WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF RECORDS MANAGEMENT SUBJECT FILES: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (FG017)

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
FG017

Department of Justice (5.6 ft.; boxes 1-14)
A secondary subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to positions in the agency or to advisory boards, especially that of Edwin Meese, William Bradford Reynolds, and Richard Thornburgh; the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and the issue of Nazi war crimes; annual reports; the report of the Task Force on Violent Crime; monthly reports of the Pardon Attorney and requests for clemency; the Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security (ICIS); speeches by Justice department officials; Civil Division reports to the Office of Management and Budget regarding major litigation; the proposal to close the Cleveland anti-trust office; the Voting Rights Act implantation; anti-obscenity laws and the Commission on Pornography; the attempted assassination of the President; agency accomplishments; the free trade agreement with Canada; civil rights enforcement and philosophy; the Enrique Camarena case (DEA); the Independent Counsel law and the investigation of Wedtech, the Aqaba Pipeline, Baby Bell, and Edwin Meese’s financial disclosure issue.

 Open
FG017-01 Anti-Trust Division (0.2 ft.; boxes 14-15)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to office, reports, directives, and the AT&T case.		 Open
FG017-02 Community Relations Service (1folder; box 15)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to office; funding for the CRS; and a meeting between the Director of the CRS and the President.		 Open
FG017-03 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) (0.4 ft.; boxes 15-16)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to office; the Drug Abuse Policy Office; the proposed reorganization of DEA; and international drug trafficking.		 Open
FG017-04 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (0.6 ft.; boxes 16-18)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of Directors William H. Webster and William S. Sessions; fingerprint checks; the proposed revision of the Attorney General’s guidelines for Domestic Security Investigations (the Levi Guidelines); the 75th anniversary of the FBI; alleged judicial corruption in Chicago; terrorism in the United States; requests for investigations; funding for local law enforcement officers to attend the Bureau’s National Academy; and the issue of interviewing librarians in New York City regarding alleged hostile individuals.		 Open
FG017-05 Immigration and Naturalization Service (0.4ft.; boxes 18-19)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of the Commissioner; INS activities regarding farm workers in California; funding for the Border Patrol; identification cards; INS procedures in various cities in the Southwest; deportations; and the call for the resignation of Harold Ezell, the Western Regional Commissioner.  Other than official statements to Congress, there was no material in this category regarding the Immigration Reform Act of 1986.		 Open
FG017-06 Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (0.2 ft.; box 19)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Office, its functions, funding, and officers.		 Open
FG017-07 Legal Counsel, Office of  (1 folder; box 20)
This folder contains one item, the resignation of the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal counsel.		 Open
FG017-08 Parole Commission, United States  (0.4ft.; boxes 20-21)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to office; H.R 4801, the Sentencing Guidelines Act of 1986; and the release of parolee’s names.		 Open
FG017-09 Prisons, Bureau of  (3 folders; box 21)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to office, reports; Federal Prison Industries; and the privatization of corrections.		 Open
FG017-10 Solicitor General  (2 folders; box 21)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to office.		 Open
FG017-11

United States Attorneys  (2.8ft.; boxes 21-28)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to office (including a small number of U.S. Marshals when accompanied by recommendations for U.S. Attorneys); complaints regarding certain U.S. Attorneys; pro bono work; and assignments that attorneys are given.

The following Case Files have been digitized: 080000-096999; 304000-309999

 Open
FG017-12 U.S. Marshals  (2.0ft.; boxes 28-33)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the appointment of individuals to office; the proposed reduction of the U.S. Marshals service to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia; new deputy U.S. Marshal Single-Agencies Occupational and Qualification Standards; evictions; using Marshals to locate Raoul Wallenberg; and collective bargaining.		 Open
FG017-13 Office of Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics  (1 folder; box 33)
A subject category containing material pertaining to the report of the Justice System Improvement Act Agencies.		 Open
FG017-14 Justice Statistics, Bureau of  (2 folders; box 33)
A subject category containing material pertaining to appointments to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Advisory Board and the annual report for fiscal year 1985.		 Open
FG017-15 National Institute of Justice  (3 folders; box 34)
A subject category containing material pertaining to appointments to the National Institute of Justice Advisory Board; a project to reduce crime in the school; and the annual report and record of accomplishments for 1986-87.		 Open
FG017-16 Foreign Claims Settlement Commission  (3 folders; box 34)
A subject category containing material pertaining to appointments to the commission; the annual report for 1981; and claims filed with the Commission, particularly by Occidental Petroleum Corporation for its land in Venezuela.		 Open
FG017-17 United States Sentencing Commission (0.2 l.ft.; box 34)
This secondary category contains material relating to appointments and resignations for the United States Sentencing Commission; construction of sentencing guidelines; objections by one Commissioner to the sentencing guidelines; and the 1987 annual report for the Commission.