Wolf, Agnes Papers

Investigator, Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, 1943-1947, 1948. Investigator, Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 1951

The papers of Agnes S. Wolf include correspondence, note cards, press clippings, reports, transcripts of committee hearings, and other items concerning Wolf’s career in government, especially her work with the Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (Truman Committee) and the Senate Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (Kefauver Committee).

Size: 3 linear feet.
Access: Open.
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Updated by: Molly Black (2019) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

The papers of Agnes Wolf include correspondence, note cards, press clippings, reports, transcripts of committee hearings, and other items concerning Wolf’s career in government, especially her work with the Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (Truman Committee) and the Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (Kefauver Committee). The collection is arranged in one series, a Subject File.

The collection contains memorandums from Wolf to committee colleagues and others, as well as reports and press clippings relating to investigations conducted by the Truman Committee (which was headed by Senator James Mead after Harry S. Truman’s resignation in 1944) concerning such topics as war-time industrial mobilization; manpower and labor; Congressional reorganization; food problems; the Ark-les Switch Corporation,; the beryllium industry in Germany; and missing military personnel. Also included are memorandums and reports prepared by Wolf for the Kefauver Committee on the infiltration of organized crime into legitimate business, including the industrial realms of automobiles, liquor, communications, banking, and oil.

The collection also contains transcripts of committee hearings and other items relating to the War Manpower Commission, and documents concerning the role of women in the Democratic and Republican National Committees. There are also note cards at the end of the collection that were compiled by Wolf during her research into organized crime for the Kefauver Committee.

Further information about Wolf and the Special Senate Committee Investigating the National Defense Program can be found at the Truman Library in the oral history of John H. Tolan, Jr.; in the General Records of the U.S. Senate (Record Group 46); and in the Truman Senate and Vice Presidential Papers. The Library also has the papers of Agnes’s husband, Alfred Wolf.