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• MAGIC team
  1935
• FBI Case Report, Agents of Foreign Principals
  23 January 1940
• Memorandum For the Director, FBI from D.M. Ladd, FBI
  1 January 1941
• SAC San Francisco to Director, Japanese Militant Organizations Name Changes
  6 February 1941
• Planning for Custodial Detention
  6 May 1941
• FBI Report on Heimusha Kai and other organizations
  3 July 1941
• Report on Japanese Organizations
  4 August 1941
• Report on Imperial Military Friends Group
  4 October 1941
• Daily Worker News Report on Japanese Espionage
  14 October 1941
• FBI Report, San Francisco
  24 October 1941
• Japanese Military Servidemen's League and Japanese American Citizens League
  3 November 1941
• Japanese Intelligence and Propaganda in the United States During 1941
  4 December 1941
• Report on Japanese Military Organizations
  4 December 1941
• Letter SAC Honolulu to Director, FBI outlining plans for plans for custodial detention in the event of war.
  4 December 1941
• Alien Roundup
  7 December 1941
• Memorandum for The Director, FBI on Interceptor Command
  9 December 1941
• Memorandum For The Director, Japanese Aliens, Classification
  10 December 1941
• Directive on Alien Enemy Hearing Boards
  11 December 1941
• SAC San Francisco to Director, FBI, Inquiry regarding custodial detention
  11 December 1941
• Report to FDR
  11 December 1941
• Report SAC San Francisco to Director, FBI on progress of custodial detention
  12 December 1941
• FBI Apprehension Order, San Francisco
  14 December 1941
• Apprehension Report, San Francisco
  14 December 1941
• Alien Hearings Open Tomorrow
  15 December 1941
• List of Japanese requesting exit permits to go to Japan
  16 December 1941
• Memorandum Karl Bendetsen, Chief Aliens Division, Office of the Provost Marshall to James H. Keeley, State Department
  16 December 1941
• Memo For E.A. Tamm, FBI from D.M Ladd, FBI Subject: Citizen Classification
  18 December 1941
• Hoover on coordinating surveillance duties through FBI
  22 December 1941
• Memorandum For The Attorney General from Director, FBI, Regarding Police Activity on West Coast
  22 December 1941
• Memorandum D.M. Ladd, FBI to Director, FBI regarding conversation with SAC San Francisco
  22 December 1941
• Memorandum For The Director, FBI, regarding internment of Hawaiian alien Japanese
  22 December 1941
• Letter SAC Honolulu to Director, FBI regarding internent of enemy aliens.
  26 December 1941
• INS response to Japanese Gov. complaints about treatment of internees
  29 December 1941
• Leave Policies for WRA centers
  1942
• FBI Report of ONI Investigation
  1 January 1942
• History of "The Association of Those Japanese in America Who are Eligible for Compulsory Military Service in Japan"
  1 January 1942
• Individual Record
  1 January 1942
• The War Relocation Work Corps
  1 January 1942
• FBI Case File, Itou Seichiro
  9 January 1942
• Information Bulletin #6
  21 January 1942
• Shigekazu Hasama Case
  23 January 1942
• Letter to SAC, Salt Lake City from Director, FBI
  26 January 1942
• FBI Case File, Rikita Honda
  27 January 1942
• Letter SAC Salt Lake City to Director, FBI
  30 January 1942
• FBI Report on Japanese Military Organizations In Southern Californiz
  30 January 1942
• Report on Heimusha Kai
  30 January 1942
• Hoover discusses pros and cons of evacuation
  2 February 1942
• Arrests on Bainbridge Island
  4 February 1942
• FBI Request for Photos of Fingerprints
  7 February 1942
• Complaints about conditions at Ellis Island
  10 February 1942
• Internee is given diplomatic status and released
  14 February 1942
• Presidential Warrant for Arrest of Enemy Aliens
  15 February 1942
• Summary of Apprehensions and Searches, West Coast
  15 February 1942
• FBI Report on Hokoku Kai, San Diego
  16 February 1942
• Memorandum For the Director, FBI
  16 February 1942
• FBI Memo on Black Dragon Society
  16 February 1942
• Apprehension Report, San Francisco
  17 February 1942
• Telex, Internal Security, Custodial Detention, Honolulu
  20 February 1942
• California Assembly Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities,
  23 February 1942
• California Assembly Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities
  23 February 1942
• Letter SAC Honolulu to Director, FBI
  27 February 1942
• Arrest warrant for dangerous alien enemies
  8 March 1942
• FBI Report on Militant Organizations, San Francisco
  9 March 1942
• Seattle Times Article, Alien Hearing Board Formed
  10 March 1942
• Memo for Mr. L.W.C. Smith, Chief Special Defense Unit
  11 March 1942
• Public Law 503 - March 21, 1942
  21 March 1942
• JACL letter to Governor of Utah
  23 March 1942
• California Assembly Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities
  24 March 1942
• Fred Masaru Tayama
  24 March 1942
• Newspaper Article
  28 March 1942
• Alien Roundup
  29 March 1942
• FBI Nabs Head of Fanatical Jap Sect Here
  29 March 1942
• Report, Persons Apprehended for Custodial Detention in Hawaii Since Ded. 7, 1941
  30 March 1942
• Assembly Center Photos
  31 March 1942
• Japanese attitude at Santa Fe Camp
  2 April 1942
• FBI Report on Heimusha Kai, San Francisco
  3 April 1942
• FBI Report on Heimusha Kai, Salt Lake City
  11 April 1942
• FBI Request for Photos
  14 April 1942
• French Alien Enemies
  16 April 1942
• Instructions concerning treatment of alien enemy detainees
  28 April 1942
• Report on Raton Ranch, Civilian Detention Station
  25 May 1942
• Sylvester Andriano
  25 May 1942
• Carmelo Zito
  25 May 1942
• Anjelo Rossi, Mayor of San Francisco
  26 May 1942
• Gilbert Tuoni
  26 May 1942
• Japan and America agree to follow Geneva Convention
  27 May 1942
• Apprehension of Enemy Aliens, San Diego, CA
  2 June 1942
• Memorandum For The Director, FBI from E.A. Tamm, FBI, Subject: Meeting between Gen. DeWitt and Edward Ennis, Director, Alien Enemy Control, DOJ
  4 June 1942
• Seven Legal Analyses of Constitutional Authority of WRA
  15 June 1942
• Manzanar Free Press
  20 June 1942
• First Quarterly Report, WRA 03/18 to 06/30 1942
  30 June 1942
• Memorandum For The Attorney General from Director, FBI, Subect: Action on Presidential Warrants
  7 July 1942
• FBI Report, Japanese Military Organizations, Utah
  8 July 1942
• Letter From SAC Salt Lake City to Director, FBI
  25 July 1942
• FBI Report on Heimusha Kai, Los Angeles
  28 July 1942
• Memo on disposition of Japanese funds in Hawaiian banks
  30 July 1942
• Relocation
  31 July 1942
• Report on visit to Santa Fe by Red Cross
  6 August 1942
• Buddhist priest is denied transfer to assembly center
  18 August 1942
• List of names and addresses of 62 internees
  19 August 1942
• Memorandum for Mr. Ladd
  28 August 1942
• Letter from Department of Justice to Director, FBI
  2 September 1942
• Report on John Yoshiye Mikami
  3 September 1942
• Investigation Report
  7 September 1942
• Relocated Student Return to College
  12 September 1942
• Letter SAC San Francisco to Director, FBI
  24 September 1942
• Memorandum From J.H. Keeley, State Department to Unknown person regarding Radio Broadcasts From Japan
  24 September 1942
• Attorney General Approves of Leave Policies for Evacuees
  25 September 1942
• WRA Administrative Instruction No. 49
  1 October 1942
• Report on internal security procedures in WRA camps
  2 October 1942
• Letter to FBI Director
  8 October 1942
• Confidential informant report on religious rights of evacuee in camps
  12 October 1942
• Confidential informant report on supplemental grants to evacuees
  12 October 1942
• Letter, Director, FBI to SAC Honolulu
  17 October 1942
• Topaz Relocation Center Photos
  19 October 1942
• Tule Lake Relocation Center Photos
  1 November 1942
• Application letter for leave from Topaz Relocation Center
  5 November 1942
• Administrative Instruction No. 22 (Revised)
  6 November 1942
• Response to Hoover on WRA Investigative Functions
  18 November 1942
• Memorandum For The Director, FBI
  20 November 1942
• War Manpower Commission approves of WRA employment programs
  27 November 1942
• Suits for Cancellation of Naturalization
  2 December 1942
• Letter Director, FBI to War Department G-2
  10 December 1942
• Memorandum for the Director
  12 December 1942
• Memo to Hoover on establishment of the War Relocation Authority
  12 December 1942
• Detailed Summary of WRA program
  14 December 1942
• Comprehensive Report on Conditions in Relocation Centers Administered by the War Relocation Authority as They Effect the Security of the Western Defense Command
  19 December 1942
• Memorandum For Tolson, FBI from Hoover, Director, FBI
  22 December 1942
• Riots, strikes, and disturbances in Japanese relocation centers
  1943
• Report, Fact-finding Committee on Un-American Activities in California
  1943
• Discussion on authority to restrict travel of evacuees
  7 January 1943
• Repatriation of Japanese
  13 January 1943
• Confidential informant reports on subversive activities in WRA camps
  14 January 1943
• Discussion on screening evacuees for Army service
  15 January 1943
• Evacuees resist working full work day
  17 January 1943
• Subversive Activities at War Relocation Centers
  22 January 1943
• Memo For E.A. Tamm, FBI from D.M. Ladd, FBI, Subj: Clovis,NM
  23 January 1943
• Memorandum for M. E. Gurney (Gurnea?)
  30 January 1943
• Apprehension Totals, Los Angeles
  30 January 1943
• Survey of War Relocation Authority Camps, Memo For the Director
  10 February 1943
• WRA asks for FBI help in establishing camp security
  13 February 1943
• Interview with evacuee at Fort Missoula
  16 February 1943
• Case example on FBI procedures for checking names of evacuees prior to release
  18 February 1943
• Report on disturbances in WRA camps relating to registration for military service
  23 March 1943
• Ennis Memo
  30 April 1943
• Alien Enemy Registration, Phoenix, AZ
  1 May 1943
• Summary of WRA program
  7 May 1943
• Japanese Americans loyal to Japan protest military service registration
  12 May 1943
• Memorandum for the Attorney General
  15 May 1943
• Memos regarding money in Chiseko Isobe Fund
  24 May 1943
• Final Report on the Evacuation of Japanese from Certain Military Areas in Western Defense Command
  5 June 1943
• Administation Instruction No. 100
  15 July 1943
• Press Release, Justice Byrnes, Director of War Mobilization
  27 July 1943
• Response to Spanish complaint on internee held in jail during rehearing of case
  3 August 1943
• Administation Instruction No. 100, Supplement 1
  25 August 1943
• Treatment of Japanese in Terminal Island Correctional Institution
  31 August 1943
• WRA review of recommendations made by FBI after tour of centers
  11 September 1943
• Survey of War Relocation Centers
  25 September 1943
• Report and Minority views of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on Japanese War Relocation Centers
  30 September 1943
• Memorandum for Mr. Glavin
  4 October 1943
• Complaint from Crystal City Japanese to James H. Keeley, State Dept.
  18 October 1943
• Descriptions of interned detainees
  22 November 1943
• Our World, Manzanar, California, Year Book 1943-1945
  1 January 1944
• Assessors Note on Japanese Annex on Bainbridge Island
  1 January 1944
• Statistics on Alien Enemy Arrests, San Diego, CA
  4 January 1944
• Selective Service Declaration on Japanese Americans
  4 February 1944
• Statistics on evacuees on indefinite leave from WRA centers
  15 February 1944
• Memo regard reuniting of families, baggage expenses, etc.
  17 February 1944
• Volunteer Internees at Crystal City
  29 February 1944
• Report on segregation of Minidoka evacuees
  8 April 1944
• Notes on General Dalquist's Conference, 22 Oct. 44
  22 October 1944
• 442nd RCT Casualties, 25 June 1944 to 12 May 1945
  1 January 1945
• Personal Letter, C.G 36th Inf. Div. to C.,G. Fifth Army
  7 January 1945
• Administrative Instruction regarding removal of incorrigible evacuees
  16 February 1945
• Tule Lake Demonstration Photos
  18 March 1945
• Excerpts from the California Senate Journal
  16 April 1945
• Report by Guy Metraux, International Red Cross, on Santa Fe Camp
  24 April 1945
• Letter to Harold Ickes, Secretary of Interior
  2 May 1945
• Report on improvement to camp since Spanish visit
  19 October 1945
• Response to Red Cross inspection of Santa Fe Internment Camp
  13 November 1945
• Japanese repatriates embarking for Japan
  24 November 1945
• List of Japanese POW Camps
  1946
• The Wartime Handling of Evacuee Property
  1 January 1946
• Wartime Exile: The exclusion of the Japanese Americans From the West Coast
  1 January 1946
• Legal and Constitutional Phases of the WRA Program
  1 January 1946
• Community Government in War Relocation Centers
  1 January 1946
• Administrative Highlights of the WRA Program
  1 January 1946
• The Relocation Program
  1 January 1946
• WRA, A Story of Human Conservation
  1 January 1946
• Statistical breakdown of evacuee source locations
  31 January 1946
• The Evacuated People, A Quantitative Description
  30 June 1946
• Arrest Records, San Francisco, As of Jul. 2, 1946
  2 July 1946
• Americans, The Story of the 442nd Combat Team
  December 1946
• INS reply to request for data on nationality of internees
  9 August 1948
• Supreme Court Judgment, Kawakita
  1952
• Chapter V: Japanese Evacuation From the West Coast
  1 January 1964
• Tom C. Clark, Former Associate Justice, Supreme Court
  17 October 1972
• Statement by Rachel Kawasaki
  2 July 1981
• Statement by Karl R. Bendetsen for CWRIC
  5 August 1981
• Boris T. Pash, Col. U.S. Army
  11 August 1981
• Japan Times news clipping by Kiyoaki Murata
  21 August 1981
• Statement by Catherine Treadgold
  9 September 1981
• Personal Justice Denied: Intelligence Section and Magic Addendum
  June 1983
• MAGIC: (15) Excerpts From Personal Justice Denied
  1 June 1983
• Prepared Statement of Shonin Yamashita
  27 July 1983
• Testimony of Dr. Ken Masugi
  27 July 1983
• Testimony of Senator S. I. Hayakawa
  27 July 1983
• Senate Bill 1520
  27 July 1983
• Article by Kiyoaki Murata
  18 August 1983
• H.R. 4110
  6 October 1983
• Testimony of Karl Bendetsen
  20 June 1984
• Testimony of David D. Lowman
  20 June 1984
• Ken Masugi
  20 June 1984
• John J. McCloy
  20 June 1984
• Statement by Frederick Bernays Wiener
  3 July 1984
• Statement by David F. Trask, Chief Historian, U.S. Army Center of Military History
  20 July 1984
• Statement by Charlotte Elam
  16 August 1984
• Senator S. I. Hayakawa
  16 August 1984
• Testimony of Charlotte Elam
  16 August 1984
• Testimony of Frederick Bernays Wiener
  16 August 1984
• David D. Lowman
  16 August 1984
• Congressional Hearings, Testimony and Statement of Catherine Treadgold
  16 August 1984
• Testimony of Lillian Baker
  16 August 1984
• Rachel Kawasaki
  16 August 1984
• It Had To Be So
  1 October 1984
• H.R. 442
  3 January 1985
• Lee Allen, Letter to the Editor
  22 May 1985
• Lee Allen, Letter to National Geographic
  8 May 1986
• David D. Lowman
  22 August 1986
• S. 1009
  10 April 1987
• Japanese Americans in Japanese Imperial Army
  13 April 1987
• Statement by Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen.
  29 April 1987
• Testimony of Lt. Gen. Edgar C. Doleman
  5 July 1987
• Letter from John Bolton, Asst. AG, on Reparations Payments
  14 September 1987
• Letter From former Farm Security Administration agent to Senators Garn and Hatch
  18 September 1987
• The Civil Liberties Act of 1988: Q &A
  1 January 1988
• Army Letter to Rep. Nielson on Release of Documents
  7 March 1988
• Hayakawa letter to Howard Baker, Chief of Staff
  21 April 1988
• Japan Ordered Massacre of Every POW
  17 June 1988
• Public Law 100-383 -- August 10, 1988
  10 August 1988
• Filing: Arthur D. Jacobs v. Richard Thornburg, Attorney General of the United States
  9 March 1989
• Article on Office of Redress Administration efforts in Japan
  8 April 1989
• Arthur D. Jacobs Legal Response to JACL Efforts to Deny Interned German Americans Redress
  31 May 1989
• Final Rule, Dept of Justice, Redress
  18 August 1989
• INS Records Related to the Detention and Internment of Enemy Aliens during World War II
  1 July 1991
• Oral Argument, Jacobs v. The Attorney General of the United States
  6 December 1991
• List of Public Laws Providing Compensation to Japanese Evacuees
  1 November 1993
• Letter from Cmdr. William J. Hopwood to Wally Hofmann, Publisher/Editor Eastern Sierra Times regarding flawed story
  20 August 1994
• Letter to concerned citizen from Connee L. Rainey, U.S. Postal Service regarding Atomic Bomb Stamp
  21 December 1994
• Civil Liberties Public Education Fund
  1 January 1996
• Letter to the editor, Washington Times,
  21 April 1996
• 29 Japanese Americans refused redress payment
  23 June 1998
• Confinement and Ethnicity, Introduction
  1 January 1999
• Carole Seno Song v. United States
  10 May 1999
• Smithsonian Exhibit, A More Perfect Union
  2000
• Purple Analog Machine read MAGIC messages
  2000
• Observations by David R. Lyon on Japanese attempt to kill Americans in Utah
  1 January 2000
• Statement on how much redress CWRIC member thought Internees should receive
  7 February 2000
• California bills AB 1914 & 1915
  27 March 2000
• Document Request and Denial
  11 May 2000
• The Rest of the Story, by B. Rice Aston
  1 June 2000
• Senator Akaka on Medal of Honor Awards
  4 June 2000
• MAGIC: (1) Part II, The Magic Messages
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (2) Chapter 7, Japan Organizes for Intelligence
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (3) Japanese Intelligence Requirements
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (4) Chapter 9, Issei and Nisei
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (5) Chapter 10, Special Interest Messages
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (6) Chapter 11, West Coast
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (7) Chapter 12, Panama
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (8) Chapter 13, Manila
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (9) Chapter 14, Honolulu
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (10) Part III, Introduction, Intelligence Reports
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (11) Chapter 15, The Federal Bureau of Investigation
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (12) Chapter 16, The Army Military Intelligence Division
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (13) Chapter 17, The Office of Naval Intelligence
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (14) Appendix I, Miscellaneous Documents
  1 January 2001
• MAGIC: (16) Appendix III, Loyalty in Camps
  1 January 2001
• Presidential Proclamation
  17 January 2001
• Selective Service Classifications
  1 April 2002
• Critique of Smithsonian Institution Exhibit
  14 August 2002
• Members of Japanese 442d shake down German POWs
  9 September 2002
• Distinguished Service Cross Review
  22 July 2004