FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATIONS (FG)
[FG017]
Subject
categories and sub-categories fully available for research are bolded. Closed categories and
sub-categories have a simple phrase describing their contents.
DESCRIPTION
OF SECONDARY FILE CODES
File
Code Description
FG017 Department of Justice (5.6 ft.; boxes 1-14)
A
secondary subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of
individuals to positions in the agency or to advisory boards, especially that
of Edwin Meese, William Bradford Reynolds, and Richard Thornburgh; the Office
of Special Investigations (OSI) and the issue of Nazi war crimes; annual
reports; the report of the Task Force on Violent Crime; monthly reports of the
Pardon Attorney and requests for clemency; the Interdepartmental Committee on
Internal Security (ICIS); speeches by Justice department officials; Civil
Division reports to the Office of Management and Budget regarding major
litigation; the proposal to close the Cleveland anti-trust office; the Voting
Rights Act implementation; anti-obscenity laws and the Commission on
Pornography; the attempted assassination of the President; agency
accomplishments; the free trade agreement with Canada; civil rights enforcement
and philosophy; the Enrique Camarena case (DEA); the
Independent Counsel law and the investigation of Wedtech,
the Aqaba Pipeline, Baby Bell, and Edwin Meese’s
financial disclosure issue.
FG017-01 Anti-Trust
Division (0.2 ft.;
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment
of individuals to office, reports, directives, and the AT&T case.
FG17-02 Community
Relations Service (1folder;
A subject category containing material pertaining to the
appointment of individuals to office; funding for the CRS; and a meeting
between the Director of the CRS and the President.
FG017-03 Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA)
(0.4 ft.; boxes 15-16)
A
subject category contains material pertaining to the appointment of individuals
to office; the Drug Abuse Policy Office; the proposed reorganization of DEA;
and international drug trafficking.
FG017-04 Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI)
(0.6 ft.;
A
subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of Directors
William H. Webster and William S. Sessions; fingerprint checks; the proposed
revision of the Attorney General’s guidelines for Domestic Security
Investigations (the Levi Guidelines); the 75th anniversary of the
FBI; alleged judicial corruption in Chicago; terrorism in the United States;
requests for investigations; funding for local law enforcement officers to
attend the Bureau’s National Academy; and the issue of interviewing librarians
in New York City regarding alleged hostile individuals.
FG17-05 Immigration
and Naturalization Service
(0.4ft.;
A
subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of the
Commissioner; INS activities regarding farm workers in California; funding for
the Border Patrol; identification cards; INS procedures in various cities in
the Southwest; deportations; and the call for the resignation of Harold Ezell,
the Western Regional Commissioner. Other
than official statements to Congress, there was no material in this category
regarding the Immigration Reform Act of 1986.
FG017-06 Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration
(0.2 ft.;
A subject category containing material pertaining to the
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Office, its functions, funding, and
officers.
FG017-07 Legal Counsel,
Office of (1 folder;
This
folder contains one item, the resignation of the Assistant Attorney General for
the Office of Legal counsel.
FG017-08 Parole
Commission,
A
subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of
individuals to office; H.R 4801, the Sentencing Guidelines Act of 1986; and the
release of parolee’s names.
FG017-09 Prisons, Bureau
of (3 folders;
A subject category containing material pertaining to the
appointment of individuals to office, reports; Federal Prison Industries; and
the privatization of corrections.
FG017-10 Solicitor
General (2 folders;
A subject category containing material pertaining to the
appointment of individuals to office.
FG017-11 United States
Attorneys (2.8ft.; boxes 21-28)
A
subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of
individuals to office (including a small number of
FG017-12 U.S. Marshals (2.0ft.; boxes 28-33)
A
subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of
individuals to office; the proposed reduction of the U.S. Marshals service to
the Superior Court of the District of Columbia; new deputy U.S. Marshal
Single-Agencies Occupational and Qualification Standards; evictions; using
Marshals to locate Raoul Wallenberg; and collective bargaining.
FG017-13 Office of
Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics (1folder;
A subject category containing material pertaining to the
report of the Justice System Improvement Act Agencies.
FG017-14 Justice
Statistics, Bureau of (2 folders;
A subject category containing material pertaining to
appointments to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Advisory Board and the annual
report for fiscal year 1985.
FG017-15 National
Institute of Justice (3 folders;
A
subject category containing material pertaining to appointments to the National
Institute of Justice Advisory Board; a project to reduce crime in the school;
and the annual report and record of accomplishments for 1986-87.
FG017-16 Foreign Claims
Settlement Commission
(3 folders;
A
subject category containing material pertaining to appointments to the
commission; the annual report for 1981; and claims filed with the Commission,
particularly by Occidental Petroleum Corporation for its land in
FG017-17
(1 folder;
A subject category containing material pertaining to
appointments to the commission; sentencing guidelines; and the annual report
for 1987.