Air Technical Index documents

[ArtieBob]

Ouidjat's post leads me to discuss a bit about the role of the Paris clearing house for captured German documents. In
1945, much (but not all) of the material collected by the western allies was sent to a location in Paris. The allied
intelligence gathering effort involved thousands of allied and they gathered a very large quantity of material. In
Paris, this material was apparently indexed and reviewed by many interested allied organizations, including USSBS, RAF,
US Navy, USAAF, the war crimes commission and possilby more. As noted above, all of the documents on the ADI(k) were
microfilmed in Paris, by US Navy intelligence.Included on these films are some of that collection's index sheets which
identify groups of documents and their allied destinations, unfortunately not complete. My question to Ouidjat, does
he know if the "residue" of the Paris documents survived, i.e. captured documents that were not claimed or distributed
to other organizations. Also are there any indications that this material made it into French archives, particularly the
indexes, as they would give a map where to search for document groups that otherwise may have been overlooked.

Best Regards

Artie Bob