. 1943-9 June 1943.

24) Oran, Reports from - Troop strengths in France and Italy, reports on individuals and their affiliations, part in French, 85 pp., 26 Jan. 1943-9 Feb. 1943.

25) Personnel, OSS - Recruiting in North Africa (general as well as individuals), assignments, 10 pp., 25 Jan. 1943-2 Mar. 1943.

26) OSS, London - Operations memo on ETO (France, Belgium, Iberian peninsula), collaboration between London and Algiers, German propaganda in Algiers, 31 pp., 13 Feb. 1943-31 Mar. 1943.

27) Capitain Parisot and Lt. Chevallier - Officers in Morocco, their contact with U.S. Army, in French, 4 pp., n.d.

28) E.R. Perkins - Assignment, 6 pp., 24 Dec. 1943-25 Mar. 1944.

29) Psychological Warfare Reports - Political intelligence reports on Algiers and Morocco, situation in Spain and Portugal, military information on France, part in French, 45 pp., 19 Mar. 1943-16 Apr. 1943.

30) Pratt, Jack B. - Possible U.S. agent, 1 Withdrawal Notice, 1 pp., 25 Feb. 1943.

31) Pouches - Pouch list, 1 p., n.d.

32) Shapiro, Jerry - Travel orders, requests for photographs, contact with Murrieta, 9 pp., 16 Dec. 1943-7 Feb. 1943

33) Rygor-Polish Intelligence Service - Reports from Rygor on interrogation of POW's of Polish nationality, reports on Spanish question, Jewish-Arab issue, French army morale, Algerian reaction to war, order of battle, General Giraud's declaration, mostly in French, 1 Withdrawal Notice, 80 pp., 10 Feb. 1943-5 May 1943.

34) Spanish Republican Refugee Situation, North Africa - Report from Oujda, pr-Nazis, data on emigres, prison situation, 7 pp., 18 Feb. 1943.

35) Schaeffer, Lieutenant - Activities of former officer of Foreign Legion, allegedly collaborationist, 1 p., 13 Mar. 1943.

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237) [North African Situation], WP 348 - Roseborough report on Anglo-American French relations in North Africa and critique of U.S. intelligence activities, 12 pp., Feb. 1943.

238) Distributees, 350 - Correspondence re distribution of OSS reports, 45 pp., 9 Oct. 1943-19 Sept. 1944.

SECRET INTELLIGENCE (SI) BRANCH; HETEROGENEOUS INTELLIGENCE COVERING NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, SOUTHERN FRANCE, SPAIN, BALKANS, EAST EUROPE, GERMANY, BATTLE ORDER AND OTHER MILITARY INFORMATION, DEFENSES, BOMB­ING TARGETS, TRANSPORTATION, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION, PERSON­ALITIES; ALSO SCATTERED ORGANIZATIONAL AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS (Boxes 14-29, Folders 239-507)

239) 380, [France, Intelligence] - Reports from France on the Resistance, sabotage, German morale, 36 pp •• 15 Apr. 1944­26 June 1944.

240) 424, Potter to Reid (sic) - Reports on Corsica, French Committee of National Liberation, evaluation of French Resistance, LD.descriptions, partly in French, 45 pp., 15 Sept. 1943-6 Jan. 1944.

241) AFHQ "AQUITANIA" Reports Feb. 1944-Apr. 1944 - Gelleral intelligence reports 1-3 on Southern France (order of battle, defenses, topography, transportation, communications, in­ternal situation, naval and air situation), about 80 pp., 11 Feb. 1944-7 Apr. 1944.

242) AFHQ "AQUITANIA" Reports May 1944-June 1944 - General intelligence reports 4 and 5 on Southern France. 60 pp., 13 May 1944-13 June 1944.

243) "Iceland" Originals - Film.

244) "ICELAND" and Berne Originals - Raw intellignce on Northern Italy and Southern France re industrial production, military activities, transportation, partly in French and Italian, 70 pp., 1 Mar. 1944-13 Sept. 1944.

245) Miscellaneous Source Originals - Raw intelligence on St. Astier aircraft factory with map, airfields, coastal defenses in Southern France, situation in Elba, Algerian Government, German morale, partly in French, 85 pp., 31 Mar. 1944-21 June 1944.

246) AAI Original Reports, AAl-l - 3 enemy maps, 22 June 1944.

247) Gliederung der Sicherungs, Krafte Map, AAI-2 - Overlay of captured document 9battle order) 1 p., n.d.

248) Bandenlage, Map, AAI-3 - Overlay of captured document, 1 p" annotated stand 1.4.44

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"249) Banden-Karte, Map, stand 11. 5.44.

AAI-4 - Overlay of captured document, 1 p.,

250) Bandentatigkeit in der Zeit vom, captured document, 1 p., geh vom

Map, AAI-5 16.5.44.

- Overlay of

251) Bandenlage Mittel-Italien, Map, document, 1 p., stand 31.3.44.

AAI-6 - Overlay of captured

252) Feindlage, Maps 29.11.1943.

- Overlay of captured document, 1 p., vom

253) Anhalt fur Krafteverteilung Wesliches Mittelmeer, Map, Overlay of captured document, 1 p., stand 26.5.1944.

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254) "SEMINOLE" Originals - Raw intelligence on defenses around Porto Corsini with annotated map, defenses around Cervia with annotated maps from submarine mission DRUPE in northern Adriatic, 8 pp., 28 June 1944-5 July 1944.

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255) "DURRANTS" Originals #1 - Raw intelligence on troop locations in Southern France, defenses in Durance valley, sketch map of Avignon area, sketch map of air base d'Istres, partly in French, 2 Feb. 1944-15 May 1944.

256) "DURRANTS" Originals #2 - Map of Toulouse showing plane factories, 2 pp., 5 Apr. 1944.

257) "DURRANTS" Originals #3 - Sketch showing points of fall of bombs on Courbevoie sur Seine on 31 Dec. 1943 indicating industries damaged, 2 pp., 10 Feb. 1944.

258) "DURRANTS" Originals #4 - Sketch of St. Yan airfield (Saone et Loire), 2 pp., 22 Feb. 1944.

259) "DURRANTS" Originals #5 - Bombing results and air intelligence on Villacoublay with sketch, 3 pp., 5,6 Feb. 1944.

260) "DURRANTS" Originals #6 - Raw intelligence on airfields of St. Cyr and Guayancourt with sketch map, 2 pp., 22 Feb. 1944.

261) "DURRANTS" Originals #7 - Raw intelligence on 67 airfields in France, 4 sketch maps, partly in French, 25 pp., 15 Jan. 1944.

262) "FULTON" Originals - Raw intellige on activities of security troops, transportation in the Marseille-Toulon-Avignon region, MERCY reports on German billets, rail transportation, sabotage, German agents or sympathizers, partly in French, 170 pp., March 1944-Aug. 1944.

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"S'11JART" Originals - Intelligence on interior navigation in France, report on transportation provisions of June 1940 armistice and German activities, partly in French, 60 pp., 25 Feb. 1943-25 June 1944.

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366) Siena Reports, IR 365 to IR 399 - Raw intelligence on battle order, naval activities, motor traffic, industrial produc­tion, enemy dumps in Italy, etc., 25 pp., 24 Apr. 1944­2 May 1944.

367) Siena Reports, IR 400 to IR 499 - Raw intelligence on enemy def~nses, partisan activities, naval activities, political situation in Italy, etc., 100 pp., 2-14 May 1944.

368) Siena Reports, IR 500 to IR 599 - Raw intelligence on enemy defenses, allied bombings, war industry, enemy dumps in Italy, etc., 110 pp., 14-31 May 1944.

369) Siena Reports, IR 600 to IR 699 - Raw intelligence on battle order, defenses, submarine bases, airfields, enemy traffic in Italy, etc., 115 pp., 1-19 June 1944.

370) Siena Reports, IR 700 to IR 799 - Raw intelligence on partisan activities, rail and air traffic, battle order, defenses in Italy, etc., 100 pp., 19 June 1944-11 July 1944.

371) Siena Reports IR 800 to IR 855 - Raw intelligence on battle order, defenses, traffic, shipping, supply depots, partisan activity, German and Fascist behavior in Italy, etc., 55 pp., 13-15 July 1944.

372) Siena Reports (Bern) JB1 to JB44 - Raw intelligence on battle order, military traffic, partisan activities, communications, war industry, bombing results in Italy, etc., 100 pp., 26 July 1944-18 Aug. 1944.

373) Siena Reports (Bern) JB45 to JB89 - Raw intelligence on battle order, naval activities, defenses, organization of patriots, war industry, airfields in Italy, etc., 62 pp., 18 Aug. 1944­13 Sept. 1944.

374) Reports AC1 to AC26, Casablanca - Raw intelligence on condi­tions in Germany, native situations in Fez and Morocco, Arab nationalism, French political group, battle order in Spanish Morocco, etc., 100 pp., 4 Dec. 1943-28 Mar. 1944.

375) Reports AB1 to AB50 (Bern) - Raw intelligence on troop identi ­fication, disposition and battle order in France, Italy and Yugoslavia, French political situation, technical develop­ments in Germany, etc., 65 pp., 28 Nov. 1943-9 Dec. 1943.

376) Reports AB51 to AB100 (Bern) - Raw intelligence on battle order and air and naval information on France and Italy, Mihai10vich-German agreement, German rockets, French and German war production, etc., 65 pp., 10-29 Dec. 1943.

377) Reports AB101 to AB150 (Bern) - Raw intelligence on battle order in France, Yugoslavia, Russia and Italy, French defenses, transportation in France and Italy, etc., 70 pp., 29 Dec. 1943-25 Jan. 1944.

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OSS lU.""W YORK .AND l"IiLD S1'ATI~ RECORDS (FIELD FlIES: !CANDY, KUNMING, LONDON, HADRID, IDi:W YORK, PARIS, SHANGHAI. SINGAPORE).

BOX AND l"O.LIER LIS!' RECORD QROOP 226

RN'l'RY168

Records maintained by OSS New York office, and certain field stations. Collection consists of personnel dossiers and lists of persons, both American and foreign. recommended :tor special awards and decorations; Reports of special operations behind eneu\y lines in the Far East and. in Central Europe: Hilitar,y studies of eneu\y Territory including aerial photographs; Samples of morale operations and. Japanese propagalXia; New York of:tice records consisting of the Buxton Committee on Oral Intelligence and Survey of Foreign Experts activities; Minutes of meeting; Unit chrono fUes and General Administrative records. Arranged chronological.l;y. 1942-1947. Volume 41 cubic :teet. (CIA. Job No. 61-881) Standard Form l1,S-A Job No. NC1­226-80-1, Item No. 104.

"'Records in Entry 168 are arranged according to Field station or by the main office, New Yonc.

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1.lUHKDIo. OPJaiA1'JXIW. 1UlPOR1'S. CQiKANOO <FElU.TlOOS. SECURI1'I DAII:! BOI..tE'rINS, GENERAL .AJU) SPilmL ORIERS, S1'RIiXn'H REPORr8 (BOXES 6-1, P'QI..I£RS 105-113)

~ F11e NQ. 101461'

1lJNKIHG_00 10S)An emp'tT tolder used aa a series d1rtder. -AD..1

106)Oporatlonal Roport - Woe~ Oporat10nal Report, 33 pp., Mar.-Aug.l94.5.

107)Al.l. p8rsooml - Correapondence 1'8 Cb1.na Theater Commando Operat:1.orus. 11 pp., Kar.-Jul..l94.5.

108)Seeur1ty - Correspondeoce 1'8 securlty and safeguard1.ng mU:1.tary 1n!'ormat1.otl, 2S pp., Aug.194S.

l(9)Da1JJ &llet1.n:s - Kunm1.ng ~ Bull.et1ns, 216 pp•• Kar.-Sept.194.5.

110)Spec:1.al Orders IQ &: IQ DET. 00 _ ass China Theater IQ. 210 pp•• Mar.-Sept.194.5.

111)MeIll~anda, Headquarters. HeQdquarters aJXi Headquarters Detach. ­MelllOranda re sa> tor torms and procedure. security. transportation. SUPpJJ. cOUllld.s:d.ons, etc•• 119 pp., Kar.-ilug.194S.

112)Geosral. Orders. Ch1Da Theater _ Geoeral. Orders re awards and medals. Ch1na Tbeater t1nance. etc•• 33 pp•• Apr.-Sept.194.5.

llJ)strengtb Reporta - ass atrengtb 1"8porta tor Cb1na Theater. 149 pp•• Juns-Sept.194S.

2.ICOHKDKh JWlIO .AND CABlES HE ~ ISLANDS. ETC. (BOX 8, FOLIERS 114-31)

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1 114)Empt.)" tal.der c8pt100ed XUHKINQ_OO-RC-l and used. u uer1es d1rtder.

11S)OO5. cbungk1.ng. Cables. Cb1Jla: Tbea.ter cables. 16 pp., Feb.-Sept.194S.

116)Apple - Cablea 1"8 Sol.OllIOn :Islanda, ass China Theater. 124 pp., Aprll-Sept.l94.5.

117)OJC, Cahlea - Operat10nal Group Colllllla1lCl Cables. 10 pp., Mar.-Sept.1945.

118)Detaehnaant Cables - ass China. 34 pp•• Mar.-Sept.194S.

119)Blueberry - ass China. cable. 1"8 Daly Rook. Treuur,y I&landa, near the 50lolllOn leland". 78 pp•• JuJJ-Sept.194.5.

120)Cherr,y 194.5.

- Cables re San Cristobal. Solol1lon I8lands, 30 pp., Aug.-Sept..

121)Ch1hk1~ - Cables re US installation 1n Chihk1anc. 123 pp.. [34] July_Sept. 1945.

File NQ. Folder

14 206)14 Chops and Stamps with reoords - SI CT certificates and credentials of NBidence. inoculation, travel perDl1ts. lII1.lltary Bervice. etc.; also a box of 14 chops and stamps; 16) pp., 194)-4.5.

207) Chinese Combat Command ILOll, Transmittal Memos - approx . .50 pp., Feb.-Aug. 194.5.

208)0_2 China Theater YK..Oll Tramllllittal Memos - approx. 220 pp., Nov. 1944-Auc. 194.5.

2(9)JICA YK-Oll Transmittal Memos - approx. 80 pp., Hov.1944-Aug.194.5.

210)500 & Hear Koh. YK..Oll Transm1ttal. Mamos - approx. 6.5 pp., Feb. -Aug .194.5.

211)OSS-SACO ILoa Transm1ttal IIIl'mos - approx. 1;0 pp., Nov.1944­Aug. 194.5.

212)MO - Transmittal. Memos, 19 pp •• ~-Aug.194.5.

8.KUNMING: CiUNA THE;ATER, AIMINISTRATIVB SUPPORI'. ORGANIZATIOO AND PROCUDURE (BOX p5,

FOLDERS 21)-218)

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15 KUNKlliQ_ 21) )lQ. Organization - Functions and organization of the ass CT. SLAD..2 46 pp., Feb.-Aug.1945.

214)Sl Office Procedure - ass CT. 35 pp •• Mar.-April 1945.

215)Beporta _Sl Statf Keetlnca - Mm1n1strative l118etinga. 10 pp •• Har.-Hq 1945.

216)SIOIS Organization - CT Organization or tho Geographical Intelligence Section or the Secret Intelligence Branch. 5.3 pp•• Oct.l944-Mq 1945.

217)T/O for 5I - CT Table or Operations. 16 pp•• Jan.~ 1945.

218)!Wporta - CFSCQ{ Meetings - Operations and Collllll1lt11cations 1liIBetings, 41 pp •• Mar.-Aug.1945.

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9.IUNM1HG: JAP.ANiSE MAPS, H.C. HILL INV"'~IOATICN, CORRESPON~CE, DEATH <F CAPT. JOHN BrOCH (BOXES 15-16. Jl'OLIlERS 219-225)

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15 KUNMING_ 219)Japanese Haps (How to Read _ Thirty maps of Palau, ~oto, ~aka, Sl-KAPS_l Chichijima, She~a Ialands; two copies of a typescript explaining

Japanese maps, 11 pp. eaoh, n.d.

16 220)Har~ CHill _ Investigation of oharge of assault ~ Major Harry C. Hill and Capt. Julian Fl. Niemczyk of Canton ass Field Station upon Anthony Christopher Hale on the night of 11-12 Oet.1945, 121 pp.

221)B1rd-Eagle _ Correspondence re withdrawal of ass fonn Hsian. 20 pp., Aug. _Sept. 1945.

222) OSS CT Correspondence - Correspondence re personnel; personal. history lStatements, )1 pp., 194.5-46.

22)Pers/Whitaker _ Col.John T.Wh1taker, ass Chungking, cammendation and award, 24 pp., Aug._Sept. 1945.

224) Lt..Guy Martin _ Assignment of Lt.Martin, June_July 1945.

22.5)Death of Capt. John Birch _ ass Capt. John M. Birch. killed on August 25, 194.5 between ld. Chuan and Hwang Ko in the Shantung Peninsula by qy Chinss8 CoalmuniBt Troops; cOITVspondence, cabl.es, t.estimol'\Y of Tung

4 11Fu Kuan, reports and accowtts, wo six JIIX positive and six negative photographs showing the bod;y 126 pp., Aug. 194,5...Ka.r.1946.

10.KUNHDIG: SECR6'T INT&.LIOENCE, FRENCH INDO-CHINA, AiRIAL PwrooRAPHS AND SKEl'CHES OF BRIIXlBS DI CHINA (BOX 16, FOLDERS 226-221)

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16 1CUWaNG_ 226)Aerial Pbotographs of French Indo-Ch1na - Twenty-five aerial SLPH01'O-l photographs, grid squares 1apoeed, o~ Saigon, Hanoi, Haiphong,

Ninh Binh, Namh Dinh and otmr Vietnameae cities r~1ng trom lOll x 19 11 to 22 11 X 29 11 in size, prepared by the 18th Photo Intell1gence Det., 14th Air Force, 1944.

17 227)Sketebes of Bridges in China Done from Aerial Pbotograpb8 ­Tb1rt1'-tive sketches of bridges, approx. 12 11 x 18" in size, and an alphabetical list, 1944.

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folder

228)Personnel File I - Correspondence, cables, personnel lists re I"6gulationa, eecur1ty, pay allotment, le ave, I"6cruitment, etc., 87 pp., Feb.-Ma.Y 1945.

229 )Personnel II - Correspondence and cables 1'6 jWllp status, commendations personnel transfer, discharge, disposition and aVailability, etc., 135 pp., June-Oet.1945.

230)Promotions - CT 11,( Det promotion papers, 66 pp., April_June 1945.

231)Promotions II - CT HQ Det promotiun papers, approx. 215 pp., June_Oct. 1945.

232)Citations - CT ass I"6commendationa for awards and citations, including descriptions o£ the agent' B role in SO teams, etc., 203 pp., ~- Oct.1945.

233 )Bronae Service Arrowhead - ass :iQ CT authorization for parachute insignia, approx. 100 PI'· , Sept • 191~5.

234)Roster of SO Personnel - Lists of CT Special Operations teams and personnel, 22 pp., April-Sept.1945.

23.5)oas Marauder Badgee - :I3sue of OSS identification buttons and a Marauder Corps button. 19 pp•• WN ,June_July 1945.

Folder

2J6)M1.nutes of Executive C01'IIII1ttee Meetings _ Organization charts tor let Arrrr:f ass; Jainutee o£ _etings on reoccupation of Norw~, the 5uasex Plan, strength of varloutl resistance groups, psychological warfare, and administrative matters, Col.J.Russel Forgan, pI"65iding, 29 pp., Mar .-Dec.1944.

2J?)Inventories Area "cn - Equipment and 8Upplies, 42 pp., Aug.-Nov.l9'+4.

2J8)Survey Report 141.8 - Autolllobile accident of 28 Oct.1944, accident report, cost estimate, )2 pp., Mar._Nov.1944.

2J9)Daily Sick Report - OSS Det reports, two pamphlets, 1943-45.

240)British Personnel 200 - Withdrawal Notice.

241)Withdrawal Notice. [37J

10. LONDON: SO BRANCH RESEARCH (BOXES 33-34, FOLDERS 462-471)

Box File No. Folder

33 LONDON-SO 462) Withdrawal Notice. -RES-1

463) SO Branch Files, 1943, R & A - Lists of Italian and German materials captured in North Africa, German occupation of Norway based on censor materials, in­formation on Hungarian oil, Italian electric power, bombing objectives in Yugoslavia, 109 pp., 27 Jan. 1943­24 A~r. 1943.

LONDON-SO 464) LONDON-SO-RES-3 - Plans for target intelligence file -RES-3 SO archives, 52 pp., 5 July 194~ - 4 Aug. 1945.

465) Organization of Sabotage System - Photocopy of study setting out sequence of steps in organizing sabotage system, 28 pp., 19 Apr. 1941.

466) L & C Areas, SZ-012-B04 - Handbook 01' German Military Administration of L. C. areas, security protection of convoys and:dumps, Germany sentry system~ plan of Etampes, France, pictures of German soldiers, 38 pp •• Dec. 1943.

467) Guerilla Warfare in Russia and Poland, SC-012-804, R 986 - Describes composition and activities of Russian and Polish partisan groups, German military and police administration in Russia, application of East European experiences to Western Europe, pictures of uniforms and identification badges, ~, pp., Jan. 1943 and supplement Jan. 1944.

468) street Fighting, Folder 1, SZ-012-804 - Describes principles used by Germans and Russians in assault and defense of towns, eyewitness aocounts of Stalin­grad street lighting, pictures of campaign in west in 1940, Russian campaign in 1941, 1942, 66 pp., n.d.

469) 4 Enclosures "Enemy Weapons", Folder 2, SZ-012-804 ­"German Infantry Weapons 1941", 29 pp., "Italian and German Infantry Weapons 1942", 71 p,P., "German Light Anti-Airoraft and Anti-Tank Guns 1942", 87 pp., "German Intantry, Heavy AA and Divisional Artillery 1943", 114 pp.

470) Sabotage Handbook - Vol. 7, pts. I and IV "Military Targets, Part I, civilian and military road signs; Part IV, airfields and their defense; Appendix A, aircraft; Seotion II, RDF stations, 72 pp., 1942.

471) The German Armoured Division, SZ-012-804 - Desoribes organization and identifioation of unite and their headquarters, piotures of weapons and vehicles, 118 pp. , Aug. 1943. [38]

11. MADRID ORGANIZATIONAL PLANS (BOX 34, FOLDERS 472-474)

Box File No. Folder

34 MADRID-OSS 472) Madrid Conference - Organization of Madrid and -AD-l other Iberian penninsula offices, plans for con­

tinued operations, relationship with Embassy, 220 p~.,

24 Sept. 1943 - 3 May 194~.

473) !organizational Plans7 - Operational and organiza­tional plans, personnel needs, description of intelli ­gence network and future plans, oil observers, Embassy relationshp, 38 pp., 17 June 1943 - 31 May 1944.

474) !Top Secret Materials List7 - List of Top Secret ARTICHOKE material in ARGUS' safe, 2 copies, 3 pp.,25 Oct. 1944.

[39]

BOX FILE NO. FOLDER

39 New York 551 RUSSIA - SECRET, # 66 OSS Notes on Russian Airports, Evaluation of

Op·-5 German successes on Rusian Front and Russ­ian resilience, Attitude of Cossacks to the War, (in Brazil.) 18 PP, Nov. 1941-May 1942.

552 ST. PIERRE and MIQUELON, # 67 Confidential Report on the situation on these Islands from the free French Dele­gation, 9 PP, Dec. 1941.

553 SANTA DOMINGO, # 68 A Letter concerning former residence of "S.D." with valuable information, that might be of value to OSS.

1 Item, May 1942.

554 SOUTH AMERICA - SECRET, # 69 German plans for ATTACK on U.S. through Brazil, Aegentina, and Chile. Reports of The Bureau of Latin America Research;Offers to re-establish Rubber Industry in Venzu­ela. The Germans in Chile. Offers of assist ­ance from leading citizens of So. American Countries. 26 Items, Jan. - Jume 1942.

555 YUGOSLAVIA -SECRET, # 70 Background of Gen. Mikha Levitch - Politi ­cal situation. An evaluation of Peter Savo, American citizen of Yugoslavian descent. The three Sokich Brothers . The Italian h~~~ in the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. Notes from Meeting at Inter-Allied Information Center. 10 Items, Oct.1941­

Apr. 1942.

556 MISCELLANEOUS - SECRET, # 71 Jewish Affairs, Otto Less:ing and Censorship Problems.Personnel Resumes of a "Profess­ional Group of Refugees from Europe, "Flor­ence Luckenbach" torpedoed near India. Background Reports on Potential New Employ­ees. 87 PP, Sept. 1941 - July 1942.

557 ACCESS RESTRICTED, # 72 Item No. 18553

558 ~ISCELLANEOUS PASSENGER LISTS, et~ # 73 ~ Propaganda Publication used by France in Spain in 1937.(47 PP.)Notes on Libya plus Map, (Cont'd. next page.) [40J

BOX FILE NO. FOLDER

42 New York 600 RESEARCH PAPER NO.2, # 111 OSS A Study of War Communiques, Methods and

Op.- 5 Results. A research project on totalitarian Communication- a table of Contents and App­endix.

145 PP, Jan. 1942

601 RESEARCH PAPER NO.1, # 112 German Radio News Bulletins, Problems and Methods of Analysis. Table of Contents and Appendices.

83 PP, Dec. 1941.

602 RESEARCH PAPER NO.5, # 113 Data in a German defeat situation. Pre­liminary remarks on a German Radio Communi­cation in the winter of 1941-1942. Indexes and Appendices.

81 PP, June 1942.

603 ROCKEFE~LER FOUNDATION, #114 Correspondence with RAYMOND B. FOSDICK of the Rockefeller Foundation.

19 PP, Jan.-March 1942.

604 SHORT WAVE RESEARCH INC., # 115 Record of German Cables sent to Refugees in U.S. demanding~aid for relatives still in Europe. Copies of letters written by Ital ­ians to relatives in U.S.

13 PP, June 1941 - June 1942.

605 SHIPPING LISTS, # 116 Aliens from Portugal, lists of U.S. Cit ­izens sailing from Lisbon. Complete Bio­graphical information for each person.

16 Lists, March 1943 - May 1944.

606 SHIPPING LISTS, # 116 Continuation of Folder 605.

5 Lists, Aug.1943- July 1944.

43 New York OSS

Op.- 5

607

Dec. 1942 - Jan.1945.

SHIPPING LISTS, Aliens from Portugal Biog. Info.

10 Lists,

# 116 arriving at Phila. Pa.

608 SHIPPING LISTS, ( See next page.)

# 116 [41J

60

FILE No.

New York S/I

AD - 3

FOLDER

793

794

795

796

797

798

799

800

801

802

OFFICE - REPORTING BOARD; Weekly Reports of Material sent to Washing­ton. Names and Dates of Reports.

9 PP, October 1944.

FRENCH RESISTANCE MOVEMENT STUDY; Post Liberation Survey of the Resistance Movement. Post Liberation Role of the French National Council of Resistance. With Biographical Index, Table of Contents.

142 PP, Nov. 1944 - April 1945.

OFFICE - RETRENCHMENT; Consolidation of certain Activities, and changes in Office Space.

21 PP, Oct. 1944 - Dec. 1944.

OFFICE - RETRENCHMENT; Spring and Summer of 1945, Further reduction of Personnel and space.

24 PP, March - July 1945.

RESEARCH BUREAU of POPULATION MOVEMENTS; Miscellaneous Memorandum about Personnel and Salaries, etc.

27 PP, July 1943 - June 1944.

OFFICE - SAN FRANCISCO; Administrative and Personnel Matters.

47 PP, Oct. 1942 - July 1945.

OFFICE - OSS SCHOOL; Proposed syllabus of Training, Orientation Programs, Training, Procedures, etc.

211 PP, Aug. 1942 - July 1944.

(A) OFFICE - SECURITY, (General); Correspondence, Memos, Directives, etc.

About building Security, Materials Security, Regulations, etc.

154 PP, Dec. 1942 - Dec. 1944.

(B) OFFICE - SECURITY, (General);Same as above.

34 PP, Jan. - July 1945.

SECURITY - RULES and REGULATIONS; (Cont'd. / [42]

60

61

BOX FILE No.

New York S/I

AD - 3

61 New York S/I

PERS. -4

62 New York S/I

PROPA .-1

FOLDER

811

812

813

814

815

816

817

818

819

SERVICE "Z" j

A Permanent Intelligence Service for U.S. in Post War World ? Questions, Suggestions, Comments, etc. from Staff.

33 PP, August - Cctober 1944.

OPFICE - STAFF MEMBERS - COMMISSION; Commissions and proposed Commissions for Certain Employees.

22 PP, July 1942 - August 1943.

TELEPHONE SECURITY; Correspondence with New York Telephone Co., Inter~office Memos.

9 PP, Jan. - May 194J.

BREWERY and CIGARETTE MACHINERY; Construction of Brewery in BAGHDAD, other Business Deals in Middle East.

55 PP, May 1944 - Feb. 1945·

RADIO PHOTOS; Radio Photos from the SWISS Press via RCA.

6 PP, June 1944.

PERSONNEL - APPLICATIONS; Recrui ting, £aQkg~ound Reports on Appli ­cants, etc.

116 PP, June 1943 - Jan. 1945.

JAPANESE PROPAGANDA; Japanese Photos and Stories of Military Cam­paigns and American Prisoners of War. Printed in English, The Philopino Story.

57 Items, 1942.

PRo--JAPANESE PROPAGANDA, (Cont'd.); Business and Industrial Development (The New Order in Greater East Asia). The Battle of Hawaii (Pearl Harbor), Japa­nese Picture Magazine "FREEDOM".

62 Items, 1942.

PRo--JAPANESE PROPAGANDA (Cont'd.); Fall of CORREGIDOR, with Pictures (nega ­tives ) and narrative account activities in China, Mandalay.

82 Items, 1942. [43]

62

FILE No.

New York S/I

Propa.-l

New York S/I

Res. -1

New York S/I

Res.-2

New York S/I

Res .-J

FOLDER

820

821

822

82J

824

825

826

827

828

829

PRO-JAPANESE PROPAGANDA, (Cont'd.) Occupation of Shanghai, the Japanese Home­land Stories and Pictures of Prisoners of War, (American and English.)

45 Items, 1941 - 1942.

ELECTRIC POWER - FOREIGN; Need for more information about Power Resources in Europe.

8 PP, Aug. - Sept. 194J.

OFFICE of WAR INFORMATION; Inter-Office Memos.

2 PP, Sept. - Oct. 1942.

OFFICE of WAR INFORMATION; Language Schedule, A Compilation of Programs on American Short-wave Stations beamed to Europe and Far East.

56 PP, Sept. 1942.

OFFICE of WAR INFORMATION; Correspondence between OWI and OSS, Newspaper clippings OWI.

67 PP, July 1942 - May 1945.

CALENDAR of SIGNIFICANT EVENTS - OWI; PUblications issued semi-monthly by OWI, Listing by Month, Anniverseries and events World-wide. From the 13th. Century to World War -- (II) two.

6 Booklets.

CALENDAR of SIGNIFICANT EVENTS - OWI; Same as above, 8 Booklets.

FRENCH BRIDGES - PART TWO, (2); Voluminous report includes, List of Bridges, Photostats, Maps, gen ­eral Information, etc.

11 PP, (No date.)

BELGIUM BRIDGES - PT - 1 - A. Same type material as in Folder # 827.

18J PP, (No dates)

BELGIUM BRIDGES - PT - 1 - B. (Cont 1 d. ) (nxt. Pg. )[44]

BOX FILE No.

New York S/I

Res. -3

FOLDER

829

830

64

64

NEW YORK S/I

Res .-4

New York S/I

Res.- 5

831

832

833

834

835

836

New York S/I

Res.- 5

837

BELGIUM BRIDGES - PT - 1 - B.; (Cont'd.) A continuation of Folder # 828.

24 PP, (No date.)

NETHERLANDS BRIDGES - PT - ~ ; Material organized as Per Folder # 827, All photostats.

148 PP, (No. date.)

fEXpORT LICENSES - BALL BEARINGS.;1 Spain and the shipment of Ball Bearings to that Country.

11 PP, Feb. 1944 - May 1944.

LABOR RELATIONS - GENERAL PAPERS; European Labor Research, (The Toni Sender­Group) . Numerous Reports, Toni Sender, former soc­ial Democrat , Member of the German Reich­stag.

120 PP, May - Nov. 1942.

LABOR RELATIONS - TONI SENDER GROUP: Reports Czechoslavakia, (Labor situation and Labor resistance). Labor situation in Germany. Belgium (an Inside report). Foreign Labor in Germany, etc.

253 PP, Sept. - Oct. 1942.

LABOR RELATIONS - TONI SENDER GROUP-RPTS. Toni Sender Group reports, French Moroco, Switzerland, Spain, Fin ­land, and others.

233 PP, Nov. 1942.

LABOR RELATIONS - TONI SENDER GROUP- RPTS. Administrative Reports, Reports on Activities of Research Group.

12 PP, Aug - Sept. 1942

LABOR RELATIONS, TONI SENDER GROUP; Correspondence, Memos to Headquarters covering Trans ­missions of Reports.

83 PP, Nov. 1943 - Feb. 1944.

LABOR RELATIONS - TONI SENDER GROUP; (Cont'd. nxt. pge.)

[451

FILE No. FOLDER

New York 8.37 LABOR RELATIONS - TONI SENDER GROUP, (MEMOSJ SII Labor Relations, - Memoranda,

Res.- 5 Toni Sender Group, Actually reports dealing with Occupied Europe, and Germany, gathered from in ­dividuals and organizations.

161 PP, Aug. - Dec. 1942.

8.38 LABOR RELATIONS - TONI SENDER GROUP, (CORR.)Correspondence, a continuation of Folder # 8.36.

195 PP, May. - Dec. 1942.

8.39 LABOR RELATIONS - TONI SENDER GROUP,(Corr.)Correspondence, See Folder # 8.36, plus suggestions and re­commendations from Sender to Headquarters.

217 PP, Jan.- March 194.3.

840 LABOR RELATIONS; Memos and Correspondence covering same SUbject Matter as in previous Folders.

199 PP, April - Oct. 194.3.

66 New York 841 TONI SENDER GROUP - MEMOS; SII Some reports on Avtivities of Group,

Res.- 5 Memos from Sender to Headquarters keep ­ing them abreast of Labor Developments.

464 PP, April - Dec. 194.3.

842 TONI SENDER GROUP - (MEMOS.); A continuation of Material found in Folder # 841, Projects, Valuable Contacts, etc.

414 PP, June 1942 - Apr. 194.3.

84.3 LABOR RELATIONS - TONI SENDER GROUP,MEMOS; Miscellaneous reports, !Vlemos, etc. concern­ing Europian Labor Research group from Sender to Arthur Goldberg.

102 PP, Nov. 194.3 - Aug. 1944.

844 TONI SENDER - EUROPEAN LABOR RESEARCH; MEMOS FOLDER # 1.3; Some Memos but Mostly Reports dealing with Labor conditions, Union Activities, etc in Germany and other Countries of Europe. Also transportation problems.

146 PP, Nov. 1942 - Mar. 194.3

New York 845 TONI SENDER; (Cont'd. nxt. pge.) [46J

BOX FILE No. FOLDER

New York 845 S/I

Res.- 5

846

847

848

849

850

851

852

TONI SENDER - EUROPEAN LABOR RESEARCH, MEMOS, FOLDER # 13 B.; A continuation of Folder # 844.

250 PP, Sept. - Oct. 1942.

IAUSTRIA - LETTERS, FOLDER # 14;J ~etters to Austrians living out-side Eur

ope asking for help in gathering Factual Material of Labor situation in Germany,Austria and Axis ruled Countries. (Letters in German.)

6 PP, Aug. - Oct. 1942.

AUSTRIANS in BRITAIN (FOLDER # 15);Exchange of Letters and Reports, between Private Citizens, Austrian Organizations in Exile and European Labor Research.

44 PP, Aug. 1942 - Oct. 1944.

AUSTRIANS in U.S. - ~; Similar Material as in Folder # 847.Mostly in German.

106 PP, Mar. 1942 - Dec. 1943.

BALTIC STATES - # 17; Labor in Lithuania. Reports and Correspondence as in previous Folders.

20 PP, Aug. 1942 - July 1943.

BELGIANS in BRITAIN, - # 18; Reports from Belgian Organizations (all in French. )

75 PP, Dec. 1942 - Feb. 1944.

BELGIANS in U.S. - # 19; Compilation of Belgian Nationals, Addresses, and Backgrounds, and Correspondence.

35 PP, Sept. 1942 - Nov. 1943·

BULGARIA - # 20; Correspondence and Reports with and from VICTOR SHARENKOFF, President of~· Feder­ation 0 t tional Clubs, about Labor, and Agriculture Conditions in Bulgaria.

(no pages, no dates.) [47]

FILE NO.

74 Paris­MO

AD -1

Paris­MO

Pers-2

Paris­MO

Pers-J

Paris­MO

Pers-4

Paris MO

PERS-5

Paris­MO

Pers-6

Paris­oss

AD-l

PARIS OSS

AD-2

FOLDER

946

948

950

951

952

953

PARIS OFFICE SECURITY MEMOS; Memos dealing with Personnel and Proced­ures, etc.

15 PP. Sept. - Oct. 1944.

PARIS OFFICE - MISC. (MAJ. RUSSEL); Memos dealing with Assignments of Per­sonnel, Travel Orders, Proposed Radio Programs, Recruitment of Agents for op­erations within Germany, etc.

J8 PP. Jan. - March 1945.

PARIS OFFICE INTER BRANCH MEMOS; Requests for Clearance of Personnel, Transfer of Personnel, from England to Paris, etc.

14 PP. October, 1944.

PARIS OFFICE - MOVEMENT BACK TO LONDON; Names of Persons ordered back to London, Disposal of equipment, etc.

16 PP. October,1944.

PARIS OFFICE MORNING REPORTS; Rosters of Military and Civilians (Amer­icans and French) assigned to Hq. and Hq. Detachment OSS, MO Branch.

82 PP. Sept. - Dec. 1944.

PARIS OFFICE "GRUCHOL & LANTER CASE,'I (MAJ. RUSSEL.);Two (2) French Citizens and the efforts of the OSS to separate them from the em­ploy of The OSS.

24 PP. Jan. - April 1945.

LETTERS, NOTES and FORMS; War Diaries and Daily Work Reports of twenty-one (21) Field Dectachments Sec­tion (FIDES) Material refers to Acc~­plishments, Personnel experiences of Mis­sions and detachments, but not the sub­stance.

168 PP. Dec. 1944, Aug.1945.

ORDERS; Includes War Dept. Circulars and other Instructional Releases.

108 PP. March - July 1945. (See nxt. pge.) [48]

BOX FILE NO. FOLDER

74 Paris ­ 962 P.O.W. PAPERS; Si Names of German Prisoners of War, their

Pers-2� backgrounds, personal Histories, etc. These are pencilled notes obviously made by interrogating Personnel.

10 PP.� (No date)

963� PRISONERS of WAR; Proposed use of German Prisoners of War as Agents, subsequent Memos, and Cables, etc.

58 PP., Aug. 1944.� - Jan. 1945.

Paris ­ 964 P.O.W. SCHOOL; Si A cross section of questions to poten­

Pers-4 tial Agent and his answers, including German Military Units, Drawings, etc.

93 PP. Sept. - November 1944.

Paris ­ 965 P.O.W. SCHOOL; Si Same type of material as Folder 964. Both

Pers- 5 Folders entirely in German and French. 58 PP. (No month)1944.

Paris ­ 966 Discarded Candidates; Si A short List of German P.W.A's rejected.

Pers-6 2 PP. (No date)

Paris ­ 967 &ERMAN TROOP REPRISAL§] - FRENCH VILLAGES; OSS 8" x 10 and 1/2", Glossy Prints of Homes

Photo-l destroyed, Villages identified. 27 Pictures Aug. 1944.

968� GRAVES of MARQUISE; 4" x 5' snapshots of Bodies being ex­humed at Communal grave-site. An expla ­nation of scene on each snapshot.

19 Pictures, Sept. 1944.

969 1S F DETACHMENl1 - # 12; ~up pictures of Unit in London, moved to France and Personnel in the Field (France) . One picture, Commander of German U-Boat, 188.

28 Pictures Aug. 1944.

970 (See nxt. pge.) [49]