{"value"=>"<p>Initially chaired by Condé B. Pallen, and later by Grover Whalen, this department was chiefly concerned with developing methods for dealing with internal communist propaganda. It also sought to find a way in which the United States could compel the Soviet Union to stop organizing subversive activities in the United States.</p> <p>The files consist of correspondence related to departmental meetings, papers of meetings held in March 1926, September 1928, and April 1931 including comments by the former governor of Indiana, James P . Goodrich, on his recent visit to the Soviet Union, stenographer's report of the meeting of September 20, 1928, remarks by Hamilton Fish at the April 13, 1931 meeting, and miscellaneous materials including a scope and plan prospectus, and Archibald E. Stevenson's view on the school blacklist enquiry.</p>"}