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AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY

OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

NEWSLETTER

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

ISBN 0-89126-060-9 --~--

Terms expiring 1988

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

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Spring 1988

No. 39 CONTENTS

University of California

atBan Diego

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

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ISSN 0885-5668

H. Stuart Hughes

Forrest C. Pogue Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute

Donald S. Detwiler, Secretary and Newsletter Editor Department of History Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, Illinois 62901 Robin Higham, Archivist Department of History Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66506

International Book Review Coordination:

General Information

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The Newsletter

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The ACHSWW is affiliated with:

Membership

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American Historical Association 400 A Street, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003

Committee Elections

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The 1987 Annual Meeting The Business Meeting The Joint Session: "Europe under the German Occupation".

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Arthur L. Funk 3445 N.W. 30th Boulevard Gainesville, ~'Iorida 32605

Comite International d'Histoire de la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale A. Harry Paape, Secretary General and Treasurer Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation Herengracht 474 1017 CA Amsterdam The Netherlands

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

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

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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

News and Announcements USAF Historical Research Center Research Grants Air Force Academy Symposium on the History of Intelligence (October 1988) Call for Papers: American Military Institute Conference at VMI (April 1989) Call for Papers: Siena College Conference on World War II--a Fifty-Year Perspective (June 1989) A New Publication: "World War II Investigator" Eisenhower Library Conference on Women in War, Politics, and Government: 1942-1960 (October 1988) Individual Appointments Research Resources: The OSS Records (A Special Report)

Correspondence with the Archivist of the United States "oss Records at the National Archives" by Lawrence

H. McDonald, National Archives Appendix 1: Record Group 226, Entries 1-86 (OSS Re­ search and Analysis Branch Records) Appendix 2: Record Group 226, Entries 87-190 (the OSS Operational Archives) Selected OSS Operational Archives Folder Descriptions

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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 mem­ bers. It is affiliated with the American Historical Associa­ tion, 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, Po­ land, Romania, the Soviet Union, Spain, and the United King­ dom. The ACHSWW meets annually with the American Historical Association. THE NEWSLETTER The ACHSWW issues a semiannual newsletter (assigned Interna­ tional Standard Serial Number [ISSN] 0885-5668 by the Nation­ al Serial Data Program of the Library of Congress). Back is­ sues of the newsletter are 'available through the ACHSWW Ar­ chivist (at the address on the letterhead) from MA/AH Publish­ ing (now an imprint of Sunflower University Press). The first eighteen issues (1968-1978) are available as a spiral­ bound, 360-page xerox paperback (ISBN 0-89126-060-9) for $36.00. Subsequent back numbers are available as single, un­ bound 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 commit­ tee (not through an agency or a subscription service) in U.S. dollars. (The newsletter, which is mailed at bulk rates with­ in 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 regu­ larly attached to the fall newsletter. 2

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 conjunc­ tion with that of the American Historical Association at the Sheraton Washington Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, N.W., Washing­ ton, 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 re­ port, which was unanimously accepted, as was his recommenda­ tion 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 Decem­ er: 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 con­ tribution, 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 plan­ ning 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 3

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the Belgian historian Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen from the presiden­ cy of the committee, noting that the circumstances that had constrained him to resign had also prevented him from repre­ senting the International Committee at an important planning meeting of the executive committee for the International Con­ gress 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 Norwe­ gian 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 presi­ dents of the international committee, had concurred with this proposal, but that formal action had not yet been taken. Pro­ fessor 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 Caro­ lina, 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 cryptolog­ ic 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 re­ leased a substantial body of cryptologic documentation repre­ senting 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 cryp­ tologic records, should reveal what Allied traffic the Ger­ mans succeded in intercepting and decrypting--and may thereby offer new insight into German plans and operations. In response to his initiative, Prof. Weinberg was in­ formed 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 ad­ dition, a second shipment is also to be processed and trans­ ferred to the National Archives. Finally, the agency in­ formed Prof. Weinberg, a number of cryptographic files, from other sources than the bulk of records held in joint British­ American 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 Nation­ al 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 Di­ rector of the Military Archives Division, introduced his col­ league 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 com­ mittee, through its chairman, should write to the Archivist of the United states, Dr. Don W. Wilson, expressing apprecia­ tion for and interest in the OSS Records Project, and should urge him to have a preliminary inventory of OSS Records pre­ pared and published by the National Archives. (For the cor­ respondence between Prof. Funk and Dr. Wilson, see below.) Prof. Funk spoke on the Second Soviet-American Symposi­ um 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 com­ ment 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 mag­ nificent archival collection system, and by guiding the organ­ ization 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 sur­ vive 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 entire­ ly new way of life. liThe difference, or at least one difference, between san­ ity and insanity is the ability to deal with reality. Reali­ ty 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, ac­ cepted 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 enti­ ty, 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, dis­ solved as the quality of life disintegrated. The curfews, the rationing, the regulations, the passes, the permissions, the censorship, the surveillance, the repression, the punish­ ment, 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 deten­ tion 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. Patriot­ ism 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 peo­ ple 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 occu­ pation--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 atmos­ phere 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 in­ creasingly in doubt. This, plus the degraded living condi­ tions and the opposition sponsored by the Resistance, eventu­ ally 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-Amer­ ican relations was held 20-23 October 1987 at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. (Prof. Funk, as a participant, re­ ported 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 Un­ ion 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 con­ versations occasionally brought out criticisms of Soviet poli­ cies, but that is hardly a substitute for open scholarly de­ bate. One good sign was that Soviet historians, when con­ fronted 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. How­ ever, 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 Soviet­ American academic conferences, that does not lessen their im­ pact or diminish our hopes that these words will be translat­ ed 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 histor­ ian 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 documen­ tary 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 chang­ es were in the making. For a group of prestigious Soviet his­ torians 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 conferenc­ es at Moscow, Cairo, and Teheran (to the eve of the Normandy invasion), is scheduled for the Soviet Union sometime in Octo­ ber 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 re­ port, see Perspectives, the newsletter of the American Histor­ ical 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, Univer­ sity of North Texas. The first paper will be by Ms. Martha Byrd, whose Chennault: Giving Wings to the Tiger was pub­ lished 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 Chi­ nese 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 or­ ganized and led the American Volunteer Group (the "Flying Ti­ gers"), 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 9

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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, Pro­ fessor 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 com­ ment on the political and diplomatic implications of the is­ sues raised in the two papers, including Chennault's contro­ versial 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 fo­ cus 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 con­ clude 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 re­ search grants to encourage scholars to study the history of air power through the use of the USAF historical document col­ lection 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 re­ search 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 his­ tory or related fields, or equivalent scholarly achievements. Their specialty or professional experience must be in aeronau­ tics, 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 cen­ ter 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, stra­ tegy, tactics, logistics, weaponry, technology, organization, policy, activities, and institutions. Broader subjects suit­ able for a grant include military history, civil-military re­ lations, 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 sub­ jects 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 sys­ tems now in the Air Force inventory, and Air Force operations during the Vietnam War. Application Deadline.--Applicants can request an applica­ tion from the Director, USAF Historical Research Center, Max­ well AFB, Ala. 36112-6678. They must return the completed ap­ plications 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 sched­ uled 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." Pa­ pers that treat the establishment of formal military educa­ tion, 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 be­ fore 31 October 1988 to: Prof. Henry S. Bausum, AMI Confer­ ence 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, di­ plomatic, political, and military history, popular culture, and women's and Jewish studies dealing with the era. Post­ Munich Europe, Danzig, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, etc., would be particularly appropriate. Please direct proposals or inquiries to Prof. Thomas O. Kelly, II, Department of His­ tory, 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 be­ gin 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 over­ looked 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 Cen­ ter 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. Estab­ lished forty-four years ago, the professorship was named for the eighteenth-century British statesman William Pitt. 12

RESEARCH RESOURCES:

The OSS Records at the National Archives

As noted in the report on the 1987 business meeting, the com­ mittee, after hearing a presentation on the OSS Records Proj­ ect at the National Archives, resolved to recommend to the Ar­ chivist 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, congratu­ lated Dr. Don W. Wilson on his recent appointment as Archiv­ ist of the United States, noted the long record of coopera­ tion 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 point­ ed 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 valu­ able OSS records for researcher use. "We will consider publishing an inventory to the OSS rec­ ords as soon as the bulk of those records have been trans­ ferred 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 rec­ ords well into the 1950's, the arrangement of the records suf­ fered. 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 edi­ tor, kindly agreed to provide the following introduction and supporting material for reproduction in this newsletter. 13

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 be­ cause the nearly 3,000 cubic feet of records accessioned from the Central Intelligence Agency's OSS Archives, which have on­ ly recently been opened for research, reveal information nev­ er 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 MacAr­ thur'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 nation­ al intelligence agency, the predecessor of the CIA. The cour­ age 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, Gener­ al 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 col­ lect, 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 Attor­ ney 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 estab­ lished by military order the Office of Strategic Services un­ der the jurisdiction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). COl's records and all its functions, except for foreign infor­ mation 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 stud­ ies, 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 14

1 5

logical warfare to include propaganda, economic warfare, sab­ otage, guerilla warfare, counter-espionage, contact with un­ derground 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. Rec­ ords 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 typi­ cal 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., Her­ bert Marcuse, Carl Schorske, Walt Rostow, and Charles Kindle­ berger. Five of the R and A economists later became presi­ dents of the American Economic Association; seven of the his­ torians became presidents of the American Historical Associa­ tion. 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 stud­ ies, press clippings, foreign publications files, POW interro­ gations, 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 De­ partment office made up of personnel drawn from the ass Se­ cret Intelligence and Counterintelligence Branches. The rec­ ords 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

16

Shanghai. Bringing together close to 6,000 cubic feet of op­ erational, administrative, and support records, the SSU care­ fully 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 neces­ sary to retain all their finding aids. For the 3,000 cubic feet of records it has already acces­ sioned 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 com­ puterized to make OSS records still more accessible. A compu­ terized Core File, which arranges and sorts OSS records ac­ cording to point of origin, branch, file type, associated lo­ cation, entry, box, and folder, is already virtually complete. Another year or more will be necessary to complete the com­ puterized Name File presently underway. The Name File will provide an index of project names, personal names, and key­ words taken from the descriptive lists which the National Ar­ chives 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, un­ like 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 co­ vert operations and other functions performed by Special Oper­ ations, Operational Group Command, Morale Operations, the His­ tory 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 ac­ cessioned from the CIA include the following: British ori­ gins of the OSS, American ethnic groups and the war, OSS mo­ rale 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 con­ tacts 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 Hit­ ler'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 Publi­ cations of America, 1981), originally published by CIA, in­ cludes 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 branch­ es 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 achieve­ ment 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 Ar­ chive, accessioned in the 1980s (pp. 21-23) Selected Box and Folder Descriptions [compiled by the newslet­ ter editor from copies provided by the National Archives]: Algiers Files (Entry 97), pp. 24-32, including a general de­ scription 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 nu­ merous 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 pro­ paganda (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 person­ al 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) BOX .Q!!.:.

ENTRY

ENTRY. TInE

1

R&A General Correspondence. 1942-46

2

Correspondence Re the Civil Affairs StaRing Area (CASA) OutpoStSE the Presidio. Honterey c8t., 1945

2

1/l/A

3

Cablegrams Received by the COl, 1942

1

l/l/A

4

Despatches Received from Neutral ForeiRn Posts, 1941-42

3

l/l/A

5

CablegramB Received from OSS Outposts, 1942-44

5

l/l/B

LOCATION 5/l0/D-F

"

m

"tl

"

0

c

6

CableRramB, To and From OSS outposts

7

ChronoloRical File of CablegramB

8

R&A Reports re Political, Social and Economic Conditions, 1941-46

14

5/11/E-F

c:

"m C

9

10 11

3 64

l/l/C 5/l3/A

... ...

'"z

Reports re European Railroads and BridRes

3

5/l0/B

Reports of the Joint Psychological Warfare Committee, 1942

1

5/9/V

OSS Orders. Memoranda, Bulletins, Circulars, and Instructions

12

Economic Intelligence of British

13

Biographical Sketches and "Morgue 'Files" of the Populo D'Italia

14

R&A Name and Subject Card Indexes to Entry 16

15

Descriptive ("Accession") Lists of Intelligence Reports for E16

16

Regular Series R&A Intelligence Reports, 1941-45

17

Name and Subject Card Indexes to Entries 19, 21 and 23

18

Descriptive ("Accession") Lists for RM Reports In E19

19

R&A Reports,

20

Descriptive ("Accession") Lists for R&A Intelligence Reports in E2l

21

R&A Intelligence Reports, "L" Series, 1942-45

22

Descriptive ("Accession") Lists of R&A Reports in E23

23

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

24

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

25

Survey of ForelR"

26

Cross-Reference Cards to Unidentified Reports re Europe and Asia, 1942-45

~nistry

of Econ. Warfare, 1942

2

>­

:J:

...>­ 0

z

>­

5/9/F

.... >­ :a

1

l/l/C

"::

27

5/11/A

'"'"

<

"XL"

Series, 1941-46

Expert~

Interviews of RefURees in US

6/l/C 8 1648

4/l5/A l/l/e tp 4/13/B 6/9/e

3

4/15/8

7

4/l5/C

4

4/l5/D

457 2 231

11/6/A and l2/6/A 4/l5/D 5/l/A 6/ll/C

11

5/l0/A 6/11/E

[Newsletter page 18]

R&A ECONOMICS DIVIsImt (ENTRIEfi 27-36) 27

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

2

517IA

28

Economics Div. Corr. and Reports, 1942-44

1

517IA

29

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

1

517/A

30

Recovery of Looted Art Treasures in Germany, 1940-45

1

5/7/A

31

Agricultural Conditions in Europe and North Africa, 1941-44

1

5/7/A

32

German Manpower, 1942-44

2

517IA

33

Military Supplies of the Axis Powers, 1942-44

1

51718

34

Industrial Resources of Axis Powers, 194)-43

1

5/7/8

35

German Trade and Shipping

2

51718

36

Economic and Industrial Conditions in Germany- 1943-44

2

517/8

R&A

~UROPE-AFRICA

DIVISION (ENTRIES 37-52)

37

Correspondence of the Division Chief, 1942-45

7

5/718

38

General Correspondence, 1941-45

6

517IC

39

Correspondence re Outposts, 1942-45

3

517ID

40

Correspondence re Europe and Africa, 1942-45

2

517ID

41

Cablegrams to and from Outposts

1

517/D

42

Hbnth1y Progress Reports, 1943-45

1

517IE

43

Contact File Interviews and San Francisco Conference, 1945

1

517IE

44

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

8

517IE

45

"Outpost Informational Letters," 1943-45

1

517/F

46

Algiers Outpost, 1943-44

1

5171

47

Balkan Activities, 1944-46

2

5171

48

Cairo Outpost, 1944-45

2

5/8/A

49

Outposts in France, 1944-45

2

5/8/A

50

outposts in Germany, 1945]

1

5/8/A

51

Outposts in Italy, 1943-45

3

5/8/B

52

London Outpost

5

5/8/B

53

Far East Div. Correspondence with Outposts, 1942-46

7

5/8/c

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:0

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,., %

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...> o z

>

1

5/8/D

Reports re China and Formosa, 1941-46

4

5/8/D

o

Biweekly Latin American Situation Reports, 1944-45

2

5/8/D

,.,<

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

1

5/8/E

54

Security-Classified Records 9

55

56

Fa~

East, 1944-45

~

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57

%

'"

[19J

57A-D

R&A Branch, Psychological Div.: and Budget Records

58

Reading File, Reports, Research

3

4/l4/A

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

1

5/8/E

59

Projects Committee Minutes of Meetings, 1942-46

4

5/8/E

60

Projects Committee, Correspondence. 1943-45

1

5/8/E

R&AINTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR ACQUISITION OF FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS, 1942-45 (E6l-72) 61

New Delhi, Correspondence. 1944-45

1

5/8/F

62

New Delhi. Reports re Southeast Asis. 1944-45

2

5/8/F

63

Stockholm,

1

5/8/F

64J

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

1

5/8/F

65

Correspondence from Finance Branch re Personnel. 1943-45

1

5/8/F

.... c

66

German POW Interrogations re Archives and Publishing

1

5/8/F

67

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

1

5/8/F

>­ .... .... :z:

Correspond~nce

...."V:II :II

.... Z :>­

....

68

Foreign Publications Card File • 1943-45

8

5/10/c

69

Foreign Newspapers and Periodicals Card File

1

5/10/c 5/8/F

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

1

71

Lists of Foreign Publications Microfilmed. 1942-45

2

5/9/A

72

Swedish Language Newspaper Clippings

2

5/9/A

73

ETO General Correspondence. 1944-45

8

5/9/A

74

William Langer and Chandler Morse. Correspondence. 1943-45

3

5/9/B-C

75

Allan Evans. Deputy Chief. Correspondence. 1942-45

4

5/9/C

76

Biographical Records Division. Correspondence. 1944-45

1

5/9/c

77

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

6

5/9/D

78

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

1

5/9/D

79

London Joint Target Committee. Oil Targets Reports. 1944

1

5/9/D

80

London Joint Oil Target Committee. 1944-45

1

5/9/D

81

OSS Mission to Germany. Correspondenee. 1944-45

3

5/9/D

82

Freneh Politiea1 and Eeonomie Conditions

1

5/9/E

83

MEDTO Correspondenee, 1943-45

2

519/E

84

China Theater Correspondenee. 1944-45

2

5/9/F

85

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

86

FNB Correspondenee, 1941-45 (ef RlOO)

70

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VI

33

5/12/A

1

5/9/F [20J

[APPENDIX 2J

·ENTRY

~TRY

87 +88 1 89

ass

OPERATIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT RECORDS (CIA's OSS ARCHIVE) RECORD GROUP 226

~OX3 DTY

TITLE

Austrian Applications for Nazi Membership

(25 )

Overseas Cable File Italian Intelligence Personalities

668 (12)

3

17/12/85

34

5

03/01/80

640

24/l4/A

6

30/10/86

NNPD

7

03/09/85

8

(post-OSS)

9

23/04/85

10

12/02/85

11

03/09/85

History of OSS in London

+95 2 +96 2

(2.5 )

CIG/CIA Organization Charts Combined Intelliqence Committee

(0 .. 5 )

Algiers File

98

10 2

2l/l/C

*

45

7/32/B 19/1/C

Pictorial Records Section Files

+99 2 +100 2 +101

Propaganda Charts

Washington Communications Office

+97 2

2

(Temporary)

OSS History Office Files

107

Foreign Nationalities Branch

131 5

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

(1)

+103 2

Special Forces

+104

Communications Chrono File

5 (1)

Survey of Foreign Experts

3Z

102

+105 +106 2

@

Secret Intelligence Operations

+107 2 @ Survey of Foreign Experts +108 2 Washington Registry SI Branch Field Files 109 +110 2 111

@ Washington Registry Intelligence Files

* * * *

*

13 14

6/6/A

15

03/01/80 03/01/80 03/01/80

16

08/07/86

6/6/B l6/l5/C

17

03/01/80

18

12/03/86

16/15/E

19

01/07/86

8/5/E 16/15/0

20 21

01/07/86

465

16/18/0

22

13/05/86

124

14/l/B

23

03/02/87

*

6/6/C

24

03/01/80

6/7/E

26

03/01/80

7/32/A

27

12/02/85

6/7/E 6/9/A

29

50

+112

Propaganda Samples

1

*

+113 2 114 +115 2

Censorship & Document Branch Files

7

*

52

*

+116 117

8/6/F 6/2/A

11

Field Intelligence Reports; Theater Officer 53 Correspondence: Draft Histories (2) Secret Intelligence "A" Reports

25

Photo Copies of General Donovan's Files London Field Files Office of the Director, OSS Special Devices

118

Accession Logs

119

London Counter-intelligence Files

03/01/80

7

*

(1) 24

*

8/5/B

(43) 15/7/B

+121 1

Field Radio & Cable File

17/8/C

140

30 31

Washington Counter-intelligence & TSS Files 46

32 33

(CI)

34

08/07/86 (CI)

37

(CI)

Field Files: Athens, Austria, Barcelona, Bern, Heidelberg, Lisbon, London and Caserta; and Washington X-2

(17)

38

(CI)

Field Files: Bern, Stockholm and Caserta

59

39

08/07/86

124

+. Included in computer index.

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;xl

n

:z: <

'" VI

12/02/85

(8)

Bern & Madrid Field Files

> .... ....

03/01/80

12/03/86

123

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(Sp. Devices)

35

X-2Files

o c: n

03/01/80

36

Miscellaneou'~)

;xl

o

(Microfilm)

(3)

s

122

;xl

'"."

(Temporary)

+ 120

@.

(Microfilm)

4

+91

94

1 2

l8/20/F II 8/9/0

Washington R+C & Field Photo Branch Records 49

@ Central Files

19/2/F

DATE REC'D 5

01/10/85 (CI)

+90 2 92 93

SF 115 LOCATION 4 ITEM #

l5/5/F

1. Box List.

3. ( ) • cubic feet 4. Aisle/Compartment/Shelf lOcation in 16-W-4. 2. Descriptive List. S. Day/Month/Year Entries in 13-W-3 noted by • ( ) - reason file Location omitted for files withheld by CIA Not declassified by 01/06/87 not yet accessioned.

[21]

126

Caserta Counter-intelligence Files

(28)

40

127 128

Madrid Counter-intelligence Files Paris Field Files

(16 )

+129 +130 1

Cable Logs ("A" Reports) Budget Data for COl, OSS and SSU: and Field Photo Negatives

02/10/84 12/03/86

+131

Washington/Field Office: Administrative and Support Records: Cables

+131A2 +132 1 +133 1

ERE: Emergency Rescue Equipment Washington Services Branch Records Washington/Field Office: Miscellaneous Administrative Records

4

• 6/9/B

4

17/2/B

41 42 43 44

6/9/C

45

02/10/84

• 6/9/B

45

02/10/84

15/16/D 15/8/C

46 47

08/07/86 ~

48

12/02/85

49 50

23/04/85 03/09/85

(13 )

21 5

*

59

171

+134 1

Washington R+D: R+C (with 30/10/86 increment) 372

*

+135

Washington Communications Branch Records

22/23/C

+136

Field Files: Algiers, Austria, Bari; Burma, 187 Cairo, Calcutta, Caserta, Denmark, J~nming, London, Paris, New York, washington Washington Secretariate & SI Branch Recs, 28 Washington X-2 Branch Records 4 Washington/Field Station Records: 298 Cairo, Calcutta, Caserta, Honolulu, New York, Paris, singapore, stockholm and Washington 94 Washington Pacific Coast Area/Field station Records

+137 1 +138 +139

+146t. +147 2

86

7/32/B

20/20/C

(CI)

(cl)

"ll

22/07/86 ~

~ ",

z

16/17/F l7/7/A 21/4/F

53 64 65

....> 08/07/86 0 12/03/86 .; 11/06/85 ;0> o

.%

,.,< VI

17/3/C

66

12/03/86

6

17/2/E

71

12/03/86

OSS Washington Sectet Inte11igence/ Field station Records

5

17/3/B

73

12/03/86

14

19/1/A

74

03/09/85

l8/22/F 22/20/D

75 76

17/12/85 12/02/85

Washington/Field Office: Miscellaneous

138

R+A and R+D Records 107 Washington OSS Operation & Support Records 267 10 OSS New York/London Office Records

+148 2

OSS New York/Overseas Station Records: Chungking, Dakar, Holland, Istambul, Kandy, Kunming, Lisbon, London, New York, Paris, Pretoria, Singapore, Stockholm and Tangier

+149

OSS New York Office: Survey of Foreign Experts Records

136

1

20/14/B 22/18/A

77 78

06/08/85 23/04/85

21/1/E

79

12/02/85

80

12/02/85

*

7/32/B

150

OSS R+D Production Records

(0.5)

82

151

OSS Map Records

(0.5 )

83

+152 2

OSS R+A Branch Records (combined with Entry 164)

+153

OSS R+A Branch Records

+154 2

OSS Field Offices: Bari, Bucharest, Burma, 218 Cairo, Caserta, Kandy, Kunming

+. Included in computer index.

1. Box List.

c c o ", c ~

OSS Washington Miscellaneous Records

OSS Field Station Operations and Services Records +144 1 +145 2

(cl)

(Sp. Devices)

4

22/23/B

85

23/04/85

14

16/14/E

86

12/03/86

88

02/10/84

*

6/9/F

3. ( , • cubic feet

4. Aisle/Compartment/Shelf location in 16-W-4. 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. -

[22J

+155 2 OSS Censorship & Documents Branch Records 2 156 @ Secret Intelligence Branoh Indexes OSS New York George Office Records +157 OSS Seventh Army Records +158 2 OSS New York Secret Intelligence Branch

159

OSS New York Secret Intelligence Branch +160 2 @ OSS Schools and Training Branch Records +161 Office of the Director, COI/OSS Records +162 General Magruder Records and Papers 163 2 OSS R+A Branch/Map Procurement +1 6 4 (combined with Entry 152) 2 OSS operations: Mediterranean and Burma +165 China and Korea Counter-intelligence Files Miscellaneous Top Secret Reports File

166 167

4 275 20 10 39 12 9

44

(49) 6 12 (97) 2 2

OSS R+A and State/ORI Records OSS Washington Special Operations Branch OSS Miscellaneous Files

15 (1) (0.3)

180 181 182

Director, OSS Official Records Microfilmed Official OSS Records OSS Field station Records

(0.3) (4) (44)

OSS Washington SI/Special Funds Records Washington-OSS-Records

35 1

165 186 187

Washington-OSS-Communications Records Washington-OSS-Communicayions Records Washington-OSS-Communications Records

(1) (2) (2)

188

Washington-OsS-Communications Records

(5)

189 190 1

@

Washington-osS-Communications Records Director1s Office & Field station Records

+. Included in computer index.

1. Box List.

95 96 97

12/03/86 03/02/87 12/03/86

98

(post-OSS)

22/23/C

99

23/04/85

l8/2l/F

100

17/12/85

l7/2/C l7/6/F l7/7/C l4/5/B l7/7/B

101 (Microfilm/Cl) 102 (CI)

1

178 179

+183 +184

03/02/87 08/07/86 12/03/86 12/03/86 (CI)

1

95 Field Files: Kandy, Kunming, London! Madrid, New York, Paris, Shangha , Singapore, Stockholm 169 @ OSS Washington/London Special Funds Branch 16 (0.3) 170 Strategic Services Unit Liaison Control of Records Washington X-2 Branch Recorda OSS Cairo SI/X-2 Branch Records Washington OSS Official Subject Records OSS/Rome X-2 Branch Records OSS R+A Branch, Latin American Section OSS Miscellaneous Records

89 90 92 93 94

(2)

+168 2

171 172 2 +173 174 +175 +176 2 +177 2

l4/4/B l2/l0/E

(2) 742

22/l8/C

104

12/02/85

l4/5/D

105 106

03/02/87

107 108 109 110

(cI)

03/02/87 12/03/86 (CI)

111 112

12/03/86 12/03/86

113 114 115

12/03/86

l4/4/B l7/3/A l6/l4/E l7/3/C l6/l5/A

116 117 118 14/4/C l6/l5/C

l4/l4/C

119 120 121 122

(CI) (Microfilm) (Microfilm) (CI) 03/02/87 12/03/86 (Microfilm) (CI)

123

(CI)

124 125 126

(CI) (CI) 22/07/86

3. ( J .. cubic feet

4. Aisle/Compartment/Shelf location in l6-W-4. 2. Descriptive List. 5. DayiMonth/Year Entries in l3-W-3 noted by ( ) • reason file Location omitted for files withheld by' CIA Not declassified by 01/06/81 not yet accesaioned. [23]

*

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)"

5. ALGIERS:

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

6. ALGIERS:

SECRET INTELLIGENCE (SI) BRANCH: HETEROGENEOUS INTELLIGENCE COVER­ ING 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. Box 1

ALGIERS:

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

File No.

Folder

ALGIERS-OSS -AD-l -INT-l

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. 1944­ 14 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. 1943­ 12 Sept. 1943. 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.

2

ALGIERS-OSS -AD-1&2 -EQ-1 -INT-1 -AD-2

8) 362 - Map of Departments of France, Withdrawal Notice, 1 p.,

-DG-PRO-1

May 1944. 9) 371, GINNY - OG operations in Italy, instructions, personnel, sketch of target, 95 pp., 26 Dec. 1943-4 Apr. 1944.

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- 2 ­ Box 2

File No.

Folder

ALGIERS-OSS -AD-l&2 -EQ-l -INT-l

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.

-OP-l

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.

-OP-2

12) 378, Capraia - Personnel for OG OMAHA, report of operations, weather and shipping intelligence, 43 pp., 29 Jan. 1944­ 25 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 1943­ 16 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, ob­ jectives, funds, 85 pp., 16 Dec. 1943-27 Mar. 1944.

-EQ-l

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.

-AD-l

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.

-AD-2

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

-INT-l (c)

20b) #359 - Empty Folder [28]

- 3 ­

Box 2

3

File No.

Folder

ALGIERS-OSS -AD-l&2 -EQ-l -INT-l

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

ALGIERS-oSS -INT-l&2

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.

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

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. [29]

- 18 ­ Box 14

File No.

Folder

ALGIERS-SI -INT-l

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.

6.

ALGIERS:

-INT-l

SECRET INTELLIGENCE (SI) BRANCH; HETEROGENEOUS INTELLIGENCE COVERING NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, SOUTHERN FRANCE, SPAIN, BALKANS, EAST EUROPE, GERMANY, BATTLE ORDER AND OTHER MILITARY INFORMATION, DEFENSES, BOMB­ ING TARGETS, TRANSPORTATION, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION, PERSON­ ALITIES; 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. 1944­

26 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.

-INT-2

241) AFHQ "AQUITANIA" Reports Feb. 1944-Apr. 1944 - Gelleral

intelligence reports 1-3 on Southern France (order of battle,

defenses, topography, transportation, communications, in­

ternal 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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- 19 ­

Bo:'< 14

File No. ALGIERS-SI -INT-2

Folder "249) Banden-Karte, Map, AAI-4 - Overlay of captured document, 1 p., stand 11. 5.44. 250) Bandentatigkeit in der Zeit vom, Map, AAI-5 - Overlay of captured document, 1 p., geh vom 16.5.44. 251) Bandenlage Mittel-Italien, Map, AAI-6 - Overlay of captured document, 1 p., stand 31.3.44. 252) Feindlage, Maps - Overlay of captured document, 1 p., vom 29.11.1943. 253) Anhalt fur Krafteverteilung Wesliches Mittelmeer, Map, AAI-8 ­ Overlay of captured document, 1 p., stand 26.5.1944. 254)

15

ALGIERS-SI -INT-2

"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.

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. 263) "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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.

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Box 21

- 29 ­

File No.

Folder

ALGIERS-SI -INT-6

366) Siena Reports, IR 365 to IR 399 - Raw intelligence on battle order, naval activities, motor traffic, industrial produc­ tion, enemy dumps in Italy, etc., 25 pp., 24 Apr. 1944­ 2 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. 1944­ 13 Sept. 1944. 374) Reports AC1 to AC26, Casablanca - Raw intelligence on condi­ tions 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 develop­ ments 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.

23

ALGIERS-SI -INT-6

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. NC1­ 226-80-1, Item No. 104.

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

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CQiKANOO tor torms and procedure. security. transportation.

SUPpJJ. cOUllld.s:d.ons, etc •• 119 pp., Kar.-ilug.19 4 S. 112)Geosral. Orders. Ch1Da Theater _ Geoeral. Orders re awards and medals. Ch1na Tbeater t1nance. etc •• 33 pp•• Apr.-Sept.194.5. llJ)strengtb Reporta Juns-Sept.194S.

ass

atrengtb 1"8porta tor Cb1na Theater.

149

pp••

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

1

lile l{Q.

Folder

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, Aprll-Sept.l94.5.

ass

China Theater. 124 pp.,

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 - Cables re San Cristobal. Solol1lon I8lands, 30 pp., Aug.-Sept.. 194 .5.

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

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File NQ. 14

Folder 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.1944­ Aug. 194.5. 212)MO - Transmittal. Memos, 19 pp •• ~-Aug.194.5.

8.KUNMING: CiUNA THE;ATER, AIMINISTRATIVB SUPPORI'. ORGANIZATIOO AND PROCUDURE (BOX FOLDERS 21)-218)

15

File NQ.

Folder

KUNKlliQ_ SLAD..2

21) )lQ. Organization - Functions and organization of the 46 pp., Feb.-Aug.1945. 214)Sl Office Procedure -

ass

ass

p

5,

CT.

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