Intelligence Services

In this section, you will find highlights related to Intelligence Services from our collections.

Eifler (Karl Frederick) papers: Orders, reports, personnel records, correspondence, writings, printed matter, photographs, and motion picture film relating to Office of Strategic Services sabotage and espionage operations in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Digital copies of select records also available on Digital Collections 1. 

Lockhart (Robert Hamilton Bruce) papers, 1895-2003: Director-general, Political Intelligence Department, British Foreign Office, 1940–45. Contains correspondence, speeches and writings, diaries, notes, memoranda, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to miscellaneous aspects of Anglo-Soviet relations during the Russian Revolution, British espionage in the Soviet Union during the Russian Revolution, miscellaneous aspects of British government activities during World War II (including Anglo-Czechoslovak relations), and personal affairs.

Norwood (Melita) papers: Soviet espionage agent in Great Britain. Contains letters, notes, interview summaries, biographical and genealogical data, personal documents, printed matter, and photographs related to Soviet nuclear research espionage in Great Britain, the communist movement in Great Britain, and family affairs. Includes papers of Hilary Norwood, husband of Melita Norwood.

Okhrana records, 1883-1917: Intelligence reports from agents in the field and the Paris office, dispatches, circulars, headquarters studies, correspondence of revolutionaries, and photographs, relating to activities of Russian revolutionists abroad. Collection is available on microfilm (509 reels). Digital copies of select records also available on Digital Collections 1. 

Sasaki (Kay) papers: U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) officer in occupied Japan and Korea during the Korean War. Sasaki was also an advisor with the Military Assistance Advisory Group in Vietnam. Includes CIC orders, leaflets from the Office of War Information (OWI), film reels, and photographs containing images of Allied-occupied Japan, the Korean War, and Vietnam. Also includes photographs taken by Sasaki of the Amache incarceration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.