seeking crowd management and riot control training materials and related correspondence

rlbince 

Thank you for posting your question on History Hub!

We have also received your question via email in the Archives II Textual Reference Branch and have responded to your request through email. While we have responded to your inquiry already, we did want to provide similar information here for your convenience.

Records are maintained as they were created and used, so you will need to have an idea which agency records are of interest.

To navigate the military records, we recommend reviewing some of the file manuals for the time periods in which you may be interested, which will be identified in the arrangement statement of each series in the National Archives Catalog. First, the War Department Decimal File System may be useful for records beginning in 1914. We identified the following War Department Decimal File numbers as potentially relevant to your research:

• 014.2 - Civil Matters- Marshals 

• 370 - Employment, Movement of Troops 

• 370.2 - Employment, Movement of Troops for Exhibitions and Parades 

• 370.091 - Employment, Movement of Troops for Convoys, Escorts, Guards 

• 370.093 - Employment, Movement of Troops as Military Police 

Starting in 1963, the United States Army adopted the The Army Functional Files System (TAFFS). We identified the following TAFFS numbers as potentially relevant to your research:

• 509 - Military Police/Civilian Guard Protective Services File [pre-1969]

• 511 - Military Police/Civilian Guard Protective Services File [post-1969]

• 1002-01 - National Guard unit activation and status files [pre-1969]

• 207-2 - National Guard unit activation and status files  [post-1969]

Many of the series you encounter will be filed under a single TAFFS designation, so you may not see multiple TAFFS file numbers in the same series, but in your research, it may be helpful to use the TAFFS file numbers to locate additional material. 

We located several series of interest to your research topic in  Record Group 319: Records of the Army Staff, 1903–2009 relating to the Army’s planning and response to civil disturbances:

• Emergency Planning Files, Civil Disturbance Operation Files, and Organization Planning Files, 1966–January 12, 1982 (Record Group 319, Entry UD-WW 29-I) 

• Background Files to the Book, "The Army Lineage Series, Volume II: The Infantry", ca. 1953–1972 (Record Group 319, Entry A1 145-V) 

• Security Classified General Correspondence, 1963–1975 (Record Group 319, Entry A1 1689) 

• Reports and Other Records Relating to the United States Army Intelligence Command (USAINTC), 1962–1972 (Record Group 319, Entry UD 1073) 

We also located couple of series in Record Group 338: Records of U.S. Army Operational, Tactical, and Support Organizations (World War II and Thereafter) relating to specific operations relating to civil disturbance including:

• Civil Disturbance Files, 1968–1968 (Record Group 338, Entry P 50134)

• Emergency Test and Exercise Files, 1963–1969 (Record Group 338, Entry P 50095)

If you know of additional operation names relating to civil disturbances, it is possible there may be more material in Record Group 338.  

We also located a couple of series in Record Group 168: Records of the National Guard Bureau, 1822–1962 that also relate to your research topic: 

• Formerly Security Classified Central Subject Files, 1963–December 31, 1971 (Record Group 168, Entry P 4)

• Central Subject Files, 1963–1974 (Record Group 168, Entries A1 3 and UD 433-AB)

Additionally, the series General Records of the Commission, 1967–1971 (Record Group 220, Entry A1 36090) may also be of interest to your research, as it contains records from the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws. 

For records relating to the 1965 Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement, we located the series Commission Records, July 23, 1965–June 30, 1967 (Record Group 220, NAID: 612774). We also located the series Commission Records, 1967–1968 (Record Group 220, NAID: 5686579), which contains records  relating to the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. These series are located at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library & Museum.  We recommend contacting them directly via email  to inquire further about these records (johnson.library@nara.gov). 

We would be happy to make the records available to you in the Textual Research Room at the National Archives at College Park, MD for your planned visit this month. The following information is intended to assist in planning your research visit. Please visit our website for information about visiting the National Archives at College Park, including how to schedule a research visit.  Advance research appointments are highly encouraged, but you may also conduct research as a walk-in. To make an appointment to visit the National Archives, please visit the National Archives DC-Area Research Appointments page. All researchers must register for a researcher card. Please complete the online researcher orientation as well as the online researcher registration form before scheduling an appointment. 

If you are unable to visit our facility, you may wish to employ a professional researcher to carry out research on your behalf. The National Archives maintains a list of professional researchers online: http://www.archives.gov/research/hire-help/. 

We hope this assists you with your research! 

Sincerely,

Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)

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