pate of directives and policy memorandums and
inaugurated a whole series of surveys and investigations. Yarmolinsky
was later able to recall eleven major papers produced by the
secretary's office during the first thirty months of McNamara's
incumbency. Evans's more comprehensive list of actions taken by the
office of the secretary's manpower assistant with regard to equal
opportunity contained some forty items.[20-38] These totals did not
include 1,717 racial complaints the Defense Department investigated
and adjudicated before September 1963 nor the scores of contract
compliance reviews conducted under the equal opportunity clauses in
defense contracts.[20-39]

[Footnote 20-37: Interv, Dennis O'Brien with Roswell
L. Gilpatric, 5 May 70, in J. F. Kennedy Library;
see also Interv, Bernhard with Wofford.]

[Footnote 20-38: Memo, Spec Asst to SecDef for Paul
Southwick, White House, 22 Oct 63; James C. Evans,
"Equality of Opportunity in the Armed Forces, A
Summary Report on Actions and Contributions of the
ASD (M), January 1961-July 1962"; copies of both in
CMH.]

[Footnote 20-39: Although it did not directly affect
black servicemen, the contract compliance program
deserves mention as a field in which the Department
of Defense pioneered for the federal government.
During the Kennedy administration the department
hired hundreds of contract compliance officers to
scrutinize its vast purchasing program, insuring
compliance with Executive Order 10925. See Ltr,
Adam Yarmolinsky to author, 22 Nov 74, CMH files.]

The number of Department of Defense rulings that pertained directly to
black servicemen was matched by the comprehensiveness of their subject
matter. Many concerned the recruitment of Negroes and the increase in
their proportion of the military establishment. Others pertained to
off-base matters, ranging from prohibitions against the use of
segregated facilities during field exercises to the use of military
units in ceremonies and shows involving segregated audiences.
Continued segregation in the reserves, the racial policies of
the United Services Organization, and even the racial