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Cline (1918-1996) was a CIA analyst, an educator, and an author. His papers consist of office files containing interviews, press clippings, and judicial and congressional testimony relating to the organization and effectiveness of the US intelligence community in the 1970s; organizational files documenting Cline's association chiefly with the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies and also with the Coalition for Asian Peace and Security and the World Strategy Network; addresses, briefings, lectures, and other writings by Cline. Topics include American, Chinese, Korean, and Soviet intelligence activities and national security concerns during the 1970s and 1980s. The papers also include Cline's memorandum on the wartime of history of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Correspondence between Cline and Arthur M. Schlesinger reflects their views on the Bay of Pigs and the invasion of Cuba (1961), although Cline's office files on the subject have been retained by the CIA.

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Deuel (1905-1974) was an intelligence officer and journalist. The collection includes correspondence, journals, lectures, writings, transcripts of radio broadcasts, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Deuel's career as a journalist with the Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Included is material pertaining to his work as diplomatic correspondent in Berlin, Germany, prior to World War II. Also documented is his service as an OSS intelligence officer during the war, a special assistant with the Allied Forces Supreme Headquarters, and a foreign intelligence analyst with the CIA. The papers include biographical sketches of contemporaries, and a file on Dean Acheson.

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Dodd (1908-1990) was an author and political exile. Her papers include correspondence, writings, research materials, memoirs, and other papers relating to Dodd's experiences (1933-1937) in Berlin with her father, William Edward Dodd, American ambassador to Germany; her exile (1957-1990) with her husband, Alfred Kaufman Stern, in Cuba and Czechoslovakia following their indictment for participation in Soviet espionage; and her writings on topics including the US civil rights movement, the Cold War, the Cuban revolution, and the conflict in Vietnam. The writings consist chiefly of newspaper and magazine articles written in Chinese, Czech, German, Russian, and Spanish; drafts of her books, including Through Embassy Eyes (1939) and Ambassador Dodd's Diary (1941); and drafts of screenplays by Dodd, Kay Fanin, and Ring Lardner. Significant items include love letters (1933-1938) in German to Dodd from Boris Winogradov, official at the Soviet embassy in Berlin; letters (1934-1936) from Mildred Harnack-Fish, an American executed in 1943 with her German husband for treason against Germany; and Dodd's eyewitness account of Soviet forces in Prague (1968).

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Farmer (1901–1997) was a lawyer and activist. The collection includes correspondence, speech material, writings, journal articles, notes, court documents and legal records, press clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Farmer's legal work and interest in the espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. It includes documents concerning other accused spies David Greenglass and Morton Sobell, and files pertaining to Farmer's lawsuit (United States ex rel. Farmer v. Kaufman) in 1990 against Irving R. Kaufman, the judge who presided over the Rosenbergs' trial. Also documented are Farmer's endeavors to create a "one world government," advocacy for international control of atomic energy, and lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service defending his refusal to pay federal income tax based on the argument that the Korean War was illegal.

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Gosnell (1896-1997) was a political scientist, educator, and government consultant. His papers consist chiefly of subject files containing correspondence, memoranda, reports, research data, maps, charts, and printed material relating to projects Gosnell conducted for various US government agencies. The subjects include a study (1937-1939) on state and regional planning for the National Resources Committee; studies (1943-1949) on government information services, especially those of the Office of War Information and the Department of State; and analyses of foreign elections for the CIA after 1950. The CIA file contains material on fact-finding missions to the Philippines (1953, 1955), Indonesia (1955), and Sudan (1958). The material includes correspondence, election ephemera, maps (especially from Sudan), summaries of conversations with political leaders and Americans abroad, and related matter.

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Kaufman (1910-1992) was the federal judge in United States v. Rosenberg, the 1951 espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. His papers contain correspondence; memoranda; speeches; writings; case files, dockets, opinions, and other legal records; subject files; scrapbooks; and photographs chiefly documenting Kaufman's judicial career (1949-1992). The Rosenberg trial is documented through case files, subject files, and scrapbooks.

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James P. McGranery (1895-1962) was US attorney general, district court judge, and a congressman from Pennsylvania; Regina Clark McGranery (1907-1975) was a lawyer. Their papers consist of correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, press releases, clippings, and printed material relating principally to James McGranery's duties as assistant to attorneys general Francis Biddle and Tom C. Clark, as US judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as US attorney general, as a member of the US Commission on Government Security, and as a law partner with his wife in Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Topics include questions of anti-racketeering, civil rights, espionage, immigration and naturalization, internal security, loyalty, political activities of organized labor, subversive activities, and reform of the Department of Justice. Files on the trial of Harry Gold, an associate of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, are also included.

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Philbrick (1915-1993) was an anticommunist activist and counterspy. His papers consist of correspondence, writings, speeches, television scripts, subject files, newsletters, printed matter, and other papers documenting Philbrick's roles as an anticommunist activist, informant to the FBI on the activities of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) in New England, and advisor for the television series (1953-1956) based on his 1952 autobiography, I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, "Communist," Counterspy. Included is material on the trial of William Z. Foster of the CPUSA, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the conflict in Vietnam, and hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Security Laws, and the Massachusetts Special Commission to Study and Investigate Communism and Subversive Activities and Related Matters in the Commonwealth.

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Rauh (1911-1992) was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and civil libertarian. His papers consist chiefly of legal files together with correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, oral history interviews, speeches, writings, subject files, and other papers relating to Rauh's career as a public interest lawyer handling cases pertaining to civil rights, civil liberties, and labor disputes. Among the subjects represented are government loyalty and security measures, communism, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the Vietnamese conflict. Later additions contain correspondence and legal papers relating to Orlikow v. United States, a case in which Rauh represented defendants who were brainwashed without their knowledge or consent in experiments funded by the CIA from 1958 until 1960. Other material concerns Rauh’s defense of William Walter Remington against charges of perjury resulting from his denial under oath that he had participated in a Soviet espionage ring and that he had been a member of the Communist Party.

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Remington (1917-1954) was a government official and defendant in national security cases. His papers consist mostly of correspondence Remington gathered in furtherance of his defense against perjury charges resulting from his denial that he had conducted espionage on behalf of the Soviets, and that he had joined the Communist party. The collection includes a report regarding Soviet spy Elizabeth Bentley, who first accused Remington of espionage.

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Scott (1903-1991) was a congressman from California and a lawyer in Washington, DC. The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, a court brief, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to Scott's defense of William H. Taylor, a specialist at the International Monetary Fund and US Treasury Department, who was accused of espionage by former Soviet spy turned defector, Elizabeth Bentley, in a case heard primarily before the International Organizations Employee Loyalty Board.

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Industrial physicist. The collection includes correspondence, Tourin's unpublished memoir, and other papers relating to the American communist movement; New York City's Jewish immigrant community of the 1930s and 1940s; Philip Rosenbliet, Tourin's uncle and director of a Soviet spy ring; and children's schools and summer camps with leftist political connections such as Wo-Chi-Ca.

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Ad hoc commission, created by President Gerald R. Ford via Executive Order 11828 on 4 January 1975, charged with determining whether the CIA conducted domestic surveillance and other activities. The files of the commission include testimonies, documents, and staff interviews with witnesses regarding the full range of subjects covered by the commission's final report. Subjects include the infiltration of dissident groups, opening of private mail, testing of behavior-inducing drugs on citizens, and subjecting foreign defectors to physical abuse and prolonged confinement. Also included are files on other subjects studied by the commission but not included in its final report, such as assassinations of foreign leaders.

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Vassiliev (1962- ) is a Russian journalist, author, espionage historian, and KGB operative. His papers consist of notebooks compiled by Vassiliev from Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti (KGB) files relating to KGB espionage activity in the United States during the 1930s through the early 1950s. The collection contains typewritten transcriptions and English translations of the notebooks, summary narratives, a file guide, and a concordance. Also included are scans of cables and other material relating to Venona, the code name for the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service's project to analyze and decrypt Soviet communications primarily during World War II. Legal documents, correspondence, trial notes, and other papers pertain to the lawsuit Vassiliev v. Frank Cass & Co., a libel suit concerning the article, "Venona & Alger Hiss," by John Lowenthal, published in 2000 by the journal Intelligence and National Security Journal.

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The US Army Signal Intelligence Service undertook the Venona Project to collect and examine encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications during World War II. Project records consist of sixteen volumes of photocopies of translations of the communications and five guides to the releases prepared by the US National Security Agency.

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Walsh (1916-2009) was a FBI agent. The collection includes correspondence, writings, and research files relating chiefly to the Venona Project. Research files include translations of messages sent among KGB agents and operatives throughout the world during the 1940s and 1950s. Also included is research material for an unpublished article on Matthew Silverman, a figure in the Alger Hiss case, and write-ups on communists operating in the US that contain their cover names and supporting Venona Project documents. Writings include Walsh's unpublished memoir entitled "The Story of a Special Agent" detailing his years of service with the FBI and as an investigator for congressional committees and executive branch agencies.

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Wertham (1895-1981) was a psychiatrist. His papers contain correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches and lectures, reports, research notes, patient case files, psychiatric tests, transcripts of court proceedings, biographical information, newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, and other materials pertaining primarily to Wertham's career in psychiatry. Topics include abused children, censorship, civil rights, the physiological effect of drugs, freedom of speech, juvenile delinquency, pornography, race relations and racism, sex crimes, violence, violence in comic books, mass media, motion pictures, and television, and violent crime. The collecion includes research files from the espionage trial of Ethel Rosenberg, 1951-1953.