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Operational files of the DO and correspondence maintained in the Executive Registry of the DCI's office also provide extensive information. Records of the actual Nazi war criminal investigations after the 1970s, including outside agency inquiries and CIA responses, are maintained by the Office of General Counsel as well as by the DO. (U)

Numerous files exist in other US government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the US Army's Investigative Records Repository (IRR), and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Among the most important documents are those located in Record Group 226, the Records of the Office of Strategic Services, which have been declassified and transferred to the National Archives. In addition to the thousands of feet of records already declassified by CIA, the Agency has released hundreds of thousands of pages of World War Thera records under the auspices of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 2000. This act has also brought forth a deluge of personal dossiers from the Army's Investigative Records Repository at Fort Meade, Maryland. Probably no country in the world, and certainly no intelligence service, has released to the public as much


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