subject files, the Conspectus, data accumulated for and material sent to the Paris Peace Conference, and reports and charts received or prepared by the Bureau that concern U.S. shipping, labor, prices, railroads, food, fuel, and mineral resources and production.

RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL BOARD OF SURVEYS AND MAPS. 1920-42. 8 lin. ft.

The Board of Surveys and Maps, created by Executive order in 1919, was renamed in 1936 the Federal Board of Surveys and Maps. It advised member Federal agencies on surveying and mapping matters and was abolished in 1942. The records include minutes, correspondence of the Board secretary and committees, reports concerning mapping activities, and maps (2,000 items) of the United States that show the status of topographic mapping and aerial photography, 1933-39, and areas recommended for further mapping.

RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL BOARD OF HOSPITALIZATION. 1921-48. 32 lin. ft.

This Board, established November 1, 1921, by Budget Bureau Circular 44 to coordinate Federal hospitalization activities, was abolished by Budget Bureau Circular A-27 of May 28, 1948. The records consist of minutes; resolutions; annual reports; correspondence about Board organization, policies, and operaother fiscal tions; budgetary and records; data concerning hospital standards and construction; surveys of hospital facilities, patient loads, and requirements; newspaper clippings, press releases, and organization charts; and site files, including records of Board hearings concerning proposed hospital sites, and Board correspondence and resolutions concerning site selection.

RECORDS OF CENTRAL STATISTICAL BOARDS. 1931-40. 41 lin. ft.

The first Central Statistical Board, created in 1933, and the second Board, created in 1935, were established to improve, develop, coordinate, and eliminate duplication in Federal and other U.S. statistical services. The Central Statistical Committee, created in 1935, supervised Board activities until Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939 transferred the Board to the Bureau of the Budget. The Board ceased to exist July 25, 1940, and the Bureau's Division of Statistical Standards assumed its functions. These records include reports, correspondence, memorandums, and statistical and other records of the Boards. There are also records of predecessor and cooperating agencies, including the Federal Statistics Board, 1931-33; Office of Economic Adviser to the National Emergency Council, 1933-35; Central Statistical Board-Works Progress Administration Coordinating Committee, and its predecessors-the Special Advisory Committee on Statistical Projects of the Civil Works Administration, the Coordinator of Civil Works Administration, and the Central Statistical Board, 1933-37; Special Committee on Returns Made by the Public to the Federal Government, 193839; and Committee on Government Statistics and Information Service, 1933-36, and Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Labor, 1933-35, both of the American Statistical Association.

RECORDS OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FISCAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 1936-37. 3 lin. ft.

On July 1, 1936, under authority of the District of Columbia appropriation act for 1937, the President directed the Bureau of the Budget to make a study

of fiscal relations between the United States and the District and to determine the annual amount to be paid by the United States for the District's expenses. This Committee, appointed to make the study, submitted its final report to the President on December 19, 1936. The records consist chiefly of correspondence and memorandums concerning the creation and membership of the Committee; minutes; progress reports; reports concerning the study; maps, reports, correspondence, statistical tabulations, and other records relating to general and public school population, employment conditions, public relief, tax assessments and rates, and other social and economic conditions in the District; records about fiscal relations between foreign governments and their capital cities; and the final Committee report.

RECORDS OF THE FISCAL AND
MONETARY ADVISORY BOARD.
1938-40. 5 lin. in.

This Board, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on November 18, 1938, to advise him on fiscal and monetary matters, apparently ceased to function in 1940. These records were accumulated by Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget Daniel W. Bell as a Board member and include lists of public relief projects and Board recommendations to the President concerning those projects; memorandums from the Board, Treasury Department, and National Resources Planning Board, concerning Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace's farmers income certificate plan; summary studies of such subjects as the impact of public spending on the national economy, national production and unemployment, State and local relief legislation, and the establishment of a Federal railroad equipment authority; and letters and memorandums suggesting plans for maintaining a sound economy.

RECORDS OF THE DIRECTOR OF
LIQUIDATION AND THE
LIQUIDATION ADVISORY
COMMITTEE. Jan.-June 1946.
1 lin. ft.

These units were created in the Office for Emergency Management by Executive order in January 1946 to assist in liquidating temporary World War II agencies. They were terminated by Executive order in June 1946. The records consist chiefly of minutes of the January 28, 1946, Committee meeting; the Director's final report; reports on the state of liquidation of emergency agencies; memorandums suggesting plans for liquidation; correspondence, memorandums, and statistical tabulations concerning such problems as release of personnel, records disposal, and release and reassignment of office space; George E. Allen's "A Study of the Liquidation of War Agencies"; reports, correspondence, and memorandums from emergency agencies concerning liquidation plans; and Executive orders and correspondence concerning creation, functions, membership, and termination of the Committee.

CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1917-61. 2,223 items.

Cartographic records, 1917-51 (2,200 items), consist of the minutes of the general meetings of the Federal Board of Surveys and Maps; correspondence files of the Secretary of the Board; maps of the United States, showing the status of aerial photography and of topographic mapping; and a published chart showing standard mapping symbols. Audiovisual records consist of photographs, 1921-61 (23 items), of Directors and other Bureau of the Budget officials.

See Gaiselle Kerner, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics, PI 98 (1957).

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was established under the National Security Council by the National Security Act of 1947. It inherited the personnel, property, and records of the Central Intelligence Group, set up under a Presidential directive of January 22, 1946, to assist the National Intelligence Authority, both of which ceased to exist when the 1947 act took effect. Headed by a director appointed by the President, the CIA coordinates intelligence activities of Government departments and agencies, correlates and evaluates intelligence relating to national security and disseminates it within the Government, advises and makes recommendations to the National Security Council concerning intelligence matters, and performs for the benefit of existing intelligence agencies such additional services of common concern as the National Security Council decides can be more efficiently

carried out by a central organization. The Foreign Broadcast Information Branch of the Central Intelligence Group (see RG 262) became part of the CIA on July 26, 1947. The CIA has retained its records except those described below.

There are 133 cubic feet of records dated between 1947 and 1948 in this record group.

RECORDS OF THE FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION BRANCH (LATER DIVISION). 194748. 133 lin. ft.

These consist of daily transcripts and summaries in English of monitored foreign radio broadcasts, 1947-48, daily teletypes of material selected for transmission to Government agencies, 1947, and daily reports of such broadcasts, 1947, with a few miscellaneous reports and

notes.

The Office of Science and Technology was established in the Executive Office of the President by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1962, and certain functions of the National Science Foundation were transferred to it. The Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology was made Director of the Office, and the records of his former office, established on November 7, 1957, were also transferred to the new Office. The Director advises and assists the President in coordinating Federal policies for promoting basic research and education in the sciences, evaluates scientific research programs of Federal agencies,

and otherwise assists the President in coordinating Federal scientific and technological functions and agencies.

Some materials relating to the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology are in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kans. Other records concerning governmental scientific activity are among records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (see RG 227) and records of the National Science Foundation (see RG 307).

There are 258 cubic feet of records dated between 1957 and 1967 in this record group.

RECORDS. 1957-67. 304 lin. ft.

Records of the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology consist chiefly of reports, correspondence, memorandums, and publications relating to national defense, atomic energy, space technology, and other scientific fields; records of the Office of Science and Technology consist chiefly of reports, correspondence, memorandums, studies, and scientific publications.

SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS
Records: All records.

Restrictions: These records may not be examined by or copies of or information from them furnished to any person except by permission of the Director of the Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President.

Specified by: Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President.

Temporary committees, commissions, boards, and other bodies have been appointed from time to time by the President to serve in factfinding or advisory capacities or to perform policymaking or coordinating functions with regard to the work of other executive agencies. This collective record group includes the records of a number of such bodies that have not been established as separate record groups. Excluded from this record group are records of Presidential committees, commissions, and boards that gained permanent status or whose functions and records were transferred to other agencies, those whose records have been interfiled with or otherwise have become part of the records of an agency that had them in its custody or of the White House files (now in Presidential libraries), and those bodies established to serve the heads of other agencies rather than the President.

There are 1,001 cubic feet of records dated between 1924 and 1970 in this

ord group.