French Indo-China PSIS 400-35

Don't Know Much about History
. . . Especially when the Government keeps 60 year-old Documents Classified

The Naval History center released on the web a document titled French Indo-China PSIS 400-35 a/k/ French Indo-China (Political Situation). This document is dated 11 October 1945. It's a fairly short and innocuous history of Japanese Occupation of Indochina as it is released on the web. Interestingly, this language appears in the middle of the document:

[Page 19-25]
[NOT RELEASEABLE]
[When this document was received at the Navy Department Library, pages 19-25 were apparently still security classified. To determine if these pages have been declassified, researchers should contact the Textual Reference Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001, tel. (301) 713-7250, where the original document should be located in Record Group (RG) 457. The Navy Department Library does not have the missing pages from this document in it's collection.]

At first blush, it seems that the Naval History Center just doesn't have a complete copy; but these are the Navy's trained staff historians. Here's a document that they're taking the time to post to the web, and though they don't have the original, they know where to find it. Why not take this opportunity to complete the Navy's historical record?


French Indo-China PSIS 400-35