Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson

Central Intelligence Agency (Record Group 263)

      Location: National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001

      Description: CIA Name Files and Subject Files are composed of documentation on approximately 1100 individuals and subjects. These files include biographical sketches, correspondence, reports, memorandums, messages, telegrams, publications, clippings, dispatches, translations, transcripts, legislative records, legal documents, statements, lists, and other records. Many of the records relate to people in one or both of two categories: Axis personnel accused of committing war crimes, or of belonging to criminal organizations, during World War II; and former Axis personnel who were used by the U. S. as intelligence sources during the Cold War. Contains information on Kodama Yoshio (1911-1984), an ultra right-wing organized crime figure and political power broker in Japan. "The CIA claimed that, in 1934, Kodama founded the Tengyo Society, a right-wing fringe group that sought to bring about a reactionary government by intimidating and murdering leading businessmen and politicians. . . . After release from prison, Kodama started the Japan Youth Movement and quickly gained the attention of many influential arch-conservatives in government and military circles." Files on Stepan Bandera, Krunoslav Stjepan Draganović, Reinhard Gehlen, Adolf Hitler, Johann Von Leers, Otto Remer, Manfred Roeder, Otto Skorzeny, and Viorel Donise Trifa.

      References:

      Michael Petersen, "The Intelligence That Wasn't: CIA Name Files, the U.S. Army, and Intelligence Gathering in Occupied Japan," in Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays (Washington, D.C., Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records: Interagency Working Group, 2006), p. 208; Japanese War Crimes and Related Topics: A Guide to Records at the National Archives, compiled by Greg Bradsher (Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 2006), p. 583, http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/­Japan/Japanese-War-Crimes-Guide.pdf and http://www.archives.gov/i

      wg/japanese-war-crimes/japanese-war-crimes-guide.zip and http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/jcrimes-g

      uide.pdf.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/

      http://research.archives.gov/description/640446

      Finding aids:

      http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/second-release-name-files.pdf

      http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/second-release-name-files.html

      http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB150/cia_namesfiles_nara.pdf

      http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive

      [0445] COSAWR Collection, 1970-1990, BC1005

      Location: Manuscripts and Archives, Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town, Lovers Walk St, Cape Town, South Africa

      Description: The Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) was established to assist war resisters who left South Africa to avoid conscription within the country, and to give support to those who were resisting conscription within the country. Press cuttings and other material related to SA Military, religious and conscientious objectors, international support, End Conscription Campaign, war psychosis, video and audio tapes, other resources. Under the category of South Africa Military and General Files, special attention is given to the role of right wing organisations.

      Reference:

      Guide to the Manuscripts in the University of Cape Town Libraries. Consolidated Version (UCT Libraries, June 2013), p. 192, http://www.specialcollections.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/25/resources/Guide%20to%20Manuscripts%20in%20UCT%20Libraries%20Consolidated%20June%202013.pdf.

      Websites with information:

      http://uctscholar.uct.ac.za/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=108803&local_base=GEN01

      [0445a] CSU Japanese American Digitization Project [digital collection]

      Location: Archives and Special Collections Department, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747

      Description: This collection, generated by a consortium of CSU Archives, features documents, oral histories, photographs, and other materials relating to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Contains copies of California and the Japanese: A Compilation of Arguments Advertised in Newspapers by the American Committee of Justice in Opposition to the Alien Land Law, Together With the Memorial Addressed by the Said Committee (Oakland, Cal.: The American Committee of Justice, 1920); Digest of the West Coast Newspaper Items, September 24 to October 6, 1945 (United States. War Relocation Authority, 1945), describing the activities of anti-Japanese groups, including the California Preservation Association and the Japanese Exclusion League; Digest of the West Coast Newspaper Items, October 8 to November 2, 1945 (United States. War Relocation Authority, 1945), describing the activities of anti-Japanese groups; and Digest of the West Coast Newspaper Items, December 6, 1945 to January 15, 1946 (United States. War Relocation Authority, 1946), describing a letter to the editor opposing dual citizenship by H.J. McClatchy.

      Websites with information:

      http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/

      http://csujad.com/csudhcollection.html

      Finding aids:

      http://digitalcollections.archives.csudh.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16855coll4

      http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16855coll4

      http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16855coll4

      [0445b] Dozier Cade Papers, 1941-1955, MS.1378

      Location: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library, 121 John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

      Description: Dozier Copeland Cade (1917-2014) was director of the School of Journalism at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, from 1972 to 1978. This collection houses clippings, publications, class materials, and other items documenting Dozier Cade's research into McCarthyism and work as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University from 1941 to 1955. Also included are a variety of materials that Cade accumulated while writing his doctoral dissertation, "A critical analysis of the role of American daily newspapers in the current encroachment by government and society on freedom of expression in the United States" (1954). Files include Material on Federal Anti-Lynch Legislation, undated; Article on Colonel Robert R. McCormick, undated; Materials Regarding McCarthy's Probe of Communists in Government, undated; Materials Regarding the Impact of McCarthyism on the Individual, the Nation, and the Press, undated; Clippings on Historical Background of Red Probe, undated; Clippings on McCarthy's Background and McCarthyism, undated; and Materials on Communist Ideology and Propaganda Techniques and National Security Matters Relating to Communism, undated.

      Finding aid:

      http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_001788_000000_0000/0012_001788_000000_0000.xml;quer

      y=;brand=default

      [0445c] Patrick Cahill Collection of Belloc and Chesterton Materials, 1909-1973, undated (bulk 1951-1958), MS1986-138

      Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

      Description: Papers pertain to writer Patrick Cahill's research and publication on Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton. It contains manuscripts and typescripts of Cahill's essays on Belloc and Chesterton; Cahill's research notes; correspondence by Belloc; Distributist League Reports from 1927-1936; a sound recording of Hilaire Belloc; and a photocopy of Hilaire Belloc's will.

      Websites with information:

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/33953086

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/patrick-cahill-collection-of-belloc-and-chesterton-materials-1909-1973-unda

      ted/oclc/33953086

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