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Listing of FBI surveillance files by file number, circa 1986

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Subseries 1.1.

Subseries Scope and Content

From the Sub-Series:

This subseries comprises the copies of FBI files released to Siminoski by the Bureau as a consequence of his letter of October 22, 1982, and his lawsuit filed on October 11, 1983. The files are arranged alphabetically by the name of the gay or lesbian organization they concern: the Daughters of Bilitis, East Coast Homophile Organization (ECHO), Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Liberation Front, Mattachine Society, National Gay Task Force, ONE, Radical Lesbians, and Society for Individual Rights. Within each organizational group, files are ordered according to the FBI office that maintained the file: FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, and the following field offices, in alphabetical order: Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, and the Washington, DC. The materials total approximately 2,200 documents, or 7,000 pages, and date from the early 1950s to the late 1970s. The bulk of the materials relate to the Mattachine Society and the Gay Liberation Front; the earliest documents concern the Mattachine Society, and the Daughters of Bilitis. The files for the Mattachine Society also include material on ONE Magazine and One., Inc. Over half the materials consist of organizational publications, including newsletters, pamphlets, calendars, and magazines, several of which, such as the Ladder, Mattachine Review, and ONE Magazine, were publicly sold on newsstands. Other materials include descriptions of private and public meetings and lists of people attending them, photographs of public demonstrations, and correspondence concerning the activities of known and suspected homosexuals. There is considerable duplication of materials, in particular between FBI Headquarters and the individual field offices, but also between various field offices. Approximately 70 per cent of the materials are redacted (censored), some heavily so: many sheets are place-holders for pages withheld in their entirety. Both photocopies of original redacted pages and place-holder sheets are marked with one or more "exemption" codes indicating the reason for the redaction or withholding. The series also includes a number of "revised" documents, second releases of materials already delivered to Siminoski. In most cases the "revised" documents contain fewer redactions than those released earlier; however, in a few cases, they contain more revisions.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1986

Creator

Access

The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.

Extent

From the Sub-Series: 3.1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California Repository

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