IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MF 441-451
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: Microform: Confidential US State Department Special Files: Korea, 1950-1957
Date(s): 1950-1957
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 11 reels
Name of creator(s): US State Department
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Through its embassies, missions, consulates, and foreign service personnel, the US State Department was entrusted by the US Government to gather and disseminate information about the political, economic, and social stability of nations. From 1950 to 1957, the US State Department relayed telegrams and reports about Korea back to the United States Executive Branch for action. Following World War Two, US State Department missions in Southeast Asia had forewarned the US Presidency of political instability with the removal of Japanese occupation forces. In 1950, foreign service personnel began to send urgent messages regarding the movement of scattered communist guerrilla forces southward. During the Korean War, 1950 to 1953, the US State Department maintained a steady flow of messages to President Harry S Truman concerning civil, political, and military actions in Korea and, following the armistice in 1953, continued to inform the Executive Branch of Korean economic and social stability programmes.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
A themed microfilm collection containing copies of messages, telegrams, and reports sent from US Department of State personnel to the United States Executive Branch relating to civil, military, and political events in Korea, 1950-1957.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be printed off the microfilm for research purposes and are charged at the cost to the Centre. Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America, Inc, 4520 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD, 20814-3389, USA
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma.top.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
University Publications of America, Inc.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
President Harry S Truman's Office Files, 1945- 1953: Korea (Ref: GB KCLMA MF 427-433)
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Date of compilation: Oct 1999