Bureau of Applied Social Research-War Documentation Project Records, 1950-1956

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Series I: Office Files



Box 1 "Alexander" Project Publication, 1955


Box 1 American Political Science Association


Box 1 Berlin Document Center


Box 1 Building Expenses, 1954


Box 1 Carr, Benson V.


Box 1 Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine


Box 1 Classified Materials Receipts


Box 1 Clearances, 4 folders


Box 1 Dallin, Alexander


Box 1 Department Records Branch, AGO


Box 1 Destruction of Classified Records



Box 2 Distribution of Reports, 4 folders


Box 2 Distribution of WDP Progress Reports 1 & 2


Box 2 Document Log


Box 2 Eglin Air Force Base


Box 2 Epstein, Hans


Box 2 Fainsod, Merle


Box 2 Financial & Job Descriptions


Box 2 Fried, John H.E.



Box 3 Government Contracts


Box 3 Guide to Captured German Documents


Box 3 Holborn, Hajo


Box 3 Hungarian Military Manpower Potential


Box 3 Intelligence Research Requirements Planning Conference, 1950 February, 1950


Box 3 John, Arthur


Box 3 Library of Congress



Box 4 Maxwell Air Force Base, 3 folders


Box 4 Melland, Brian


Box 4 Memoranda on Meetings, Staff Conferences, etc. (folders 1-4)



Box 5 Memoranda on Meetings, Staff Conferences, etc. (folders 5-6)


Box 5 Miscellaneous


Box 5 Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 folders}


Box 5 Monthly Activities Reports, 1952-54


Box 5 Mosely, Philip E., 3 folders



Box 6 Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation


Box 6 Neumann, Franz


Box 6 Nuremberg Trial Documents


Box 6 Operations Research Office


Box 6 Phase II, General (of WDP)


Box 6 Phase II, Planning & Organization


Box 6 Progress Reports, 1954


Box 6 Quarterly Progress Reports, 1953-54


Box 6 Rand Corporation


Box 6 Saltzman, Allen


Box 6 Sweden (Bonnier Dagens Nyheter case)


Box 6 U.S. Air Force


Box 6 U.S. Army


Box 6 U.S. Department of State



Box 7 U.S. High Commissioner for Germany


Box 7 U.S. National Archives


Box 7 U.S. Navy


Box 7 WDP Conference, Columbia University, June 1952


Box 7 WDP General Objectives


Box 7 WDP Progress Report 1


Box 7 WDP Progress Report 2


Box 7 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base


Box 7 Yivo Institute


Box 7 Yugoslavia

Series II: Draft Reports


Project "Alexander"



Box 8 Staff, "The Soviet Partisan Movement in World War II: Summary and Conclusions" (2 copies)


Box 8 Armstrong, J., "Partisan Warfare in the Dnepr Bend Area of the Ukraine"


Box 8 Dallin, A., "The Soviet Partisan Movement in the North Caucasus, 1942-43"


Box 8 Devitt, K., & W. Moll, "The Partisan Movement in the Bryansk Area, 1941-1943"


Box 8 Devitt, K., "The Role of Partisans in Soviet Intelligence"


Box 8 Epstein, F. et al., "A Survey of German Agencies Dealing with Partisan Warfare in the USSR



Box 9 Mavrogordato, R., & E. Ziemke, "The Partisan Movement in the Polotsk Lowland"


Box 9 Weinberg, G., "The Partisan Movement in the Yelnya-Dorogobuzh Area of the Smolensk Oblast"


Box 9 Weinberg, G., "The Role of Airpower in Partisan Warfare"


Box 9 Ziemke, E., "Composition & Morale of the Partisan Movement"


Box 9 Ziemke, E., "The History of the First Belorussian Brigade"


Box 9 Ziemke, E., "The Soviet Partisan Movement in 1941"


Project "Caesar"



Box 10 Staff, "Political & Police Controls in the Red Army during World War II (vols. 2,4,5)


Project "Cassandra"


Box 10 Armstrong, J. et al., "Soviet Reoccupation Policy in Kharkov, 1943"


Box 10 Devitt, K., "The NKVD in the Defense of Tula, 1941


Project "Ceres"



Box 11 Dallin, A., & G. Weinberg, "The Peasantry as a Source of Soviet Vulnerability: Experiences & Lessons of World War II"


Project "Cleopatra"


Box 11 Moll, W, et al., "Soviet Agent Operations in the German-Occupied


Box 11 Territories during World War II", 4 folders


Miscellaneous Projects



Box 12 Staff, "Activity Report of the Troika (Re-establishment of the Soviet


Box 12 Regime in a Partisan-Held Area, 1941-1942)"


Box 12 Staff, "Selected Soviet Sources on the Partisan Movement"


Box 12 Armstrong, J. & K. Devitt, "Organization & Control of the Partisan Movement"


Box 12 Beck, A., "Partisans in the Polisto Area"


Box 12 Moll, W., "The Local Population "between the Occupying Power and the Partisan Movement"


Box 12 Waldman, E., "German Occupation Administration in the USSR"


Box 12 Waldman, E., "The Ordnungsdienst (OD) in Army Group Center"



Box 13 Draft Reports-Miscellaneous Fragments & Chapters

Series III: Printed Reports



Box 14 "Composition & Morale of the Partisan Movement"


Box 14 "History of the First Belorussian Partisan Brigade"


Box 14 "Organization and Control of the Partisan Movement"


Box 14 "The Partisan Movement in the Bryansk Area, 1941-1943"


Box 14 "The Partisan Movement in the Polotsk Lowland"


Box 14 "The Partisan Movement in the Yelnya-Dorogobuzh Area of Smolensk Oblast"


Box 14 "Partisan Psychological Warfare 8c Popular Attitudes under the German Occupation"


Box 14 "Partisan Warfare in the Dnepr Bend Area of the Ukraine"


Box 14 "The Role of Airpower in Partisan Warfare"


Box 14 "The Role of the Partisans in Soviet Intelligence"


Box 14 "Selected Soviet Sources on the World War II Partisan Movement"


Box 14 "The Soviet Partisan Movement in 1941"


Box 14 "Soviet Partisan Movement in the North Caucasus, 1941-1943"


Box 14 "The Soviet Partisan Movement in World War II: Summary & Conclusions"