Records of the Foreign Economic Administration (RG 169) [CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS -- Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records]


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Records of the Board of Economic Warfare (1941-1943)

On December 17, 1941, the Economic Defense Board became, by a change of name, the Board of Economic Warfare. For about four months thereafter there were no major changes in the functions and no significant changes in administrative organization. By an Executive order of April 13, 1942, however, the Board's powers. which hitherto had been limited chiefly to the control of exports, were significantly increased by giving to the Board a large measure of control over imports. It was also directed to "represent the United States Government in dealing with the economic warfare agencies of the United Nations for the purpose of relating the Government's economic warfare program and facilities regarding the importation of strategic and critical materials.

As a result of the Executive order the Board was reorganized, and to the existing membership of the Board proper, presided over by the Vice President of the United States, Henry A. Wallace, there were added the Chairman of the War Production Board and the Administrator of the Office of Lend-Lease Administration. The Offices of Exports, Imports, Economic Warfare Analysis, the General Counsel, and Administrative Management, established at that time, remained in existence during the life of the agency, although the branches and divisions of the offices underwent a number of changes.

By an Executive order of July 15, 1943, the Board of Economic Warfare was terminated and its functions, personnel, and records were transferred to the Office of Economic Warfare (OEW). The various centralized and decentralized files of the Board, which were taken over and maintained practically intact by the OEW, were later distributed to various units of the Foreign Economic Administration.

General Records

Classified Subject File July 1940-June 1942 (Entry 97)
   
                Records of the Board of Economic Warfare and of its predecessors, the Economic  Defense Board and the Office of the Administrator of Export Control, consisting  mainly of copies of letters, memorandums, reports, minutes of meetings of  committees, and other materials relating to all phases of export control and  economic warfare and to the organization, administration, policies, and procedures  of the agencies. The records are arranged in accordance with a subject-numeric  classification system. Please consult the finding aids in the consultation area in  Room 2600 for information regarding the classification system.
        Boxes 1-247  location: 570/56/6/01

Geographic Central File July 1940-June 1942 (Entry 98)

        Letters and memoranda, mainly copies. relating to export control matters involving  specific countries and covering subjects similar to those described in the previous  entry. The records are arranged alphabetically by country and thereunder by the  same subject-numeric system used in the Classified Subject Central File.
        Boxes 248-293 location: 570/56/11/01

        Box #  Country or Geographic Area
        248-250  Argentina location: 570/56/11/01
        250  Austria location: 570/56/11/01
        265-266  Germany location: 570/56/11/03
        270  Italy location: 570/56/11/04
        273-274  Latin America location: 570/56/11/04
        283-284  Portugal location: 570/56/11/06
        286  South America
                Spain location: 570/56/11/06
        287  Sweden location: 570/56/11/06
        288  Switzerland location: 570/56/11/06
        289  Turkey location: 570/56/11/07
        292  Vatican City location: 570/56/11/07

Records of the Office of Economic Warfare (1943)

By an Executive order of July 15, 943, the Office of Economic Warfare, headed by a Director, Leo T. Crowley, was established in the Office of Emergency Management. To it were transferred the functions, personnel, and records of the Board of Economic Warfare, which was abolished by the order. The Office of Economic Warfare was in existence for only about six weeks. Its functions and administrative organization were substantially those of its predecessors. By an Executive order of September 25, 1943, the Office of Economic Warfare and certain other agencies, together with their personnel and records, were transferred to and consolidated in the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), which was established by that order. The records of the Office were later absorbed into the records of various units of the FEA.

Records of the Foreign Economic Administration (1943-1945)

In order to unify and consolidate the administration of governmental activities relating to foreign economic affairs, the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), was established by an Executive order of September 25, 1943. The functions, personnel, and records of the office of Lend-Lease Administration, the Office of Economic Warfare, the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations of the Department of State, and the foreign economic operations of the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination of the Department of State were transferred to the FEA.

The FEA was responsible for the wartime functions of export control, foreign procurement, lend-lease, reverse lend-lease, participation in foreign relief and rehabilitation, and economic warfare, including foreign economic intelligence. By an Executive order of September 27, 1945, the FEA was abolished and its remaining functions were divided among five agencies, including the Departments of State and Commerce.

Records of the Office of the Administrator

This Office included the Administrator, Leo T. Crowley, his immediate assistants, and six planning and administrative offices.

General Records

Subject File of the Administrator, January 1942-October 1945 (Entry 128)

        Correspondence of Leo T. Crowley, FEA Administrator, and of Milo Perkins,  Executive Director of the Board of Economic Warfare and Office of Economic  Warfare, with  members of Congress, other Government agencies, private industry,  and the general public regarding policy matters in connection with the  administration and operations of the above-mentioned agencies, cooperation with  other Government agencies on foreign economic operations, legislation, and other  matters requiring the attention of the Administrator (or his predecessor). One part  of this file, covering the period January 1941-July 1944, is arranged according to a  modified Dewey decimal classification scheme. The second part of the file,  covering the period August 1944-October 1945, is arranged according to a  subject-numeric classification scheme. This scheme is outlined in a binder in the  consultation area in Room 2600. Boxes 1-77 location: 570/56/19/04

                        Box #  File Title or Subject
            1  Inter-American Affairs, Coordinator of (1941-1942) 
                Joint Combined Chiefs of Staff (1942-1943)
                North Africa Economic Board (Aug. 27, 1943)
                State Department (1943-1944)
                State Dept.-Office of Economic Coordination, Foreign (O.F.E.C.)    (1942-1943)
                U.S. Commercial Company (1943-1944)
                War Department (1943); location: 570/56/19/04
            2  Censorship, Office of (1942-1943)
                Combined Chiefs of Staff (1942-1943)
                Commerce Department (Foreign and Domestic Commerce) (1941-    1943)
                Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (1941-1944)
                Justice Department (1941, 1943-1944)
                Justice Department (Anti-Trust Division)  (March 1942)
                Justice Department (Federal Bureau of Investigation) (January and    March 1943) 
                State Department (1941-1944)
                State Department-Office of Foreign Economic Coordination    (September-October 1943)
                Treasury Department (Foreign Funds Control) (June 20, 1942)
                War Department-Combined Civil Affairs Committee (n.d.)
                War Information, Office of (1942-1944) location: 570/56/19/04
            3  Justice Department (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
(December 3, 1942)
                Criticism and Complaints- B.E.W. (1942-1944)
                EOP-Office of War Information (1942-1944)
                White House (Harry Hopkins) (1941-1943) location: 570/56/19/04
            4  Board of Economic Warfare Board Meetings; Minutes and other    files (1941-1943) location: 570/56/19/04
            9  Missions-Censorship Intercepts for Missions (June-October 1943)    location: 570/56/19/05
            11  Office of Economic Warfare (July-October 1943)
                Board of Economic Warfare-Sub-Committee (1941-1943)
                Foreign Economic Administration - Organization (1942-1944)
                Bureau of Areas (1943-1944)
                Historian (1942-1944)
                Economic Warfare Analysis (1942-1943)
                Executive Director (1943); location: 570/56/19/05
            12  Committees (1941-1944)
                Minutes-Office of Economic Warfare Analysis (May-June 1942);    location: 570/56/19/05
            13  Minutes-Meetings in Office of Stettinius (April-July 1942)
                State Department (1942-1943) location: 570/56/19/05
            14  Procedures and Instructions (1941-1944)
                Directives (1943-1944)
                Copies of BEW Directives (1941-1942)
                Copies of BEW Orders (1942-1943)
                Licensing Procedures (1942-1943) location: 570/56/19/05
            23  Reports-Progress (General) (1943-1944)
                Reports-Miscellaneous (1941-1944) location: 570/56/19/07
            24  Report of the American Hemisphere Division-BEW  (March 1942)    location: 570/56/19/07
            25  Cartels (1942-1944)
                U.S. Commercial Company (1943-1944) location: 570/56/19/07
            26  Preclusive Operations Division-Economic Warfare Deals
(June 18, 1943) location: 570/56/19/07
            27  Censorship (1942-1944)
                Censorship Intercepts-Press (1942-1944)
                Politics and Propaganda (1942-1944) location: 570/56/19/07
            29  Treasury Department (May 23, 1942)
                Vice President Henry A Wallace (1942-1943)
                White House; Wheeler, Senator B.K. (1941 & 1943)
location: 570/56/20/01
            32  Blockade Systems (1942-1943)
                Navicerts{Note 1} (1942-1943)
                Export Trade Control (1941-1944)
                General Licenses (October 13, 1943)
                Black Lists (1941-1942)
                Blocked Nationals (1942)
                Watch Lists (June 2, 1943) location: 570/56/20/01
            33  Preclusive Buying and Procurement Contracts (1941-1944)    location: 570/56/20/01
            40  Censorship (1944-1945)
                Censorship-Intercepts (1944-1945)
                Combined Civil Affairs Committee (1944-1945)
location: 570/56/20/02
            41-46  Contain records relating to the Executive Policy Committee and the    Executive Policy Committee on Economic Foreign Policy    (1944-1945) location: 570/56/20/02
            47  Committee-Joint Intelligence Committee (1944-1945); Has minor    mention of Switzerland being dependant on German trade.
location: 570/56/20/03 
            48-49  Contain records relating to various Liberated Areas committees    (1944-1945) location: 570/56/20/03
            51-52  Contain information on the U.S. Commercial Company (1944-    1945) location: 570/56/20/04 
            57  Contains records relating to the cooperation between the FEA and    the Navy Department, State Department, War Department,    and other agencies. location: 570/56/20/05
            62  Finance, Public-Banks and Banking (1944)
                Finance, Public-Safehaven. (1944-1945) This file contains  information on the organizing and running the Safehaven    program. location: 570/56/20/05
            65  Organization-Foreign Economic Administration (1943-1945)
                Organization-FEA-Economic Intelligence (September -October    1944) location: 570/56/20/06
            66  Personnel-Klaus, Samuel{Note 2} (July-August 1944)
location: 570/56/20/06
            71  Reports-Bureau of Areas (1944-1945)
                Reports-Enemy Branch-The Procurement of Economic Information    for Strategic Purposes (1942-1944)
                Reports-Liberated Areas (December 20, 1944)
location: 570/56/20/07
            72  Reports-U.S. Commercial Company (1944-1945)
                Reports-War Department (October 1943)
                Reports-Overall FEA Reports (1944-1945)
                Reports-Overall FEA Reports (September 1944)
                Reports-Special Areas (February-June 1944)
location: 570/56/20/07
            75  Trade-Blockade Systems (June 1944)
                Trade-Cartels and Monopolies (1944-1945) location: 570/56/20/07
            76  Trade Export-Blocked Nationals (1944)
                Trade Export-Black Lists (1944-1945) location: 570/56/20/07

Geographic File of the Administrator January 1942-October 1945 (Entry 129)

        Correspondence, mainly of Milo Perkins, Executive Director of the Board of  Economic Warfare and the Office of Economic Warfare, and of Leo T. Crowley,  FEA Administrator, with other Government agencies, representatives of the  Administration abroad, and foreign missions in the United States, together with  memoranda, reports, and other papers. The records relate in large part to policies  of the FEA and its predecessors with respect to commodity requirements, supplies,  requisitioning, transportation problems, surplus property disposal, and other  economic matters as they concerned various foreign countries. That part of the  file for the period January 1942-July 1944 is arranged alphabetically by geographic  area or country and thereunder in accordance with a decimal classification system.  The second part of the file, for the period August 1944-October 1945, is arranged  alphabetically by geographic area or country and thereunder alphabetically by  subject. Boxes 1-28 location: 570/56/21/01

        Box #  Country and/or Subject
        1  Africa  location: 570/56/21/01
        2  Argentina  location: 570/56/21/01
        3  Axis  location: 570/56/21/01
        8  European Neutrals
            Germany  location: 570/56/21/02
        9  Iberian Peninsula location: 570/56/21/02
        10  Italy
            Latin America
            Liberated Areas location: 570/56/21/02
        12  Portugal  location: 570/56/21/02
        13  Spain
            Sweden
            Switzerland
            Turkey  location: 570/56/21/02
        15  Africa
            Argentina  location: 570/56/21/03
        18  European Neutrals location: 570/56/21/03
        20  Germany  location: 570/56/21/03
        21-22  Italy  location: 570/56/21/03
        22  Liberated Areas; location: 570/56/21/04
        24  Portugal  location: 570/56/21/04
        25  Spain
        25-26  Sweden  location: 570/56/21/04
        26  Switzerland
            Turkey  location: 570/56/21/04

General Letters Sent 1942-1945 (Entry 130)

        Boxes 1-16 location: 570/56/21/05

Letters to Field Representatives in Foreign Countries 1942-1945 (Entry 131)

        Boxes 1-3 location: 570/56/21/07

Intraoffice and Interoffice Letters and Memoranda Sent January 1944-October 1945  (Entry 132)

        Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/21/07

Intra-Agency Memoranda Sent October 1941-December 1943 (Entry 133)

        Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/22/01

Letters Sent to Other Government Agencies March 1942-October 1945 (Entry 134)

        Boxes 1-10 location: 570/56/22/01
        Box #  Agency
        1  Alien Property Custodian
            American Embassies location: 570/56/22/01
        2  Censorship, Office of
            Combined Chiefs of Staff & Joint Chiefs of Staff
            Commerce Department; location: 570/56/22/01
        3  Commerce Department
            Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors location: 570/56/22/01
        4  Inter-American Affairs, Coordinator of
            Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S.
            Justice Department; location: 570/56/22/01
        5  Navy Department; location: 570/56/22/01
        6  Reparations Committee-Allied on
            Securities and Exchange Commission
        6-7  State Department; location: 570/56/22/02
        7  Strategic Services, Office of
            Treasury Department  location: 570/56/22/02
        8  Vice President, Office of
            War Department; location: 570/56/22/02
        9  War Information, Office of location: 570/56/22/02
        10  White House; location: 570/56/22/02

Records of the Office of the Budget and Administrative Planning

Records of the Records Analysis Division

The Records Analysis Division was established in December 1943 to be responsible for the preparation of a history or histories of the FEA. It took over and continued historical activities that had been begun as early as 1942 in both the Office of Lend-Lease Administration and the Board of Economic Warfare.

File of William Lonsdale Taylor, Chief 1943-1946 (Entry 143)

        File of the Historian of the Board of Economic Warfare, the Office of Economic  Warfare, and the FEA and Chief of the Records Analysis Division.  Consists of  correspondence, memoranda, progress reports, organizational charts, and  administrative issuances dealing with the work and personnel of the Division, the  organization of chapters of the history, requests for copies of records from FEA  files, history committees, and related subjects. Arranged in part by subject, and in  part chronologically by date of document. Boxes 1-6 location: 570/56/22/02

Historian's Reports of Interviews 1943-1945 (Entry 144)

        Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/22/03

Monographs

Historical Monographs Prepared by the Division 1940-1946 (Entry 145)

        Typewritten copies of monographs on the organization and operations of the FEA  and its predecessor agencies, which were prepared by the staff of the Records  Analysis Division. Some of the monographs are bound with supporting papers,  consisting of copies of FEA records. Unarranged.
        Boxes 1-21 location: 570/56/22/03

Historical Monographs Prepared Outside the Division 1940-1946 (Entry 146)

        Boxes 1-6 location: 570/56/22/06
        Box #  Monograph Title
        1  Argentina-Policy of OEW Toward, July 1943  Blockade-British-American Black List Committee, December 15, 1942
            Blockade-Blacklisting-Use and Administration, March 26, 1941
            Blockade, Bargains and Bluff, n.d.
            Blockade Division, History of, January 25, 1945
            Blockade Division, Operations of, September 14, 1943
            Blockade Division, Enforcement Section, History of, 1944-1945
            BEW-Economic War Fare - British Experience by Military Intelligence  Division, July 17,1941
            BEW-A Functional Summary of Divisions and Committees, February 1942
            BEW-Preliminary Statement of General Objectives and Operating  Organization,  May 15, 1945
        2  Economic Warfare Analysis, 1943
            Directives Issued by BEW, 1942-1943
            Enemy Branch, Statement of Activities of the, October 15, 1945
            Economic Foreign Policy Executive Committee, Report of the    Activities of,  September 1, 1944
            European Axis Section and the European Division, August 1, 1942-  December 31, 1944
            Foreign Economic Administration Relations with Army, n.d.
        3  Italy-FEA Participation in the Allied Control Commission, n.d.
            Italy-Allied Control Commission, n.d.
        4  Liberated Areas, 1943-1944
            Liberated Areas, Materials re, September 1945
            Mission for Economic Affairs, American Embassy, London,
                November 30, 1944
            Mission for Economic Affairs (London), January 27, 1944
            Organizational Handbook, Board of Economic Warfare, January 1943
        5  Procurement of Economic Information for Strategic Purposes, May 1945
            Preclusive Operations in the Neutral Countries in World War II, n.d.
            Relationship of FEA to Other Federal Agencies, June 18, 1945
            Relationship of BEW-FEA with Other Agencies, December 23, 1942
            South American Blockade, 1943
            Survey of Organization and Operations, Mission for Economic Affairs,  American Embassy, London, by Bureau of the Budget Mission,  American Embassy, London, November 30, 1944
        6  Swiss Negotiations, History of, May 3, 1945
            Swiss Negotiations, Survey of, September 13, 1943
            United States Commercial Corporation-Its Organization, Operations and  Objectives, June 24, 1944
            White Paper - History of the Administration of the British White Paper,  December 8, 1944
            Functions of the Economic Warfare Division of the American Embassy,  London, October 15, 1943

Records Assembled by the Historian

Reports on the Organization of the Division of Controls July-August 1941 (Entry 148)

        Box 1 location: 570/56/23/01

Historical File on the Office of Economic Warfare and Predecessor Agencies 1941-1943  (Entry 150)

        Among the folder headings included in this series: Argentina; Blockade; Board of  Economic Warfare; British Empire; Intelligence (history); Office of Censorship;  Office of Economic Warfare Analysis; Office of War Information; Policy  Committee; State Department; and, Treasury. Boxes 1-9 location: 570/56/23/01
       
Historical File on the Foreign Economic Administration 1943-1945 (Entry 151) 

        Boxes 906-919E location: 570/56/23/03
        Box #  File Title or Subject
        906  Argentina
            Bretton Woods Meeting location: 570/56/23/03
        906A  Cartels
            A Brief Historical Statement [June 30, 1944] location: 570/56/23/03
        908-910 Bureau of Areas location: 570/56/23/03
        910A  Bureau of Areas
            History of the Country Program Branch, Office of Exports
            German Branch-Background Material location: 570/56/23/04
        913  Confidential news Letter, prepared by the Office of the General Counsel;  issues from March 23, 1944 to July 21, 1944
            Foreign Economic Administration Press Releases
            Liberated Areas (3 folders)
            Foreign Economic Administration-Mission for Economic Affairs
                location: 570/56/23/04
        914  News Summaries (5 folders) location: 570/56/23/04
        915  Germany-General Objectives of US EConomic Policy with respect to  Germany
            German program
            The Administration of German Iron-Steel Industry location: 570/56/23/04
        916  Foreign Economic Administration Newsletter, issues for December 8, 1944  to July 21, 1945 location: 570/56/23/04
        917  Portugal
            Spain
            State Department (Miscellaneous)
            Sweden
            Switzerland
            Turkey location: 570/56/23/05
        918  UNRRA (2 folders)
            US Army-FEA Relations
            USCC
            Trade Intelligence location: 570/56/23/05

Administrative Issuances of the Economic Defense Board, the Board of Economic  Warfare, and the Office of Economic Warfare, September 1941-November 30,  1943 (Entry 153)

        Boxes 920-929 location: 570/56/23/06

FEA Administrative Issuances December 1943-October 1945 (Entry 154)

        Boxes 930-930C location: 570/56/24/01

Budget Materials 1941-1946 (Entry 155)

        Boxes 931-947A location: 570/56/24/01

Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Economic Warfare August 13, 1941-July 15, 1943  (Entry 156)

        Box 948 location: 570/56/24/04

Research Reports and Studies 1942-1944 (Entry 157)

        Research reports and studies of various divisions of the FEA and predecessor  agencies on such subjects as the economy of enemy, neutral, and allied countries,  possibilities of and programs for the development and procurement of strategic  commodities, problems of occupation, and enemy methods of occupation, together  with miscellaneous reports on sources of economic intelligence and other subjects  of interest to the Board of Economic Warfare, the Office of Economic Warfare,  and the FEA. Arranged by division symbol and thereunder numerically.
        Boxes 1-27 location: 570/56/24/04

        Box #  Report #  Report Title
        1  AH-87  Axis Connections of Certain Fire and Marine Insurance  Companies Operating in Argentina, April 1943
            BL-6-260  Preclusive Purchase of Hemp in Turkey, August 23, 1943
            BL-6-522  Production and Preemption of Chrome in Turkey,  September 16, 1943
            BL-6-5000  Preclusive Purchase of Cotton Waste in Turkey,
April 29, 1943
            BL-6-5018  Preclusive Purchase of Emery in Turkey, April 19, 1943
            BL-10  Trade Policy Toward Sweden: A Summary of the Essential  Facts on Sweden's Relations with the Enemy and  with the Area outside the Blockade, Rev. Version,  November 3, 1942
            BL-59  Trade Program for French Africa, Spain, and Portugal,  April 1943
            BL-60  Swedish-American Balance of Payments, March 1943
location: 570/56/24/04
        2  BL-64-1  Preclusive Purchase of Zinc in Turkey, February 9, 1943
            BL-64-2  Preclusive Purchase of Beans in Turkey, February 10, 1943
            BL-64-3  Preclusive Purchase of Opium in Turkey, February 18, 1943
            BL-64-4  Preclusive Purchase of Hazelnuts in Turkey,
February 12, 1943
            BL-64-15  Chromium in Portugal, April 15, 1943
            BL-74  Lists of Portuguese and Spanish Commodities of Interest to  and Imported by Axis Europe, March 1943
            BL-78  Iron and Steel Industry in Turkey, August 17, 1943
            BL-84  NAVICERT Control: Some Questions Answered,
June 1943
            BL-89  Policy of Civilian Relief in the Blockade Area, May 3, 1943
            BL-92  Comparison of Exports to Axis Europe from Turkey (1941  and 1942) and from Spain (1942), May 22, 1943
            BL-128  Commodities to be Included in the New Turkish    Preemptive Program, October 7, 1943
            BL-139  Turkish Exports to Axis Europe January-June 1942 and  January-June 1943, September 26, 1943
            BL-141  Smuggling Activities of Suspected Firms, Individuals, and  Ships, by Commodity and by Country,
October 22, 1943
            E-10  Raw Materials Position of Enemy Europe,
February 14, 1944
            E-17  Present Conditions of German War Economy,
April 12, 1944
            EIS-1  OVRA: The Italian Secret Police, February 1944
            EIS-2.1  Elimination of Fundamental Nazi Political Laws in  Germany, May 1944
            EIS-8  Synopsis of German Ministries and Administrative Agencies  Concerned with Economic Controls, January 1945
            EIS-12  The Reich Ministry of the Interior, May 1945
            EIS-13  The Reich Ministry of Armament and War Production  (Speer Ministry), February 1945
            EIS-25  Property Transferred Under the Nazi Regime in Germany,  June 1944
            EIS-27.1  Control, Ownership and international Relationships of  Leading German Combines, September 1944
            EIS-29  The Italian Patent System and Control of German-Owned  Patents, September 1944
            EIS-40  Old-Age and Invalidity Insurance in Germany, May 1944
location: 570/56/24/04
        3  EIS-43  Vichy Legislation, February 1944
            EIS-43A  Vichy Legislation, September 1944
            EIS-51  Elimination of Nazi Laws and Structure in Austria and  Preparation for Austrian Independence, July 1944
            EIS-57  Fascist and Pro-Fascist Elements in Public Positions in Italy,  n.d.
            EIS-57-1  Fascist and Pro-Fascist Elements in Public Positions in Italy,  April 1944 location: 570/56/24/05
        4  EIS-68  German Economic Penetration and Exploitation of  Southeastern Europe, May 1944
            EIS-68A  German Penetration of Corporate Holdings in Serbia, n.d.
            EIS-68B  German Penetration of Corporate Holdings in Croatia,  May 1944
            EIS-71  Organization of the Iron and Steel Industry of Enemy  Europe, July 1944
            EIS-74.1  Elimination of Nazi Public Agencies in Germany,
September 1944
            EIS-84  Social Insurance in Greece, July 1944
location: 570/56/24/05
        5  EO-3  Preliminary Report on Calcium Carbide in German Europe,  February 3, 1943
            EO-21  General Survey of the Italian Chemical Industry,
March 20, 1943
            EO-32  French Chemical Industry, May 22, 1943
location: 570/56/24/05
        6  EO-64  Capacity and Location of "Quality" Alloy Steel Production  facilities in Axis Europe, February 12, 1943
            EO-80  Belgian Chemical Industry, June 25, 1943
            EO-87  The European Anti-Friction Bearing Industry, March 1943
location: 570/56/24/05
        7  EO-121  The Dutch Chemical Industry, September, 1943
            EO-138  Smoke Screening of Economic Objectives in Axis Europe,  July 7, 1943 location: 570/56/24/05
            EP-37A  Materials Inventory of enemy Europe: Chrome Ore,
October 9, 1943
            EP-37B  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Tungsten,
December 1, 1942
            EP-37G  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Tin,
July 22, 1943
            EP-37GG  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Magnesium,  December 3, 1942
            EP-37KK  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Iron and Steel,  March 28, 1943
            EP-37LL  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Coal and Coke,  August 1943
            EP-37M  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Industrial  Diamonds, October 2, 1943
            EP-37NN  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Manganese,
May 5, 1943 location: 570/56/24/05
        9  EP-37UUU  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Silver    February 6 1943
            EP-37XX  Materials Inventory of the European Axis: Titanium Ores,  February 10, 1943
            EP-61  The Food Situation in Axis Europe, January 25, 1943
            EP-69A  Axis Capabilities: In the Former Unoccupied Zone of  France, December 7, 1942 
            EP-69B  Italy in the Present Stage of the War, December 7, 1942
            EP-69C  Axis Capabilities in Southeastern Europe,
December 7, 1942
            EP-71  Selective Bibliography of Nazi Economic Techniques,
May 1, 1943
            EP-86  The Economy of Yugoslavia and Its Contribution to the  Axis, October 1943
            EP-110  Inventory of Yugoslavia's Industrial and Mineral  Enterprises, February 10, 1943
            EP-119  Trends in German Economic Potential, January 14, 1943
location: 570/56/24/05
        10  EP-128  Inventory of Romania's Industrial and Mineral Resources,  May 31, 1943
            EP-135  Actual and Potential Exploitation by Germany of the  Resources of Occupied Russia and the Baltic States,  November 1943
            EP-148.1  European Axis Deficiencies, March 15, 1943
            EP-148.2  Enemy Europe Deficiencies, February 21, 1944
            EP-152  Raw Materials Position of the European Axis,
February 23, 1943
            EP-152.1  War Materials Position of the European Axis, April 5, 1943
            EP-170  Axis Penetration of European Insurance, June 15, 1943
            EP-171  The Relative Economic Consequences of the Loss of  Certain European Areas to Axis Control,
April 15, 1943
            EP-173(rev.3)  Estimated Supplies of Selected Raw Materials and Food  Products Available to the European Enemy in 1943,  February 1944
            EP-176  The Migration of Axis Industry into Poland, June 16, 1943
location: 570/56/24/06
        11  EP-197  Impact of the War Upon Finland's Economy,
January 1944
            EP-199  Estimates of Italian Minerals and Metal Output March  1943, March 22, 1943
            EP-200A  Plant Inventory of Italy: Coal, June 8, 1943
            EP-252.20  Estimates of the Numbers of Foreign Workers and Prisoners  of War in Greater Germany, June 25, 1943 
            EP-252.23  Inflation in Germany, August 4, 1943
            EP-252.25  German Economic Penetration of Romania,
August 10, 1943
            EP-252.26  German Economic Penetration of Bulgaria,
August 10, 1943
            EP-252.27  German-Italian Trade in War Time, July 21, 1943
            EP-252.28  The Economic Resources of Norway, November 2, 1943
            EP-252.29  Economic Resources of Denmark, October 26, 1943
            EP-252.32  The Economic Resources of France, October 23, 1943
            EP-252.8  German Control of French Economy, June 1, 1943
            EP-265  The Belgian Economy and Its Contribution to Enemy  Europe, January 1944
            EP-268  Tungsten Position of The European Axis, July 3, 1943
location: 570/56/24/06
        12  EP-301  Major Aspects of Danish Economy, April 15, 1944
            EP-308  German Administration in The Baltic Area, November 1943
            EP-313  Yugoslavia as a Source of Mineral Products,
August 13, 1943
            EP-316  Inland Transportation Administration of Enemy Europe,  November 1943
            EP-317.4  Economic Symptoms of German Collapse, January 10, 1944
            EP-319  Economy and Potential of Northern Italy, August 30, 1943
            EP-323  Economic Significance of Entry of Turkey into The War,  December 14, 1943
            EP-333  Economic Significance of a German Withdrawal to a  Certain Line in Eastern and Souther Europe,  October 12, 1943
            EP-347  The Food Situation in Enemy Europe in 1943 and 1944  and Prospects for 1944-1945, December 24, 1943
            EP-361  Policies and Control of German Industrial Operations 1942-  1943, February 8, 1944
            EP-367  Financial Contribution of occupied and Satellite Countries  of Europe to The Enemy War Economy in  Estimated Occupation Costs and Clearing Balances,
June 26, 1944 location: 570/56/24/06
        13  EP-379  Manpower of The Netherlands Working for Axis Account,  December 17, 1943
            EP-384(Rev.)  Manpower and Population in Enemy Europe, July 1944
            EP-388  Manpower of Luxembourg Working For Axis Account,  December 20, 1943
            EP-389  Manpower of Bulgaria Working For Axis Account,    December 21, 1943
            EP-392  Manpower of GeneralGovernment Working For Axis  Account, February 25, 1944
            EP-339A  Ferro-Alloys and their Effect on Steel in The German War  Economy, 1943 and 1944, June 1944
            ES-3  German Economic Interests in Portugal,
October 1945
            ES-EA-63  Strategic Resources and Routes in French Morocco.  June 3, 1942
            ES-EA-69  Strategic Resources and Routes in Algeria,
June 22, 1942
            IM-EA-138  Trading Commodities for Spain, Portugal, and Africa,
July 28, 1942
            IND-11  The German Machine Industry, May 1945
location: 570/56/24/06
        14  IND-30  Preliminary Studies of Reparations from Selected    German Industries, May 1945
            INT-2  Sources of Economic Intelligence, March 26, 1943
            INT-5  Economic Intelligence Manual (A Guide to What The  Board of Economic Warfare Needs to Know) I:  Enemy Economy, April 1943 
            ME-7  The Middle East Supply Center, May 1944
            ME-8  Description of The Sterling Area System in The Middle  East, August 1944
            ME-9  Wartime Imports of Middle Eastern Countries,
August 17, 1944 location: 570/56/24/06
        15  MI-INT-1.2  Digest of Current Intelligence, July 30, 1942 [contains  information on Swedish exports to Germany, p. 10)
            MI-INT-1.3  Digest of Current Intelligence, August 12, 1942 [contains  information on Axis insurance companies operating  in Latin America, p. 8]
            MI-OEWA-1  Organization and Functions of The British Ministry of  Economic Warfare, June 1942
            OEWA-3.20-OEWA-3.26 Numerous issues of weekly Operations Report  of The Office of Economic Warfare Analysis,  January 11, 1943 thru November 12, 1943
            OEWA-16  Principal Italian Statistical Sources, October 1943
location: 570/56/24/06
        16  PC-1  Extra-Territorial Effect of Economic Measures Taken by  The Occupying Powers in Germany: Problems of  Recognition and Enforcement in Neutral Countries,  May 1945
            RR-1  The War Economies and Armament Office of The German  High Command, December 1942
            RR-5  Economic Clauses of Armistice Agreements, January 1943
location: 570/56/24/06
        17  RR-8  Key Laws, Decrees and Regulations Issued by The Axis in  Occupied Europe: Greece, June 1943
            RR-8  Key Laws, Decrees and Regulations Issued by The Axis in  Occupied Europe, December 1942
            RR-15-5  Recommendations for Monetary and Banking  Reorganization in French North Africa,
November 14, 1942
            RR-15-5(Rev.1)Recommendations for Monetary and Banking    Reorganization in French North Africa,
December 1942
            RR-21(Rev.1)  French Economic Administration in North Africa,
April 22, 1943 location: 570/56/24/07
        18  RR-25  Monetary and Bank Reorganization in Libya,
December 1942
            RR-26  Corporate Enterprises in French North Africa,
January 4, 1943
            RR-29  Greek Series: Reoccupation Program for Crete,
August 1943
            RR-30  Elimination of Nazi-Inspired Laws Applicable to French  Africa, February 4, 1943
            RR-30A  Certain Nazi-Inspired Laws Applicable to French Africa,  February 4, 1943
            RR-33  Recommendation for Monetary and Bank Reorganization in  French West Africa, January 1943
            RR-35  Preliminary Report on Currency Problems in Occupation,  September 1942 location: 570/56/24/07
        19  RR-53  Currency and banking Problems in Occupation of Italy,  April 1943
            RR-53A  Italian international Banking Connections, August 1943
            RR-53B  Who's Who in Italian Banking location: 570/56/24/07
        20  RR-69  Currency and banking Problems in Reoccupation of    Albania, July 1943
            RR-87  The French Aluminum Trust, September 1943
            RR-89  The Hermann Goering Works: An Instrument of Nazi  Economic Penetration and Consolidation, June 1943
            RR-91  German Domination of Norwegian Mining and    Metallurgical Industries, September 1943
            RR-93  Foreign Investments Seized in Italy, September 1943
            RR-95  German Economic Controls in Luxembourg, November  1943 location: 570/56/24/07
        21  RR-120  Italian Repositories of Official Facts and Statistics,
August 1943
            RR-131A  Albania: Economic Resources and Relief Requirements  During The Liberation Period, December 1943
            RR-131D  Yugoslavia: Economic Resources During The Liberation  Period, December 1943
            RR-144  The Japanese Occupation Technique in The Field of Money  and Bank, February 1944
            RR-147  Guide to The Preservation and Use of Key Records in Italy,  October 1943
            RR-157  Principal Mineral and Metal Resources in Yugoslavia,  November 1943
            RR-158  The Italian Iron and Steel Industry, November 1943
            RR-161  Private Insurance in Italy: Recommendations and Guide,  November 1943 location: 570/56/24/07
        22  SA-6.1 to SA-6.47 Special Areas Branch Reports, January 1, 1944 thru  December 6, 1944 location: 570/56/24/07
        23  SA-6.48 to SA-6.56 Special Areas Branch Reports, December 13, 1944  thru February 14, 1945
            SA-51  Argentina: Handbook of Economic Information,
February 1944 location: 570/56/24/07 
        24  SR-200-300-B World Coal Reserves, Production and Trade, October 6,  1943 location: 570/56/25/01
        25  UN-169  British-American Pre-Emptive Committee, December 15,  1942 [description of functions]
            UN-182A  Preclusive Purchase of Asbestos in Turkey,
December 28, 1942 
            UN-204  British-American Black List Committee, December 15,  1942 [description of functions]
            UN-212  The Effect of The Allied Occupation of French Africa on  the Preemptive Purchase program in Turkey,
January 1, 1943
            WTS-18.1  Costa Rica: Some Basic Economic Data in Relation to  Board of Economic Warfare Operations,
April 5, 1943
            WTS-18.2  Panama: Some Basic Economic Data in Relation to Board  of Economic Warfare Operations, April 5, 1943
            WTS-18.3  Chile: Some Basic Economic Data in Relation to Board of  Economic Warfare Operations, April 5, 1943
            WTS-18.4  Bolivia: Some Basic Economic Data in Relation to Board of  Economic Warfare Operations, April 5, 1943
            WTS-18.5  Peru: Some Basic Economic Data in Relation to Board of  Economic Warfare Operations, April 5, 1943
            WTS-18.6  Ecuador: Some Basic Economic Data in Relation to Board  of Economic Warfare Operations, April 5, 1943
            WTS-18.7  Columbia: Some Basic Economic Data in Relation to Board  of Economic Warfare Operations, April 5, 1943
            WTS-68  European Coal Deficiency, September 3, 1943
location: 570/56/25/01

Economic Warfare Studies of the Army Industrial College 1940-1941 (Entry 158)

        Boxes 936-964A location: 570/56/25/01

Records Pertaining to Foreign Economic Administration's Relations with France 1943-  1945 (Entry 160)

        Boxes 969-975 location: 570/56/25/02

Cables of the Combined Committee for French North and West African Civil Affairs  1943-1944 (Entry 161)

        Box 976 location: 570/56/25/03

Minutes of Meetings of French North African Committees 1943-1945 (Entry 162)

        Box 977 location: 570/56/25/03

"Brief Historical Statement of Foreign Economic Administration" 1943-1944 (Entry 163)

        Boxes 978-979 location: 570/56/25/03

Foreign Projects Reports January 1943-December 15, 1943 (Entry 167)

        Processed copies of periodic reports on foreign projects of the Board of Economic  Warfare and the FEA, prepared by the Office of Administrative Management.  They contain information concerning the country involved, the Board of Economic  Warfare's or FEA's representative, the status of the project, its sponsor, the  assignment of the project, and the approximate period of time assigned it.  Arranged chronologically. Box 983C location: 570/56/25/05

Records Relating to the Bureau of Areas and the Bureau of Supplies 1944-1945
(Entry 168)   

        Boxes 984-988 location: 570/56/25/05

Records of the Office of the General Counsel 1942-1943 (Entry 169)

        Boxes 989-990 location: 570/56/25/05

Material on the "SAFE HAVEN Project" 1943-1945 (Entry 170)

        Boxes 991-993 location: 570/56/25/06    Includes in Box 991 a "Safehaven Study" by Margaret Clarke, n.d.,  193pp.

Economic Program Policy Statements 1944-1945 (Entry 172)

        Set of processed issuances of the FEA headed "Economic Program with Reference  to [various countries of the world]." and supplements thereto. This set of program  issuances was compiled by the historian's staff. Arranged by country under two  major headings, Economic Programs and Supplements.
        Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/25/07

Progress Reports of FEA Special Representatives and Missions 1943-1944 (Entry 173)

        Typed copies of progress reports from FEA special representatives and missions in  foreign countries, which were assembled by the Historian and his staff. Arranged  alphabetically by country and thereunder chronologically.
        Boxes 1-7 location: 570/56/26/01

        Box #  Country
        1  Algeria 1944
            Argentina 1943-1944
            Austria 1945
            Belgian Congo 1943-1944
            Bolivia 1943 location: 570/56/26/01
        2  Bolivia 1943-1944
            Brazil 1942-1944
            Central America 1943-1944
            Guatemala 1943
            Chile 1943-1944 location: 570/56/26/01
        3  Chile 1944
            Columbia 1943-1944
            Costa Rica 1943-1944
            Cuba 1943 location: 570/56/26/01
        4  Cuba 1944
            Dominican Republic
            Ecuador 1943-1944
            Egypt 1943-1944
            London, England-Liberated Areas Progress Reports 1944
                location: 570/56/26/01
        5  London, England 1944-1945
            France 1944-1945
            French West Africa 1944 location: 570/56/26/01
        6  Mexico 1943-1945
            Middle East Supply Centra 1944 location: 570/56/26/01
        7  Peru 1943-1944
            Turkey 1944 location: 570/56/26/02

Intelligence Memoranda of the Italian Division 1944-1945 (Entry 179)

        Boxes 1-3 location: 570/56/26/04

Weekly Operations Reports of the Office of Economic Warfare August 1941-November  1943 (Entry 180)

        Boxes 1-2 location: 570/56/26/05

Weekly Notes on Current Economic Information 1942-1944 (Entry 182)

        Box 1  location: 570/56/26/05

Addresses and Statements of BEW and FEA Officials 1942-1946 (Entry 185)

        Box 1  location: 570/56/26/06

Records of the Office of Economic Programs

The Office of Economic Programs (OEP) was established on September 13, 1943. It included specialized staffs of advisers who assisted the Administrator and other high officials of the agency in preparing foreign economic policies and programs. The Office represented a consolidation of the War Trade Staff of the Office of Economic Warfare and the Government Liaison and Reciprocal Aid Division of the Office of Lend-Lease Administration. The Office, whose chief was an Assistant FEA Administrator, {Note 3} was largely composed of personnel consisting of economists who served as consultants on such diverse matters as supplies and resources, foreign development, foreign finance, trade policy, and lend lease.

The OEP acted as the integrating unit for the operational branches within FEA whose own projects had to be brought into harmony with the central policies of the Administration. Operational approaches within the framework of FEA were often dissimilar and even in cases, where objectives were not identical in practice, conflicting. OEP had to keep differences in mind and attempt to solve them. Operations personnel, enthusiastic about their programs and bent on achieving their ends quickly and efficiently, had to be reminded of political considerations. It was a primary function of the OEP to conciliate differences and keep the strategy of economic warfare to a consistent pattern.

In 1944 through V. Frank Coe and L. Currie, the OEP was brought directly and originally into the Safehaven program. It was in OEP, under Coe that the Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy (ECEFP) was established. An interdepartmental unit, maintained by Angell after Coe left FEA, the ECEFP, animated by OEP, studied issues involved in economic warfare, anticipated the economic programs connected with Germany in the postwar period, and took steps to initiate plans which would operated effectively after the defeat of the Axis.

Since the OEP had, throughout the period of its existence kept in touch with the work of other departments also concerned with economic warfare, and since it maintained close contact with the Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, it had already had, before the Safehaven program was organized, practical experience with some of the aspects of German penetration. Advising on commodity agreements and studying the cartel and combine methods of German industry, it had also a background of practical knowledge of what the pattern of German post-hostilities aggression was likely to be.

The Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy (ECEFP), guided largely by OEP, had considered from time to time such matters as modification of wartime financial controls over foreign assets. It had, for example, considered the possibility of continuing the Proclaimed List after the surrender of Germany as a method of economic supervision of Axis friends.

With the development of the Safehaven Program idea, the ECEP took over serious study of the matter of controlling enemy assets after the war. Out of this consideration a new committee, the Interdepartmental Committee on Post-Hostilities Controls over Foreign Property was organized. Its membership was composed of representatives from the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, Commerce, and the Alien Property Custodian, the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and the FEA. The committee studied, considered, and made recommendations with respect to wartime property and financial controls over foreign assets. It was also made recommendations on the control and disposition of enemy assets in neutral and other non-Axis countries.

The thought was that many departments and agencies were involved in these problems and that the Committee would be a clearing house for the problems as they were defined and for the various departmental proposals as they were worked out. So far as the Safehaven Program was concerned, the Committee would coordinate recommendations regarding programs for dealing with Germany's hidden assets and with its devices of economic penetration. It would also consider policies with respect to United States, and United Nations' attitudes towards neutrals used by the Germans for purposes of economic expansion.

During 1944 the Executive Policy Committee, FEA, met regularly and consistently studied Safehaven problems. Through its relationships with other Departments it brought the FEA attitude toward control of Germany into focus, and through the FEA Administration and its legal advisors pressed for implementation of a strong United States policy toward neutrals with respect to the problem of postwar German penetration. Its policies and views were submitted to the

Interdepartmental Committee on Post-Hostilities Controls over Foreign Property for critical consideration.

Central Files February 1942-October 1945 (Entry 200)

        Boxes 1-19 location: 570/57/4/04
        Box #  File Title
        9  Finance, Public-1-1 Foreign Funds Control
        10  Finance, Public-11-1 Safehaven location: 570/57/4/05

               
Geographic Central Files 1943-1945 (Entry 201)

        Boxes 1-6 location: 570/57/4/06 
        Box #  Country and/or Subject
        1  Africa
            American Republics
            Argentina  location: 570/57/4/06 
        3  Germany  location: 570/57/4/07
        4  Italy
            Latin America
            Liberated Areas location: 570/57/4/07
        5  North Africa
            Portugal  location: 570/57/4/07
        6  Spain
            Sweden
            Turkey
            West Africa  location: 570/57/4/07

Interoffice Memoranda and Letters Sent (Addressee File) November 1943-October 1945  (Entry 202)

        Boxes  1-4 location: 570/57/4/07

Reading File of Interoffice Memoranda December 1943-August 1945 (Entry 203)

        Box 1 location: 570/57/5/01

Reading File of Interoffice and Intraoffice Memoranda December 1943-August 1945  (Entry 204)

        Box 1  location: 570/57/5/01

Records of the Business Organization Staff

Miscellaneous Records Relating to Monopolies and Cartels April 1942-October 1945  (Entry 210)

        Boxes 1-26 location: 570/57/5/03
        Box #  File Title
        8  Argentina, 1943 location: 570/67/5/04
        14  Flight of Axis Capital to Switzerland, Spain, and Argentina, 1945
                location: 570/57/5/05
        24  Swiss Bank, 1944-1945  location: 570/57/5/06
        25  Swiss Foreign Trade, 1944  location: 570/57/5/07

Records Relating to Svenska Kullager Fabriken (SKF) {Note 4} March 1942-January 1945  (Entry 211)

        Boxes 1-3 location: 570/57/5/07
               
Records of the Foreign Economic Development Staff

Reports on Foreign Economic Conditions (Subject Files) March 1942-April 1945
(Entry 212)

        Boxes 1117-1118  location: 570/57/5/07

Reports on Foreign Economic Conditions (Geographic File) 1942-1945 (Entry 213)

        Boxes 1119-1121  location: 570/567/6/01

Records of the Lend-Lease and Foreign Finance Staffs

General File [Foreign Finance Staff] 1943-1945 (Entry 215)

        Boxes 1134-1135 location: 570/57/6/03
        Box #  File Title
        1134  Blocked Sterling Balances
            Committees-German Working Committee-Policy
            Blocked Dollars
            Committees-Foreign Trade and Foreign Exchange Committee
            Committees-Property Committee
            Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy
            Foreign Economics Administration Policy
            Foreign Funds Control
            Germany-Policy Documents
            Committees-Finance Committee
            Financial Guides [contains listings of OSS reports]
            General
        1135  SWI [Special Watch Instructions] Memoranda (2 folders)
            Gold
            Latin America
            Liberated Europe
            Liberated Areas-Minutes of Combined Liberated Areas Committee
            Middle East
            Minutes-Foreign Finance Committee
            Procurement of Intelligence Material
            Senate Hearings-Bretton Woods Conference
            South American Countries
            TFR-300
            Turkey

Informational Materials on Foreign Financial Conditions and Developments 1943-1945  (Entry 216)

        Boxes 1136-1137 location: 570/57/6/03
        Box #  Country and/or Subject
        1136  Africa, French North
            Enemy Branch
            Enemy Branch - Staff Meetings
            Enemy Branch - TIDC (Technical Industrial Disarmament Committee)
            Germany- Charts (1938)
        1137  Italy
            Latin America
            Spain
            Sweden
            Switzerland
            Turkey 

Records of the Programs and Reports Staff

General Subject File of the Director 1944-1945 (Entry 217) 

        Boxes 1138-1141 location: 570/57/6/03
        Box #  File Title or Subject
        1138  Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy
            Executive Policy Committee location: 570/57/6/03
        1139  Foreign Economic Administration-Progress Reports
            Foreign Economic Administration Operations
            Liberated Areas
            Foreign Trade Conditions
            Neutral Countries
            Organization-EEP location: 570/57/6/03
        1140  Country Programs A-Z
            Country Programs-General
            Export Control location: 570/57/6/04
        1141  Foreign Trade
            Foreign Trade Statistics location: 570/57/6/04

Records of the Office of the General Counsel
               
The various legal offices of the agencies absorbed by the FEA became part of the Office of the General Counsel. In addition to its legal functions the Office coordinated liaison activities with Congress.

Central File November 1943-September 1945 (Entry 231)

        Boxes 1158-1168 location: 570/57/6/06

Subject File of the General Counsel 1941-1945 (Entry 237)

        Boxes 1169-1175 location: 570/57/7/01

File of the Assistant General Counsel, Special and Pan-American Branch November 1941-  June 1944 (Entry 238)

        Boxes 1186-1187 location: 570/57/7/04

File of the Consultant on International law January 1943-August 1944 (Entry 243)

        Boxes 1196-1197 location: 570/57/7/05

Records of the Bureau of Areas

The Bureau of Areas was established on November 13, 1943, by a consolidation of those units of the predecessors of the Foreign Economic Administration that were not assigned to the Bureau of Supplies or to the Office of the Administrator. The units of the Office of Economic Warfare that were transferred to the Bureau of Areas included the area divisions of the Country programs Branch of the Office of Exports; the Area Branch, excluding the South Pacific Division, of the Office of Imports; and the Enemy and the Blockade and Supply Branches of the Office of Economic Warfare and Analysis. From the Office of Lend-Lease Administration the Bureau received the geographic divisions of the Office of Foreign Liaison, the Office of Soviet Supply, and the Overseas Missions Divisions; and from the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations there were transferred to the Bureau the Divisions of Field Operations, Supply and Transport, Progress Reports, and Program and Requirements. The Bureau also inherited the "liberated areas" activities of the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination of the Department of State. These offices, branches, and divisions were merged into the Bureau of Areas, and the functions they performed were assigned to the six branches of the Bureau.

Records of the Office of the Executive Director

The Office of the Executive Director planned and directed the programs and policies of the Bureau of Areas pertaining to foreign countries, maintained liaison with the Bureau of Supplies, the staff units of the Office of the Administrator, and various interdepartmental and intergovernmental committees; and supervised the activities of the foreign field missions of the Foreign Economic Administration, working closely in that connection with the diplomatic missions of the Department of State. Its Area Program Coordination Staff reviewed the economic policies of the Administration for each country and coordinated these with the overall supply program, served as a clearance office for instructions from the branches of the Bureau of Supplies to the branches of the Bureau of Areas, and acted as the secretariat for the Administration's Allocations Committee. The Field Operations Staff was the administrative unit in the Bureau that served the foreign field missions by coordinating the activities of these missions with those of the operating branches of the Administration in Washington, supplying the field with digests and newsletters of economic information, and expediting the exchange of reports between the branches in Washington and the offices in the field. Matters relating to lend-lease, reverse lend-lease, and the British White Paper were handled by the Lend-Lease Staff of the Office of the Executive Director; and administrative duties for the branches and staffs of the Bureau were performed by the Executive Officer.

Executive Director Records (Entry UD 1)

        Boxes 1-9 location: 570/57/33/03
        Box #  File Title or Subject
        2-3  Country Files  location: 570/57/33/03
        4  Economic Warfare Analysis
            Jurisdictional Disputes
            State-BEW Cooperative Agreement  location: 570/57/33/03
        7  Navy Department
            State Department
            State Department-Relations With  location: 570/57/33/03
        8  Treasury Department
            Vice President
            War Department
            White House location: 570/57/33/03
        9  Safehaven location: 570/57/33/04

Deputy Executive Director Records (Entry UD 2)

        Box #  File Title or Subject
        10-12  Committees  location: 570/57/33/04
        13-15  Country Programs location: 570/57/33/04
        18  President, The...and Vice President  location: 570/57/33/05
        19  Turkish Division location: 570/57/33/05
        20  German Control Council
            German Division
            German Letters and Memoranda
            J.I.C.[Joint Intelligence Committee] - Intelligence Liaison
            T.I.I.C.[Technical Industrial Intelligence Committee] -Safehaven
                location: 570/57/33/05
        21  Italian Division
            Neutral Countries Division; location: 570/57/33/05
        23  Currie, Laughin location: 570/57/33/06
        25  Navy Department
            State Department 1944-1945
            State Department 1942 location: 570/57/33/06
        26  Treasury Department
            War Department location: 570/57/33/06

Records of the Area Program Coordination Staff

Program Coordination Staff Records (Entry UD 3)

        Box #  File Title or Subject
        29-39  Country Files 
        29  Afghanistan to Belgium location: 570/57/33/06
        30  Bolivia to British West Indies location: 570/57/33/07
        31  Canada to Colombia location: 570/57/33/07
        32  Costa Rica to European Neutrals location: 570/57/33/07
        33  Fiji to Greenland location: 570/57/33/07
        34  Guatemala to Italy location: 570/57/33/07
        35  Korea to Mexico location: 570/57/33/07
        36  Middle East to New Zealand location: 570/57/33/07
        37  Nicaragua to South Africa location: 570/57/34/01
        38  South Africa to Turkey location: 570/57/34/01
        39  United Kingdom to Yugoslavia location: 570/57/34/01
        42  Economic Warfare  location: 570/57/34/01
        43  Meetings, State Department
            OWI Reports  location: 570/57/34/01
        44  Relationship Between State and FEA Foreign Service
                location: 570/57/34/02

Records of the Field Operations Staff

Field Operations Staff Records (Entry UD 4)

        Box 46 location: 570/57/34/02

Records of the British Empire and Middle East Branch

All aspects of the FEA's relations with the British Empire and countries in the Middle East were handled by this branch. Its representatives conferred with those of the British Empire on joint aspects of economic warfare and provided for an interchange of economic, political, and military information about lend-lease activities and foreign trade. 

Records of the Turkish Division

Turkish Division Records (Entry UD 7)

        Boxes 1-47 location: 570/58/11/06

Records of the Enemy Branch

The Enemy Branch was responsible for planning the economic program to be put into effect when the enemy countries should be occupied. It prepared studies and reports for the industrial disarmament of the enemy to prevent future wars, including analyses of the entire economic structure of the Axis countries. The Enemy Branch was established on December 30, 1944, with the name the German and Austrian Branch; a name change was shortly forthcoming. It had a leading role in the Safehaven Program. When it was established and responsibility placed in it for Safehaven activities, the External Security, Intelligence Service, and other staff which hitherto had been independent divisions, were made part of it. In addition, the Branch included personnel from the old independent divisions which had been involved in Safehaven operations. Thus in the beginning of 1945 the Enemy Branch, under the direction of Henry H. Fowler, {Note 5} the Safehaven Program was the responsibility of one unit.

Among the first activities of the Branch was pulling together information for the Currie Mission to Switzerland. An important document developed for this purpose was a "Preliminary List of German Cloaks in Switzerland." This report included a list of five important Swiss banking firms which actively helped Germany be concealing its assets, assisting in then expansion of its holding companies, and disguising its foreign accounts. {Note 6} The covering memorandum to the report, dated January 1, 1945, stated that "these lists contain only partial information, although they are based on a careful study of intercepts, they do not cover all the activities of those banks. Yet they indicate the tremendous amount of such assistance given by the Swiss to the enemy. This assistance which served to finance the enemy's purchases of critical war material has become less important at the present stage of the war. However, it should serve at this time to demonstrate to the Swiss the extent of the damage they have done to the Allied war effort in the past." "In addition," the memorandum continues, " it should be pointed out that their aid to the enemy in the banking field was clearly beyond the obligations under which a neutral must continue trade with a belligerent and dictated solely by the profit motive of the Swiss banks." The memorandum concludes by stating "The Swiss should make up for this undue amount of aid given to the enemy, which we have not interfered with up to the present time, by full compliance with our Safe haven objectives and other remaining financial warfare objectives." {Note 7}

The report listed five banks certain to have cooperated with the Germans. they were Bank Wadenswil; H. Sturzenegger & Cie., a private bank of Basel and closely allied with I.G. Farben; the Swiss Bank Corporation; Johann Wehrli and Company, Zurich; and Financiere A.G. The report lists thirteen holding and finance companies which acted as cloaks for German assets. {Note 8} The report also contained a section on intelligence not entirely verified, including the unconfirmed statement that "it was reported---October 10, 1944, that accounts are held for Hitler in the Swiss Union Bank, Basel, by a German official named Max Amann." {Note 9}

Records of the Blockade Division

The chief functions of the Blockade Division were to administer blockade control measures; to determine blockade clearance for United States exports to neutral countries in Europe; and, so far as the Preclusive Purchase Operations were concerned, to provide data on the supply needs of neutrals and the enemy, and to make recommendations for preclusive operations.

The purpose of the Blockade Division was to control neutral shipping and thus to prevent strategic goods from reaching the Axis through neutral trade channels. To achieve this end the following devices were employed: the Navicert; Ship's Warrant, Seizure and Search; the exercise of British Prize Law, the American proclaimed List, and the British Black List.

The Division was also involved in efforts to stop Germany's smuggling efforts. As the blockade became increasingly successful during the course of the war, and as Germany's supplies grew thinner, it had recourse to smuggling. Smuggling to Germany of easily concealed strategic items and materials increased during 1942 and 1943, alerting both the United States and Great Britain and causing them to take steps to destroy illicit trade between the enemy and the neutrals. In the summer of 1943 the United States Government became so concerned over the problem that through the Department of State the Blockade Committee in London was urged to recommend to the British that through searches of vessels bound from Argentina to neutral European ports be instituted. The United States Navy concurred in this recommendation.

Anticipating the crisis arising because of smuggling, the Blockade Division had already, in June 1943, made a study of the problem and had issued instructions on combating blockade evasion. In its Blockade Enforcement Manual, June 1943, the Division stated "the Axis can finance smuggling in Latin America in two specific ways. In the first place it can use funds already in existence in Latin America, and in the second place it can transmit new or additional funds for that purpose. There are still a considerable number of German and other Axis corporations, German and Italian Banks, Axis nationals and their sympathizers in Latin America with large funds built up before the war, which can be put to use to finance smuggling and other activities beneficial to the Axis. In addition Axis corporations in Latin America which are producing profits can make new funds continuously available so that the investments do not need to be liquidated. Because many Axis funds are cloaked so that they cannot readily be discovered, no estimate of their size is possible. A number of Axis banks are still operating in Buenos Aires such as the Banco de Napoli and the Banco Aleman Transatlantica, but their activities seem to be rather limited. New or additional funds can be transferred from the Axis to South American agents. The axis can remit funds directly to the Argentine, or can use European neutral countries which in turn remit funds to all countries in Latin America. These remittances are not met simply through the exchange of marks for local currency, because these countries rarely wish to invest in marks. Therefore new funds have to be remitted by the Axis to Latin America in the form of goods, coins, stamps, dollar notes, and securities." {Note 10}

The Blockade Division not only collated the material it had accumulated in the process of operating its special activities, but it had asked for the intelligence resources of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, {Note 11} the Office of Censorship, the Office of Navy Intelligence, the Army's Military Intelligence (G-2), and the Board of Economic Warfare. Diplomatic Missions were requested to report information on local smuggling rings, and related material at hand in Washington was examined. All available facts were checked and a file was made which listed the names of smugglers, the names of ships used in blockade running, the kinds of commodities smuggled, the names of ports to which deliveries of smuggled goods were made, routes, and methods and means of concealing goods.

The Enemy Branch (later known as the European Enemy Division) made studies of enemy supply positions with respect to materials being smuggled, thus providing the Blockade Division with guides on the importance or relative insignificance of blockade evasions. The greatness of the enemies' need for material guided the counter measures taken smugglers and helped to determine the nature and extent of preclusive purchases.

The significance of the blockade work of the Blockade Division, so far as the Safehaven Program is concerned, is that there was created in the Division a backlog of information about firms and individuals who were actively assisting the Axis, and who would bear watching the future.

Blockade Division Records (Entry UD 8)

        Boxes 1-144 location: 570/58/17/07
        Box #  Country and/or Subject, and File Number
        54  OW Argentina 001  Miscellaneous
            OW Argentina 480  Insurance
            OW Argentina 900  Trade
            OW Argentina 910  Trade Relations and Conditions
            OW Argentina 917  Blockade Systems
            OW Argentina 920  Export Trade Control
            OW Argentina 921  Export License Applications
            OW Argentina 926-3  Blocked Nationals
            OW Argentina 940  Trade Agreements
            OW Argentina 954-3  Preclusive Buying
            OW Argentina 956  Contraband Control
            OW Argentina 956-1  Smuggling and Leaks
            OW Argentina 960  Commodities (2 folders)
            OW Argentina 960  Exports
            OW Argentina 960  Diamonds
            OW Argentina 960  Film
            OW Argentina 960  Linseed Oil
            OW Argentina 960  Machinery
            OW Argentina 960  Oil
            OW Argentina 960  Quinine
            OW Argentina 960  Tin-plate location: 570/58/18/07
        55  Austria  location: 570/58/18/07
        56  Axis  location: 570/58/19/01
            File #  File Titles
            OW Axis 001  Miscellaneous (2 folders)
            OW Axis 050-052-4  Information Releases, Speeches, and Radio  (2 folders)
            OW Axis 070-1  Study Projects
            OW Axis 616-1  Martial Law
            OW Axis 700  Transportation and Communications
            OW Axis 710  Merchant Marine
            OW Axis 800  Industry
            OW Axis 820  Mining
            OW Axis 900-959  Trade
            OW Axis 910  Trade Relations
            OW Axis 95403  Preclusive Buying
            OW Axis 956-1  Smuggling
        57  OW Axis 960  Exports Commodities
            OW Axis 960  Various commodities arranged alphabetically  (21 folders)
            OW Axis 960-1-960-64
            OW Axis 960-54  Petroleum Products
            OW Axis 960-59  Stores, Subsistence, General location: 570/58/19/01
        68-73  French North Africa  location: 570/58/19/02
        75  Germany 
            File #  File Titles
            OW Germany 000  Economic Conditions Germany
            OW Germany 050  Germany Information
            OW Germany 051  German Illustrations
            OW Germany 051-1  Germany Charts and Maps
            OW Germany 052-1  Publications
            OW Germany 052-2  Releases
            OW Germany 070  Projects
            OW Germany 080  Germany Companies and Firms
            OW Germany 400  Public Finance
            OW Germany 500  Censorship
            OW Germany 520  Politics and Propaganda
            OW Germany 580  Labor Relations
            OW Germany 586-1  Mobilization and Labor
            OW Germany 600  Military and Naval Operations
            OW Germany 700  Transportation and Communication
            OW Germany 800  Manufacturing, Production
            OW Germany 840-856 Public Utilities location: 570/58/19/03
        76  OW Germany 900  Trade
            OW Germany 910  Trade Relations and Conditions
            OW Germany 956  Blockade Enforcement, Smuggling
            OW Germany 960  Commodities, Alphabetically A-C
            OW Germany 960  Commodities, Alphabetically D-M
            OW Germany 960  Commodities, Alphabetically N-Z
location: 570/58/19/03
        77  OW Iberian Peninsula 000  Miscellaneous
            OW Iberian Peninsula 060  Subcommittee
            OW Iberian Peninsula 060  Operating Committee location: 570/58/19/04
        78  OW Iberian Peninsula 060  Operating Committee (6 folders)  location: 570/58/19/04
        79  OW Iberian Peninsula 060  Operating Committee (2 folders)
            OW Iberian Peninsula 060  Preclusive Buying Analysis Committee  Minutes
            OW Iberian Peninsula 170  Iberian Peninsula Section Progress Report
            OW Iberian Peninsula 700  Transportation
            OW Iberian Peninsula 810  Manufacturing
            OW Iberian Peninsula 900  Trade
            OW Iberian Peninsula 900  Cross Trade (3 folders)
            OW Iberian Peninsula 900  Italy Cross Trade
            OW Iberian Peninsula 954-3  Preclusive Buying
            OW Iberian Peninsula 960  Commodities
            OW Iberian Peninsula 960  Commodities location: 570/58/19/04
        90  OW Portugal 000  General
            OW Portugal 001  Economic Conditions
            OW Portugal 060  Meetings and Committees location: 570/58/19/05
        91  OW Portugal 060  Anglo-American Economic Committee
            OW Portugal 080  Companies
            OW Portugal 114-3  Licensing Procedures
            OW Portugal 170  Progress Report
            OW Portugal 400  Public Finance
            OW Portugal 410  Finance, Exchange, Investments (2 folders)
            OW Portugal 500-600 Internal politics
            OW Portugal 700  Transportation and Communication
            OW Portugal 710  Shipping
            OW Portugal 710  Merchant Marine location: 570/58/19/06
        92  OW Portugal 711  Merchant Ships
            OW Portugal 720  Railways
            OW Portugal 800  Manufacturing and Production
            OW Portugal 900  Trade
            OW Portugal 900  Trade Reports
            OW Portugal 900  Trading With Enemy
  OW Portugal 900  Trade Relations and Conditions
            OW Portugal 917  Blockade System
            OW Portugal 920  Export Trade Control
            OW Portugal 921  Export License Applications
            OW Portugal 921  Export Licenses (2 folders)
            OW Portugal 921-2  Commodity Licenses (2 folders)
            OW Portugal 924  Transit Shipment
            OW Portugal 926-1  Watch List
            OW Portugal 926-2  Black List
            OW Portugal 927  Export Trade Reports location: 570/58/19/06
        93  OW Portugal 930  Import Trade Control
            OW Portugal 940  Trade Agreements (2 folders)
            OW Portugal 940  Supply Purchasing Program (5 folders)
            OW Portugal 940  Overall Program
            OW Portugal 952  Price Control location: 570/58/19/06
        94  OW Portugal 954-3  Preclusive Buying
            OW Portugal 954-6  Transportation
            OW Portugal 956  Control Evasion
            OW Portugal 956-1  Smuggling and Leaks
            OW Portugal 960  Exports (2 folders)
            OW Portugal 960  Imports (2 folders) location: 570/58/19/06
        95  OW Portugal 960  Imports
            OW Portugal 960  Commodities, by date
        95-105 OW Portugal 960  Commodities, Alphabetically location: 570/58/19/06
        107  OW Spain 000  General
            OW Spain 001  Economic Conditions
            OW Spain 060  Anglo-American Economic Committee (2 folders)
            OW Spain 080  Companies
            OW Spain 170  Progress Report location: 570/58/20/01
        108  OW Spain 410  Finance, Exchange, and Investments (6 folders)
            OW Spain 430  Banks and Banking
            OW Spain 500  Internal Politics location: 570/58/20/01
        109  OW Spain 565  Relief Organizations
            OW Spain 600  Military Activities
            OW Spain 700  Transportation
            OW Spain 710  Merchant Marine
            OW Spain 720  Railways
            OW Spain 740  Air Transportation
            OW Spain 800  Manufacturing and Production
location: 570/58/20/01
        110  OW Spain 900  Trade, General
            OW Spain 900  Trading With Enemy
            OW Spain 910  Trade Relations
            OW Spain 917 & 917-2 Blockade
            OW Spain 920  Export Control
            OW Spain 921  Export License Applications (3 folders)
location: 570/58/20/01
        111  OW Spain 921-2 Commodity License
            OW Spain 926  Blocked Nationals
            OW Spain 926-1  Watch List
            OW Spain 926-2  Black List (2 folders)
            OW Spain 927  Export Trade Reporting
            OW Spain 930  Import Trade Control location: 570/58/20/01
        112  OW Spain 940  Commodity Balance Sheet
            OW Spain 940  Overall Program
            OW Spain 940  Supply Purchase Agreement (2 folders)
            OW Spain 940  Supply Purchase Program (2 folders)
            OW Spain 940  Trade Agreement (3 folders) location: 570/58/20/02
        113  OW Spain 954-3  Preclusive Buying (3 folders)
            OW Spain 954-6  Transportation of
            OW Spain 956  Control Evasion
            OW Spain 956-1  Smuggling and Leaks location: 570/58/20/02
        114  OW Spain 960  General Commodities
            OW Spain 960  Export of Commodities
            OW Spain 960  Exports
            OW Spain 960  Import of Commodities
            OW Spain 960  Imports and Exports location: 570/58/20/02
        114-128 OW Spain 960 Commodities, Alphabetically location: 570/58/20/02
        131  BA Sweden-Switzerland 060  (7 folders) location: 570/58/20/04
        132  OW Sweden 000  General
            OW Sweden 410  Finance
            OW Sweden 465-1  Repayment and Collection
            OW Sweden 600  Military and Naval Operations
            OW Sweden 700  Transportation
            OW Sweden 710  Merchant Marine
            OW Sweden 800  Industry
            OW Sweden 900  Trading With Enemy
            OW Sweden 917-1  Navicerts
            OW Sweden 917-2  Blockade Agreements
            OW Sweden 920  Export Control
            OW Sweden 921  Export License Application
            OW Sweden 921-1  General Licenses
            OW Sweden 921-2  Commodity Licenses
            OW Sweden 930  Export and Import Trade Control
            OW Sweden 940  Trade Agreement
            OW Sweden 940  Cables
            OW Sweden 940  Supply Purchase Agreement (Negotiations)
            OW Sweden 953-3  Export Quotas
            OW Sweden 953-5  Unlabeled-contains useful information
            OW Sweden 954-1  Preclusive Buying location: 570/58/20/04
        133  OW Sweden 960  General Commodities
            OW Sweden 960  Exports
            OW Sweden 960  Imports
            OW Sweden 960  Commodities (Alphabetically)
location: 570/58/20/05
        134  OW Switzerland 000  General
            OW Switzerland 080  Companies
            OW Switzerland 182  Telegrams, Radio, Cable
            OW Switzerland 400  Public Finance
            OW Switzerland 420  Exchange Rates
            OW Switzerland 500  Politics and Welfare
            OW Switzerland 700  Transportation and Communication
            OW Switzerland 710  Merchant Marine
            OW Switzerland 711  Merchant Ships
            OW Switzerland 720  Railways
            OW Switzerland 800  Manufacturing and Industry
            OW Switzerland 841  Light and Power Plants
            OW Switzerland 900  Trade, General
            OW Switzerland 900  Trading With Enemy
            OW Switzerland 920  Export Trade Control
            OW Switzerland 921  Export License Applications
            OW Switzerland 926-2 Black List
            OW Switzerland 940  Trade Agreement
            OW Switzerland 953-3 Export (Quotas) and Requirements
            OW Switzerland 954-1 Requisitions
            OW Switzerland 960  Exports and Imports location: 570/58/20/05
        135  OW Switzerland 960  Commodities, Alphabetically (29 folders)
            OW Switzerland 960  Commodities, General location: 570/58/20/05
        136  Turkey  location: 570/58/20/05
        139-144 Blockade Division's relationship with other agencies.
location: 570/58/20/05

Blockade Division Records (Entry UD 16)

        Records relate primarily to neutral countries.
        Boxes 1-8 location: 570/58/21/01
        Box #  File Titles
        1  Finland
            Sweden-Economic Policy
            Sweden-Economic Surveys (2 folders)
            Sweden-Electrical Power
            Sweden-Exportable Surpluses
            English Translation of Swedish Tariff Rubric
            Sweden-Finance
            Spain-General
            Sweden-Trade with Argentina
            Sweden-Agreements with Enemy Occupied Countries
            Sweden-Trade with Belgium and Holland
            Sweden-Trade With Bulgaria
            Sweden-Trade With Croatia and Slovakia location: 570/58/21/01
        2  Sweden-Trade With Denmark (2 folders)
            Sweden-Trade With France
            Sweden-Trade With Finland (3 folders)
            Sweden-Trade With Germany (3 folders)
            Swedish-German War Trade Agreement
            Sweden-Trade With Great Britain
            Sweden-Trade With Hungary
            Sweden-Trade With Iceland
            Sweden-Trade With Italy
            Sweden-Trade With Japan
            Sweden-Trade With Latin America
            Sweden-Trade With Norway location: 570/58/21/01
        3  Sweden-Trade With Norway
            Sweden-Trade With Poland
            Sweden-Trade With Rumania
            Sweden-Trade With Russia
            Sweden-Trade With Switzerland
            Sweden-Trade With Liberated Areas (2 folders) 
            Switzerland-Trade With Axis
            Switzerland-Trade With Germany
            Switzerland-Trade With Italy
            Switzerland-Trade With Japan
            Switzerland-Trade With Latin America
            Switzerland-Trade With Russia
            Switzerland-Trade With Spain and Portugal
            Switzerland-Trade With Sweden
            Switzerland-Trade With Turkey
            Switzerland-Trade With United States location: 570/58/21/01
        4  Switzerland-Trade With United States Commercial Company  Switzerland Press Review
            Switzerland Weekly Economic Review
            Switzerland Economic Survey (2 folders)
            Switzerland Finance 
            Spain-Cost of Living
            Economic Review of Spain location: 570/58/21/01
        5  Spain-Spain Electric Power
            Spain-General Economic Conditions
            Spain-Imports from US
            Spain-Imports General (2 folders)
            Spain-Population-Vital Statistics
            Spain-Exports-General
            Spain-Prices
            Spain-Brazilian-Spanish Trade location: 570/58/21/02
        6  Portugal-Imports by Commodities (4 folders)
            European Neutral-Portuguese Trade
            Portugal-Exports from Portuguese Possessions
            Portugal-Enemy, Exports to (2 folders)
            Portugal-Enemy, Imports from (2 folders) location: 570/58/21/02
        7  Enemy-Portuguese Trade-General
            Portugal-Exports by Commodity
            Portugal-Exports by Countries
            Argentine-Portuguese Trade
            Other Latin-America-Portuguese Trade
            Portugal-Foreign Travel-General
            Portugal-Economy-General
            Portugal-Policy
            Portugal-Production
            Portugal-Exportable Surplus and Preliminary Report
                location: 570/58/21/02
        8  Economic Notes-Portugal and Colonies
            Portugal-Finance
            Portugal-Prices
            US-Portugal Exports to
            UK-Portugal Imports From (4 folders) location: 570/58/21/02

Records of the Intelligence Service Staff

Intelligence Service Staff Records (Entry UD 9)

        Records relate to a variety of matters, including Safe Haven, Special Watch  Instructions, and value of censorship material to the FEA.

        Boxes 1-12 location: 570/58/20/06
        Box #  File Title
        1  Agency Interest in Submissions
            Blockade Revised List and Directives
            FYI-Utilization of Censorship Material
            Military Censorship
            Policy Items
            Progress Reports
            Safehaven [includes undated report "Extent of Wallenberg's Control of the  Economy of Sweden"] location: 570/58/20/06
        2  Utilization of Censorship Material
            Value of Censorship Material to FEA
            Special Watch Instructions location: 570/58/20/06
        3  Office of Censorship
            Office of Exports
            Office of Imports
            Royal Censorship
            Progress Report
            State Department
            Swedish-Watch-Pirelli Co. Cartels
            SWI [Special Watch Instruction] Memorandum
            Trade Intelligence Division
            Technical branch
            War Trade Staff location: 570/58/20/07
        4  Mostly deals with North Africa location: 570/58/20/07
        5  BEW-Survey of Foreign Experts
            Misc. Censorship location: 570/58/20/07
        6  Censorship
            Cable Censorship
            Censorship, British
            Censorship, Letters
            Directive: Intercepts and Documents
            Enemy Branch
            Finance
            Intelligence Division (2 folders)
            Intelligence Sources Section Reports
            Misc.
            OEWA [Office of Economic Warfare Analysis]
            Office of Censorship location: 570/58/20/07
        7  BEW Powers (2 folders)
            Misc. Censorship Executive Orders 9250 and 8985 location: 570/58/20/07

Records of the European Branch

The area covered by the European Branch included France, Italy, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Northern Europe, and the neutral European countries. Together with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, this Branch assisted in preparing and carrying out programs for the relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of the liberated portions of its area, reviewing requisitions for supplies and determining their essentialness.

Records of the Office of the Director

Office of the Director Records (Entry UD 10)

        Boxes 1-4 location: 570/58/14/01
        Box 2 of this series contains a folder entitled "Safehaven" that contains four  reports labeled:"Looted Art in Occupied Territories, Neutral Countries and Latin  America" (May 5, 1945), "Report of Activities No. 4" (June 1945), "The Vesting  of German Assets in Spain: A Case Study in Vesting of German Assets Abroad"  (July 1945), and "Extra-Territorial Effect of Economic Measures Taken By the  Occupying Powers in Germany: Problems of Recognition and Enforcement in  Neutral Countries" (May 1945).

Records of the Neutral Countries Division

Neutral Countries Division Records (Entry UD 12)

        Boxes 1-9 location: 570/58/14/07
        Box #  File Title
        1  Blockade Study
            Jews in Germany
            Relief Policy (3 folders) location: 570/58/14/07
        2  War Refugee Board
            France
            Netherlands
            Norway (3 folders)
            Poland
            Portugal
            Spain
            Spain and Portugal
            Relief from Sweden location: 570/58/14/07
        3  Sweden
            Switzerland (2 folders)
            Turkey
            Prison Camps-Germany
            Pruskow Camp-Poland location: 570/58/14/07
        4-9  Various subjects, mostly relating to POWs and to products.
                location: 570/58/14/07 


Records of the Liberated Areas Branch

Liberated Areas Branch Records (Entry UD 15)

        Boxes 1-18  location: 570/58/21/04 
        Box #  File Title or Subject
        1  Italy location: 570/58/21/04
        2  Displaced Persons location: 570/58/21/05
        3  UNRRA location: 570/58/21/05
        5  Committee on Foreign Finance location: 570/58/21/05
        7  UNRRA location: 570/58/21/05
        11  Switzerland-Cotton Textiles From Switzerland location: 570/58/21/06
        12  Purchases in Argentina location: 570/58/21/06
        15  Spain and Switzerland
            Sweden-General
            Purchases in Sweden
            Red Cross and Private Relief location: 570/58/21/06
        16  Progress Reports-European Branch
            Progress Reports-P & C Staff location: 570/58/21/07
        17  Relaxation of Controls
            United States Commercial Company
            UNRRA
            Operational Reports location: 570/58/21/07
        18  OSS
            OWI
            Relations with State Department
            UNRRA-FEA Relationship 
       
Records of the Pan American Branch

Central File October 1942-November 1945 (Entry 384)

        Boxes 2318-2332  location: 570/57/34/02

Reports and Dispatches from United States Missions in Latin America December 1941-  November 1945 (Entry 385)

        Boxes 2333-2493  location: 570/57/34/04

Records of the Office of the Director

General File of the Director 1943-1945 (Entry 398)

        Boxes 2509-2513  location: 570/58/3/02

Geographic File of the Director 1942-1945 (Entry 399)

        Boxes 2513-2514  location: 570/58/3/03

Records of the Economic Intelligence Division

Until the German and Austrian (Enemy Branch) was created late in 1944, the Economic Intelligence Division had been a separate unit of FEA under the Special Areas Branch, and had serviced most departments of the agency. The Division had its origins in pre-war 1941, when it was discovered that it would be necessary to gather information on the economic resources of Japan for the administration of export control. After December 7, 1941, the Board of Economic Warfare established Analysis Sections and Intelligence Sections on geographical lines, the purpose being to procure economic data for the armed forces and for other United States an