Disposition Authorities for Individual Classification for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 77. Applicants (Special Inquiry, Department and Other Government Agencies except those having special classification.).

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Disposition Authorities for Individual Classification for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 77. Applicants (Special Inquiry, Department and Other Government Agencies except those having special classification.).

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The FBI opened this classification in 1929 for investigations of applicants for Federal employment. Confined initially to professional and nonprofessional personnel of the Department of Justice and to appointees to the Federal judiciary, the scope of the classification gradually expanded to cover other agencies. Beginning with Truman, the Bureau investigated potential appointees of interest to the White House and Congressional Committees. These special inquiries were shifted to classification 161 by 1960.

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...