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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Title: Pedro Loureiro papers
creator:
Loureiro, Pedro
Identifier/Call Number: 3309
Physical Description:
12.5 Linear Feet
13 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1910-2016
Date (bulk): 1930-1945
Abstract: Pedro Loureiro is a Navy historian, curator, archivist, and USC alum who has concentrated much of his research on pre-War
Japanese espionage and relations with the United States. This collection comprises primarily reports, memos, and correspondence
relating to the United States Navy, Army and Marine Corps stationed in China and Japan during the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s,
acquired and collected by Loureiro during his academic research and career as a historian.
The Pedro Loureiro papers have been organized into the following series: 1. Naval Intelligence; 2. Naval Attaché reports;
3. United States Marine Corps (USMC); 4. Asiatic Fleet; 5. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); 6. United States 10th Army;
7. China; 8. Oral histories; 9. Articles, clippings, and research materials.
Materials were found to be primarily in chronological order, except for oral histories, which were largely alphabetical. These
arrangements have been maintained.
The Pedro Loureiro papers (1910-2016, bulk 1930-1945) consist of reports, memos, and correspondence relating to the United
States Navy, Army, and Marine Corps stationed in China and Japan during the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and documents the
political, economic, military, and social conditions in East Asia, as well as its relations with the United States during
these periods. The majority of the material is comprised of items specific to China and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s,
including the United States Asiatic Fleet and The United States Marine Corps, particularly the 4th Regiment, and Naval Attaché
and intelligence reports.
The remainder of the collection consists of declassified files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, oral histories, articles
and clippings, and materials relating to the United States 10th Army, as well as to China in the 1930s.
Pedro A. Loureiro is a Navy historian, curator, archivist, and USC alum who has concentrated much of his research on pre-war
Japanese espionage and relations with the United States. As a graduate student majoring in Asian and Military History at San
Diego State University in the 1980s, Loureiro's thesis centered on U.S. Counter-Intelligence against Japanese subversion and
espionage in Southern California from 1938 to 1944.
From 1988 to 1995, Loureiro was a student at USC, where he received an M.A. and a Ph.D. His studies focused on Military History,
Intelligence studies, Japanese-American History, Modern China and Modern Japan, Records Management, Oral/Video History, and
Grant Writing.
During the course of his academic career, Loureiro sought materials from the United States Office of Naval Intelligence. Many
of the items he received access to make up this voluminous collection, as well as additional declassified documents obtained
from other government agencies, such as the National Security Agency (NSA) -- which declassified 1.3 million pages of cryptologic
documents in 1996, making them available to the public -- and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Loureiro has written many journal articles on East Asian and American relations, including "Japanese Espionage and American
Countermeasures in Pre-Pearl Harbor California", which was published in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations in 1994.
He was the curator of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College from 1998 to 2009, an archivist at the Defense Imagery
Management Operations Center from 2009 to 2016, and currently works as a historian for the U.S. Department of the Navy.
Loureiro will soon be featured on the Smithsonian Channel regarding his collection at USC as well as his academic career as
a historian, scholar, and curator.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access of physical materials. All materials within the collection
have also been digitized, except for the oral histories and articles, clippings, and research materials series. Access of
the digital items is available through the Pedro Loureiro Collection via USC's Digital Library. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15799coll12
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of the East Asian
Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the East Asian Library as the owner of the physical items and is
not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Box/Folder# or Item name]. Pedro Loureiro papers, Collection no. 3309, East Asian Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Pedro Loureiro.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Espionage, Japanese -- United States -- Archival resources
Military attachés -- China -- Beijing -- Archival resources
Military attachés -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Archival resources
Propaganda, Japanese -- United States -- Archival resources
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island -- Archival resources
World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Archival resources
Annual reports
Correspondence
Oral histories (document genres)
Research (documents)
Loureiro, Pedro -- Archives
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972 -- Archives
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Archives
Yarnell, Harry E. (Harry Ervin), 1875-1959 -- Archives
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Archives
United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 4th -- Archives
United States. Navy. Asiatic Fleet -- Archives