STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST.LOUIS

Donated by Zelli Fischetti in October 2008.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The first five folders of this collection consist of memoranda sent from FBI Headquarters in Washington and other FBI offices in 1942 and 1943. Topics range from personnel matters, to national security matters, to protocol for enforcing laws and ways to file paperwork. Some memos cover several subjects. Nearly all are marked strictly confidential. cover the year 9 and 9. The sixth folder is a list of FBI files apparently related to civil rights, peace and left-wing groups from the Vietnam War era in St. Louis.

FOLDER LIST
1. FBI Bulletins April to August 1942
2. FBI Bulletins September to October 1942
3. FBI Bulletins November to December 1942
4. FBI Bulletins January to February 1943
5. FBI Bulletins March to December 1943
6. FBI list of person’s of interest, circa 1970.

INDEX

Abwehr, German Intelligence Organization, f. 5
Agriculture, Department of, f. 1
Air Transportation, f. 2, 3
Alien enemies, Bulgarian, f. 1
Alien enemies, deportation, f. 3
Alien enemies, detention, f. 3
Alien enemies, escapees, f. 1, 3
Alien enemies, espionage investigations, f.
Alien enemies, Germans, f. 2, 3
Alien enemies, hearings, f. 2
Alien enemies, Hungarian, f. 1
Alien enemies, in armed forces, f.1
Alien enemies, Italian, f. 2, 3
Alien enemies, Japanese, f. 2, 3, 4
Alien enemies, parolees, f. 5
Alien enemies, registration, f. 1, 2, 3
Alien enemies, Rumanian, f. 1
Alien enemies, spot searches, f. 1
Alien Enemy Camps, f. 3
Alien Enemy Control, f. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Alien Property Custodian, f. 5
Aliens, falsely claiming to be citizens, f. 4
Aliens, registration, f. 3
Aliens, Selective Service, f. 3
Aliens, travel permits, f. 1
American Legion, use for informants, f. 3
American Library Association, f. 2
Ammunition for agent’s person weapons, f.
Ammunition, defects in wartime production, f.
Amtorg Trading Corporation (Soviet trade representatives), f. 5
Antitrust, f. 2
Antwerp, staging area for German espionage, f. 5
Applicants for the FBI, investigations, f. 4
Applicants for federal employment, investigations, f. 5
Arrests, procedures, f. 2
Army, prosecution of soldiers, f. 5
Army, interrogation of soldiers, f. 5
Arrowsmith, Joseph, f. 2
Audio surveillance equipment, f. 4
Automobiles, agents’ use of, f. 2
Automobiles, speed limits, f. 2
Auxillary police, f. 5
Barth, Reinhold Rudolf, suspected German saboteur, f. 5
Baumgartner, Carl Wilhelm, f. 3
Belgian Air Force officers recruited to be German spies, f. 3, 4
Board of War Communications, f. 5
Boehm, Belgian-German spy, f. 5
Bombing investigations, f. 3
Bombs, handling of, f. 3, 5
Border Control, f. 3
Brown, D. K. f. 3
Bureau hiring interviews, f. 1
Butters, William, f. 4
Cameras, use by FBI, f. 4
Canada, concentration camps for Germans, escapees, prosecution of those aiding and abetting, f.
Casualty reports, false, f. 5
Chase National Bank, f. 1
Coast Guard, f.
Constant, Col. S.V., f.
Censorship, Office of, f. 1,
Chess, investigation of possible coded correspondence involving chess games, f. 5
Civil Air Patrol, list of base commanders, f. 2
Civilian Conservation Corps, f. 4
Civilian Defense Auxillary, f. 2
Civil Service Retirement Act, f. 1
Coal shipments, dynamite in, f. 4
Coast Guard, f. 5
Codes, FBI, f. 5
Codes, German, f. 3, 5
Commerce, Department of, f. 3
Communications symbols for FBI units, f.
Communist Party, f. 2, 4, 5
Communist Party, dues f. 5
Communist Party, infiltration of armed forces, f. 2
Communist Party, infiltration of consumer groups f. 5
Communist Party, infiltration of defense plants, f.
Communist Party, infiltration of labor unions, f. 1
Complaints, handling of, f. 2
Confidential informants, f. 2
Confessions, procedures, f. ,
Conroy, E.E. f. 5
Conscientious Objectors, f. 5
Constant, Col. S.V., f.5
Credentials, FBI, to be honored at defense plants, f. 4
Crime Statistics, reporting, f. 4
Cuba, f. 3
Custodial detention, f. 1
Customs, service, f.
Customs, stop notices, f.
D. A. B. Kyffhaeuser Bund, f.
Deaths, false reports involving service members, f.
Defense Plants, FBI inspections of, f. 4
Defense Plants, privately operated, f. 5
Defense Plants, screening employees, f. 3
Denaturalization proceedings, f. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Deserters, f. 4
Deserters, Canadian, f. 4
Detectaphones, f. 4
Detention, Custodial for Internal Security, f
Detention rooms, f. 5
Documents, bureau, proofreading, f. 4
Deutsch-Amerikanische Berufsgemeinschaft, f. 2
Deutscher Handels and Wirtschaftsdienst, f. 1
Diathermy devices, registration of, f. 1
Die Casting Workers, National Association of, f. 1
Draft resistance, f. 3
Drayton, S.J., f.
Dronkers, Johannes Marinus, Dutch citizen spying for Germany, f. 5
Emergency Cargo Ship Construction Act, enforcement of employment restrictions, f. 1
Ennis, Edward J., Administrator of Foreign Travel Control, f. 3
Equipment used for investigations, f.
Espionage, f. 5
Espionage Act of 1942, f. 1, 2
Espionage, butterfly trays, f. 4
Espionage, defense plants, f.
Espionage, Interrogation Procedures, f.
Espionage, German f. 3, 4, 5
Espionage, Japanese, f. 2
Evidence, handling of, f. 2
Exclusion orders, f. 3
Ex-Combattenti, f.
Explosives investigations, f. 5
Extortion switches, f. 4
Faist, Hans Georg, f.
FBI agents, arrested by other law enforcement agencies, f. 3
FBI agents, enlisting in the armed forces, f. 5
FBI agents, training, f. 3
FBI applicants, investigations, f. 3
FBI, budgetary problems, f. 3
FBI, files, f. 3
FBI laboratory, f. 5
FBI National Police Academy, f. 5,
FBI priorities, f. 3
FBI recruitment, f. 2, 3
FBI recruitment, screening, f. 3
FBI reports, form to follow, f. 3
FBI travel regulations, f. 5
Federal Communications Commission, f. 2, 4
Federal Explosives Act, f.
Federal Reserve Bank, Foreign Property Control Department, f. 4
Firearms, f. 2
Firearms training, f. 2, 4
Fingerprinting of aliens, f. 3, 4
Fingerprinting of citizens, f. 1
Fly, James Lawrence, Board of War Communications, f.
Foreign Agents Registration Act, f. 1, 2, 3
Foreign funds control, f. 2, 4
Foreign Travel Control,f. 3, 4, 5
Foxworth, P.E. f. 4
Fraud involving service benefits for military families, f. ,
Freight, inspection of, f.
G-2, f. 4, 5
German-American Bund, f. 2
German spies, f. 2, 5
Germans in the United States, f. 2
Government property, theft of, f. 5
Haberfeld, Harold D. f. 4
Habeus Corpus, f. 5
Hotels, informants in, f. 2
Hoover, John Edgar f. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Husting, John J., f.5
Identification badges, f. 5
Identification documents, laboratory tests for authenticity, f. 4
Immigration and Naturalization Service, f. 5
Individual Exclusion Orders, f. 4, 5,
Informants, f. 1, 2, 3, 5
Infrared Secret Signaling Devices, f. 1
Industrial facilities, protection, f. 4
Internal security, custodial detention, f. 1
Internal security investigations, f. 1, 2
Internal security, procedures for communications with local police, f.
International Association of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers, f.
Investigations of apl
Investigative Equipment, f. 4
Invisible ink, f. 4
Italian aliens, f.
J. Henry Schroeder Banking Corporation, f. 1
Jasmin, Edwin H., f. 5
Japanese-American citizens, repatriation of, f. 4
Japanese Internment Camps, federal prosecution of residents, f. 5
Jehovah’s Witnesses, conscientious objector investigations, f. 3, 5
Jehovah’s Witnesses, as religious ministers excluded from the draft, f. 5
Kappe, Walter, suspected German saboteur, f. 5
Kennedy, S. J., f. 2
Kimball, H.M., f. 4
Kramer, R.P., f. 4
Krug, Hans Peter, escaped German war prisoner, f.
Labor Unions, f.
Landis, James M., regional director of Office of Civilian Defense, f. 5
Leave without pay for agents, f. 2
Letters, forms to follow, f. 3
Libraries, attempts by government to remove books about explosives and secret codes, f. 2
Local law enforcement officers, f. 4, 5
Local Watch lists, f.
Lock-picking equipment, f. 4
Loebl, Louis, special agent, f. 5
Lottery cases, f. 5
Loyalty investigations, f. 3
Lustgarten, Benjamin, f.
Lynn, Mass., f. 1
MacFall, Capt. R.C., f. 5
Maget, J. H. f. 5
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, f. 3
May, Erwin, f. 2
McKee, S.K.,special agent in charge , Newark, N.J., f. 5, ,
McNabb et al, v. the United States, f. 5
Merck & Co., f. 5
Military Intelligence Service, f.
Military Tribunals, f.
Miller, Arnold W., f. 4
Mine Mill and Smelter Workers, International Association of, f. 1
Nash, Elliott A., f. 2
National defense investigations, f. 1
National Defense Manual, f. 5
National Watch Lists, f. 5
National Police Academy, f. 2
Navy, interrogation of sailors, f. 5
Navy, prosecution of sailors, f. 5
New York Overseas Corporation, f. 1
Newark Field Office, personnel list f. 1
Obscenity investigations, f. 5
Office for Emergancy Management, f. 5
Office of Censorship, f. 4, 5,
Office of Civilian defense, 5
Office of Civilian defense, loyalty screening, f. 4
Office of Dependency Benefits, f. 5
Office of Naval Intelligence, f. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Office procedures, f. 4
Oil Paintings, use for codes, f. 3
Ordnungs Dienst, f. 2
Otis, Merrill E., f. 3
Overtime for agents, f. 4
Passenger ships, f. 4
Pedersen, Sterling H., f. 1
Persons of Interest, circa 1970, f. 6
Photographic supplies, f. 3
Pigeons, homing, f. 1
Pimps, f.
Police, f.
Polygraphs, f. 1
Ports, security, f. 2, 3, 4
Post Office, f. 1
Postcards, used for German espionage, f.
Powers, Leroy, f. 2
Press relations, f. 4
Prisoners, investigations of, f. 3
Prisoners, escapees, f. 4
Prisoners of War, escapees, f. 2
Provost Marshal General, f. 3
Prudential Insurance Co., f. 5
Radio diathermy devices, registration of, f.
Radio equipment used by FBI, f. 4
Radio messages, f.
Radio Transmitters, illegal, f. 4
Raids, f. 3, 4
Reconstruction Finance Company, f. 5
Red Cross, American, f. 3
Refugees, Interrogation Procedures, f.
Reports, procedures for submission, f. 2
Retirement benefits, f.
Robert C. Mayer and Company, f. 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., proclamation on enemy aliens, f. 1
Rowe, James, Jr., assistant to the attorney general, f. 5
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, f. 1
Rueckwanderer Marks, investigations, f. 1, 2, 3
Sabotage, f. 1, 2, 3, 4
Saboteurs, German, f. 2
Schmidt, Joseph, suspected saboteur, f. 5
Seamen on neutral ships, f. 3, f.
Searches, procedures, f. 1, 3, 5,
Secret writing, zinc sulfate crystals, f. 5
Sedition investigations, f. 3, 5
Selective Service Act of 1940, 1943 amendements, f. 4
Selective Service, aliens, f. 3
Selective Service, classification cards, f. 4
Selective Service, conscientious objector investigations, f. 2, 4, 5
Selective Service, enforcement, f. 2, 4
Selective Service, classification IV-4 classification of those deemed morally unacceptable, f. 4
Selective Service, investigations, f. 5
Selective Service Boards, f. 5
Selective Service violations, jurisidiction of FBI, f. 2, 3
Selective Service violators in Mexico, f. 5
Selective Service violations, f. 2, ,
Servicemen’s Dependents Allowance Act of 1942, f. 4
Shivers, Robert L., f. 4
Sicherheitsdienst, Nazi Party and SS intelligence, f. 5
Silver Shirts, f. 2
Social Security, use of records in investigations, f. 4
Sound equipment used by FBI, f. 4
Soviet Union, f. 5
Suiter, H.B., f. 5
Tefi machine, f. 3
Tefischallfilm Dr. Daniel and Co., f. 3
Telegrams, handling of national security messages, f.
Telephone service, f. 2
Teletype,operators, f.
Teletype transmissions, f.
Telfischallfilm Dr. Daniel and Company, K.G. Cologne, f. 3
Territorial Allocation of FBI field offices, f. 3
Timmerman, Belgian-German spy, f. 5
Tire rationing, f. 2
Trading With the Enemy Act, f. 1
Training manuals, f. 3
Traynor, D.L., f. 4
Travel accommodations for agents, f.
United States Attorneys, f. 4
United States Navy, f. 3
United States Navy, family allowance records, f. 5
Uniform Crime Reports, f. 1
Uniforms, military, illegal wearing of, f. 4
Vader, Rae V., f. 2
Verlinden, Belgian-German spy, f. 5
Vogel, Ralph C., f. 4
Vouchers, f. 4, 5
Wanted notices, f. 3
War bonds, f. 4
War Communications, Board of, f. 4
War Department, Foreign Liason Branch, f. 5
War fraud involving service benefits for military families, f. 4, 5,
War Relocation Authority, f. 5
War Savings Bonds, f. 2
Warschauer, Ludwig Max, f. 3
Watch lists, f.
White, William Walter, f. 2
Winter, Franciscus Johannes, Belgian-German spy, f. 5
Young Communist League, f. 4, 5