[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 2 (Monday, January 18, 1999)]
[Pages 37-38]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13110--Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working 
Group

January 11, 1999

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the Nazi War Crimes 
Disclosure Act (Public Law 105-246) (the ``Act''), it is hereby ordered 
as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment of Working Group. There is hereby 
established the Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group 
(Working Group). The function of the Group shall be to locate, 
inventory, recommend for declassification, and make available to the 
public at the National Archives and Records Administration all 
classified Nazi war criminal records of the United States, subject to 
certain designated exceptions as provided in the Act. The Working Group 
shall coordinate with agencies and take such actions as necessary to 
expedite the release of such records to the public.

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    Sec. 2. Schedule. The Working Group should complete its work to the 
greatest extent possible and report to the Congress within 1 year.
    Sec. 3. Membership. (a) The Working Group shall be composed of the 
following members:
    (1) Archivist of the United States (who shall serve as Chair of the 
Working Group);
    (2) Secretary of Defense;
    (3) Attorney General;
    (4) Director of Central Intelligence;
    (5) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
    (6) Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum;
    (7) Historian of the Department of State; and
    (8) Three other persons appointed by the President.
    (b) The Senior Director for Records and Access Management of the 
National Security Council will serve as the liaison to and attend the 
meetings of the Working Group. Members of the Working Group who are 
full-time Federal officials may serve on the Working Group through 
designees.
    Sec. 4. Administration. (a) To the extent permitted by law and 
subject to the availability of appropriations, the National Archives and 
Records Administration shall provide the Working Group with funding, 
administrative services, facilities, staff, and other support services 
necessary for the performance of the functions of the Working Group.
    (b) The Working Group shall terminate 3 years from the date of this 
Executive order.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
January 11, 1999.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 13, 
1999]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
January 14.