Michael McClintock papers, 1960s-2001

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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