Michael McClintock papers, 1960s-2001

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Series I: Manuscripts



Box 1 Manuscripts of The American Connection: State Terror and Popular Resistance, Vol. I. Guatemala, Vol. II, El Salvador, with Excised Material and Drafts.


Box 1 Manuscript Instruments of Statecraft.


Box 1 Manuscripts of country chapters prepared but not used for Instruments of Statecraft (Angola, Greece, Malaya, Vietnam; and chapters on French and Portuguese Counterinsurgency in Theory and Practice).



Box 2 Manuscripts, news clippings. Conference Papers and Articles.

Series II: Human Rights Issues



Box 3 Extrajudicial Executions ; Amnesty International Discussion Papers and Drafts.


Box 3 "Disappearance"; Amnesty International Discussion Papers.


Box 3 Amnesty International and Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law


Box 3 Human Rights in Rural areas. Reports and commentary.

Series III: Training in HR methodology


Box 3 Handbooks, guidelines, and instructional materials on human rights research and reporting: published NGO materials and, separately, confidential material requiring clearance from NGOs of origin. Contains

Restricted Materials

Series IV: US Military Doctrine and HR



Box 4 Handbooks, guidelines, and instructional materials on human rights research and reporting: published NGO materials and, separately, confidential material requiring clearance from NGOs of origin. Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare (OSPW), declassified documents on Unconventional Warfare (UW) doctrine; origins of Special Operations Forces for UW and Counterinsurgency (COIN); and copies of sections of US Army Field Manuals on UW and its intersection with COIN in the 1950s and early 1960s.



Box 5 Counterinsurgency Doctrine Beginnings: US Military Doctrine in the 1960s and Context; Declassified documents of the Kennedy Administration; DOS Internal Defense Plans; Army Field Memos; and related materials.


Box 5 The Counter-Organization Concept in COIN/UW Doctrine: Declassified Documents, Army and CIA Instructional Materials; Practical Application in the form of paramilitary and militia forces; clandestine irregular forces; and both counter-guerrilla and sponsored "guerrilla" forces. Including notes.


Box 5 Special Operations Forces in UW and COIN; Field Manuals and Commentary.



Box 5A The Counter-Terror Concept in COIN/UW Doctrine: Declassified Documents, Army and CIA Instructional Materials; Practical Application through paramilitary, clandestine, and conventional forces from Guatemala to Vietnam.


Box 5A Intelligence in COIN/UW: Declassified Documents, public records, and commentary on US secret intelligence operations to train, assist, direct, or perpetrate covert or clandestine operations in the context of COIN/UW, including through the organization of terror operations; reporting on the overlap of secret intelligence operations with criminal enterprise, from drug trafficking to kidnapping.


Box 5A Operation Condor: Declassified and public records and commentary on clandestine multinational network of assassination and abduction; McClintock LASA Conference paper.


Box 5A Counter-Terror in the Middle East; reports, commentary.



Box 6 Office of Public Safety, Declassified Documents on Doctrinal Framework and Programs in Latin America and Southeast Asia; and Commentary. Including on notes.


Box 6 The Post-Vietnam Revival of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in the 1980s; Declassified Documents; Field Manuals and Military Instructional Materials; Commentary, with a particular focus on Central America and Colombia.


Box 6 Central America: 1980s Regional US Policy and Action: Policy Papers, Declassified Documents, and Critiques of regional policy and practice; role of SOUTHCOM, Military Assistance, Security Assistance. Including notes.



Box 28 US Policy and Practice. Afganistan, Iraq. French Colonial Doctrine. Algeria, China, Cuba, Turkey Box 28



Box 29 Counter-Terror in the Middle East; State terror in UW/COIN. Doctrine and Practice II. Operation Condor, country examples Box 29



Box 30 Terrorism and Response, 1980s. Intelligence: UW/COIN doctrine, Covert Action Counterterrorism. Intelligence - Chronology. Intelligence Reform. Box 30

Series V: Central America



Box 6 Central America Regional US Policy and Action: US policy papers and critiques; commentary and press reports Documentation on SOUTHCOM and the School of the Americas; military and police assistance.

Series VI: El Salvador



Box 7 Foundations of the Security System: Declassified G-2 Reports; FOIA DOS cables; British consular reports from 1932; photocopied legal texts, on development of the security system from colonial times to WII, with emphasis on role of militias and agrarian conflict, culminating in peasant revolt of 1932 and massacre. Including notes.


Box 7 El Salvador's Military Institution, Doctrine and Practice: articles and speeches from Salvadoran armed forces' journal Revista de la Escuela de Comando y Estado Mayor; US government documents; commentary. Including notes, press reports.



Box 8 US Security Assistance and Intervention: Declassified OPS documents on police and intelligence assistance; background to role of US Military Mission; documentation on US complicity in Counter-Terror; notes and press reports.


Box 8 El Salvador Human Rights Monitors: Documentation on role and threats to monitors, the church, Tutela Legal; journalists; documentation on assassination of Archbishop Romero and four US Churchwomen; trial transcripts and reporting on case of Ford vs Garcia and Vides Casanova.



Box 7 El Salvador Human Rights Monitors: Documentation on role and threats to monitors, the church, Tutela Legal; journalists; documentation on assassination of Archbishop Romero and four US Churchwomen; trial transcripts and reporting on case of Ford vs Garcia and Vides Casanova.



Box 9 El Salvador Torture and "Disappearance": Trial transcript and commentary Romagoza v. Garcia and Vides Casanova;


Box 9 Pt II Trial transcript and commentary Romagoza v. Garcia and Vides Casanova; McClintock testimony and exhibits of Amnesty International actions, reports, and responses by the defendants to Amnesty International letters submitted in evidence.



Box 10 Declassified Department of State (DOS) Cables, 1980-1990


Box 10 Department of State reports on The Situation of Human Rights in El Salvador, and Critiques; DOS Discrediting of Human Rights Monitors and Methodology.



Box 11 Reports by national and international HR monitors, 1977-1990; Amnesty International



Box 12 Chrono file I, 1960-1982 (press, reports by local monitors, commentary).


Box 12 Chrono file II, 1983-1988



Box 11 Chrono file III, 1989-1994

Series VII: Guatemala



Box 13 Foundations of the Security System: Documentation on post-colonial security structures, norms, and practices before 1954; the military in 1954 and the aftermath of the overthrow of Arbenz. Includes notes.


Box 13 Military institutions after 1960: Declassified documents, reports, commentary on military/structures and transformations in the 1960s. Includes notes.



Box 14 Reports on human rights observance: IACHR, HRW, etc.


Box 14 Chrono File: Press and other reports from 1960s to present.

Series VIII: Honduras



Box 16 Military Institution: Declassified DOS files tracking transition of armed forces in 1980s.


Box 16 US Assistance and Intervention: Declassified documents on US intervention in 1980s; creation of Batallón 316; IACHR documentation.

Series IX: Nicaragua



Box 17 Foundations of the Security System to 1979: Declassified G-2 Reports on the National Guard and the Somoza regime, national and regional security, relations with the United States; declassified records of the Public Safety Program on police and intelligence training; documentation on foundation in law of National Guard and security system.



Box 18 US Assistance and Intervention I: declassified documentation on measures to reverse revolutionary change; policies and doctrine of unconventional warfare (UW); the "Murder Manual"; documentation of training, advisory, and direct involvement in UW; reporting on use of terror tactics, and commentary.


Box 18 US Assistance and Intervention II.


Box 18 Human Rights Reports on abuses by Contras and Nicaraguan government.

Series X: Colombia


Box 18 Counterinsurgency and Human Rights: Press and human rights reporting since 2001.


Box 18 Amnesty International actions and reports,



Box 19 Declassified DOD and DOS files.


Box 19 Press files

Series XI: Mexico



Box 15 Press and commentary, 1974-1975



Box 20 Press and commentary, 1976


Box 20 Background files 1964-1973. Non-confidential press and organizational reports.


Box 20 Background files: Jueves de Corpus, 10 de Junio massacre.


Box 20 Amnesty International Documents, 1972-1976

Series XII: Peru



Box 21 Military Institution: Background documentation on the Peruvian military and Guardia Civíl, and human rights observance.


Box 21 Counterinsurgency from 1983. Documentation on counter-terror and counter-organization in the emergency zone centered on Ayacucho and its human rights consequences

[Interview transcripts, both provided by Peruvian NGOs and from Amnesty International, of victims of violence by both sides.]


Box 21 Shining Path and MRTA. Documentation, including original leaflets and threatening letters; commentary; press. Press and other public reporting, 1976-1986



Box 22 Press and other public reporting, 1976-1986

Series XIII:Philippines



Box 23 Counterinsurgency and Human Rights. Declassified documents; documents from the Hoover Archive collections of Ed Lansdale and Charles Bohannan; human rights reports; press reports.


Box 23 Drafts from preparation of Instruments of Statecraft.



Box 24 The Philippines experience of counter-terror and counter-organization; state terror and paramilitary organization.

Series XIV: South /Southeast Asia


Box 24 Amnesty International and other human rights reports.



Box 25 Press and Amnesty International reports on paramilitary structures, mercenaries.

Series XVI: United Kingdon



Box 26 Northern Ireland I: press, human rights reporting, and government documentation on issue of Loyalist paramilitary organization and terror; state collusion in paramilitary terror; shoot to kill policy; counterinsurgency policy and practice.


Box 26 Northern Ireland II.


Box 26 Human Rights in the United Kingdom: press and human rights reporting on issues arising 1980s-1990s

Series XVII: Vietnam



Box 27 Counter-organization and Counter-terror in Vietnam: Declassified documents on Operation Phoenix, paramilitary organization, and counter-terror; records from the Hoover Archive collections of Lansdale and Bohannan; notes and drafts.