Archives West Finding Aid

The collection contains correspondence, writings, speeches, Associated Industries of Missouri (A.I.M.) files, General Electric reports, Group Research Reports, Inc. files, Communications Research Reports, research lists, and cassette tape recordings by Steele.

Outgoing correspondence is filed by date, 1946-1975.

Incoming correspondence is alphabetically arranged by last name, or title of agency/company.

Writings are organized alphabetically by title of work and included is "Blueprint for World Revolt," "Marxist-Leninist Man," and "That Which is Denied."

Speeches are organized by title of speech and the paper finding aid includes information on where the speech was given and the date.

Associated Industries of Missouri (A.I.M.) files include notices, reports, newsletters, service department reports and other documents.

General Electric files include reports.

Group Research Reports, Inc. files include introductory materials and appendix, individual indexes, organization index, publication lists, and reports.

Communications Research Reports include newsletters and presentation materials.

The collection also includes five folders of xeroxes samples from a notebook that was damaged in a fire. The notebook entries represented an accretion of information on persons as individual members of organizations. Steele was interested in people who actively sought to influence public affairs and he tracked their involvement in long-term movements.

Other material includes an unidentified report entitled "Preserving the Land of the Free," other unidentified writings, charts, and technical experiments.

An addendum contains two cassette tape recordings of a letter addressed to Special Collections Librarian, Ed Kemp, dated April 1979, in which Steele clarifies historical, biographical, and research information. The paper finding aid contains a typed summary of these recordings.