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Rapport intermédiaire <strong>sur</strong> l’or 16 Annexe 3<br />

File «External Ass<strong>et</strong>s and Intelligence Branch Functions.» Report on the Safehaven program and its<br />

investigations.<br />

Box 649<br />

File «Gold and Other M<strong>et</strong>als.» OMGUS correspondence about Swiss financial cooperation with Nazi<br />

Germany.<br />

Box 650<br />

File «Gold I.» Shipments of looted N<strong>et</strong>her<strong>la</strong>nds’ gold to Reichsbank accounts, the Prussian Mint,<br />

Swiss banks, and Merkers salt mine.<br />

File «Gold II.» Movement of looted mon<strong>et</strong>ary gold seized from occupied European countries and<br />

shipped to Reichsbank accounts and Swiss banks.<br />

File «Gold Team.» OMGUS investigations into the movement of looted gold through Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd for<br />

the Reichsbank, d<strong>et</strong>ails about Degussa operations and FED gold holdings, reports on German<br />

financial <strong>transactions</strong> in Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd, and Prussian Mint records of resmelted N<strong>et</strong>her<strong>la</strong>nds’ gold.<br />

Box 651<br />

File «Hungary.» OMGUS report on a Swiss cloaking operation.<br />

Box 652<br />

File «Portugal.» Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) reports on a partially Swiss-owned<br />

Portuguese bank that acted as a financial agent for German <strong>transactions</strong> during the war.<br />

File «Portugal – Gold.» Excerpts from the Reichsbank’s Precious M<strong>et</strong>als Department’s records.<br />

File «Proc<strong>la</strong>imed List.» Lists of Swiss companies on the Proc<strong>la</strong>imed List.<br />

Box 653<br />

File «Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd – Gold.» This file contains OMGUS correspondence about Baron von der Heydt,<br />

who was indicted for espionage and acts contrary to Swiss neutrality.<br />

File «RWM – Meck <strong>La</strong>ndwerke.» Swiss cloaking operations and Swiss banks’ cooperation with<br />

Germany and names of Swiss individuals suspected of aiding Germany.<br />

Box 654<br />

File «Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd – German Ass<strong>et</strong>s, misc.» Concern about postwar flight of German capital to<br />

Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd.<br />

File «Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd – General.» Swiss companies owned wholly by Germans and other German<br />

activities in Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd.<br />

File «Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd – Lists of Blocked Firms.» Swiss companies wholly owned by Germans.<br />

File «(Correspondence).» A defense of Swiss neutrality and a report of the debates in the Swiss<br />

Parliament about the Washington Accord.<br />

RG 457 Records of the National Security Agency<br />

Records Re<strong>la</strong>ting to the Allied-Swiss Negotiations on the Disposition of German Ass<strong>et</strong>s and Looted<br />

Gold Held in Switzer<strong>la</strong>nd, August 1945–July 1946 (Room 2000, Compartment 11).<br />

These fi<strong>les</strong> are NSA wir<strong>et</strong>ap intercepts of cable communications b<strong>et</strong>ween the Swiss Embassy in<br />

Washington, D.C. and the Swiss Foreign Office in Bern. The wir<strong>et</strong>ap program was carried out prior to<br />

and during the 1946 Washington Accord Negotiations concerning Swiss restitution of gold seized by<br />

Germany throughout occupied Europe.<br />

Box 1. These documents are arranged into fi<strong>les</strong> based on chronological order, one folder per month<br />

from April 1945 until June 1946. These documents trace the evolution of the Swiss position during<br />

the negotiations.

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