Records of the Office of Intelligence -- Records of Bureau of Intelligence and Research -- General Records of the Department of State (RG 59) [CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS -- Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records]

When the President disbanded the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) by Executive Order 9621 of September 20, 1945, the Research and Analysis Branch of that organization became part of the State Department. The Branch continued the preparation of reports and studies that had begun under the predecessor of the OSS, the Office of the Coordinator of Information. Various organizational units were responsible for preparing intelligence reports over the next sixteen years, including the Interim Research and Intelligence Service, the Office of Intelligence Coordination and Liaison, the office of Research and Intelligence, the Office of Intelligence Research, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, which discontinued intelligence reports in 1961.

Card Index to Numbered Intelligence Reports 1941-1961 (Entry 448)
   
                Arranged alphabetically by subject or name of country and thereunder by report  number. Series consists of 3x5-inch cards, listing the number, title, and date of  each report in Entry 449. There are some cards for reports that are not in the file.  Boxes 1-11 location: 250/46/9/01 

Numbered Intelligence Reports ("R and A Reports") October 1941-September 1961
(Entry 449)

        Arranged numerically from 1-8518.2, with various office symbols preceding the  numbers. The reports vary from short memorandums to detailed, documented  studies. Entry 448 is a card index to the reports.
        Boxes 1-323B location: 631/13/31/02

Miscellaneous Intelligence Reports January 1944-June 1961 (Entry 451)

        Boxes 325-326 location: 631/13/40/04

Records of the Division of Research for the American Republics

  Country Files 1940-1945 (Entry 451A)

        Contains correspondence with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Coordinator of  Inter-American Affairs, Board of Economic Warfare and other agencies, as well,  as State Department records and reports relating to economic warfare, totalitarian  activities in certain countries, and related matters.
        Boxes 1-6 location: 250/46/9/03

Miscellaneous Records 1942-1950 (Entry 451B)

        Contains State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Coordinator of Inter-American  Affairs, Office of Strategic Services, and other agency reports and other records  relating to various matters concerning economic warfare and Axis influences in the  Western hemisphere. Boxes 7-17 location: 250/46/9/03
                        Boxes 13 and 14 contain Reports prepared by the Special Section of the  Division of American Republics on the activities of Nazi, Communist,  Falangist, Spanish Republican, and other foreign groups in Latin America
            (5 volumes), 1942-1943, and "Action Taken by the United States  Government to Eliminate Axis Influence from the Other American  Republics," 1942. 

Records of the Division of Research for Western Europe

Subject File Relating to Italian Economic Affairs, 1937-1951 (Entry 1452)
(Lot file 52D398)

        Box #  File Title
        1  Italy-External Assets
        2  Italy-Assets in U.S.
            Italy-External Assets
        3  Italy IT-A-451 Reparations 1948-1949
            Rels. with Germany - German Assets
            three files "Rome Treasure 1950," "Rome Treasure 1949," and "Rome  Treasure 1947-1948."
            403 Reparations
            105 Rome Treasure
            German Assets in Italy - 1949
            German Assets - General January-June 1950; January-June 1951; July-  December 1951; January-June 1952; and, July - December 1952
            three files covering German Assets and German Libraries, 1950-1951
            Material on Commitment to Italians re German Assets
            German Assets and German Libraries 1950 location: 250/49/34/02

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