eration this group
conducted a statistical experiment within the Department of
Agriculture to discover whether employees could be identified by
racial groups in a confidential manner separate from other personnel
data.[22-61]

[Footnote 22-58: See Ltr, Clarence Mitchell, NAACP, to
ASD (M), 8 Jul 53; Ltr, Congressman Henry S. Reuss
of Wisconsin to SecDef, 27 Sep 56; Memo,
Yarmolinsky for Fitt, 29 Nov 61; Memo, Dep Under SA
for ASD (M), 1 Dec 61, sub: Racial Designation in
Special Orders; Ltr, Chmn, Cmte on Gov Operations,
House of Representatives, to SA, 9 Jul 62; Memo,
ASD (M) for SA, 29 Mar 51, sub: Racial Designations
on Travel Orders; Memo, Chief, Mil Personnel
Management Div, G-1, for Dir, Personnel Policies, 5
Aug 52, sub: Racial Designations, G-1 291.2; Memo,
SecNav for ASD (M), 7 May 54, sub: Deletion of
Question Regarding "Race" ... Copies of all in
CMH.]

[Footnote 22-59: See Memo, TAG for Distribution, 21
Sep 62, sub: Racial Identification in Army
Documents, AGAM (M) 291.2; Memo for Rcd, Evans, 20
Dec 62, sub: Racial Designations--Navy, ASD (M)
291.2; Memo, DASD (CR) for DASD (H&M) et al., 19
Feb 64, sub: Racial Designations on Department of
Defense Forms, copy in CMH.]

[Footnote 22-60: See, for example, Ltr, Dir of
Personnel Policy (OSD) to J. Francis Pohlhous,
Counsel, NAACP, 6 Jul 55, ASD (M) 291.2.]

[Footnote 22-61: Ltr, Director, Civil Service
Commission, to Rear Adm Robert L. Moore, Chief of
Industrial Relations, USN, 9 Jul 63, copy in CMH.]

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The civil rights staff of the Defense Department was also (p. 576)
interested in further limiting the use of race in departmental forms.
In April 1963 Assistant Secretary Paul ordered a review of military
personnel records and reporting forms to determine where racial
entries were included unnecessarily.[22-62] His review uncovered
twenty-