The following manuscript collections. containing security-classified documents for the World War II era have been declassified: a SHAEF 6th Army Group narrative history for the period August 1, 1944, to May 30, 1945; papers of Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, PT boat and destroyer commander; papers of John J. Walsh, aide to General J. Lawton Collins; papers of Major Ruth M. Briggs, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps officer and secretary to General Walter Bedell Smith, consisting of photographs, printed material, and memorabilia; the John Coriden Lyons collection of propaganda leaflets including a history of psychological warfare paper.

John F. Kennedy Library

The John F. Kennedy Library has received 8 linear feet of the papers of James V. Bennett, former director of the United States Bureau of Prisons, reflecting his career with the bureau as well as his activities on behalf of gun control legislation as president of the National Council for a Responsible Firearms Policy from 1937 to 1966.

The library has received the papers of Robert Perlman, director of Program Development of Action for Boston Community Development. Measuring 2 linear feet, the material consists of reports, correspondence, and other material relating to ABCD, the Roxbury Multi-Purpose Center, and the John F. Kennedy Family Center in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1961-66.

The library has also received an additional linear foot of the papers of Theodore C. Sorensen, consisting principally of manuscript materials for his books, Kennedy and The Kennedy Legacy. The Sorensen papers, amounting to 41 linear feet and covering the period 1953 to 1964, are now open for research.

Oral history interviews with the follow

ing persons have recently been opened: Robert Amory, Wayne Aspinall, Abram Chayes, Mark Dalton, Roswell Gilpatric, Michael Gretchen, William Hopkins, Outerbridge Horsey, Ira Kapenstein, Tan Sri Ong Yoke Lin, Bob Myers, Thomas Pattison, Mongi Slim, Benjamin Stout, John Swainson, William Thaw, Lawrence Tierney, and Wilton Vaugh. A panel interview with several members of the press covering the White House has also been opened. Unedited transcripts of interviews with Peter Edelman are available for use with his permission.

Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Materials related to the economy from the files of Joseph A. Califano have been opened. They pertain to oil import quotas; wage-price guidelines; Labor-Management Advisory Committee; Labor-Management Relations Committee; tax message; task forces on: tax reform, income maintenance, mortgage financing, 1968, antitrust policy, and innovation and economic growth; taxes and tax reform; budget; aluminum; copper; foreign trade; and employment.

From the files of James Gaither, materials on crime, drug abuse, and alcoholism, housing, cities, task force on cities, and president's messages on crime, cities, and housing have been opened for research.

Materials from the files of Henry H. Wilson have been opened, consisting of the 1964 subject files and a portion of the 1965 subject files.

The Department of Justice Administrative History of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and Documentary Supplement, Volumes I and II, have been opened.

Materials from 31 task forces, 1964-67, have been opened and cover a variety of subjects including urban affairs, employ

ment, law enforcement, care for the elderly, health and nutrition, environmental protection, and transportation.

Papers from the White House Central Files of the Johnson administration have been opened in the following categories:

AT Atomic Energy includes materials on health and medicine.

Materials related to government departments and agencies, committees, councils, and commissions have been opened in the category Federal Government Organizations. These include FG 11-15 Office of Economic Opportunity; FG 110-12 Bureau of Narcotics; FG 135-13 Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs; FG 135-14 Law Enforcement Assistance Administration; FG 165 Department of Health, Education and Welfare; FG 170 Department of Housing and Urban Development; FG 175 Department of Transportation; FG 203 Appalachian Regional Commission; FG 216 District of Columbia; FG 217 District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency; FG 245 Housing and Home Finance Agency; FG 254 National Water Commission; FG 261 National Capital Housing Authority; FG 262 National Capital Planning Commission; FG 628 Cabinet Committee on Corporate Pension Funds and Other Private Retirement and Welfare Programs; FG 630 Cabinet Committee on Federal Staff Retirement Systems; FG 645 Committee on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke; FG 647 Committee to Rebuild America's Slums; FG 653 District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency; FG 654 Commission on Income Maintenance Programs; FG 657 Federal Advisory Council on Regional Economic Development; FG 659 Committee on Population and Family Planning; FG 675 Health Resources Advisory Committee; FG 690 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders; FG 692 National Advisory Commission on Health Facilities; FG 695 National Capital Planning Commission; FG 706 National Capital Transportation Agency; FG 708

National Capital Housing Authority; FG 712 Panel on Mental Retardation; FG 724 President's Committee for Traffic Safety; FG 725 President's Council on Physical Fitness; FG 727 President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse; FG 733 President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime; FG 739 Recreation Advisory Council; FG 756 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission; FG 758 Pennsylvania Avenue Advisory Council; FG 760 Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue; FG 763 President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice; FG 771 President's Committee on Food and Fiber; FG 775 President's Committee on Health Manpower; FG 778 President's Committee on Rural Poverty; FG 781 Study Commission for Providing Facilities for Visitors to the Nation's Capital; FG 797 National Homeownership Foundation; FG 798 National Advisory Commission on Low Income Housing; FG 801 American National Red Cross; FG 804 Committee for Economic Development; FG 813 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; FG 815 Institute for Urban Development; and FG 818 National Housing Partnerships Corporation.

HE Health includes material pertaining to diseases, food-nutrition, health services, medicines-drugs-serums, hospitals-medical care, radiological health, medical research, sanitary services, and vital statistics.

HS Housing contains material on college housing, public housing programs, urban renewal, and veterans housing.

ISI Insurance includes materials on accident-hospital-medical-health (Medicare Program) insurance.

JL 5 Juvenile Delinquency papers relate to juvenile delinquency.

LE Legislation includes material pertaining to health, housing, insurance, local gov ernments, pest control, and transportation legislation.

The LG Local Governments category includes material pertaining to local govern

ments in the states and territories such as counties, parishes, cities, municipalities, and townships, including officials elected or appointed to posts of authority in these governments and matters such as mayors' conferences, civil defense relations, and other federal-local government relations.

Messages to hospitals, clinics, and research institutions are in ME 3-4.

Health-medical materials pertaining to hospitals and clinics, such as army and navy medical centers are in ND 6.

Information relating to blood banks and health-safety is in PE 1-1 and PE 4 respectively.

Information on medical assistance and supplies for peace is in PC 3 Medico-Project Hope.

Materials on the 1964 Democratic National Convention's seating of the Mississippi Freedom Party are in PL/ST 24 and PL 1/ST 24.

Materials on construction and design. and administration of public buildings are in RA 4 and PA 2.

Material pertaining to passenger and freight transportation by rail, highway, or water, including services such as stevedoring, packing, loading, and unloading, pipe line transportation and warehousing is included under RN Transportation.

UT Utilities contains materials relating

to public utilities in the communications. and power fields, including communications by wire or radio, facilities, and charges; generating, transmitting, distributing electric power; natural and artificial gas production and distribution.

VA Veterans Affairs contains information on veterans or their dependents related to veterans' bonuses, compensation-pension, educational programs, hospitalizationrehabilitation, and medical aid-outpatient

care.

WE Welfare includes material pertaining to improving the welfare of the people of the nation, developing community welfare services, national goals, and social trends, contained in these subject areas: WE 1 Child Welfare Services; WE 2 Correctional Institutions; WE 3 Fund Drives; WE 4 Geriatrics; WE 5 Services to Crippled Chil dren; WE 6 Social Security; WE 7 Vocational Rehabilitation (previously opened); WE 8 Youth Programs; and WE 9 Poverty Program-Great Society, including WE 9-1 Project Head Start (previously opened).

Information in this section was contributed by the following staff members of the National Archives and Records Service: Mark G. Eckhoff, Jerome Finster, James R. Fuchs, Edward E. Hill, Marion M. Johnson, Gayle P. Peters, Harold T. Pinkett, Garry D. Ryan, Jeanne Schauble, and Debra K. Wallace.

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 located in the National Archives Building) and the General Archives Division (records located in the Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Md.).

The following is a brief notice of the most significant record series that have been reviewed for declassification between May and August 1973 and the record groups presently being reviewed. Questions about the records reported here 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 the declassification restriction has been removed.

Military Archives Division, Modern Military Branch

The Manhattan Engineer District of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, selected series, 1942-45: 32 cubic feet of records of the special organization that supervised many of the research and development and testing projects, the several plant-construction and equipment projects, and the production programs that led to the development of the first atomic bomb in the spring of

1945 have been declassified.

United States Army Commands, Western Defense Command, 1942-45: 48 cubic feet of the records of components of the Western Defense Command and its successors, the Fourth Army's Wartime Civil Control Administration and the Civil Affairs Division, which was responsible for the immediate evacuation and temporary resettlement of Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans from the Pacific Coast, have been declassified.

Office of the Secretary of War, Secretary Henry L. Stimson's Safe File, 1940-45: 5 cubic feet of material containing Stimson's highest level classified material and relating to a broad range of military and national defense subjects have been declassified.

War Department General and Special Staff, G-3 Security-Classified General Correspondence, 1942-45: 78 cubic feet of classified documents concerning the organization and training of the World War II army have been declassified.

Declassification review projects continue on records of the Army Service Forces, records of the Army Ground Forces, records of the Army Air Forces during World. War II, records of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, and records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Civil Archives Division, Natural Resources Branch

The declassification review project continues on the records of the Petroleum Administration for War.

Industrial and Social Branch

The review project on the records of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion is continuing.

General Archives Division

Headquarters Army Air Forces, combat unit reports, 1941-46: 1,868 cubic feet of all reports of combat operations, orders, statistical summaries, narrative and intelligence reports have been declassified.

Adjutant General's Office, "World War II Operations Reports, 1940-1948": 12,972 cubic feet of virtually every document in this extensive file of narrative and intelligence reports with accompanying supporting documents for all army commands and

units have been reviewed and declassified.

Office of the Chief of Chaplains, 1917-50: 871 cubic feet, of pre-1946 classified documents among the chaplains' reports relating to activities and services rendered by reserve and regular army chaplains have been declassified.

Office of the Quartermaster General, various series, primarily pre-1946: 117 cubic feet of World War II material in all or portions of the following file series have been declassified: "Subject," "Geographic," "Miscellaneous," and "Commercial," 1936-45; "Correspondence, Reports, Memoranda, Endorsements, and Other Records Relating to Other Government Agencies, Offices, Troop Units, and to Coded War Plans," 1920-42; and the records of the Office of the Deputy Quartermaster General for Administration and Management, 1922-45.