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box 1, folder 1

Army Personnel File 1942-1952

Scope and Contents

Military personnel file of Richard Ober. Includes Reserve Officers Training Corps and Army Reserve materials, orders, and memoranda.
 

Central Intelligence Agency Personnel File 1948-1980

Scope and Contents

Personnel file of Richard Ober as a Central Intelligence Agency employee.
box 1, folder 2

Questionnaires and personnel action notifications 1948-1979

 

General

Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, memoranda, lists and notes.
box 1, folder 3

1951-1974

box 1, folder 4

1975

box 1, folder 5

1976

box 1, folder 6

1977-1978

box 1, folder 7

1979-1980

box 1, folder 8

Request for documents 1978

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence together with redacted document copies.
box 1, folder 9

Appeal of proposed separation 1978

Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and memoranda. Includes redacted copies of earlier personnel file documents.
box 1, folder 10

Retirement 1980

Scope and Contents

Contains memoranda and drafts.
box 1, folder 11

Travel authorizations and miscellany 1974-1979

 

Writings

box 2, folder 1

"Recommendations on Intelligence from the Murphy and Rockefeller Commission Reports" (internal memorandum by Ober) 1975

Scope and Contents

Typescript
 

"The U.S. Intelligence Community Today" (internal study by Ober) 1978

box 2, folder 2-4

Drafts

box 2, folder 5

Notes

box 2, folder 6-7

Working materials

 

National War College File 1963-1964

Scope and Contents

Papers of Richard Ober as a National War College student.
box 2, folder 8

General 1963-1964

Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, memoranda, lists, and handbooks.
box 2, folder 9

Research paper 1963-1964

Scope and Contents

Contains memoranda, guidelines, and a letter.
 

Trip to Africa 1964

Scope and Contents

Contains memoranda, itineraries, travel documents, briefing materials, and printed matter. See also Audiovisual File.
box 3, folder 1

General

box 3, folder 2

Senegal

box 3, folder 3

Ghana

box 3, folder 4

Congo

box 3, folder 5-6

Angola

box 3, folder 7

Southern Rhodesia

box 4, folder 1

Southern Rhodesia

box 4, folder 2

Kenya

box 4, folder 3

Ethiopia

box 4, folder 4

Nigeria

box 4, folder 5

National Security Council Personnel File 1974-1976

Scope and Contents

Personnel file of Richard Ober as a National Security Council employee. Contains correspondence, memoranda, lists, and notes.
 

Central Intelligence Agency Domestic Intelligence Report File 1974-1975

Scope and Contents

File on a report by Central Intelligence Agency Director William E. Colby to President Gerald R. Ford on domestic intelligence activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
box 4, folder 6

Text of report, 1974, with publicly released redacted appendices, 1975

box 5, folder 1

Press coverage 1974-1975

 

Commission on CIA Activities within the United States File 1974-1977

Scope and Contents

File on a report by commission established by President Gerald R. Ford and chaired by Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller (Rockefeller Commission).
box 5, folder 2

Text of report 1975

Scope and Contents

Printed copy
box 5, folder 3

Excerpts of report leaked to press prior to public release

box 5, folder 4

Executive orders and White House press conference transcripts subsequent to Commission report 1976-1978

Scope and Contents

Includes 1976 Executive Order on United States Foreign Intelligence Activities by President Gerald R. Ford and 1978 Executive Order on United States Intelligence Activities by President Jimmy Carter.
box 5, folder 5

Correspondence 1975

box 5, folder 6

Memoranda 1975

Scope and Contents

Includes comments on the report by William E. Colby and by Ober.
box 6, folder 1

Notes 1975-1977

box 6, folder 2-3

Press coverage 1974-1977

 

Commission on the Reorganization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy File 1975

Scope and Contents

File on a commission jointly established by President Richard M. Nixon and Congress and chaired by Ambassador Robert D. Murphy (Murphy Commission).
box 6, folder 4

General

Scope and Contents

Contains selected recommendations affecting the intelligence community, memoranda, and press coverage.
box 6, folder 5

Senate response

Scope and Contents

Contains memoranda and bills introduced.
box 7, folder 1

House response

Scope and Contents

Contains memoranda and bills introduced.
 

Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities File 1974-1980

Scope and Contents

File on investigations by Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church (Church Committee)
box 7, folder 2

Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans 1976

Scope and Contents

Printed copy
box 7, folder 3

Report excerpts and Committee rules of procedure 1975-1977

box 7, folder 4

Hearing transcripts 1975

Scope and Contents

Includes testimony by James Angleton and Richard Helms.
box 8, folder 1-2

Hearing transcripts 1975

box 8, folder 3-4

Bills 1974-1978

box 8, folder 5

Correspondence 1975

box 8, folder 6

Memoranda and notes 1975-1980

box 9, folder 1-4

Press coverage 1975-1976

 

House Committees File 1975-1976

Scope and Contents

File on investigations by the House Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by Congressman Otis G. Pike (Pike Committee), and by the House Committee on Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights, chaired by Congresswoman Bella Abzug.
box 9, folder 5

General 1975

Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, memoranda, and notes. Includes draft statement to Abzug Subcommittee.
box 10, folder 1

Hearing transcript of Abzug Subcommittee 1975

Scope and Contents

Includes testimony of William E. Colby.
box 10, folder 2

Statement by William E. Colby before Abzug Subcommittee 1975

box 10, folder 3

Bills 1976

box 10, folder 4-7

Press coverage, mainly regarding Pike Committee 1975-1976

box 11, folder 1

Department of Justice Report File 1975-1977

Scope and Contents

File on the Department of Justice report regarding Central Intelligence Agency mail opening activities. Contains text of the report, notes, and press coverage.
 

Legal Cases File 1975-2001

Scope and Contents

File relating to legal cases resulting from revelations of intelligence community activities within the United States.
 

General

box 11, folder 2

Correspondence 1975-1978

box 11, folder 3

Memoranda 1975-1978

box 11, folder 4

Notes 1975-1982

box 11, folder 5

Press coverage 1975-1978

box 11, folder 6

Black Panther Party vs. Levi (re alleged disruption of Black Panther Party by FBI and CIA) 1975-1978

Scope and Contents

Contains legal complaint, notes, and press coverage.
 

Davis, Deborah and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Scope and Contents

Potential legal case regarding the book Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and The Washington Post written by Deborah Davis and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The book named Ober as Deep Throat and made other assertions considered possibly libelous. Includes some material on other media contacts with Ober.
box 11, folder 7

Correspondence 1979-1990

box 11, folder 8

Memoranda 1975-2001

box 12, folder 1

Katharine the Great 1979

Scope and Contents

Printed copy
box 12, folder 2

Press coverage 1975-1999

 

Driver vs. Helms (re CIA mail opening activities)

 

Legal documents

Scope and Contents

Contains legal complaint, briefs, petitions, motions, affidavits and decisions, and legal correspondence.
box 12, folder 3

1975

box 12, folder 4

1976

box 12, folder 5

1977

box 12, folder 6

1978

box 13, folder 1

1980-1982

box 13, folder 2

Memoranda and notes 1975-1982

 

Grove Press vs. Central Intelligence Agency (regarding allegedly illegal CIA surveillance)

 

Legal documents

Scope and Contents

Contains legal complaint, affidavits, briefs, motions and decisions, and legal correspondence.
box 13, folder 3

1975

box 13, folder 4-5

1976

box 13, folder 6-7

1977

box 13, folder 8

1978-1981

box 13, folder 9

Memoranda and notes 1975-1980

 

Halkin vs. Helms (originally Chandler vs. Helms; regarding Operation CHAOS surveillance)

 

Legal documents

Scope and Contents

Contains legal documents, affidavits, briefs, motions and decisions, and legal correspondence.
box 14, folder 1

1975

box 14, folder 2

1976

box 14, folder 3-4

1977

box 14, folder 5-6

1978

box 15, folder 1-2

1979

box 15, folder 3

1980

box 15, folder 4-5

1981

box 15, folder 6

1982-1983

box 15, folder 7

Undated

box 15, folder 8

Memoranda and notes 1975-1980

 

Hampton vs. Hanrahan (re shooting of Black Panther Party members) 1975

box 16, folder 1

Legal documents

Scope and Contents

Contains deposition by Ober and legal correspondence.
box 16, folder 2

Memoranda and notes

box 16, folder 3

Nunez vs. Central Intelligence Agency (regarding CIA break-in) 1975-1976

Scope and Contents

Contains legal complaint, White House press conference excerpts, and press coverage.
 

Socialist Workers Party vs. Attorney General (re surveillance of Socialist Workers Party)

 

Legal documents

Scope and Contents

Contains legal complaint, affidavits, testimony by Ober, and legal correspondence.
box 16, folder 4

1975-1976

box 16, folder 5

1977

box 16, folder 6

Memoranda and notes 1977

 

Operation CHAOS File 1967-1976

Scope and Contents

File of internal Operation CHAOS documents, reports, memoranda, and correspondence, made publicly available in redacted form in connection with legal cases.
box 16, folder 7

1967

box 16, folder 8

1968

box 16, folder 9

1969

Scope and Contents

Includes "Special Report: Foreign Communist Support to Revolutionary Protest Movements in the United States."
box 17, folder 1

1969

box 17, folder 2

1970

box 17, folder 3

1971

box 17, folder 4-5

1972

box 17, folder 6

1973

box 17, folder 7

1974

box 17, folder 8

1975-1976

box 17, folder 9

Undated

 

General Intelligence File 1963-1991

Scope and Contents

Contains material, mainly printed matter, related to intelligence issues in general.
box 17, folder 10

Memoranda and notes 1974-1978

box 17, folder 11

American Enterprise Institute symposium on "Foreign Intelligence: Legal and Democratic Controls" 1979

Scope and Contents

Transcript
box 18, folder 1

Colby, William E. 1975

Scope and Contents

Speech and statement
box 18, folder 2

Hardy, Timothy, "The Intelligence Reorganization Crucible" ca. 1976

Scope and Contents

Typescript
box 18, folder 3

Hughes, Thomas L., "The Fate of Facts in a World of Men: Some Reflections on the Human Side of Intelligence and Policy-Making" 1969

Scope and Contents

Typescript
box 18, folder 4

Turner, Stansfield 1978-1979

Scope and Contents

Speeches
 

Press coverage

box 18, folder 5-7

Central Intelligence Agency activities abroad 1974-1976

box 19, folder 1

Central Intelligence Agency activities abroad 1974-1976

box 19, folder 2-4

Central Intelligence Agency domestic activities 1975-1976

box 19, folder 5

Federal Bureau of Investigation activities 1975-1976

box 20, folder 1

Federal Bureau of Investigation activities 1975-1976

box 20, folder 2-4

National Security Council and Operation CHAOS 1975-1976

box 20, folder 5-6

Other agencies 1975-1976

box 21, folder 1-3

Individuals (mainly intelligence officials; arranged alphabetically) 1974-1976

box 21, folder 4-5

Kissinger, Henry A. 1975

Scope and Contents

Contains speech transcripts.
box 22, folder 1-4

Congressional commentary 1975-1976

box 22, folder 5

"News and Comment" intelligence sections (news summary compilation for the President) 1975-1976

box 23, folder 1-5

"News and Comment" intelligence sections (news summary compilation for the President) 1975-1976

box 24, folder 1-2

Magazine articles 1975

box 24, folder 3-5

Editorial commentary and letters to the editor 1974-1976

box 25, folder 1-2

Book reviews and book excerpts 1976-1991

 

Miscellaneous

box 25, folder 3

1963-1972

box 25, folder 4

1974

box 25, folder 5-7

1975

box 26, folder 1-2

1975

box 26, folder 3

1976

box 26, folder 4-5

1977

box 26, folder 6

1978

box 27, folder 1-5

1978

box 28, folder 1-2

1979

box 28, folder 3

1980-1990

box 28, folder 4

Undated

box 28, folder 5

Miscellany

Scope and Contents

Contains notes and printed matter.
box 28, folder 6

Audiovisual File circa 1964

Scope and Contents

Contains postcards and photographs of scenes in Africa.
Collection Contents
Army Personnel File
Central Intelligence Agency Personnel File
National War College File
National Security Council Personnel File
Central Intelligence Agency Domestic Intelligence Report File
Commission on CIA Activities within the United States File
Commission on the Reorganization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy File
Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities File
House Committees File
Department of Justice Report File
Legal Cases File
Operation CHAOS File
General Intelligence File
Miscellany
Audiovisual File
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