Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative and Public Affairs) 1940-77 | Clements National Security Papers Project

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Level of description: series
Description: History: Established in OSD by Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1953, effective June 30, 1953. Abolished, effective February 6, 1959, pursuant to the DOD Reorganization Act (72 Stat. 514), August 6, 1958, with legislative functions transferred to newly established Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs) and public affairs functions to newly established Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs).
Links to the finding aid: http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/330.html#330.7

: Records of the Directorate for Defense Information; subseries, Textual Records: News Division correspondence relating to the review and release of films and scripts, 1949. Records relating to the production of motion pictures for the armed forces, 1943-52. Scripts and related correspondence, including material for Air Force Story, 1950-57. General correspondence of the Pictorial Branch, 1951-53. Correspondence relating to daily activities of the Still Pictures Section, 1951-52. Minutes, 1949-53, and journals, 1951-53, of the National Organizations Branch. News pamphlets of the Industrial Services Branch, 1951-52. Speeches and other public papers of the Secretaries of Defense and the Deputy Secretaries of Defense, 1969-77. Motion Pictures: Television network news broadcasts relating to DOD activities, 1965-76, and related documentation (574 reels). See also 330.16. Sound Recordings: Speeches, statements, interviews, press briefings, news conferences, and Congressional testimony of Secretaries and Secretaries-Designate of Defense; and radio programs for broadcast to military personnel, 1949-77 (1,210 items). See also 330.18., http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/330.html#330.7, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Clements National Security Papers Project