tation notebooks. The notebooks contain field data and office computations relating to triangulation, transit traverse, and leveling for almost all of the United States, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Antarctica; they provide the basis for compiling a still-incomplete series of topographic quadrangle maps covering the entire United States. MACHINE-READABLE ARCHIVES DIVISION The division has accepted from the Office of the Secretary of Defense magnetic tape files documenting the Vietnam War. The records contain information on combat and the conditions and attitudes of the civilian population. They include the Hamlet Evaluation System, which monitored Viet Cong activity in the South Vietnamese rural districts; the Pacification Attitude Analysis System, which monitored civilian attitudes toward the Saigon government; and HERBO-2, an account of missions and damage assessments in the defoliation program. These files were used by the military in Vietnam from 1966 through 1974. The Archives holding of computer records on the war now totals some forty-five files on two hundred reels of tape. GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION The division has accessioned 27 cubic feet of records, 1862-1919, of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California. They consist of 102 volumes of labor rolls, apprentice books, time books, expenditure and payroll ledgers, and other personnel and progress records. Twenty cubic feet of correspondence, memorandums, and reports of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army, 1941-48, were also accessioned. Records of the Executive Office, Administrative Office, Operations Service, and the Preventive Medicine Division are included. Of particular interest are correspondence and reports relating to biological and chemical warfare prevention and records of programs at the army medical installation at Fort Detrick, Maryland. REGIONAL ACCESSIONS ARCHIVES BRANCH, ATLANTA FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER The branch has accessioned the general ad ministrative correspondence and records of the deputy United States marshal for Key West, Florida, 1890-1927, 11⁄2 cubic feet. The branch has also accessioned the following U. S. District Court records for the period 1943-50: Southern District of Mississippi, Biloxi Division-bankruptcy, civil action, and criminal case files, 23 cubic feet; Hattiesburg Division-bankruptcy, civil action, and criminal case files, 17 cubic feet; Jackson Division-law, bankruptcy, civil action (including 4 feet of "old real estate'), criminal, and mixed case files, 60 cubic feet; Meridian Division-bankruptcy, civil action, and criminal case files, 16 cubic feet; Vicksburg Division-bankruptcy, civil action, and criminal case files, 19 cubic feet; Southern District of Mississippi- all files, 135 cubic feet; Northern District of Mississippi, Aberdeen Division-bankruptcy, civil action, criminal, equity, and law case files, 16 cubic feet; Clarksdale Division-bankruptcy, civil action, and criminal case files, 10 cubic feet; Oxford Division-bankruptcy, civil action, and criminal case files, 9 cubic feet; and Northern District of Mississippi- all files, 35 cubic feet. PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES The Taylor/Gates collection of materials pertaining to the Hoover administration has been rearranged and opened for research. During the closing months of the administration, James Spear Taylor and Robert M. Gates were asked to assemble materials that would document the administration's activities and accomplishments. They added compilations of their own to the memorandums and printed materials they collected from the executive departments, committees, and commissions. A finding aid is available. FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt LIBRARY The library has received from the Library of Congress 43 rolls of microfilm of the Henry Wallace papers, consisting of correspondence, memorandums, subject files, scrapbooks, and clippings pertaining to his service as secretary of agriculture and vice president. The library also received additions to the John Carmody papers and the Henry Field papers. Catherine Cross Carmody donated an additional 8 cubic feet of correspondence, notes, drafts, reminiscences, printed materials, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Henry Field gave diaries of trips to Moscow, Siberia, Mongolia, and Western Europe and additional correspondence, 1966-74, about 1,000 pages. The Delano family papers, 1833-1919, have been opened for research. The papers consist mainly of the family and business correspondence of Warren Delano II, Warren Delano III, and Franklin Hughes Delano, father, brother, and uncle, respectively, of Sara Delano Roosevelt. The business correspondence concerns the family's participation in the China trade and its mining interests in Pennsylvania, among other topics. The papers are on loan from the Delano family. Formerly classified or donor-restricted material has been opened in the following: President's Secretary's File; the Official File; Map Room Papers; War Refugee Board records; and the papers of Howard Brubaker, Harry Hopkins, Waldo Gifford Leland, Henry Morgenthau, Herbert Pell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel I. Rosenman, and Frank Walker. A list of the files in which material, in many cases only one or two items, was opened between March 4 and June 15, 1976, is available free of charge from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY 12538. HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY The library has accessioned the papers of Eban A. Ayers, assistant press secretary to the president, 1943-51, and special assistant to the president, 1951-53, 5 linear feet; the papers of Reginald S. Dean, assistant director of the Bureau of Mines, 1942-46, 21 linear feet; the papers of Harry C. Trelogan, an official in the Department of Agriculture, 1947-74, 8 linear feet; the papers of Max W. Ball, deputy petroleum administrator for war, 1944-46, and director of the Oil Division of the Department of the Interior, 1947-48, 2 linear feet; and records of the Department of State and the Department of Defense relating to the Korean War, 1947-52, 7 linear feet. Oral history interviews with the following individuals have been accessioned: Richard D. Weigle, executive officer of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs of the Department of State, 1946-49; Russell L. Riley, assistant administrator, International Information Administration, Department of State, 1952-53; Roman L. Home, deputy secretary, 1946-56, and secretary, 195667, International Monetary Fund; R. Burr Smith, economist, Department of State, 1946-49, and commercial attaché, American Embassy, Bangkok, 1950-52; Carleton Kent, Washington correspondent, Chicago Daily Times and Chicago Sun Times, 1945-71; Henry Reiff, legal specialist in international organization, Department of State, 1944-46; James W. Riddleberger, director, Bureau of German Affairs, Department of State, 1952-53; Gordon Gray, secretary of the army, 1947-49; Clifford C. Matlock, political officer, Department of State, 1946-62; Philleo Nash, special assistant to the president, 1946-52, administrative assistant to the president, 1952-53, lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, 1959-61, and commissioner of Indian affairs, 1961-66 (permission is required for use); Theodore C. Achilles, director, Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, 1947, and minister, American Embassy, Paris, 1952; and Winthrop G. Brown, director, Office of International Materials Policy, Department of State, 1950-52, and deputy to the minister for economic affairs, American Embassy, London, 1952-55. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY The library has recently received the papers of Hatfield Chilson, 1956-58, consisting of about 525 pages of addresses and statements made by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton, and aides, to congressional committees, political organizations, business and trade organizations, wildlife and recreational groups, and the general public. Motion picture film has been received from the Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia, concerning the dedication of the center in April 1975. The library has received the following additions to collections already in its holdings: the papers of Fred A. Seaton, 1948-72, consisting of correspondence, memorandums, telephone logs, speeches, reports, and printed materials; the papers of Charles L. Brainard, secretary to the Eisenhower Presidential Library Commission, consisting primarily of the commission's audit reports, 1954-67; and the papers of Wilton B. Persons, 1960-61, consisting of memoran dums pertaining to the transition between the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Recently reviewed and opened for research were the papers, 1959-67, 275 pages, of former Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. Also reviewed and opened were the papers, 195256, 44 pages, of Robert Cutler, who served as Eisenhower's special assistant for national security affairs, 1953-55 and 1957-58. They consist of Eisenhower's draft of his September 19, : 1952, letter to Richard Nixon concerning the "campaign fund" issue; an annotated draft of 1: Eisenhower's Baltimore speech on national defense given during the 1952 campaign; an annotated draft of the president's 1955 message to Congress on the Formosa Straits; and two "aids to the memory" written by Cutler regarding the president's health, one relating to the 1955 heart attack and the other to the 1956 ileitis surgery. Oral history transcripts have been completed for the following: Nettie Stover Jackson, Arnold R. Jones, Alvin H. Lane, Joseph Sheldon, Jack Z. Anderson, John W. Leonard, Hugh A. Parker, George Kinnear, and George V. Allen. JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY A collection of autographed manuscripts of early Massachusetts governors which belonged to John Kennedy, nineteen letters from Kennedy to his parents, 1939-51, Kennedy's diary from his first European trip, 1937, his notes for Profiles in Courage, and five letters from Kennedy to Lemoyne Billings written during Kennedy's Harvard years have been accessioned. The library has also accessioned the papers of Francis Keppel, former commissioner of education, 8 linear feet; the papers of former Congressman Allard Lowenstein, 100 linear feet; an accretion to the papers of William Crockett, former deputy undersecretary of state; and one roll of microfilm from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. LYNDON B. JOHNSON LIBRARY The library recently accessioned the voluminous papers of Congressman Wright Patman; 14 linear feet of the papers of Alfred H. Corbett from his service in the Office of Economic Op portunity and the Community Services Administration; and 5 linear feet of manuscripts and notes for the Norman C. Thomas book Education in National Politics. The library also accessioned 50 linear feet of the records of the President's Advisory Committee on Supersonic Transport. Extensive processing will be required before any of these materials are available for research. A section of the National Security File recently opened for research concerns a committee which advised President Johnson on the recommendations of the Warren Commission. Of 1 linear foot of material, about 9 inches are open for research. NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS Most of Richard Nixon's historical presidential materials which have been stored temporarily in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, nearly 9,000 cubic feet of textual and audiovisual materials, have been moved to the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland. The materials were moved following court approval of a government plan to relocate the materials in a more suitable storage place where temperature and humidity can be controlled, fire and smoke detectors installed, and the boxes containing records shelved. Moved to the new storage location were the White House central files, social files, and staff office files of the Nixon administration. Certain sensitive materials, including the tape recordings of White House conversations, were left in storage vaults within the White House complex by agreement of the attorneys in pending lawsuits. The courtapproved plan provides for rewinding and inspecting the tape recordings to check their condition. Other Nixon materials already stored at Suitland and in the National Archives building were also relocated in the same security storage area at the Suitland center. The area now contains 17,500 cubic feet of Nixon presidential materials. Access to the materials is strictly controlled by court orders that prohibit government officials "from processing, disclosing, inspecting, transferring or otherwise disposing of" the Nixon materials. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision on final disposition of the Nixon materials early next year. DECLASSIFIED RECORDS The Records Declassification Division of the National Archives systematically reviews security classified documents accessioned by the agency. These consist primarily of World War II records that are at least thirty years old. Researchers should address any questions about the records to the unit holding them, bearing in mind that restrictions may prevent release of some records even though they have been declassified. Significant records reviewed for declassification since April 1976 or currently being reviewed are described below. Publication of the 1975 progress report of the Interagency Classification Review Committee, announced by the White House, outlines the federal government's accomplishments in reducing the amount of security-classified material and the number of authorized classifiers. In calendar year 1975, there was a 5 percent reduction in people authorized to classify material. The greatest inroad was made by the Defense Department, which reduced its classifiers from 30,542 in 1972 to 4,955, an 84 percent reduction. Since the beginning of 1972, there has been a 75 percent overall reduction in the number of classifiers. Government departments also reported nearly a quarter of a million fewer classifications than in 1974, a 6 percent decrease. Of documents being classified, 77 percent are now subject to automatic declassification within stated periods. Major units of the Defense Department reported that more than 57 million pages were reviewed. NARS alone declassified 46 million papers. Also undertaken in 1975 were improved security training for employees who deal with classified material and on-site reviews whereby the Interagency Classification Review Committee examines the effectiveness of the various departments in classifying and declassifying material. There was a 94 percent increase in the number of requests to declassify material over ten years old. Of all declassification requests acted upon by the government, 86 percent were granted wholly or partially. Chaired by Archivist of the United States James B. Rhoads, the Interagency Classification Review Committee is the first White House-level committee with responsibility for overseeing the classification and declassification of government documents. The committee was created under Executive Order 11652 to assist the National Security Council in insuring that government agencies do not classify information unnecessarily, promptly declassify unessential material, and properly safeguard national security information. CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION Biweekly radio reports on the Far East prepared by the Analysis Division of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, 1942-45, 2 cubic feet, have been reviewed and declassified. AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES DIVISION Approximately two thousand aerial photographs of Japanese targets, 1944-45, from records of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, have been declassified. Approximately three thousand photographs from records of the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, 1944-45, have been reviewed and declassified. GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION Review continues of the newly accessioned records of the Foreign Economic Administra tion, Record Group 169, consisting of economic intelligence publications, 1941-45. Review of approximately three-fourths of the 933 cubic feet has been completed. Survey and review have begun on records of the United States Occupation Headquarters, OMGUS. Approximately 1,000 cubic feet have been completed to date. Declassification of records of the chief of engineers for the period through 1952 has been completed. The records include construction division maps; records of the Engineer Research and Development Laboratory, Fort Belvoir, Va.; harbor defense files; and real estate files, totaling 132 cubic feet. Declassification has been completed on that portion of Record Group 331 that includes records of the Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) numeric files covering the 5th Army Headquarters, 11 cubic feet, and the AFHQ Mediterranean file dealing with the Italian campaign, 59 cubic feet. MILITARY ARCHIVES DIVISION MODERN MILITARY BRANCH Records of the Joint Army-Navy Personnel Board, 1942-47,9 cubic feet, have been reviewed and declassified. Records of the Combined Raw Materials Board, 1942-45, 149 cubic feet, have been reviewed and largely declassified. First Allied Airborne Army records, 1944-45, 15 cubic feet, have been reviewed and largely declassified. Review continued of World War II-period confidential and secret message files of the War Plans Division of the War Department General Staff. HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY Materials in the papers of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson have recently been declassified and opened for research. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY One or more documents in the following collections have been declassified: records of the President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957-61; records of the White House Office, Project "Clean Up," 1953-61; records of the White House Office of the Staff Secretary, 1952-61; papers of C. D. Jackson, 1931-67; and papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president of the United States, 1953-61. |