SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

The bulk of the Dannenhauer collection remains closed to research. This open segment contains the FBI’s public release/sanitized version of records compiled in connection with its background investigation of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller for the position of Vice President, including summary material from applicant-type investigations of Rockefeller conducted in 1950, 1953 and 1969. Included are interview reports and summaries, memoranda, correspondence, legal documents, financial statements and news clippings.

QUANTITY
1.6 linear feet (4,010 pages)

DONOR
Gerald R. Ford (accession numbers 77-121, 77-122, 78-12)

ACCESS
Open. In 1992, the FBI released this redacted version under the Freedom for Information Act. A copy is open to research at the Ford Library. The Ford White House’s full text version remains closed, as does the remainder of the Dannenhauer Files.

COPYRIGHT
Gerald R. Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain.

Prepared by Nancy Mirshah, December 2000
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CONTAINER LIST

Box 1 - Presidential Files-Rockefeller, Nelson (FBI Redacted Version)

• Volume 1, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 2, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 3, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller

Box 2 - Presidential Files-Rockefeller, Nelson (FBI Redacted Version)

• Volume 4, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 5, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 6, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller 
• Volume 7, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller

Box 3 - Presidential Files-Rockefeller, Nelson (FBI Redacted Version)

• Volume 8, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 9, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 10, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 11, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller

Box 4 - Presidential Files-Rockefeller, Nelson (FBI Redacted Version)

• Volume 12, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 13, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 14, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller
• Volume 15, FBI Background Investigation of Vice-President-designate Rockefeller