Mr. Dulles. That is what I mean, you have the total you have to add this up for previous years, but you don't keep them forever, you take some of these out.
Mr. Bouck. These are not all cards, but these are items of information. In 1-year cases we might get 40, 50 items in a particular case, and these items would go in the case files.
Mr. Dulles. Do you know how many names you have carded now, approximately?
Mr. Bouck. We have not counted them but we think in the vicinity of a million but they are not all active, you see. We have no way of knowing when people die in some cases and things like that. So we don't know just how many of these million are now active. Certainly very much less than a million.
Mr. Dulles. But you have a million names carded?
Mr. Bouck. Yes. In the indexes.
Mr. Stern. In the files which you describe as basic files, I believe, how many cases are current, either in your office or within easy access?
Mr. Bouck. About 50,000.
Mr. Stern. About 50,000. So that 950,000 are in some other storage?
Mr. Bouck. Not all of these cards, you see, will represent cases because we have some cases in which many people are involved. There would be considerably less cases than there would be card indexes, but we do have a very sizable storage of cases under National Archives, some of the older ones having gone to places like the Roosevelt Library.