Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 136. American Legion Contact Program.

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Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 136. American Legion Contact Program.

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The FBI opened this classification in 1952 for information obtained from American Legion members. Prior to 1952, the FBI filed such information in classification 66. Policy material includes instructins to Field Offices on establishing and maintaining contacts with local legion officers. After 1954 the program amounted to little more than annual contacts with natinal officers, state officers, and members of the Legion's Americanism Committee. In the mid-1960's, the program focused on information about possible racially motivated acts of violence. There are no documents after 1965 regarding this obsolete program.

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