Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) Collection (RG 319) [The War Department and the Army Records]

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The predecessor of the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) was the Military Intelligence Service's Counterintelligence Branch (before March 1942 designated the Counterintelligence Branch, G-2), which supervised the general counterintelligence activities of the CIC detachments in the field. CIC Detachments were quite active in post-war activities in Germany and Austria in efforts to locate war criminals, Nazi records, and looted property. Many of NARA's holdings concern investigations of foreign individuals and organizations during and after the war. Declassified records have generally been "sanitized" to protect security-classified information and still remain subject to NARA restrictions on privileged information.

Records of the Investigatory Records Repository

    The records of the Investigatory Records Repository (IRR) are arranged in two series: the impersonal and the personal name files. The impersonal files include files on a number of subjects and organizations; the personal name files includes dossiers on individuals.

IRR Case Files : Impersonal Files

                This series includes reports, memorandums, interrogations, interviews, cables,  affidavits, and other records collected in the investigation of individuals and  organizations. Many case files relate to German wartime intelligence, security, and  special forces organizations and operations. The following files have been  declassified:

        Box #  File #  File Title
        7  XE135014  German Intelligence in Portugal
        10  XE030277  Portugal, NSDAP{Note 1} Membership Records
        12  XE003920  German Intelligence Service in Spain
        15  XE219286  Search of Known Caves in US Zones
        37  XE003500  Swiss Traitors August 1945-March 1946 v. 1
        40  XC500871  Counterintelligence Corps Historical Information
March 1945-June 1949 v. 1
        45A  no number  SHAEF G-2 Weekly Intelligence Reports: #43-48, #50,  January 14, 1945-March 4, 1945
        45B  no number  SHAEF G-2 Weekly Intelligence Reports: #51-56, #59,  March 11, 1945-May 6, 1945
location: 631/31/52/01

IRR Case Files: Personal Files

        The personal files are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the individual.  For a complete listing of the name see the finding aid for this series in the  consultation area of Room 2400. Boxes 1-614 location: 631/31/54/04

Thomas M. Johnson Memorial Files (Entry UD 1075)

        Boxes 1-30 location: 631/53/20/05

Historians' Source Files of CIC Publications (Entry UD 1076)

        Boxes 1-5 location: 631/53/21/03

Organizational History Files (Entry UD 1077)

        Boxes 1-90 location: 631/53/21/03

Card Index to "The History of the Counter Intelligence Corps in the United States Army,
1917-1953" (Entry UD 1079)

        Boxes 1-14 location: 631/53/27/06

Historians' Master Copy "The History of the CIC in the United States Army, 1917-1953"  (Entry UD 1080)

        Boxes 1-10 location: 631/53/28/01

Historian's Background Material Files (Entry UD 1082)

        Boxes 1-15 location: 631/53/27/01

Command Reporting Files (Entry UD 1083)

        Boxes 1-25 location: 631/53/28/02

Historian's Background Files Concerning CIC History (Entry UD 1084)

        Boxes 1-35 location: 631/53/28/06

Numbered CIC Reports (Entry UD 1085)

        Boxes 1-14 location: 631/53/29/04

Historian's Miscellaneous Source Files (Entry UD 1087)

        Boxes 1-7 location: 631/53/29/06

Historian's Background Files For Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1940-1962  (Entry UD 1089)

        Boxes 1-27 location: 631/56/40/05

Footnotes

{1}Return to text NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei): The National Socialist German Workers' party, full title of the Nazi Party.

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