According to the NSA FOIA office it
had been recently transferred to NARA as part of transfer group TR-457-2016-0009.
The reference I was given by NARA pointed to 36 boxes that have not been
indexed, so the file could not be located by my researcher.
I tried to find
the Hayashi file again this year by asking NARA’s research department if they
could locate it but I was told that ‘We
have carefully searched our holdings with a particular focus on Record Group
457 - Entry P4…….however, we were not able to locate the file’.
Thus it seems
that this is the end of my quest for the Hayashi file.
I have had similar experiences with NARA. NSA tells me the files have been transferred to NARA and NARA cannot find them. It seems NARA College Park is a growing Black Hole.
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