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Military Agency Records

The War Department and the Army Records

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs (RG 165)

During World War II the War Department General and Special Staffs were concerned with policy-making and planning on the highest level and with supervising all aspects of the military establishment, including the intelligence system. General George C. Marshall was the Chief of Staff from September 1, 1939 until November 18, 1945. He was succeeded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served until July 26, 1947.

Records of the Office of the Chief of Staff

Correspondence

Security-Classified General Correspondence 1942-1947 (Entry 13)

Arranged in four chronological subseries: 1) 1942-1943; 2) 1944-1945; 3) 1946; and, 4) 1947, and thereunder by the War Department decimal classification scheme. Included in the 1942-1943 records is a project series arranged alphabetically by geographic locations and areas, and thereunder by the War Department decimal classification scheme. Boxes 28-387

1942-1943 Project Series

Box #	Country
106	Africa
107	Argentina
109	Germany
111	Italy
112	Portugal
113	South America
	Spain
	Sweden
	Switzerland
	Turkey

Top-Secret Card Index to Correspondence to the Top-Secret General Correspondence (Entry 14)

Arranged in four chronological subseries: 1) 1941-1943; 2) 1944-1945; 3) 1946; and, 4) 1947, and thereunder according to the War Department decimal classification scheme. Boxes 1-10

Top-Secret General Correspondence 1941-1947 (Entry 15)

Arranged in four chronological subseries: 1) 1941-1943; 2) 1944-1945; 3) 1946; and, 4) 1947, and thereunder according to the War Department decimal classification scheme. Included in the 1941-1943 records is a project series arranged alphabetically by geographic locations and areas, and thereunder by the War Department decimal classification scheme. Boxes 1-11; 1-16; 1-5; and 1-5

1942-1943

Box #	Decimal #	Country/Geographical Location
10	091	Africa
	091	Germany
11	091	Italy
	091	Portugal
	091	South America
	091	Turkey

1944-1945

Box #	Decimal #	Country/Geographical Location
2	091	France
	091	Germany
	091	Italy
	091	South America
	091	Sweden
	091	Switzerland

1946

Box #	Decimal #	Country/Geographical Location
1	091	Argentina
	091	Germany
	091	Italy
	091	Turkey

1947

Box #	Decimal #	Country/Geographical Location
1	091	Italy
	091	Latin America
	091	Turkey

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Records of the Military Intelligence Division

The Military Intelligence Division (MID) was responsible for the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of military information, and among its major staff duties from 1939 to 1945, included the supervision of United States military attaches and military missions abroad (Note 2), liaison with military attaches and missions in Washington from accredited foreign countries, negative (or counterintelligence) as well as positive intelligence work, and participation in joint intelligence-collection activities with the Navy and with other agencies of the Federal Government.

The March 1942 reorganization of the War Department included a major overhaul of the MID. The Intelligence Branch was replaced by the Military Intelligence Service (MIS), which assumed principal responsibility for collecting, evaluating, and disseminating intelligence information. Additional changes followed during the war, so that by 1944 MIS consisted of the following major components: 1) Information Group 2) Intelligence Group; 3) Administrative Group; and, 4) Counterintelligence Group.

MID records for the interwar period largely consist of a central correspondence file, with associated indexes. The pre-1942 records, for the most part, are located in the Archives I Building (Note 3)

Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reference Publications ("Regional File") Received From U.S. Military Attaches, Military and Civilian Agencies of the United States, Foreign Governments, and Other Sources, 1922-1944 (Entry 77)

The records are arranged alphabetically by name or country or region and thereunder according to a numeric-subject filing scheme initially prepared by MID in 1920 as the Index Guide for Classification of Military Information. This index organized intelligence materials for a particular country or region into general and secondary subject categories, each of which was assigned four-digit numerical designations. In the 1940 edition of the index, information was organized into nine general categories: Geographic (1000-1320); Population and Social Conditions (2000-2950); Political (3000-3870); Economic (4000-5070); National Defense (5900-5990); Army (6000-6970); Navy (7000-7945); Air-Civil (8000-8290); and, Air-Military (9900-9960). For each country or region, additional miscellaneous subject files, correspondence, or memorandums are often appended to the end of the numeric-subject files. The Numerical Series of Intelligence Documents ("ID File"), which began in June 1944, was the successor to this series. See Records of the Army Staff (RG 319) for the "ID" File.

Boxes 1-3335

Box #	Country and/or Subject
78-120	Argentina
146-149	Austria
150	Axis; folder entitled "Misc Axis Key Laws, Decrees and Regulations"contains a publication entitled "Key Laws Decrees and Regulations Issued by the Axis in Occupied Europe. It was produced by the Reoccupation Division of the Blockade, Branch of the Board of Economic Warfare, December 1942.
156-175	Belgium
320-334	Bulgaria
690-702	Czechoslovakia
704-715	Denmark
784-798	Finland
799-955	France
1051-1377	Germany
1600-1619	Hungary
1936-2040	Italy
2271-2371	Latin America
2406	Liechtenstein
2410-2411	Luxembourg
2601	Monaco
2607-2628	Netherlands
2676-2713	Norway
2798-2836	Poland
2837-2853	Portugal
2845	Portuguese External Commerce Military Attache Report
2833	December 3, 1943, Portuguese Foreign Trade During the War, March 13, 1944 Wolfram and the War, February 4, 1944, Iberian Exports of Minerals and Metals to Axis Europe- 1943, January 12, 1944 .
2861-2886	Rumania
2900-2945	Spain
2922	Trade Finance and Communications of Spain Portugal and their Possessions Board of Economic Warfare report January 20, 1943
2923	Spanish Foreign Trade October 14, 1943
2924	Analysis of Smuggling Activities of 70 Suspected Firms and Individuals in the United States French North Africa Neutral European Countries
2968-2997	Sweden
2998-3007	Switzerland
3035-3062	Turkey
3077-3210	USSR (Russia)

Formerly Security-Classified Intelligence Reference Publications ("P" File) Received From U.S. Military Attaches, Military and Civilian Agencies of the United States, Foreign Government and Other Sources, 1940-1945 (Entry 79)

This series includes intelligence report series issued by Allied, British, and U.S. operations commands; intelligence bulletins and reports periodically issued by specific Allied and U. S. organizations and agencies; and individual publications or special reports. The records are arranged in 24 alphabetical subseries (A-W), thereunder generally in alphabetical order by title, operational command (often by acronym), subject, country, or organization, and thereunder chronologically or numerically by report or publication number. A Continuation of the "P" File is located in Records of the Army Staff (RG 319). Boxes 1-2619

Box #	File/Publication Title
776	Economic Intelligence Summaries-SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces] Nos 1-34 1944-1945 Summary Report #29, dated March 21, 1945 contains information on "Allied Economic Relations with Switzerland. Economic Intelligence Weekly produced by the Economic Advisory Branch of the British Foreign Office. Nos. 1-14. 1945
780	Economic Warfare-Blacklist Economic Warfare-Blockade
780-784	Economic Warfare Intelligence Reports-From the Economic Warfare Division, American Embassy, London location 390/34/2/01
784-787	Economic Warfare-Safehaven Reports-From the Economic Warfare Division, American Embassy, London
894-899	Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports regarding operations in Central and South America ca.1943-1945. Most of the records relate to Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, and Peru.
906	Finance Section Reports 1-8 Civil Affairs Branch HQ 12th Army Group June 6, 1944-September 28, 1944 Financial Bulletin (folder marked as such) contains "Credit Suisse Zurich Financial Bulletin 1944 which is an English language edition of the Bank's Financial Bulletin of December 1944.
924-948	May 1945 (Box 932); and, Report ES-7 "German Economic Interests in Chile. (Box 934) Most of the reports in Boxes 935 to 948 relate to economic warfare against Japan and industry in Germany.
958	Fortnightly Summary of General Political and Economic Situation in Europe, Far East, Americas, United Nations. (3 folders) 1944-1945
1066	G-5 Weekly Intelligence Summary and Weekly Journal of Information SHAEF February-May 1945
1082	German banking in 1944 prepared by Ministry of Economic Warfare May 5, 1945
1090	German Press on Portugal and Spain prepared by British Embassy, Lisbon June 15, 1944
1272-1274	Ministry of Economic Warfare Intelligence Weekly 1942-1945
1331	Jewish Problem and British Policy (75 pp., September 18, 1937) The Jewish Problem and the United States (69pp., Jan 18, 1939)
1335	La Suisse en Armes [1939-1945] written in French and published in 1945.
1350-1363	Justice Department-Economic Warfare Section Records 1942-1945 [included in boxes 1350-1351 are a Report on the Banque Nationale Pour Le Commerce et L'Industrie ("Laval's Bank) and a supplementary confidential report on the same subject.]
1604	Notes on Economic Intelligence prepared by Foreign Office and Ministry of Economic Warfare, 1943-1945 (4 folders)
1933	Proclaimed List of German Blocked Nationals and other proclaimed Lists of Certain Blocked Nationals prepared by Department of Justice 1941-1945
1935	Program for German Economic and Industrial Disarmament-Final Report with Appendices prepared by the Enemy Branch of the Foreign Economic Administration December 20, 1945
1989	Report on German Reparation to the President of the United States February-September 1945, a printed bound copy of the report prepared by the United States Representative and Associate Representative on the Allied Commission on Reparations September 20, 1945
2051	Safehaven Targets No. 1-21 (1945) and Safehaven Intercepts No. 8 1945 prepared by the Foreign Economic Administration
2052-2053	Scavenger Special Reports prepared by G-2 SHAEF 1945
2181	State Department Special Interrogation Mission, 3 folders of Interrogations September-November 1945
2237	Summary of Enemy Economic Developments prepared by the Ministry of Economic Warfare December 29, 1941. Contains a section entitled "German Economic Relations with European Neutrals.
2404	Copies of various Treasury-printed reports including is a copy of Census of Foreign-Owned Assets in the United States (88pp. 1945); Documents Relating to Foreign Funds Control (January 30, 1942); Documents Relating to Foreign Funds Control (June 15, 1945); Preliminary Study of Corporations and Other Forms of business Organizations in Nazi Germany: Concentration of Capital and Other Developments (June 13, 1944); Preliminary Study of German Clearing Agreements (July 27, 1944); and Articles of Agreements: Inter Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, N.H. July 1-22, 1944.

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Records of the Captured Personnel and Material Branch (Note 4)

Formerly Security-Classified Interrogation Reports and Correspondence on Prisoners of War (MIS-Y) 1943-1945 (Entry 179)

The records in this series constitutes a general reference collection of interrogations and intelligence reports received or collected by the Branch in Washington, DC. The series is organized into several subseries. Boxes 349-772

Reports - Combined Services Detailed Intelligence Center (CSDIC) Allied Forces HQ

Box #	Folder/File #	Subject
642	7 PWP33	German banking: Aspects of practice and notes on personalities(including Schacht, Funk, and Puhl). Information derived from 5 PW, all with banking experience in Germany, and includes details on the Reichsbank, the Deutsche Bau-undBodenbank AG, the Landesbank der Provinz Westfalen and personalities, 45 pp. November 17, 1944 Addendum to PWP33 includes comments on personalities (including Schacht, Funk, and Puhl). 3 pp. January 22, 1945
	7 PWP34	Regional fiscal administration in Germany. Details supplied by 3 PW who worked in regional banks. 22 pp. November13, 1944
	7 PWP48	Working of a regional clearing house for savings banks in Germany. Information supplied by PW who was head of statistics department in a Dusseldorf bank. 26 pp. December 29, 1944
	7 PWP52	Reichswirtschaftsministerium(RWM): Functions and organization (Reich Ministry of Economics). Information furnished by PW who worked in foreign trade area and covers development of RWM, its position in the economic organization, internal organization, personalities. 49 pp. January 23, 1945
	7 PWP56	Aspects of German banking and insurance business. Details supplied by PW who was employed by several insurance companies. 27 pp. February 19, 1945
	7 PWP61	Notes on German museums and evacuation of German art treasures provided by 4 PW, 5 pp. March 4, 1945
	7 PWP65	Notes on administration of enemy property in Germany; PW who was administrator of all enemy banks in France, 4 pp. March 9, 1945
	7 PWP67	Reichsbank and its relations with other institutions; details supplied by 2 PW, 49 pp. March 25, 1945
643	1 PWP71	Social insurance in Germany. Two PW furnished details about direct and indirect Reich administration of insurance institutions; the working of social insurance: health, accident, pension; personalities, 33 pp. April 3, 1945
	1 PWP73	Transfer of enemy assets in France to the Treuhandstelle of the German military commander; the German Aero-Bank in Paris, France. Details supplied by PW who was administrator of all enemy banks in France. 5 pp. April 4, 1945
	1 PWP76	German banking. Details provided by 3 PW, former banking officials. 28 pp. April 12, 1945
	1 PWP79	German purchases of foreign and German securities, Sperrmark, foreign currency and gold in Paris. Information provided by PW, administrator of bank in Paris, France. 8 pp. April 14, 1945
	1 PWP89	German purchases of gold, foreign currency, and securities in black markets of France, Belgium and Holland. Interviews with 2 PW. 10 pp. May 6, 1945
	1 PWP103	Organization and activities of Staatliche Kreditanstalt Oldenburg- Bremen and Bremer Landesbank. Details provided by PW, former employee of bank, 61 pp. June 23, 1945
644	1 PWP106	Personalities in the economic and statistical departments of the Reichsbank, 2 PW. 4 pp. June 5, 1945
	1 PWP110	I.G. Farben- organization, central financial and commercial offices, economic espionage, personalities. Details supplied by PW, former employee in chemicals branch, 29 pp. June 13, 1945
	1 PWP118	Organization and personalities of the Rechnungshof des Deutschen Reichs (State Accounts Department). 8 pp. June 27, 1945
	1 PWP127	Organization and activities of Deutsche Siedlungsbank, Berlin. 16 pp. July 13, 1945
	1 PWP131	Germany's financial policy in occupied and quasi-occupied territories (excluding Russia and Poland). Information provided by PW, former fiscal administrator, 29 pp. July 25, 1945
657	1 SIR10	Interrogation of foreign service official outlining his connections with SS and SD and contacts in Germany, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, 12 pp. January 30, 1946
	1 SIR20	Amt VI activity in Switzerland, 3 pp. March 29, 1946
	1 SIR38	Interrogation of Gen Lt der Waffen SS Oswald Pohl. Details on Pohl's activities for past year, 21 pp. June 4, 1946
	2 PIR25	Major ig Heinrich Maximilien Golcher. Details on his relationship with the Japanese Intelligence Service and also in connection with arrangements made for smuggling of ball-bearings from Sweden to Germany, 5 pp. October 3, 1945
	2 PIR73	Werner Dankwort, head of Political Dept. in German Legation, Stockholm, Sweden 2 pp. January 2, 1946
	2 PIR94	Kurt Freiherr von Schroder, banker, 4 pp. January 24, 1946
	2 PIR111	Lt d R Franz Mammen, merchant marine officer, assistant to German Naval Attache, Buenos Aires, Argentina 5 pp. February 16, 1946
	2 PIR113	Wilhelm von Pochhammer, official at German Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 pp. February 16, 1946
	2 PIR117	Krafft Friedrich Wilhelm Simmross, member of Abw I M, KO Spain, 4 pp. February 21, 1946
	2 PIR118	Gottfried Julius Brandt, import merchant and position in Press Dept. of German Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7 pp. Feb. 20, 1946
	2 PIR119	Oblt d R Johann Martin Muller, merchant and asst. to German Naval Attache, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5 pp. February 21, 1945
	2 PIR128	Franz Rudolf Schumann, salesman, assistant to German military attache, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4 pp. Mar. 11, 1946
661	1 SIR931	Dachau concentration camp, 12 pp. September 9, 1944
662	1 SIR1185	Notes on Hitler, military hq, and special trains. Interrogation of confidential clerk to Luftwaffe general, 17 pp. November 13, 1944
	1 SIR1292	Insurance of French and German workers in France, 2 pp. December 3, 1944
665	2 SIR1728	Amt VI, RSHA. Organizationof central office, methods, agents, personalities, organizations with which Amt VI maintained liaison, foreign policy activities, etc. 88 pp. October 1, 1945
666	1 M1090	German social insurance. health, unemployment, and old age insurance, 7 pp. March 27, 1945
	1 M1110	Financial conditions in Germany. Financial assets in Argentina, business activities of Nazi Party, banking conditions during the war, currency questions, security dealings, effect of air raid damage on commercial insurance, tax payments, Hamburg banking institutions and personalities, etc., 7 pp. April 2, 1945
	1 M1122	Reich Ministry of Finance. Organization, future organization, recommendations for immediate action, financial activities, personalities, dispersal of the Ministry, etc. 16 pp. April 15, 1945
	1 M1128	Secret instructions to German bank, September 1944, 1 pp. April 14, 1945
	1 M1141	Notes on banking and finance in Germany, 11 pp. April 29, 1945 2 M1184 Taxation and confiscation of church property in Nazi Germany, 9 pp. June 25, 1945
667	1 M968	Miscellaneous information including Dachau concentration camp, 7 pp. November 22, 1944 location 390/35/14/02
668	1 M1065	Interrogation of PW who served with SS Guard Battalion at Oranienburg/SA concentration camp. Duties of individual guard companies, suitcase department (where PW was assigned), treatment of prisoners, types of inmates and personalities, layout of main camp, etc. 23 pp. March 11, 1945
	2 NOI532	Legations Finance Department of the German Foreign Office, 4 pp. March 12, 1945
	2 NOI548	SS economic enterprises, SS Arbeitslager, Leonberg, 5 pp. April 4, 1945
	2 NOI563	Personalities, German Foreign Office, 9 pp. April 14, 1945
669	1 NOI575	Dachau concentration camp, August 1944, 5 pp. April 24, 1944
	2 NOI610	Personalities of I.G. Farben, 13 pp. May 24, 1945
	2 NOI616	I.G. Farben personalities, 11 pp. June 4, 1945
	3 CI6	Descriptions of Nazi political personalities, listed by city of residence. 42 pp March 20, 1945

Reports-Various

Box #	File Title
743	Military Intelligence Service Report on Safehaven
745	State Department Special Interrogations (2 files) Person Interrogated: Ernst Wilhem Bohle Heinrich Franz Johannes Borchers Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff Herbert Von Dirksen Heinz T. Von Falkenstein Ulrich Von Gienanth Hermann Goering Ander Hencke Andor Hencke Ernst Adolf Hepp Baron Oswald Von Hoyningen-Huene Hans Thomsen Wilhelm Keppler Dr. Eugene Klee Hans-Heinrich Lammers Otto Meissner Baron Joseph Hermann F.E.M. Von Mentzingen Gerhard Johannes Georg Kleeberg Hanna Feldtange Freihere C.H.K. Von Neurath Dr. Hermann Neubacher Captain Dietrich Niebuhr Dr. Theodor Paeffgen Franz Von Pappen Friedrich W. Von Prittwitz Richard Von Kuehlmann Carl Berthold Franz Rekowski Joachim Von Ribbentrop Karl Ritter Paul Otto Gustave Schmidt Franz Xaver Schwarz Colonel Conrad Steinhaeuser Dr. Karl Stroelin Wilheim Ernst August Tannenberg Fritz Ernst Adalbert van Twardowski Dr. Edmund Veesenmayer

Records of the Central European Branch

Security-Classified General Correspondence 1919-1944 (Entry 181)
Boxes 932-956

Box #	Country Subject
942	Germany Current Events
943	Germany Economics
944	Germany Foreign Policy
946	Germany Jews (1935)
951	Germany Trade

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