Collection MF510-MF515 - US STATE DEPARTMENT INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON EAST AND SOUTH EAST ASIA, 1945-1949

Key Information

Reference code

MF510-MF515

Title

US STATE DEPARTMENT INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON EAST AND SOUTH EAST ASIA, 1945-1949

Date(s)

  • 1977 (Creation)
  • 1945-1949 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

6 reels

Scope and content

_OSS/State Department Intelligence and Research Reports: Postwar Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia _is a themed microfilm collection relating to US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and US State Department evaluations of the Far East, 1945-1949. Regions studied include Burma, Hong Kong, French Indo-China, Netherlands East Indies, Japan, Korea, Malaya, the Philippines, and Thailand. OSS and State Department intelligence and research reports include the economic reconstruction of the Far East; business rehabilitation in Burma; the factors influencing the postwar status of Hong Kong and Macao; the communist influence in Indo-China; biographies of prominent nationalist leaders in Burma and French Indo-China; brief on issues in dispute between France and nationalist leaders in French Indo-China; report on political parties and movements in the Netherlands East Indies; British policy towards Indonesian leader Achmed Sukarno; summary of the conditions in the Netherlands East Indies during the first clashes between Indonesian nationalists and Allied occupation troops, 1945; the Japanese reaction to the surrender of Japan to Allied forces, Aug 1945; Allied proposals for political reform in Japan; the reformation of the Japanese electoral system; situation reports on the Japanese economy and the political leadership, 1945-1949; the 1946 Japanese General Election; Japanese raw materials and industrial requirements, 1946-1949; revisions of the Japanese Civil Code, House of Peers, House of Representatives and Constitution, 1946-1949; Japanese reaction to the final verdicts of the Far East War Crimes Trials, Dec 1948; analysis of political groupings in Korea; structure of the North Korean government, 1948; speculation on the survivability of the South Korean government, 1948; the role of communists during the onset of the Malaya 'Emergency', 1947; reports relating to American-Philippine relations; economic and political developments in Thailand, 1945-1949; a survey of Thai relations with the United States, 1945-1949; report on the extent of economic recovery in Thailand, 1948.

System of arrangement

Arranged according to country and chronologically therein.

General Information

Custodial history

University Publications of America, Bethesda, MD, USA

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies may be printed off the microfilm/microfiche for research purposes and are charged at cost.

Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America Inc.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description. The following published guide is available in the Reading Room: Paul Kesaris (ed.), OSS/State Department Intelligence and Research Reports: Postwar Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia (University Publications of America, Inc, Bethesda, MD, 1977).

Existence and location of originals

National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, USA

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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