Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum



Most Recently Declassified Material from Manuscript Collections in the Harry S. Truman Library

Opened November 16, 2010

The Truman Library has released approximately 2,000 pages of declassified material. The documents are from the President's Secretary's Files, Confidential File, National Security Council Files, Psychological Strategy Board Files, S. Everett Gleason Papers, Gordon Gray Papers, James P. Hendrick Papers, John F. Melby Papers, Charles S. Murphy Papers, David Niles Papers, George J. Richards Papers, and Record Group 286: Records of the Agency for International Development: Records of Gordon Gray. Italicized entries are folder titles and box numbers.


DESCRIPTIONS

HARRY S. TRUMAN PAPERS
President’s Secretary’s Files
Intelligence File; Central Intelligence File; Situation Summaries [1 of 2] (Box 211)
Confidential File
Subject File; Army, Department of the, September l948-August l949 (Box 3)
Subject File; Central Intelligence Agency, General [l950-53] (Box 9)
Subject File; Mutual Defense Program [5 of 7] Box 26
Subject File; Mutual Defense Program [6 of 7] Box 26
Subject File; President's Communication Policy Board (Box 30)
Subject File; Russian Matters (Box 31)
Subject File; State Department Correspondence, 1952 [6 of 6], (Box 43)
National Security Council Files
National Security Council Determinations; # 11 [Iceland] (Box 5)
National Security Council Determinations; # 12 [Israel] (Box 6)
National Security Council Determinations; # 13 [Indonesia] (Box 6)
National Security Council Determinations; # 14 [Iran] (Box 6)
National Security Council Determinations; # 15 [Egypt] (Box 6)
National Security Council Determinations; # 16 [Libya] (Box 6)
National Security Council Determinations; # 17 [Pakistan] (Box 6)
National Security Council Determinations; # 18 [The Western European Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization] [1 of 3] (Box 6)
National Security Council Determinations; # 18 [The Western European Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization] [2 of 3] (Box 6)
National Security Council Determinations; # 18 [The Western European Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization] [3 of 3] (Box 6)
Subject File; Memoranda, James S. Lay, Jr. to the National Security Council re NSC 135-1952 (Box 13)
Subject File; Reports to the President from the National Security Council Reporting Unit, January - October, 1952 (Box 13)
Subject File; State Department Research Mission to Korea - report "North Korea: A Case Study of a Soviet Satellite" - May 20, 1951 (Box 13)
Psychological Strategy Board Files
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 014.3 Social Science Research--Loomis Report [on Cold War aspects of Government research in the social sciences] [2 of 2] (Box 1)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 040 Central Intelligence Agency [requests for intelligence information from; access to Library of] (Box 2)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 040 Psychological Strategy Board—Officials (Box 3)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 040 Radio Free Europe [evaluation of operations of; and Greenwood Plan to fight Communism] (Box 3)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 062.2 Proposal to Make a Series of Films on the General Subject "Why We Fight the Cold War" (Box 3)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 080 Recommendations of the Review Group to PSB (Box 4)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091 Great Britain [Truman-Churchill conference, 1952] (Box 7)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091 Turkey (Box 9)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.112 Overt References--Malenkov [re visit of M.R. Masani of India; etc.] (Box 10)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.3 John Haskell [of the New York Stock Exchange]--Report on East-West Trade, File # 1 [U.S. foreign economic policy and the European reaction to it] [2 of 2] (Box 10)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.4 Doctrinal Warfare (Ideological) (Box 11)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.411 Procedures for Review of Programs and Major Prospects under NSC 10/5 (Box 13)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.411 Intelligence Requirements under NSC 10/5 (Box 13)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.411 Register--NSC 10/5 (Box 13)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.411 NSC 10/5--Meeting of Panel (Box 13)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.411 Actions taken on NSC 10/5 (Box 13)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 091.411 Korea (Box 14)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 Makaroff, Vadim S. (Box 16)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 Pinkerton, Roy (Box 17)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 Salant, Dr. Edward O. [consultant to the PSB] (Box 17)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 Schramm, Wilbur (Box 17)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 B (Box 17)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 C (Box 17)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 H (Box 17)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 K [Russian national income; suggestions for world peace; etc.] (Box 18)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 M [Italian politics; Russian-Americans; American Economic Security League, etc.] (Box 18)
CLASS 000—GENERAL; 095 V (Box 18)
CLASS 100--FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING; 110 Budget Estimate for PSB for FY 1954 (Box 18)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 200.3 Authorized staff for Assistant Director for Special Studies (Box 18)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 201 Allen, Dr. Raymond B. (Box 18)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 201 Davis, Colonel Paul (Box 19)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 201 Gray, Gordon (Box 19)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 201 Jordowsky, Michael (Box 19)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 201 Philbin, Lt. Colonel Tobias R. (Box 19)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 201 Taylor, Edmond L. (Box 19)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 201.2 Letter of Commendation to Division of Central Services. (Box 19)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 201.3 Entries into Biographical Register (Box 19)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 210.6 Office Personnel, Accounting of (Box 19)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 230 File #1, PSB Personnel Matters--Miscellaneous [1 of 2] (Box 20)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 230 File #1, PSB Personnel Matters--Miscellaneous [2 of 2] (Box 20)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 230.02 File #1, Applications for Employment with PSB [1 of 2] (Box 20)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 230.02 File #1, Applications for Employment with PSB [2 of 2] (Box 20)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 230.02 File #2, Applications for Employment with PSB (Box 20)
CLASS 200—PERSONNEL; 231.2 Employment of Consultants (Box 20)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 300.6 Office Memoranda--General [numbered "Office Memoranda," and other administrative correspondence, Jan.-Sept. 1952,] 120 PSB Staff Instruction Manual (Box 21)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 311.24 Supplying FBI's Ticker service to PSB (Box 21)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 311.5 Code Words (Box 21)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 312 Procedures for Developing Staff Studies (Box 21)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 313 Checking the Records [procedures for handling files] (Box 21)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 File #1, Committee on the Present Danger (Box 23)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Director's Group (Box 23)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 LENAP (Cloven Coordinating Committee) (Box 23)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 NSC [reorganization of the staff of; public opinion re U.S. foreign policy] (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Panel "A" [Ad Hoc Task Panel on the armistice negotiations in Korea] (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Panel "B" [Ad Hoc Task Panel on U.S. and U.S.S.R. psychological operations] (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Panel "C" [Ad Hoc Task Panel on France and Italy] (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Panel "D" (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Panel "F" [Ad Hoc Task Panel on Germany] (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Panel "H" [Ad Hoc Task Panel on the Middle East] (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; Panel "I" [Ad Hoc Task Panel on Southeast Asia] (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Panel "L" (Box 24)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 [PSB staff coordination and liaison with the White House]--File #1 [role of PSB, background notes re] [1 of 2] (Box 25)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 [PSB staff coordination and liaison with the White House]--File #1 [role of PSB, background notes re] [2 of 2] (Box 25)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 [PSB staff coordination and liaison with the White House]--File #2 [role of PSB, background notes re] [1 of 2] (Box 25)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 [PSB staff coordination and liaison with the White House]--File #2 [role of PSB, background notes re] [2 of 2] (Box 25)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 POCC [Psychological Operations Coordinating Committee, Department of State] (Box 26)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 United Nations (Box 26)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 334 Watch Committee (Box 26)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 337 Agenda [for PSB meetings] (Box 26)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 337 Army Department--Army Advisory Orientation Conference, November 12, 1951 [1 of 2] (Box 27)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 337 Army Department--Army Advisory Orientation Conference, November 12, 1951 [2 of 2] (Box 27)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 337 Staff Meeting[s]--1952-January 1953 [1 of 3] (Box 27)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 337 Staff Meeting[s]--1952-January 1953 [2 of 3] (Box 27)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 337 [PSB, board meetings]--Minutes--File #1 (Box 27)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 337 [PSB, board meetings]--Minutes--File #2 (Box 27)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 350.001 File #1--Dr. Raymond B. Allen Lecture, "Psychological Political Strategy Re-examined" [1 of 2] (Box 29)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 380.01 File #1--Security Violations [security regulations; clearances; disposal of materials] [1 of 2] (Box 30)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 380.01 File #1--Security Violations [security regulations; clearances; disposal of materials] [2 of 2] (Box 30)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 381 File #1--List of Planning Projects Authorized by the Board, March 27, 1952 [1 of 2] (Box 31)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 381 File #2--Comments on PSB Planning Resources Paper, October 6, 1952 [1 of 3] (Box 31)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 383 Psychological Aspects of Phase "A" Defection Program (Box 32)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 383.6 Report on Situation with Respect to Repatriation of Prisoners of War (Box 32)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 383.7 Educational Programs for Iron Curtain Escapees, Project ENGROSS--File #1 [Psychological Operations Plan] (Box 33)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 383.7 Report of Richard Brown on Escapee Program File #2 [programs for Far East and Soviet bloc nations; legislation to aid defectors] (Box 33)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 384.51 Project East River [civil defense] (Box 34)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 385 File #1--(Inventory of Resources Presently Available for Psychological Operations Planning, January 5, 1952) [1 of 2] (Box 34)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 385 File #2--Reply to Congressman Kersten re Escapees from Soviet Satellite Countries [German-Russian alliance; defense against Communism] (Box 34)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 385 Suggestions--File #1--Moral Rearmament Events Around the World [1 of 4] (Box 34)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 385 Suggestions--File #1--Moral Rearmament Events Around the World [2 of 4] (Box 34)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 385 Suggestions--File #2, 7th Anniversary of Meeting of Soviet and American Armies at the Elbe, May 13, 1952 [1 of 4] (Box 35)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 385 Suggestions--File #2, 7th Anniversary of Meeting of Soviet and American Armies at the Elbe, May 13, 1952 [2 of 4] (Box 35)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 387.4 Korea--File #1 [plan "Takeoff," re collapse of armistice talks] [1 of 2] (Box 35)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 387.4 Korea--File #2 [psychological plans re. cease-fire negotiations][1 of 3] (Box 35)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 387.4 Korea--File #2 [psychological plans re. cease-fire negotiations][2 of 3] (Box 35)
CLASS 300— ADMINISTRATION; 388.3 Disarmament Proposal [evaluation of by U.S., U.K., France] (Box 36)
CLASS 400— SUPPLIES, SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT; 452.4 Imre Kovacs, "Bombs for Peace" Project [propaganda leaflets] (Box 36)
CLASS 400— SUPPLIES, SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT; 461 Rand Corporation Study, "Leadership in Soviet Agriculture and the Communist Party"--File #1 [1 of 3] (Box 36)
CLASS 400— SUPPLIES, SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT; 461 Rand Corporation Study, "Leadership in Soviet Agriculture and the Communist Party"--File #1 [2 of 3] (Box 36)
CLASS 400— SUPPLIES, SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT; 461 [Rand Corporation study, "Leadership in Soviet Agriculture and the Communist Party"]--File #2 [requests for ideological warfare materials] (Box 36)
CLASS 400— SUPPLIES, SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT; 470 Rand Corporation Study re Atomic Weapons, July 23, 1952 [1 of 2] (Box 37)
CLASS 400— SUPPLIES, SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT; 470 Rand Corporation Study re Atomic Weapons, July 23, 1952 [2 of 2] (Box 37)
CLASS 500— TRANSPORTATION; 537 Garage and Maintenance of PSB Station Wagon, November 25, 1952 (Box 37)
CLASS 600— BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS; 676 Liaison with the Telecommunications Policy Committee, October 15, 1952 (Box 37)
CLASS 700— MEDICINE, HYGIENE AND SANITATION; 729.2 File #1--PSB Staff Study, "Preliminary Analysis of the Communist BW [brain washing] Propaganda Campaign with Recommendations," August 7, 1952 (Box 37)
CLASS 800— RIVERS, HARBORS AND WATERWAYS; 821 Completion of the Volga-Don Canal, May 23, 1952 (Box 37)
INDEXING AND SUSPENSE FORMS; 040 Central Intelligence Agency (Box 38)
INDEXING AND SUSPENSE FORMS; 091.411-092.3 (Box 40)
INDEXING AND SUSPENSE FORMS; 201 Ca-Cl (Box 43)
INDEXING AND SUSPENSE FORMS; 201 Cm-Cz [1 of 2] (Box 43)
INDEXING AND SUSPENSE FORMS; 201 G [1 of 2] (Box 43)
INDEXING AND SUSPENSE FORMS: 201 Smith, General Walter B. (Box 47)
S. EVERETT GLEASON PAPERS
SUBJECT FILE; Office of Strategic Services (Box 3)
GORDON GRAY PAPERS
SUBJECT FILE: President Truman—Psychological Strategy Board, 1952 (Box 1)
JAMES P. HENDRICK PAPERS
DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY: CHRONOLOGICAL FILE: 1965, November-December (Box 19)
JOHN F. MELBY PAPERS
GENERAL FILE: Brazil-Antigua (Box 40)
CHARLES S. MURPHY PAPERS
PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION FILE: White House Memoranda, December 1968 (Box 67)
DAVID NILES PAPERS
General File; Israeli Affairs, 1943-1947 [1949] [2 of 2] (Box 33)
GEORGE J. RICHARDS PAPERS
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY FILE: Presentation on Soviet and United States Navies (Box 10)
RECORD GROUP 286. RECORDS OF THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: RECORDS OF GORDON GRAY
WORKING PAPERS: DOLLAR GAP CORRESPONDENCE FILE: White House (Box 14)

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