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ACCESSIONS AND OPENINGS

The National Archives and Records Service publishes a variety of descriptions and guides to its holdings that are of use to scholars and the general public. These include inventories of record groups, special lists, and reference information papers. Inventories are general descriptions of and guides to documents in a record group. They provide a brief history of the agency that created the records and describe each series of records. Frequently, the National Archives publishes a preliminary inventory of a record group to facilitate access to its holdings. Preliminary inventories are less detailed than inventories but are similar in format.

Special lists are detailed descriptions of a series of records within a record group or of a subject or activity of an agency. Reference information describe material on a given papers subject that may be found in several record groups. As a rule these lists and papers follow no established form but vary according to the nature of the records to which they relate.

Earlier publications are listed in the leaflet Select List of Publications of the National Archives and Records Service. Unless otherwise indicated, new publications listed below can be purchased from the Publications Sales Branch (NEPS), National Archives (GSA), Washington, DC 20408.

CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION

LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND FISCAL BRANCH

The branch has received the records, 28 cubic feet, of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, 1929-74, including files pertaining to its investigation of President Richard M. Nixon's financial affairs, 1973-74, and tax returns and other financial records of Vice President-designate Nelson A. Rockefeller. The branch has also received records, 3 cubic feet,

of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1951-63. Established by the Defense Production Act of 1950, the committee monitored federal programs authorized by the act. The records may be used only with the authorization of the appropriate committee chairman or staff director.

The branch has accessioned nine volumes of minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, 1969-70. Minutes of committee meetings are available on National Archives Microfilm Publication M591, Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, 1936-61, and of its Executive Committee, 1936-55. The 1969-70 volumes have been added to that publication. The Federal Open Market Committee, part of the Federal Reserve System, adopts the regulations and issues the specific policy directives under which federal reserve banks throughout the United States buy and sell securities on the open market. The committee also directs the foreign currency transactions for the system's open-market account. The central subject file, 881 cubic feet, of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1914-54, has also been accessioned.

The papers of Morris L. Ernst and Alan U. Schwartz, 9 linear feet, 1957-58, relating to the disappearance of Jesus de Galindez, have been opened for research except for deletions made for national security in six papers. An opponent of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, Galindez disappeared in New York City March 12, 1956. Ernst was retained on behalf of the Dominican Republic to review allegations that the Dominican government or its officials were responsible for Galindez's disappearance. Schwartz was Ernst's special counsel. The papers consist of correspondence, memorandums, newsclippings, reports, photographs, drafts, a printed Report and Opinion, and other material from the investigation.

Additional records of the Warren Commission have been opened for research. They in

clude investigative reports, correspondence, memorandums, and transcripts of executive sessions.

NATURAL RESOURCES BRANCH

The branch has accessioned 103 cubic feet of records of the National Capital Planning Commission, including minutes of commission meetings, 1950-72, and of the National Capital Regional Planning Council, 1950-66; and the commission's correspondence, 192467. The branch also has recently received 271 cubic feet of records from the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, including correspondence, 1939-54, research project files, 1929-54, and division records, 1925-43. The records pertain to federal research on trends, achievements, and problems of crop

use.

Other recent accessions include 201 cubic feet of correspondence and project records of the Agricultural Research Service, 1946-64, and 100 cubic feet of research reports and project records of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1910-51. The records deal with plant and animal production research and pest control by the Department of Agriculture. Records, 16 cubic feet, of the Environmental Protection Agency pertaining to the development of federal programs for controlling water pollution, 1944-72, have also been received.

GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION

The division has accessioned 9 cubic feet of records of the army's Office of the Judge Advocate General, 1942-47. These consist of correspondence, memorandums, transcripts of hearings and court proceedings, investigative reports, and court orders pertaining to suits brought against military commanders by Japanese who were forcibly removed from the West Coast and Hawaii during World War II under Executive Order 9066 and Public Law 503. Access to some of these records is restricted under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

REGIONAL ACCESSIONS

ARCHIVES BRANCH, SAN FRANCISCO
FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND Records CentER

The branch has accessioned 46 feet of records of the Bureau of Land Management for Nevada, 1864-1964. They include township tract books and survey plats, outgoing correspondence of the first four U. S. surveyorsgeneral, and correspondence with the General Land Office in Washington. There are also registers and indexes of declaratory statements, receipts, and certificates for homesteads and for mineral, desert, and timber-culture lands.

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

HERBERT HOOVER LIBRARY

The library has recently opened to research copies of letters and cables between Benjamin Strong, governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, 1916-28, 1 cubic foot. This correspondence should prove useful for studies of national and international finance during this era.

FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt LibRARY

The library has received the papers of Anna Roosevelt Halsted, President Roosevelt's daughter. Willed to the library, they consist of family and business correspondence, clippings, and photographs, 30 linear feet.

A full review of the Herbert Pell papers has been completed and a new finding aid prepared. Pell, a Dutchess County neighbor of President Roosevelt, served as minister to Portugal and Hungary and as a member of the U.N. War Crimes Commission.

Other collections in which restricted material (sometimes only one document) has been opened are: the President's Secretary's File, the Official File, Map Room Papers, and the papers of Adolf A. Berle, Jr., Morris L. Cooke, Francis P. Corrigan, Oscar Cox, Stephen T. Early, Charles Fahey, David Gray, Leon Henderson, Harry Hopkins, Louis M. Howe, Gardner

Jackson, R. Walton Moore, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel I. Rosenman, and Charles W. Taussig. A list of files in which material was opened between June 16 and September 8, 1976, is available free of charge from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY 12538.

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY

The library has accessioned 10 cubic feet of papers of Merwin L. Bohan, a Foreign Service officer for many years in Central and South America. He was the U. S. ambassador to the Inter-American Economic and Social Council from 1951 to 1955. The library has also accessioned the papers, 6 cubic feet, dated 1945-56, of India Edwards, vice chairman (1950-56) of the Democratic National Committee.

Oral history interviews with the following have been accessioned: Shirley Hehmeyer, secretary to the chief counsel of the Truman Committee, 1941-43; John P. McEnery, vice chairman of the California State Democratic Central Committee, 1944-48; August Maffry, an official of the Department of Commerce specializing in international economic affairs, 1935-45, and U. S. technical adviser to international economic and financial conferences, 1944-46; and O. Edmund Clubb, H. Freeman Matthews, Raymond Vernon, John J. Muccio, and Conrad E. Snow, Foreign Service and State Department officials during the Truman administration.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY

The papers of William E. Robinson, 1932-69, 10 linear feet, have been reviewed and opened to research. Robinson was a newspaper publisher and public relations executive, as well as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Coca-Cola, Inc. He arranged for the publication of Eisenhower's World War II memoirs, Crusade in Europe, and was influential in Eisenhower's decision to run for president in 1952. He was President Eisenhower's frequent golf and bridge companion and a trusted confidant.

The papers, 1 linear foot, 1945-74, of Floyd Oles have been reviewed and opened for research. They concern his work during the 1952 presidential campaign as chairman of the Washington State Citizens for Eisenhower.

The papers, 4.5 linear feet, of Maj. Gen. Charles W. Ryder have been opened for research. They span his military career, 1917-50, with most of the papers originating from 1942 to 1948. Of particular interest are papers relating to Operation Torch and the Italian campaign during World War II and Ryder's command of the IX Corps during the occupation of Japan. There is also some material concerning his assignment as special assistant to the chief of staff for National Guard and Reserve affairs. About half of the collection consists of Ryder's personal library, made up of army manuals, unit histories, campaign reports of both world wars, and miscellaneous army journals and newspapers.

The papers, 6.4 linear feet, 1925-65, of Robert Humphreys have been opened for research. Most of the collection-correspondence, campaign materials, articles, and speeches-pertains to Humphreys's public relations positions with the Republican party from 1949 until his death in 1965. A political writer for International News Service, Humphreys was assigned to cover Alfred E. Landon's 1936 bid for the presidency. He wrote a political column from 1937 to 1944 and knew many members of Congress. He was national affairs editor of Newsweek magazine from 1944 to 1948, when he left to establish a public relations office for the Republican Congressional Committee.

The name series, the legislative meeting series, and the cabinet series in the papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president of the United States, 1953-61 (Ann Whitman file), have now been reviewed and opened for research. The name series, 14 linear feet, consists of material from the 1952-61 period. Eisenhower's correspondence with his friends and family contains lengthy discussions of politics, civil rights, McCarthyism, fiscal and monetary policy, public power, public works, housing, farm policy, and labor problems. Such topics as the Bricker Amendment; Middle East, European, and Latin American affairs; foreign economic policy; nuclear weapons testing and disarmament; and the mutual security program are also included. Long letters to his brothers Milton and Edgar and to close friends, such as Charles S. Jones, Aksel Nielsen, "Pug" Ismay, Clifford Roberts, William Robinson, and "Swede" Hazlett, are included.

The legislative meetings series, 1 linear foot, documents Eisenhower's dealings with mem

bers of Congress on the budget, appropriations measures, school construction, social security and health insurance, minimum wage and labor reform legislation, agricultural programs, civil rights, public works, postal pay and rates, inflation, and politics.

The cabinet series, 6.4 linear feet, contains summaries of cabinet meetings, official correspondence and memorandums, reports, and printed matter. This series will be useful to researchers, since President Eisenhower used his cabinet more fully than many presidents. The Bureau of the Budget and the Office of Defense Mobilization were two of the most frequent contributors to the cabinet's agenda. Items of

foreign economic policy were often discussed during cabinet meetings.

Selected items from the postpresidential papers have recently been opened. They include correspondence with Lyndon B. Johnson and Herbert Hoover and material relating to the Bohemian Club, the Eisenhower-Lewis Strauss Middle East desalinization proposal, and the motion picture industry.

Oral history transcripts have been completed for the following: Frederick Peter Jessup, Robert C. Hill, Herschel Newsom, Ray Barker, John F. "Six" McDonnell, Janet P. Tourtellotte, Edith D. Williams, Helen Ackenhausen, Wiley Branton, and Wesley Pruden.

DECLASSIFIED RECORDS

The Records Declassification Division systematically reviews security-classified documents accessioned by the National Archives and Records Service. 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 September 1976 or currently being reviewed are described below.

AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES DIVISION

MOTION PICTURE AND SOUND RECORDING
BRANCH

Eleven reels of film produced or acquired by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II have been declassified.

STILL PICTURE BRANCH

Photographs, 37 cubic feet, of navy airplanes, supplied by contractors to the Bureau of Aeronautics, 1930-45, have been declassified.

Photographs, 58 cubic feet, from records of the Bureau of Ships, 1918-46, have been declassified.

CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION

DIPLOMATIC BRANCH

Review of the 1945-49 decimal files of the Department of State continued.

GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION

Declassification review has been completed on the records of the Foreign Economic Ad

ministration, consisting of almost 1,000 cubic feet of economic intelligence publications, 1941-45.

The top secret files, 16 cubic feet, of the army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, 1942-52, have been reviewed for declassification. Declassification has begun on 1,653 cubic feet of publication files, 1946-51, of the same office.

MILITARY ARCHIVES DIVISION

MODERN MILITARY BRANCH

Selected entries from the records of the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey have been reviewed and mostly declassified. They include the general correspondence files, 20 cubic feet of the Office of the Chairman, 1944-47; the European Survey Intelligence Library, 193945, 85 cubic feet; and the Pacific Survey Intelligence Library, 1932-47, 50 cubic feet.

War Department records largely declassified include general correspondence, 103 cubic feet, of the War Plans Division, 1920-42; correspondence, 5 cubic feet, of the War Plans Division relating to mobilization plans, 1922-42; correspondence, 8 cubic feet, of General Headquarters, 1941-42; and correspondence, 10 cubic feet, of the Joint Army-Navy Board, 1910-42.

Records, 71 cubic feet, of the Executive Office and the Joint Petroleum Products Allocation Committee of the Munitions Assignment Board, Washington, 1941-46, have been reviewed and mostly declassified.

Most of the classified correspondence file, 23 cubic feet, of the Office of the Chief of Coast Artillery, 1919-42, has been reviewed and declassified.

Review of confidential and secret message files of World War II from the War Plans Division of the War Department General Staff continued.

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