Interagency Working Group (IWG)

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Release of Historical Report on Newly Opened Nazi War Crimes Records, "Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U. S. Intelligence, and the Cold War", by Richard Breitman and Norman J. W. Goda

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The IWG opened the full set of CIA Name Files - 2nd Release on Monday October 29, 2007, at the National Archives at College Park.
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The Final Report of the Nazi War Crimes and Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG) was presented on Friday September 28, 2007.
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The IWG concluded its work on March 31, 2007. More...

Japanese War Crimes, resources for researchers now online

U.S. Congress Extends Effort to Open Secret WWII War Crimes Records Two More Years to Declassify and Open CIA Documents More...

FBI Files Released by IWG
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The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group

The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG) locates, identifies, inventories, and recommends for declassification, currently classified U.S. records relating to Nazi and Japanese Imperial Government war crimes. Once declassified, these records are released to the American public. The group, consisting of high-level representatives from federal agencies and public members, was established by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act.

Since 1999, the IWG has declassified and opened to the public an estimated 8 million pages of documents, including 1.2 million pages of OSS records; 74,000 pages of CIA name and subject files; more than 350,000 pages of FBI subject files; and nearly 300,000 pages of Army intelligence files. The once secret records are helping to shape our understanding of the Holocaust, war crimes, World War II and postwar activities of U.S. and Allied intelligence agencies.

The IWG has issued two interim reports to Congress (in October 1999 and March 2002), and it issues news releases and occasional newsletters, and has published a book. Several publications are forthcoming.

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