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Archive for October, 2012Halloween at the Tule Lake Relocation Center70 years ago today, Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center celebrated a harvest festival by wearing costumes. At the Tule Lake Relocation Center, later the Tule Lake Segregation Center, over 24,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned because of suspected disloyalty to the U.S. government under Executive Order 9066. Starting in 1943, Tule Lake became a [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on October 31, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records, History. An American Archivist at Ascona, Switzerland, October 1997Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. One clear, chilly evening this week fifteen years I was alone in the foothills above the town of Ascona, Switzerland, wondering “how in the world did I end up here?” The answer begins in December 1996, in the wake of revelations about Switzerland having dormant bank accounts of [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on October 26, 2012, under Outside NARA, Policy and Procedures. The Challenge of Federal Bureau of Investigation Records: Abbreviations and EuphemismsToday’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. The National Archives holds a substantial quantity Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records. And in the forthcoming years even more records will be accessioned. The FBI case files contain a variety of documentation, including FBI agent reports; teletype-messages; prosecutive summaries; accounts of interviews and physical surveillance; letters; memorandums; [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on October 10, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records, Reference, Researchers. Seventy Years Ago: Colonel Sidney F. Mashbir and the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS), September-October 1942Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. Seventy years ago, on September 19, 1942, one of the most important intelligence organizations in the Southwest Pacific Area was created and not long afterwards its commander, Sidney F. Mashbir, arrived in the theater to take command of it. This was the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on October 5, 2012, under Military Records. |
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