Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of the administrative files for the Civil Service Commission's security risk program established by law in 1951 and active until 1960.

Within the series are three subseries.

Background and administrative files contain reports and memoranda on the development of the program and its procedures, monthly reports of the Security Unit, and correspondence and memoranda concerning the designation of security agencies.

Subject files include records of appeals (containing briefs and hearing transcripts), court cases, subversive organizations and literature, municipal programs and other subjects germane to the program.

Correspondence files contain correspondence with the Governor, the U.S. Attorney General, and others.

The records contain detailed information on all aspects of the development and operation of New York's Security Risk Program. The series also contains some information on groups designated as subversive, organizations opposing the program, and individuals and groups who appealed security risk determinations to the Courts or the Commission.