Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 65. Administrative Matters.

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 65. Administrative Matters.

Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 65. Administrative Matters.

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This classification was established about 1921 to serve as a central file for administration. From the beginning, documents in the administrative file were not serialized and in Field Offices today only accident and "contact" files must be serialized in this classification. In Headquarters, however, serializing of administrative files has been done since 1922. The 1927 MANUAL OF THE BUREAU, the earliest known, does not provide specific instructions for filing administrative records. Throughout the years Headquarters would instruct the Field Offices to maintain certain types of administrative files and in 1952 the MANUAL OF RULES AND REGULATIONS provided Field Offices with a list of main files and sub-files that must be maintained. Organized by subject, the files were to be filed alphabetically in the pending files section, but when closed the files were to be filed by number in the closed files section. Between 1952 and 1980 these instructions remained virtually without change, and only 9 deletions and 7 additions were made to the list of subjects. The most important of these changes was the decision in 1952 to move the informant files from 66 to new classifications 134 and 137. The Headquarters 66 file has never been defined in the same manner that the Field Office files have.

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