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information about intelligence activities during the Second World War as the United States.^[1] (U)

The amount of material released in the last two decades, as well as material that is still retained by CIA, is overwhelming. It is often possible to find the same document (or a copy) as classified in Agency files but as declassified at the National Archives. While this study is written at the classified level, a great deal of the source material and the information itself is already available at the National Archives. This is especially true following CIA's declassification of the greater portion of the "withdrawn" OSS material in 2000.^[2] (U)

Since 1998, the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act requires the CIA to search its holdings for still-classified material pertaining to Nazi war criminals and war crimes; the ensuing searches located an extensive amount of material that was otherwise previously unavailable to the author. Although the author attempted to mine this new vein of information, a lack of time and resources to plow through the sheer number of files generated by the name traces of over 60,000 known war criminals and SS officers proved to be limiting factors. (U)

↑ For further details, see Kevin C. Ruffner, "Record Group 226 at the National Archives," Center for the Study of Intelligence Newsletter (Summer 1996), pp. 3-4; Kevin C. Ruffner, "OSS and CIA Records at the National Archives," Center for the Study of Intelligence Newsletter (Winter-Spring 1997), pp. 3-4; Kevin C. Ruffner, "CIA and the Search for Nazi War Criminals," Center for the Study of Intelligence Bulletin (Winter 2000), pp. 10-11; and Kevin C. Ruffner, "CIC Records: A Valuable Tool for Researchers," Center for the Study of Intelligence Bulletin (Summer 2000), pp. 11-16. (U)
↑ The "withdrawn" records now at the National Archives consist of material that had been removed for security reasons from earlier batches of records declassified and transferred to NARA. In 2001, the Agency declassified this major collection of OSS material. (U)

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[1] For further details, see Kevin C. Ruffner, "Record Group 226 at the National Archives," Center for the Study of Intelligence Newsletter (Summer 1996), pp. 3-4; Kevin C. Ruffner, "OSS and CIA Records at the National Archives," Center for the Study of Intelligence Newsletter (Winter-Spring 1997), pp. 3-4; Kevin C. Ruffner, "CIA and the Search for Nazi War Criminals," Center for the Study of Intelligence Bulletin (Winter 2000), pp. 10-11; and Kevin C. Ruffner, "CIC Records: A Valuable Tool for Researchers," Center for the Study of Intelligence Bulletin (Summer 2000), pp. 11-16. (U)

[2] The "withdrawn" records now at the National Archives consist of material that had been removed for security reasons from earlier batches of records declassified and transferred to NARA. In 2001, the Agency declassified this major collection of OSS material. (U)

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