White House release of Executive Order 10132: tax returns open to the Kefauver Committee (1950)
One-page White House release of June 17, 1950, printing President Truman's executive order opening tax returns through 1949 to the special committee created by Senate Resolution 202.
- Date
- 1950-06-17
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 178295523
- Rights
- A White House press release, a work of the United States government. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists Use: Unrestricted.
The page is headed “Immediate Release, June 17, 1950” and “Executive Order: Inspection of income, excess-profits, declared value excess-profits, capital stock, estate, and gift tax returns by the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce.” It is signed “Harry S. Truman, The White House, June 17, 1950.”
The order states that, by virtue of the authority vested in the President by sections 55(a), 508, 603, 729(a) and 1204 of the Internal Revenue Code, any income, excess-profits, declared value excess-profits, capital stock, estate and gift tax returns “for any period to and including 1949 shall be open to inspection by the Special Committee established pursuant to Senate Resolution 202 (81st Congress, 2d Session),” subject to the conditions in a Treasury decision approved the same day. It is to take effect on its filing for publication in the Federal Register.
The page does not print the order’s number. “Executive Order 10132” is the National Archives catalog title. The Treasury decision it refers to was not opened. The Treasury and Justice Department officials who appeared before the committee are in Part 12 of the hearings.
