tration; FG 170-5 Housing and Home Finance Agency; FG 170-6 Federal National Mortgage Association; FG 170-9 Government National Mortgage Association; FG 220 Export-Import Bank of Washington; FG 225 Farm Credit Administration; FG 229 FDIC; FG 231 Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; FG 233 Federal Reserve System; FG 234 Federal Trade Commission; FG 245 Housing and Home Finance Agency; FG 251 Interstate Commerce Commission; FG 264 National Mediation Board; FG 281 Securities and Exchange Commission; FG 283 Small Business Administration; FG 297 U.S. Tariff Commission; FG 405 General Accounting Office; FG 616 Commission on Mortgage Credit and Interest Rates; FG 627 Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments; FG 631 Cabinet Committee on Price Stability; FG 632 Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries; FG 641 Committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; FG 646 Committee on Federal Credit Programs; FG 651 Export Control Review Board; FG 654 Commission on Income Maintenance Program; FG 656 Export Expansion Advisory Committee; FG 657 Federal Advisory Council on Regional Economic Development; FG 667 Federal Development Planning Commission for Appalachia; FG 670 Federal Development Committee for Appalachia; FG 680 Interagency Committee on Export Expansion; FG 685 National Commission on Consumer Finance; FG 700 National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems; FG 703 National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress; FG 720 Panel on Federal Salaries; FG 721 Southeast Asian Economic and Social Development Commission; FG 722 President's Committee on Manpower; FG 723 President's Committee on Migratory Labor; FG 748 President's Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations; FG 752 Task Force on Cost Reduction; FG 754 White House Committee on Small Business; FG 761 Special Presidential Commit

tee on U.S. Trade Relations with Eastern European Countries and the USSR; FG 769 Advisory Committee on Private Enterprise in Foreign Aid; FG 770 General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs; FG 773 National Economic Council; FG 774 National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies; FG 778 President's Committee on Rural Poverty; FG 784 President's Advisory Committee on Top Federal Salaries; FG 785 Commission on the Federal Budget; FG 789 President's Advisory Council on Cost Reduction; FG 796 Public Advisory Committee on Trade Policy; FG 804 Committee for Economic Development; FG 805 Citizens' Committee for International Development; FG 810 Business Advisory Council; FG 811 Task Force to Improve the Competitive Effectiveness of American. Business; FG 815 Institute for Urban Development; FG 817 Federal National Mortgage Association; and FG 818 National Housing Partnerships Corporation.

The FI Finance category includes material on superintending and managing the national finance; collections and disbursements of government monies; banks and banking including depositories, savings and loan associations, federal intermediate credit banks, banks for cooperatives, federal land banks, federal home loan banks, and federal reserve banks; bonds, stocks, and investments; national budget and appropriations; credit and loans for agriculture, aircraft, defense production, housing, railroads, schools, small businesses, and vessels; federal credit unions; special funds and accounts (for example, the President's Emergency Fund); interest rates; monetary systems, including foreign exchange rates, currency, bullion, gold and silver standards, and the Federal Reserve System; the public debt; and taxation, including estate, gift, excess profits, excise, income, property, and sales taxes.

The FO Foreign Affairs category includes such material as FO 3-2 foreign aid and the Alliance for Progress; FO 4 financial rela

tions with other governments, including the balance of payments, foreign loans by the Export-Import Bank, and international investments; and FO 7 International Conference on Trade and Development and the International Monetary Conference.

Material related to the international organizations whose affairs are of economic importance include IT 5-4 Common Market; IT 14 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the World Bank; IT 20 International Finance Corporation: IT 24 International Monetary Fund; IT 29 International Trade Organization; IT 36 Office of Economic Affairs; IT 37 Organization of American States; IT 38 Organization for European Economic Cooperation; from the United Nations, IT 47-2 Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, IT 47-3 Economic Commission for Europe, IT 47-4 Economic Commission for Latin America, IT 47-5 Economic and Employment Commission, IT 47-6 Economic and Social Council, IT 47-7 Fiscal Commission, IT 47-11 International Trade Commission on Commodity Exchange, and IT 47-32 Economic Commission for Africa; IT 49 U.S.-Brazil Joint Committee for Economic Development; IT 57 Inter-American Development Bank; IT 59 Organization for Economic Cooperation Development; IT 65 Joint U.S.-Japan Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs; IT 74 Joint U.S.-Canada Committee of Trade and Economic Affairs; IT 80 Asian Development Bank; IT 90 African Development Bank; and IT 91 Customs Cooperation Council.

JL 2-1 antitrust cases are available.

The LA Labor-Management Relations category includes materials about such economic indicators as unemployment, wage rates, earnings, strikes, and other labor statistics.

The LE Legislation category includes material pertaining to tax policy, business, commodities, federal aid, international trade, and labor.

SP 2-2 annual economic reports are available. Budget reports and State-of-theUnion reports have previously been made available.

The TA International Trade category contains material pertaining to tariffs and quotas or other restrictions on imports into the United States and its possessions, exports and export licenses from the United States, and reciprocal trade agreements, especially the General Agreements on Tariff and Trade, Kennedy Rounds.

On such topics as the Kennedy Rounds, the 1968 gold crisis, the Special Presidential Committee on U.S. Trade Relations with Eastern European Countries and the USSR, the balance of payments deficit in 1968, and several of the international organizations listed above, some of the material is located in security-classified files.

Information in this section was contributed by the following staff members of the National Archives and Records Service: Ann M. Campbell, Robert J. Devlin, Sharon Fawcett, Jerome Finster, Herman R. Friis, Milton O. Gustafson, E. William Johnson, Marion M. Johnson, Robert D. Jordan, Patrick D. McLaughlin, George P. Perros, Garry D. Ryan, Jeanne Schauble, Alison Wilson, and Benedict K. Zobrist.

DECLASSIFIED RECORDS

The Records Declassification Division, established in the National Archives in October 1972, is primarily responsible for the systematic review of security-classified material that has been accessioned into the National Archives and that is now or soon will be thirty years old. The division will emphasize review for declassification of World War II records in the custody of the Military Archives Division and the Civil Archives Division (records that are at the National Archives Building) and the General Archives Division (records that are at the Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland).

The following is a brief notice of the most significant record series that have been declassified by the division since October 1972. Questions about the records reported here as declassified or records that are presently undergoing a declassification review should be addressed to the appropriate custodial division and branch. Researchers are reminded that other general and specific restrictions on records in the National Archives may preclude the release of certain types of information even if declassification has been completed.

Military Archives Division, Modern Military Branch

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, secret naval attaché reports, 1936-43, two cubic feet. Early in 1942, President Roosevelt requested the accumulation of these

reports to determine the extent of advance warning provided by the attachés.

Bureau of Aeronautics, confidential general correspondence, 1922-44, 577 cubic feet. This file pertains to the development of naval aviation, including land-based, longrange patrol aircraft and carrier-based planes.

War Department General and Special Staffs, Special Planning Division, 1943-45, forty cubic feet. The Special Planning Division was established to study and formulate plans for military demobilization, related industrial demobilization, and the effect of demobilization on the postwar military establishment.

Declassification review projects are in progress on records of the Army Service Forces, records of the Army Ground Forces, selected files of the Office of the Chief of Manhattan Engineer District, records of the Office of the Chief of Chaplains, records of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army's Wartime Civil Control Administration (later named the Civil Affairs Division) among the records of the U.S. Army Commands, records of the Army Air Forces during World War II, records of the Secretary of the Navy, and records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Civil Archives Division, Diplomatic Branch

Department of State, Central Files, 780 cubic feet. The administrative action by

which the Department of State opened records through 1946 does not apply to the many documents of non-State Department origin in the central files. The Records Declassification Division is reviewing for declassification all documents previously withheld. The major file series reviewed to date include decimal 740, the basic diplomatic files for World War II; decimal 793.94, Sino-Japanese relations, 1930-44; and decimal 800.6363, oil policy, 1940-45.

Department of State, "lot" files. These include the personal files of Philip Mosely, political adviser to the European Advisory Commission, eleven cubic feet; the files used in the preparation of the "Blue Book" on Argentina in 1946, about twelve cubic feet; and the personal files of Harley Notter relating to postwar international financial arrangements, about one cubic foot.

A declassification review project is in progress on the China post files, 1941-45.

Civil Archives Division, Legislative, Judicial, and Fiscal Branch

A declassification review project is in progress on the records of the Bureau of the Budget and the records of the War Shipping Administration.

Civil Archives Division, Natural Resources Branch

A declassification review project is in progress on the records of the Petroleum Administration for War.

Civil Archives Division, Industrial and Social

A declassification review project is in progress on the records of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.

General Archives Division

Adjutant General's Office, "World War II Operations Reports, 1940-1948," 6,196 cubic feet. These records include historical narratives, journals, messages, intelligence summaries, and operational summaries relating to all army divisions and lower echelons (including nonorganic units). Much of the information and material in this series was previously declassified by the Department of the Army. The Records Declassification Division working closely with consultants and specialists of the Office of the Adjutant General has completed the declassification action.

Adjutant General's Office, records of the numbered armies (First-Tenth, Twelfth, Fifteenth Army), 475 cubic feet.

Adjutant General's Office, Order of Battle-ETO, nine cubic feet.

Adjutant General's Office, general, letter, and movement orders, twenty-four cubic feet.

Adjutant General's Office, reports maintained by the Statistical and Accounting Section, 1941-54, 595 cubic feet.

Office of the Chief of Ordnance, records, 1917-45, about twelve thousand cubic feet. All information and material previously classified in this record group has been reviewed for declassification. One file of particular interest is that of the "Ordnance Committee," the so-called OKD Files which are rich in information about the development of armored fighting vehicles and other automotive equipment.

U.S. Theaters of War, World War II, selected records relating to China, twentyfive cubic feet. These records, including the Stilwell and Wedemeyer Files and the China, Burma, India Theater Historical Office Files, were reviewed on a priority basis because of recurring inquiries on the information they contain about U.S. relations with the Chinese Nationalist government and Chinese Communist forces.

Office of the Secretary of War, Contract Renegotiation Board records, 1942-47, 947 cubic feet. These records relate to "settled cases" and "impasse cases."

Judge Advocate General of the Army, General Correspondence Files, 1918-42, 285 cubic feet.

Foreign Economic Administration, President's Liaison Committee, records, 1939-41, ten cubic feet.

Foreign Economic Administration, Division of Defense Aid reports and records of the Office of Lend Lease Administration, 1941-43, 210 cubic feet.

Foreign Economic Administration, records of the Harriman Mission to London, the Mission for Economic Affairs in London, and the Special Mission to the U.S.S.R., six cubic feet.

Foreign Economic Administration, files of the Economic Warfare and Export Control Division, seven cubic feet.

Foreign Economic Administration, subject and geographic files of the administrator, thirty-five cubic feet.

Office of War Information, Office of Facts and Figures files, 1941-42, twenty cubic feet. Office of War Information, files of the office of the director and predecessor agencies, thirty-five cubic feet.