This collection from the Central Files, part of Records Group 59 available at the National Archives, is from the Internal Economic, Industrial and Social Affairs subject classification. It contains files that deal with the internal situation in the modern nations of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (collectively known as Indochina) during the era when the French government was attempting to reassert control over the area after World War II. Reel 10 also includes Confidential Correspondence Files which have since been declassified, but not reintegrated into the Correspondence Files. A guide is available that provides both a reel and a subject index. For index and reel guide see Confidential U.S. State Department central files, Indochina internal affairs, 1945-1949 : [guide] compiled by Robert Lester and Martin Schipper. Poor contrast on some documents.