WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF RECORDS MANAGEMENT SUBJECT FILE: NATIONAL SECURITY - DEFENSE (ND)
Research Availability:
Open - all records in the subject category have been processed and are available for research
Partial - some of the records in the subject category have been processed and available for research
None - no records in the subject category have been processed nor made available for research
| File Code | Description | Research Availability |
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| ND | National Security - Defense | Partial | ||||||||
| ND001 | Aircraft, Military | Partial | ||||||||
| ND001-01 | Non-Military Use of Aircraft | Partial | ||||||||
| ND002 | Civil Defense (2.4 l. ft; Boxes 1-6) A secondary category containing information pertaining to proposed Executive Order regarding the assignment of emergency preparedness responsibilities; civil defense planning; National Security Emergency Preparedness (NSEP); proposed Executive Order on radiological emergency response preparedness; proposed Executive Order directing FEMA participation in nuclear power plant emergency planning; state objections to federal overrule of local emergency response plans; National Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Plan of Action; and an Executive Order regarding nuclear power. |
Open | ||||||||
| ND003 | Communications-Electronics [National Defense] (0.4 l.ft.) This secondary subject category contains material relating to the Navy’s Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) radio communication test facility in Wisconsin; meetings of the Emergency Communications Working Group (see also FG378); the 1983 Defense Department report and Presidential statement on Confidence Buildings Measures (CBM); unclassified Department of Defense reports on communications links with the USSR; Defense Department comments on telecommunications legislation; the drafting of Executive Order 12472 (Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Telecommunications Functions); and the National Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee. |
Open | ||||||||
| ND004 | Defense Mobilization | Partial | ||||||||
| ND004-01 | Manpower, Military | Partial | ||||||||
| ND004-02 | Materials, Military | Partial | ||||||||
| ND005 | Health – Medical, Military | Partial | ||||||||
| ND006 | Intelligence | Partial | ||||||||
| ND007 | Military Personnel | Partial | ||||||||
| ND007-01 | Casualties – Burials, Military | Partial | ||||||||
| ND007-02 | Conduct – Deportment – Behavior | None | ||||||||
| ND007-03 | Housing – Quarters, Military | None | ||||||||
| ND007-04 | Courts – Martial | None | ||||||||
| ND007-05 | Pay – Allowances - -Pensions | Partial | ||||||||
| ND007-06 | Promotions -- Demotions -- Nominations | Partial | ||||||||
| ND007-07 | Separations – Discharges – Retirement | Partial | ||||||||
| ND008 | Preparedness, Military | Partial | ||||||||
| ND009 | Properties – Installations | Partial | ||||||||
| ND009-01 | Air Force Bases | Partial | ||||||||
| ND009-02 | Army Bases | Partial | ||||||||
| ND009-03 | Navy – Marine Bares | Partial | ||||||||
| ND010 | Reserve Forces – National Guard | Partial | ||||||||
| ND011 | Security (1.0 l.ft., Boxes 1-5) This secondary subject category contains material relating to the identification and safeguarding of the Federal Government’s national security information, nuclear materials, and the physical security of federal employees. It particularly contains the sixth, seventh, eleventh and twelfth Annual Report on Domestic Safeguards and Security for Nuclear Material under the Dept. of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Congressional correspondence regarding the Department of Energy’s handling of nuclear materials. The category contains material regarding the new Executive Order 12356 for National Security Information; the Reagan administration’s push for polygraph examinations and reaction to this position; clearance for agency testimony regarding various Congressional bills to restrict polygraph examinations, and public reaction to the Secretary of State’s public refusal to submit to a polygraph examination. |
Open | ||||||||
| ND011-01 | Classified Information (4.8 l.ft., Boxes 1-6) A secondary subject category containing memorandum, reports, correspondence, bills and testimony regarding theprocedures for identification and safeguarding of the Federal Government’s national security information, issuance of clearances and White House Executive Office classification authority, identification of unauthorized disclosures (“leaks”) of classified information and access to classified material. The category contains material regarding the drafting, agency opinions, the Presidential signing statement, and the implementation regulations of the new Executive Order 12356 for National Security Information.; clearance for agency testimony and reports regarding various Congressional bills to legislate classification laws (H.R. 131, H.R. 66, H.R. 271); amending Freedom of Information applications of classified restrictions (S.1335); the Technology Security Act of 1983; regulating public disclosure of CIA information (H.R. 3460, H.R. 4431); the Computer Security Research and Training Act of 1985 (H.R. 2889). The category also contains correspondence and memorandum regarding the controversial aspects (polygraph testing and pre-publication clearance) of NSDD 84 and NSDD 145 (for protection of “sensitive, but unclassified information”). |
Open | ||||||||
| ND011-02 | Personnel Security, Military | None | ||||||||
| ND012 | Service Schools | Partial | ||||||||
| ND012-01 | Air Force Academy | Partial | ||||||||
| ND012-02 | Air War College | None | ||||||||
| ND012-03 | Armed Forces Staff College | None | ||||||||
| ND012-04 | Army War College | None | ||||||||
| ND012-05 | Coast Guard Academy | None | ||||||||
| ND012-06 | Industrial College of the Armed Forces | None | ||||||||
| ND012-07 | Merchant Marine Academy | None | ||||||||
| ND012-08 | Military Academy | Partial | ||||||||
| ND012-09 | National War College | None | ||||||||
| ND012-10 | Naval Academy | Partial | ||||||||
| ND012-11 | Naval War College | None | ||||||||
| ND012-12 | Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | None | ||||||||
| ND013 | Ships – Submarines | Partial | ||||||||
| ND014 | Supplies – Logistics | Partial | ||||||||
| ND015 | Vehicles – Wheel – Track – Amphibious | None | ||||||||
| ND016 | Wars | Partial | ||||||||
| ND017 | Warfare (0.8 l.ft., Boxes 1-2) A secondary subject category containing memos, correspondence, reports, and notes regarding Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange (S. 433), public support for chemical warfare, public concern about production of chemical weapons, and the movement of them in the United States, public concern about nuclear war and weapons, public affairs efforts to build support for the Defense Dept. strategy for binary chemical weapons, United State’s accusations against the Soviet Union for using chemical weapons in Afghanistan and southeast Asia, and legislative strategies to obtain congressional approval for the chemical weapons program. |
Open | ||||||||
| ND018 |
Weapons-Ordinance-Munitions (21.4 l.ft., Boxes 1-57) The following Case Files from this Subject Category have been digitized.
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Open | ||||||||
| ND019 | Conscription – Induction – Draft – Deferment - UMT | Partial |