COLLECTION FINDING AID



ROCKEFELLER, NELSON - FBI VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION

INVESTIGATION CASE FILE, (1950, 1952, 1969) August 1974 – December 1974




SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

This case file consist of 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, 1952, 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
These materials were not accessioned. This is a reference copy of the original file held by the FBI. Access is provided to the file at the Ford Library as a convenience to researchers. The FBI sent the file to the Ford Library on June 23, 2000.

ACCESS
Open. In 1992, the FBI released this redacted version under the Freedom for Information Act. The Ford Library does not hold an un-redacted copy. Appeals on access to redacted portions of the case file should be submitted to the FBI.

COPYRIGHT
Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them.

SPECIAL NOTE
In an earlier version of the Jane Dannenhauer Files finding aid, this case file was listed as being part of the Dannenhauer Files. It was added to the Dannenhauer Files because the collection includes a copy of a similar document, the FBI’s final investigatory report on Rockefeller, see series: Vice Presidential Nominee Nelson Rockefeller Background Investigation File. Because the case file did not originate in the Ford White House, the Ford Library created a separate collection for the case file.

Prepared by Nancy Mirshah, December 2000, revised by J.P. Schmidt, October 2015
[s:\bin\findaid\RockefellerFBIfile.doc]


CONTAINER LIST

Box 1

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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