Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1949 - 1952 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The DC Subject Files encompass decisions, reports and proposals on a variety of Defence related topics, such as the establishment of Military Committee and the Military Representatives Committee, activities of the Standing Group, such as the creation of the Military Standardization Agency, establishment of the Ocean Shipping Planning Board, reports from the Military Production and Supply Board, Strategic Planning proposals, reorganization documents, association of Greece and Turkey.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The Subject Series includes Directives, Proposals, Notes, Memoranda, Resolutions and Decisions by the Defence Committee created between 1949 and 1951. The Defence Committee primarily drafted these items and sent them to the North Atlantic Council, the Military Committee and the Standing Group.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The Document Series is organized thematically around 32 subjects. Each file begins with DC followed by numbers. For example, the first subject file is organized as DC-1, DC-1-1, DC-1-2, and DC-1-3.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
NATO publicly disclosed information is available for research and education purposes. Any commercial use requires the written permission of NATO. Please credit the NATO Archives should any documents be used for publication. Guidelines for the proper citation of NATO publicly disclosed information can be found on the NATO Archives website (http://www.nato.int/archives).
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Although all documents produced should have an official French and English version, not all of the translations were recovered and some documents may only be available in one language. Overall there are 103 English documents and 79 French documents.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
This subject series was recreated from documents collected from the International Chief of Staff and from documents which were originally microfilmed. These copies have been digitized and made available online.