Oral history interviews with the following persons have been opened: David K. E. Bruce, assistant secretary of commerce, 1947-48, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission to France, 1948-49, U. S. ambassador to France, 1949-52, and under secretary of state, 1952-53; Brig. Gen. Cornelius J. Mara, assistant military aide to the president, 1949-53; George M. Elsey, special assistant to the president, 1947-49, administrative assistant to the president, 1949-51, and assistant to the director for mutual security, 1951-53; and Frank Pace, Jr., director of the Bureau of the Budget, 1949-50, and secretary of the army, 1950-53.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY

The library recently received the papers of Fred A. Seaton, 1946-72, 100 cubic feet. A newspaperman, Seaton served in the Nebraska legislature, 1945-49, in the U. S. Senate, 1951-53, as assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs, 1953-55, as an assistant to President Eisenhower, and as secretary of the interior, 1956-61. The Seaton papers are a major addition to the library.

Also received were papers, 20 cubic feet, of Harry Darby, mostly material from Darby's term, 1949-50, as U.S. senator from Kansas; and the World War II papers, 3 cubic feet, of Maj. Gen. Charles W. Ryder. The library has also received a manuscript entitled "The Story of My Life" written by Edith Foster Dulles, mother of John Foster Dulles, a volume of poetry by T. Chalmers Furnas, father of Clifford C. Furnas, and manuscripts and material related to the Johns Hopkins University publications project The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower: The War Years, consisting of documents from the periods 1939-47 and 1963-70.

The following papers have been opened for research: those of Harris Ellsworth, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, 1957-59, 1 cubic foot; Cornelius P. Cotter, executive director of the Republican Committee on Program and Progress, 1958-59, 2 cubic feet; Maurice M. Washburn, consisting of reports by the U.S. Treasury Department's committee to audit the transfer in January 1953 of the assets of the federal government from the Truman administration to the Eisenhower administration; and the White House permanent file, 1945-62.

Oral history transcripts for the following individuals have been completed: Winthrop Aldrich, Jack L. Bell, Thomas B. Curtis, Homer Gruenther, John W. Hanes, Jr., Raymond A. Hare, Loy Henderson, Kenneth B. Keating, John J. McCloy, G. David Schine, and David Wainhouse.

Also accessioned were 1,000 feet of film, 53 still pictures, and 4 films with sound. These include photographs from the files of the Amesbury News and a film made for Kennedy's 1958 campaign that was donated by an advertising agency.

All security-classified documents in the records of Jack Z. Anderson, 1956-61, and David W. Kendall, 1953-61, have been declassified.

One or more documents have been declassified in the following: papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1916-52, Walter Bedell Smith, 1942-61, and C. D. Jackson, 1931-67; records of the President's Commission on Foreign Economic Policy (Randall commission), 1953-54, the U. S. Council on Foreign Economic Policy, 1955-61, and Clarence Francis, 1954-60; the Walter Bedell Smith collection of World War II documents, 1941-45; the Johns Hopkins University publications project, 1939-47 and 196370; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library collection of twentieth-century military records; and SHAEF selected records, 1943-45.

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY

The library accessioned papers, 3 cubic feet, of Jack N. Behrman, assistant secretary of commerce, 1961-62; papers, 19 cubic feet, of Thomas P. O'Neill, representative from Massachusetts since 1953 and majority whip since 1971; papers of David E. Koskoff relating to his book The Life and Times of Joseph P. Kennedy; and speeches of Ronald R. Renne, assistant secretary of agriculture for international affairs, 1961-63, 1 cubic foot. Also accessioned were papers of Elmer B. Staats, deputy director of the Bureau of the Budget, 1961-63, 1 cubic foot, and William van den Heuvel, a New York lawyer, aide to Robert F. Kennedy, and delegate to the New York constitutional convention of 1967, less than 1 cubic foot.

Oral history interviews were recently conducted with Robert H. Johnson, former staff member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council; James B. Bennett, who from 1937 to 1964 was director of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons; Edith Green, representative from Oregon; Harold Reis, an administrative assistant in the Justice Department when Robert F. Kennedy was the attorney general; John M. Knowles, former classmate of Robert F. Kennedy; Richard Wade, professor of history at the City University of New York, and formerly active in the campaigns of John and Robert Kennedy; and Al Blumenthal, a New York state assemblyman and associate of Robert Kennedy's.

The library has opened for research the following collections: papers of James T. Ramey, commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1952-72; White House files, 16 cubic feet, of Christian A. Herter, special representative for trade negotiations, 1963-66; and White House files, 22 cubic feet, of Howard C. Peterson, special assistant to the president for international trade policy, 1961-62. Finally, the opening of more of Robert Kennedy's papers, mostly general correspondence for 1961-64, has been approved, and they will be opened as soon as they are arranged.

Three oral history transcripts were also opened for research at the Kennedy library. The interviews are with James J. Reynolds, assistant secretary of labor for labor-management relations; Bernard L. Boutin, administrator of general services, 1961-64 (open with restrictions); and Janet Auchincloss (open with restrictions).

The Records Declassification Division systematically reviews security-classified documents accessioned by the National Archives, primarily World War II records that are at least thirty years old. Researchers should address any questions about the records to the unit holding them and should bear in mind that restrictions may prevent the release of some records even though they have been declassified. Significant records opened since August 1974 or presently being declassified are described below.

CLASSIFICATION REVIEW

Every government department orginating classified information or material is now required to establish a data index system for top secret, secret, and confidential information in selected categories approved by the Interagency Classification Review Committee as having sufficient historical or other value such as to make them appropriate for preservation. Each such department is required to submit to the committee on September 1 of each year a list of all indexed documents that were declassified on or before December 31 of the previous calendar year. The committee maintains these lists in the central research room of the National Archives building where they may be copied or reviewed by the public during business hours.

CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION

DIPLOMATIC BRANCH

Review of the central files of the Department of State for 1940-44 continues in order to declassify documents that were sent to the department by other agencies.

GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION

Naval Operating Forces "flag" files, World War II records of the major fleets, 4,460 cubic feet, have been reviewed and declassified. Of particular interest are the records of CINCLANT and CINCPAC.

Records of several World War II theaters were largely declassified, 1,132 cubic feet. Included are records of GHQ, southwest Pacific area; U. S. army forces in Korea; U. S. army forces, west Pacific; and U. S. army forces, mid-Pacific.

Records of the War Department G-2 military intelligence service's evaluation and dissemination branch and of two field branches, 194046, were largely declassified, 35 cubic feet.

Pre-1946 records, 385 cubic feet, of the National War College were largely declassified.

Most of the confidential and restricted correspondence, 1,848 cubic feet, of the navy's Bureau of Ordnance, 1940-44, was declassified.