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Rosenblatt (Lionel) collection on the Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees
MS.SEA.056
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Lionel Rosenblatt collection on the Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees
Creator:
Rosenblatt, Lionel
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.056
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(4 record cartons, 4 legal document boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1975-1990
Abstract: A collection of correspondence, briefing books, photographs, media, documents and reports detailing the work of the Interagency
Task Force for Indochina Refugees which oversaw the evacuation and resettlement of refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
between 1975 and 1983.
Language of Material:
English
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The collection is only minimally processed, but is open for research. Please contact the Department of Special Collections
and Archives in advance to request access. Access to original audio visual material is restricted; users must request viewing
copies. Box 1 folder 5 contains photos of victims of violence that are graphic and potentially disturbing.
Property rights reside with the University of California. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold
the copyright. For information on use, copyright, and attribution, please visit: http://special.lib.uci.edu/using/publishing.html
Lionel Rosenblatt retains copyright during his lifetime of all materials authored by him.
Lionel Rosenblatt collection on the Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees. MS.SEA.056. Special Collections and Archives,
The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
Gift of Lionel Rosenblatt, 2016 and 2019.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The collection includes correspondence, briefing books, photographs, media, documents and reports detailing the work of the
Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees which oversaw the evacuation and resettlement of refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia
and Laos between 1975 and 1983. Among these materials are a briefing book used by IATF director Julia Taft and some of her
correspondence. Also included are reports documenting Vietnamese refugee camps in Guam and the resettlement of Indochinese
refugees in the United States. The collection also contains miscellaneous papers collected by Department of State diplomat
Larry Clinton Thompson for the purpose of writing his book, Refugee Workers in the Indochina Exodus, 1975-1982. This collection
also contains materials related to the Refugee Act of 1980, including a series of telegrams from the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Services (INS) headquarters to INS officers in the field to correct the high rejection rates of Cambodian refugee
applicants in Thailand.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees