FBI Four-Way Name Check Memo, 1947

It was a standard background-vetting procedure in which an individual's name was checked against multiple government indices; this 1947 memo reports the results came back clean — 'nothing identifiable,' 'no record,' 'nothing derogatory.'

Dated December 1947, just months after the National Security Act created the CIA, it is one of the earliest-dated documents in the archive, showing routine federal security-vetting machinery already well established at that time.