Finding Aid for the Sidney Forrester Mashbir papers, 1942-1960
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Title: Sidney Forrester Mashbir papers
Collection number: 969
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
16.5 linear ft.
(33 boxes)
Date: 1942-1960
Abstract: Sydney Forrester Mashbir worked in the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section as a military intelligence officer during
the occupation of Japan, 1945-47. The collection contains mimeographed summaries of radio broadcasts, newspaper accounts,
various special reports, and publications on the Japanese language prepared by the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section
of the Intelligence Office during the occupation of Japan, 1945-47. The collection also contains books, biographical material,
and memorabilia of Sydney Mashbir.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Mashbir, Sidney Forrester, 1891-1973
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are
retained by the creators and their heirs. 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.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Colonel Sydney Mashbir, 1967.
Gift of Mrs. Sydney F. Mashbir, 1974.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sidney Forrester Mashbir Papers (Collection 969). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Colonel Sydney Forrester Mashbir worked in the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section as a military intelligence officer
during the occupation of Japan, 1945-47; wrote
I was an American spy (1953).
Scope and Content
Collection contains mimeographed summaries of radio broadcasts, newspaper accounts, various special reports, and publications
on the Japanese language prepared by the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section of the Intelligence Office during the occupation
of Japan, 1945-47. Also contains books, biographical material, and memorabilia of Colonel Sydney Mashbir. Audio discs of Mashbir's
Japanese broadcasts have been transferred to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS), translators and summaries, Japan, 1945-47 (Boxes 1-25).
- Other ATIS reports (Boxes 26-30).
- Memorabilia (Boxes 31-33).
Items Removed from Collection
- 4-16 audio discs, apparently of Mashbir's Japanese broadcasts. Transfered to UCLA Film & Television Archive April 26, 1988.
Related Oral History
The following oral history is available through the UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research:
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A career in military intelligence [oral history transcript] / Colonel Sidney Forrester Mashbir, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, c. 1972.
Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, UCLA.
-
Interview of Sidney Forrester Mashbir
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mashbir, Sidney Forrester, 1891-1973--Archives.
Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
Translators--Archival resources.
Translations and Summaries. Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, (A.T.I.S.), Translations and Summaries, Japan
(November 1945-April 1947)
Physical Description: Boxes 1-25
Box 4
January 25-February 6, 1946.
Box 6
February 19-March 7, 1946.
Box 8
March 20-31; April 6,7,24-26; May 9,13-14,31; June 1,3-8, 1946.
Box 10
June 25-28; July 1-11, 1946.
Box 20
November 23-30; December 1-9, 1946.
Box 23
January 24-31; February 1-4; March 1-10, 1947.
Box 25
April 1-17, 1947; Index - January 1-June 30, 1946.
Box 26
Current Translations. copy no.103.
April 11, 1942.
Box 26
Enemy Publications: no.7 (parts 1 and 2) and 10.
Box 26
Interrogations Report no.66I,
December 10, 1943.
Box 26
Information Bulletins: no.1-3,
November-December 1943.
Box 26
Information Bulletins: no.5,6,8,9,11-15,17-21,
January-July, 1944.
Box 26
Research Reports: no.59 (supplements 6 and 7),67 revised,72,76 (parts 1-3),
1944.
Box 27
Research Reports, continued. no.83-85,87-89,91-92,94-95,97,99-108.
1944
,
continued. Other Reports:
1944
Box 28
Progress Report.
September 19, 1942-September 8, 1944.
Box 28
Proposed Basic Military Plan For Final Examination of Captured Japanese Documents and Japanese Prisoners of War.
Box 28
Various Reports bearing numbers and dates. no.4,5,16,18;
Enemy Publications no.80,82;
Information Request Forms, no.102-104;
Enemy Publications, no.163,165.
Box 28
Research Reports: no.65 (supplement 1),67,and supplements 5, 72 and supplements 1 and 2,76 (parts 4-6),86,96.
Box 29
Research Reports, continued: no.98,109,116,117,119-123,127,130-132.
Box 29
Other Reports: no.125,129;
Enemy Publications no.271,307,387,398.
Box 30
Enemy Publications no.416,420,421; monthly reports:
March, September 1945.
Box 30
Documents Submitted to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Forces by the Japanese Mission to Negotiate Surrender, Manila,
(part 2 only.)
19 August 1945.
Box 30
Various A.T.I.S. publications, including: Restoration of Captured Documents, ; History of Allied Translator and Interpreter
Section, vol.5, Intelligence Series; Various Japanese Dictionaries and Character Books published by A.T.I.S.
June 28, 1945
Physical Description: (6 vol.).
Memorabilia, etc.
Physical Description: Boxes 31-33
Box 31
Mashbir Memorabilia, mostly Japanese language materials but includes transcripts of broadcasts Mashbir made over Japanese
radio in
July 1945.
Box 32
Memorabilia, including some correspondence and typescript material; photographs; 2 copies of
Infantry Journal, (has article by Mashbir); and Macarthur... First Foreign-Born Shogun of Japan, a speech by Mashbir, printed by First Congressional
Church of Los Angeles.
March 1920
Box 33
Photographs; memorabilia including 2 copies of a 3-ring notebook biography of Sidney Mashbir, prepared by himself with copies
of documents relating to his life and career and copies of pertinent correspondence; and a report on the Washington Institute
of Technology, , containing typescripts, documents, and photographs.
1945-1948
