ONI Navy & Military Record Groups

RECORD GROUP ALLOCATION STATEMENT

1. Record Group Number: 526

2. Record Group Title:
Records of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service

3. Allocation Statement: Allocate to this record group records created or maintained by the headquarters office and by field offices of the

Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS),
Office of the Secretary of the Navy, Department of
the navy (1993- )

Also allocated to this record group records created or maintained by the headquarters office and by field offices of NCIS's predecessors in the Department of the Navy, the

Naval Investigative Service (NIS), Office of Naval Intelligence, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OCNO,....

RECORD GROUP ALLOCATION STATEMENT

4a. Status of Records Creator: The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) was established by Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Instruction 5520.3B, January 4, 1993......

Naval Investigative Service (NIS) established in the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OCNO, by Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Notice 5450, February 4, 1966. Pursuent to aboltion of ONI and establishment of Naval Intelligence Command (NIC), by SECNAV Notice 5450, April 19, 1967....

RECORD GROUP ALLOCATION STATEMENT

4b. Extant Records: Over 4,000 cubic feet of records of NCIS and its predecessor organization are currently stored at the Washington National Records Center. No permanent records have yet to be accessioned....

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD 22 April 1997

Subj: OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE COMPLIANCE WITH THE
JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATIONS RECORDS COLLECTION ACT
44 U.S.C. 2107

Ref: (a) CNO...

1. Executive Summary. The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
has conducted a complete and specific accounting of record....

2. Methodology....

3. Declassification and Referral. Prior to transfer of custody....

Table One

Accession Box Description Primary SSIC

69A-3289 Personnel jackets, background 5529. 5521......

77-0001 Courts of inquiry and investigative records 5830, 5527, (1)...

4. The Office of Naval Intelligence remains responsible for review of an additional 950 cubic feet (2.4 million classified pages) of material originated roughly between 1955 and 1965 not specifically identified in reference (a). The likelihood that responsive records may be contained in those files cannot be precluded. Those documents, located at the Washington National Records Center as well as Regional Records Centers in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco, are scheduled for review during this fiscal year. Any and all additional files responsive to reference (a) identified during this process will be forwarded.

5. Questions or comments regarding this review may be directed to LCDR Florence T. Pike, Office of Naval Intelligence, at (301) 669-3124.

Signed
F. T. Pike

APPENDIX F - LIST OF FEDERAL RECORDS CENTER AND REGIONAL ARCHIVES

Federal Records Centers

A table showing specific areas served by each
Federal Records center appears in 36 CFR 1228
(See app. B of this handbook)

FEDERAL RECORDS CENTER

- Atlanta
- Boston
- Chicago
- Dayton
- Denver
- Fort Worth
- Kansas City
- Los Angeles
- New York
- Philadelphia
- San Francisco
- Seattle

National Personnel Records Center - St. Louis...

Washington National Records Center (WNRC)
4205 Suitland Road
Suitland, MD 20409

Regional Archives

List of Certain Archive Records To Be Retrieved By the Navy and Reviewed For Assassination Records*

- * - On January 3, 1997 the staff of the Assassinations Records Review Board provided the Navy (Lt. Col. Mike Finnie) copies of the SF-135 forms for these archived records with a request that they be retrieved and reviewed for assassination-related materials.

Commandant of the Marine
Corps (Unclassified
Files for 1961)...

Command 69A-4052 Jan. 10, 1969

Naval Intelligence Command 72A-4711 Sept. 13, 1972

Naval Intelligence Command 289-74-29 April 29, 1974

Naval Intelligence Command 289-77-0016 Aug. 2, 1977

RECORDS GROUP CONTAINING NAVY DEPARTMENT RECORDS

19 RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF SHIPS

24 RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL....


The Office of Naval Intelligence: The birth of America's first intelligence agency, 1865-1918 Dorwart, Jeffery M (1979). The Office of Naval Intelligence: The Birth of America’s Intelligence Agency, 1865-1918. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN: 978-0870214981 Conflict of Duty: U.S. Navy's Intelligence Dilemma, 1919-1945 ONI: Records Group 38

The archaeologist was a spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence by Charles H Harris III & Louis R. Sadler (U. of N Mexico, 2003) Re: Sylvanus Morley & John Held, Jr.
Credits: Tim Nenninger – produced a finding aid for ONI records, and Rebecca Livingston is a Naval Archivist.

Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations [OCNO]

(Record Group 38)
1875-1993

http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/038.html

38.10 TEXTUAL RECORDS (GENERAL) 1963-93
Selected records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including information concerning the enlistment, service, and discharge of Lee Harvey Oswald from the Marine Corps; Oswald's defection to and return from the Soviet Union; investigations of other persons associated with Oswald; and requests for information about Oswald from various agencies after the assassination; 1963-93.

Publications and other records relating to naval operations and administration, 1901-70 (402 ft. and 7 rolls of microfilm). Records of the Naval Security Group Command including Commander Naval Security Group Command Library, 1930-46; inactive stations library, 1930-46; active stations library, 1925-46; radio intelligence summaries, 1941-46; radio intelligence publications, 1924-45; and Naval Security Group detachment Crane Library, 1908-46. Translations of intercepted enemy radio traffic and miscellaneous World War II documentation, Microfilm collection, 1940-70. Master alphabet strips for unidentified mership ciphers during World War II, n.d.

Overview of Records Locations

0038 Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Cluster(s): Old Navy; Modern Navy
NRAAB Waltham, MA 0.1 cu. ft.
NRAAN New York, NY 369 cu. ft.
NRBA Philadelphia, PA 2.039 cu. ft.
NWCS-C College Park, MD 3.16 cu. ft.
NWCS-C College Park, MD 85 cu. ft. 3,483 Maps and Charts
NWCS-C College Park, MD 2 cu. ft. 6 Aerial Photographs
NWCS-C College Park, MD 89.35 cu. ft. 710 Architectural and Engin. Drawings
NWCS-M College Park, MD 0 cu. ft. 1 Motion Pictures
NWCS-M College Park, MD 5 cu. ft. 198 Sound Recordings
NWCS-S College Park, MD 49.6 cu. ft. 30,330 Still Pictures
NWCS-S College Park, MD 0 cu. ft. 85 Posters
NWCT1 Washington, DC 3,063.665 cu. ft.
NWCT1 Washington, DC 0.785 cu. ft. 3 Artifacts
NWCT2 College Park, MD 16,802.482 cu. ft.
NWCT2 College Park, MD 602.277 cu. ft. 52 Maps and Charts
NWCT2 College Park, MD 14.001 cu. ft. 2 Still Pictures
NWCT2 College Park, MD 58.158 cu. ft. 1 Sound Recordings
NWCT2 College Park, MD 1.658 cu. ft. 2 Artifacts
NWCT2 College Park, MD 0 cu. ft. 5 Unspecified items
NWME College Park, MD 0 cu. ft. 757,044 Machine-readable records
TOTAL: 21,148.275 cu. ft 791,922 items
Federal Records Guide Information


0045 Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library
Cluster(s): Old Navy
NWCS-C College Park, MD 23 cu. ft. 516 Maps and Charts
NWCS-C College Park, MD 6 cu. ft. 145 Architectural and Engin. Drawings
NWCS-S College Park, MD 32 cu. ft. 783 Still Pictures
NWCT1 Washington, DC 2,792.268 cu. ft.
NWCT1 Washington, DC 0.408 cu. ft. 2 Maps and Charts
NWCT1 Washington, DC 0.258 cu. ft. 1 Still Pictures
TOTAL: 2,853.934 cu. ft. 1,447 items
Federal Records Guide Information

0080 General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1798-1947
Cluster(s): Old Navy; Modern Navy
NRAAN New York, NY 10 cu. ft.
NRIAA Anchorage, AK 7.6 cu. ft.
NRIAS Seattle, WA 113.483 cu. ft.
NWCS-C College Park, MD 5 cu. ft. 57 Maps and Charts
NWCS-C College Park, MD 20 cu. ft. 1,300 Aerial Photographs
NWCS-C College Park, MD 2 cu. ft. 39 Architectural and Engin. Drawings
NWCS-M College Park, MD 4 cu. ft. 35 Motion Pictures
NWCS-S College Park, MD 3,037 cu. ft. 784,321 Still Pictures
NWCT1 Washington, DC 9,099.15 cu. ft.
NWCT1 Washington, DC 0.471 cu. ft. 2 Maps and Charts
NWCT1 Washington, DC 1.599 cu. ft. 3 Artifacts
NWCT2 College Park, MD 3,913.393 cu. ft.
NWCT2 College Park, MD 7.222 cu. ft. 2 Maps and Charts
NWCT2 College Park, MD 5.4 cu. ft. 2 Still Pictures
NWCT2 College Park, MD 0.408 cu. ft. 1 Artifacts
TOTAL: 16,226.726 cu. ft. 785,762 items