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Minutes of the OSS Planning Group, intelligence reports for the President, charts, minutes of the OSS Executive Committee meetings, chronological files, White House correspondence, and reports to the White House. These records have been reproduced on rolls 18-25 of Microfilm Publication M1642.
Boxes 1-9 location: 190/9/6/05
William J. Donovan-Selected OSS Documents 1941-1945 (Entry 180)
Microfilm A3304 190 rolls of 35mm negative microfilm and
Boxes 1-12 location: 190/9/20/01
This series contain much information on activities in neutral countries and some information of the OSS relations with civilian and military agencies. Please consult the finding aid for this series in the consultation area in Room 2400. This microfilm contains some material duplicated in Entries 88, 121, 134. The Safehaven - related records are contained in roll 88, files 114-256. Specific files in roll 88 are listed below:
File # File Title or Subject
114-126 Cables
127-140 Meetings
141-159 Rebuilding of German Positions by evasion of Allied Control over exit of German assets and personnel
160-170 A Plan for Subversive Action Against Enemy Firms Abroad
171-183 Bretton Woods Resolution VI{Note 1}
184-212 Elimination of German Resources for War: Senate Hearing. {Note 2}
213-218 Statement of Bernard M. Baruch{Note 3}
219-221 Preliminary Report on Germany's War Potential: Senate
222-230 Elimination of German Resources for War: Senate (Testimony of B. M. Baruch)
231-234 Memo for Senator Kilgore
235-252 German Economic Penetration Abroad
253-257 German Economic Aggression in Latin America
Director's Office Records (Entry 190) {Note 4}
Boxes 538-739 (Microfilmed as rolls 1-129 of NARA Microfilm Publication M1642)
To preserve the Washington Director's Office records and restore their original arrangement and to make them more accessible, NARA reproduced them on to a microfilm series, designated NARA Microfilm Publication M1642. M1642 consists of 132 rolls. Thus far, a detailed alphabetical index has been prepared only for the first 66 rolls. Please consult the two-volume index in the consultation area in Room 2400. The results of a cursory examination of the index is listed below:
Subject Roll Frame
Argentine-Swiss contract negotiations (3-21-45) 21 197
Axis agents in Istanbul [Turkey] (8-17-42) 36 74-76
Axis enterprises and assets transferred to neutral countries, 48 627-629
survey of (6-27-44)
BEW [Board of Economic Warfare] and Economics Division of CoI 48 579-586
[Coordinator of Information], relationship between (5-13-42)
BEW and OSS, letter to Milo Perkins{Note 5} from WJD{Note 6} re (3-23-43) 48 595-603
BEW role, discussion of at BoB [Bureau of the Budget] (9-20-42) 48 588-592
BEW, cooperation with (3-23-43) 48 1319-1327
British Ministry of Economic Warfare (2-8-42) 22 947-949
Cartels and private monopolies (11-11-44) 20 1125
Economic Intelligence at Am[erican] Embassy, London (5-7-43) 18 517-518
Economic Intelligence, procurement of by the Foreign Economic 13 661-665
Administration (JIC 207/1) (9-7-44)
Economic Intelligence, procurement of by the Foreign Economic 13 812-820
Administration (JIC 207/3) (10-12-44)
FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] Special Int[elligence] Service, {Note 7} 1 182
review of proposal for (12-30-41)
FBI Special Intelligence in Western Hemisphere (1-26-42) 1 208
FBI, establishment of Special Intelligence Service (12-23-41) 1 166
FBI, Special Intelligence Service (1-6-42) 1 172
FBI/OSS split of responsibilities per FDR directive (10-22-41) 46 596-602
FEA/OSS relationships, guidelines for (3-11-44) 48 1343
Foreign companies penetration into American industry (8-23-40) 36 123-133
Foreign service and OSS (4-28-45) 21 1189-1196
Funk, Dr. Walter, Minister of Economics, {Note 8} interrogation of, 29 515-520
Evaluation Report 54 (6-13-45)
General Analine and Film Corp., memo re by Morgenthau{Note 9} (1-10-42) 50 1158-1163
German captured records, procedures for coordinating 14 210-216
handling of (JIC [Joint Intelligence Committee] 257/11) (2-26-45)
German embassies and other offices in neutral countries, 15 314-318
seizure of (4-13-45)
German plans to go underground, from OSS Bern (3-26-45) 25 441-442
German remnants fleeing to Switzerland (4-4-45) 21 123-134
Germany, conditions in, from Swiss official via Bern (2-16-45) 21 450-451
I.G. Farben - I.G. Chemie (11-9-45) 32 165-168
North Africa, financial manipulations and collaborationists in (6-1-43) 33 1320-1331
Puhl, Emil, {Note 10} arrived in Bern to cover German expense under 21 167-169
terms of Swiss decree (4-23-45)
Puhl, Emil, VP of Reichsbank arrived in Switzerland, report from 30 201-203 Bern re (4-23-45)
Safehaven project (1-6-45) 21 698
Safehaven work: SSU [Strategic Services Unit] reports (11-9-45) 58 767-769
Spain and Portugal, OSS activities in (2-7-44) 58 945-1395
Spanish Falange in Latin America (2-5-42) 22 921
Sweden, summary of OSS operations in (7-17-45) 62 1118-1123
Swiss bank payment to Erich Wedemeyer (3-31-43) 46 650
Swiss break dealings with Nazis (7-10-44) 30 865-869
Swiss business man, report by (10-24-42) 46 609-613
Swiss relief efforts for refugees, report re from Bern (3-16-45) 21 209-212
Swiss towns, US bombing of (11-16-44) 20 1271
Swiss towns, precautions against Allied bombing of (11-16-46) 20 1257
Swiss-Allies talks in Lisbon (7-10-44) 30 865-869
Switzerland, OSS operations in, review of (6-22-45) 25 773-777
Switzerland, over-all program for OSS in (1-21-44) 19 768
Switzerland, overall and special programs for OSS in, 21 707
post hostilities (1-30-45)
Switzerland, overall and special programs for strategic 22 324-325
services based in (1-30-45)
Switzerland, overall plan for special activities in (1-21-44) 18 707-708
Switzerland, reaction in to Hull{Note 11} speech and other 31 783-793
developments (4/44-6/45)
Switzerland, report on 1943 operations based in (2/44) 62 1009-1017
Switzerland, special programs for OSS activities based in (5-23-44) 18 838-839
Switzerland, Union Bank of, Locarno; pay $500 to Erich 46 635-637
Wedemeyer (n.d.)
Switzerland, two prominent German industrialists refused 30 785
entry to (12-30-44)
Vatican intelligence re attitude of Argentina toward Franco (12-19-44) 31 641
For Rolls 67-129:
Roll # Folder # File Title or Subject
68 764-769 Latin America
73-74 845-848 SSU Mission to Germany
74 849 SSU-Switzerland Mission
851 SSU-Italy Mission
75 866 1941-Navicerts
867 1942-Nazi (bank deposits)
76 877 Navy-Office of Naval Intelligence
79 928 OSS Mission-Scandinavia
934 OSS Mission-Turkey
80 947 Final Report on SI Operations into Germany, July 24, 1945 by W.J. Casey
949 OSS Operations-Germany-Dulles
81-82 950-953 OSS Operations-Germany
83 961 OSS Operations-General-Switzerland, Neutral Countries
97 1095 Portugal
108 1213 Safehaven
110 1231-1232 Spain
1237 Smuggling
112 1270-1275 State Department
113 1287 Sweden
114 1301 Switzerland
117 1333 Treasury
118 1334 Turkey
1343 UNRRA-United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
120 1360 War Crimes
121 1361 War Criminals
121 1365-1367 War Department G-2
123 1381-1382 White House correspondence
{1}Return to text At the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire Resolution No. VI was adopted. It not only made recommendations regarding steps to be taken to guard United Nations interest in German external assets, but referred specifically to the broader aims of the Safehaven Program. The preamble to the resolution accused Axis leaders, enemy nationals and their collaborators of transferring assets through and to neutral countries for the purpose of concealing them, and of thus maintaining Axis power, influence, and ability "to plan future aggrandizement and world domination..." The preamble names loot, transfers of assets of occupied and neutral nations accomplished by threat, transfers of Axis property by use of blinds and cloaks, as the kinds of wealth Germany found it useful and easy to conceal. It also marked the guilt of puppet governments and of Nazi sympathizers for future reference. The preamble concludes "Whereas, the United Nations have declared their intention to do their utmost to defeat the methods of dispossession practiced by the enemy, have reserved their right to declare invalid any transfers of property belonging to persons with occupied territory, and have taken measures to protect and safeguard property, within their respective jurisdictions, owned by occupied countries and their nationals, as well as to prevent the disposal of looted property in United Nations markets; therefore the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference 1) takes note of and fully supports steps taken by the United Nations for the purpose of: (a) uncovering, segregating, controlling, and making appropriate disposition of enemy assets; (b) preventing the liquidation of property looted by the enemy, locating and tracing ownership and control of such looted property, and taking appropriate measures with a view to restoration to its lawful owners." The resolution further recommends that the governments represented at the Conference call on the governments of neutral countries: "(a) to take immediate measures to prevent any disposition or transfer within territories subject to their jurisdiction of any (1) assets belonging to the Government or any individuals of institutions within those United Nations occupied by the enemy; and (2) looted gold, currency, art objects, securities, other evidences of ownership in financial or business enterprises, and of other assets looted by the enemy; as well as to uncover, segregate and hold at the disposition of the post-liberation authorities in the appropriate country any such assets within territory subject to their jurisdiction; (b) to take immediate measures to prevent the concealment by fraudulent means or otherwise within countries subject to their jurisdiction of any (1) assets belonging to, or alleged to belong to, the Government of and individuals or institutions within enemy countries; (2) assets belonging to, or alleged to belong to, enemy leaders, their associates and collaborators; and to facilitate their ultimate delivery to the post-armistice authorities." United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July 1 to July 22, 1944, Final Act and Related Documents (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944).
{2}Return to text This was the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee on War Mobilization (the so-called Kilgore Committee). The subcommittee, headed by Senator Harley M. Kilgore, held several hearings throughout the second half of 1945 that focused on German economic penetration of neutral countries, elimination of German resources for war, German's resources for a third world war, and related matters. Throughout this finding aid researchers will note that there are numerous references to the Kilgore Committee. For access to the complete files of the hearings please contact NARA's Center for Legislative Archives in the Archives I building in Washington, DC. Their telephone number is 202-501-5350.
{3}Return to text From 1943 to 1945 he was an unpaid personal adviser to James Byrnes, Director of Economic Stabilization and later Director of War Mobilization. Baruch also headed a special fact-finding commission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
{4}Return to text Boxes 1-537 of this series are field station files and are descibed later in this finding aid.
{5}Return to text Executive Director of the Board of Economic Warfare and the Office of Economic Warfare.
{6}Return to text William J. Donovan, head of the OSS.
{7}Return to text The Federal Bureau of Investigation's organizational element in Latin America.
{8}Return to text Walter Funk was the German Minister of Economic Affairs from 1937 to 1945 and president of the Reichsbank beginning in 1939. In the latter capacity he came to a secret agreement with Heinrich Himmler that "gold, jewels, and other valuables taken from murdered Jews were to be deposited in the so-called 'Max Heileger' account of his bank and credited to the SS." Robert S. Wistrich, Who's Who in Nazi Germany (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 70.
{9}Return to text Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury.
{10}Return to text Emil Puhl served as Vice President of the Reichsbank, beginning in 1939, and as one of the directors of the Bank for International Settlements.
{11}Return to text Cordell Hull, Secretary of State until November 1944.
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