What the document says
On November 2, 1945, Leslie R. Groves wrote to Dr. R. C. Tolman at the California Institute of Technology. The letter names Tolman chair of a committee created to declassify and release appropriate information obtained from the work of the Manhattan Project. To declassify means to clear secret material for public release. The record files the letter as correspondence among the records of the US Atomic Energy Commission.
The scanned page text for this record is not available, so what follows comes from the catalog entry rather than the letter itself. That entry gives the author as Groves, the addressee as Tolman, the date written as 1945 Nov 02, and the date of declassification as 1973 Mar 01. The subject terms recorded for it are Smyth and Tolman Committee Report. Researchers who need the exact wording of the appointment, including any names of other committee members, will have to consult the original document.
Key points
- 01Groves asks Tolman to chair the committee, putting him in charge of its declassification work.
- 02The committee's job is to declassify and release appropriate information obtained from the work of the Manhattan Project.
- 03The letter reaches Tolman at the California Institute of Technology.
- 04Written on 1945 Nov 02 and declassified on 1973 Mar 01.
Source: U.S. Department of Energy, OpenNet declassified document archive, OSTI ID 1244258. The summary is written from the document’s own text. Old scans can be hard to read, so check the original for anything you plan to cite.