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Overview of the IWG 2
agencies fled records by names of individuals or pro-
grams. Tese names could be searched, but which of
these millions of names might be relevant? Agency
personnel were not expected to be experts on World
War II. Agency fles also varied by medium. Some
agencies began keeping at least part of their fles in
electronic form as early as the 1970s. Others kept re-
cords in paper or microform, but indexed them elec-
tronically. In many cases, a full text search of some
fles was possible, while in others only indices could
be searched by key words. All agencies also main-
tained paper fles. In some cases, paper fles had been
copied to microflm and the originals destroyed. At
most agencies, the sheer volume of fles that needed
to be searched for possible declassifcation presented
no small challenge. Te IWG therefore took an ac-
tive role in helping agencies search their records, de-
veloping a variety of search tools to enhance agency
surveys, including:
initial and supplemental guidance to agencies
for implementing the acts;
a so-called 60,000 Names List, actually a
database developed by OSI that contains the
names of SS ofcers, individuals charged by
the UN War Crimes Commission, individu-
als convicted of Nazi war crimes, individuals
extradited by the U.S. military government
to stand trial for Nazi crimes, and individuals
generally regarded by historians as having been
major perpetrators of Nazi crimes;
a list of terms, code names, operations, and
other terminology compiled by the IWG staf
and supplemented by OSI, the historians and
the HAP;
a 66-page key-word list of approximately
2,000 subjects, organizations, and individuals
associated with war crimes in East Asia and the
Pacifc;
leads for information that IWG historians, the
HAP, and staf suggested would likely be found
in agency fles; and
additional lists of names and topics provided