Staff Study on Proposed Far East Area Command Message Center

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1997
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• Publication Date: August 22, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Support Staff, tar .wt Area Command
Chief, Organization and Methods Service
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Staff Study on Proposed Par East Area Command Message Center
1. Attached is a staff study on the proposed Par Fast Area
Command Issage Center, Mich has been prepared in accordance with
25X1 A9a a request by Mr.
2. So specific T/ O or grade structure has- been rec+ vended
in this report. Specific recommendations regarding these matters
should be based upon wed as determined by actual operating ex-
perience with the message center.
3. Primary retxueoendatns of the staff study are as follows:
a. Since the. ;'message center viU be required to service
the entire Far East Area Cod as a mil control center, and
as a registry, it should bear the characteristics of a
combined central mail room and Records Integration Staff.
b. Until operating experience with the FEAC indicates
necessary revisions, all correspondence and comunications
should be centralized through the message center as a means
of control.
c. The Secretariat and other staff elements should use
the message center as a source of information in policy -
making.
d. Procedures for field station registry operations have
been prepared by RI, and such procedures should be adopted by
the PE message center.
e. Annex A is a chart of the functions contemplated for the
FEAC Message venter (or Registry). It is realized that the Registry
Branch to be established in the General Services Division, FEAC,
might, and initially probably should, combine a number of the functions
shown on Annex A into one section of the Registry Branch. Your pro-
posed T/O for the Registry Branch provides for a Document Control Section,
a Courier Service,, and a Message Center. Of the functions shown on
Annex A, the following might be combined in the Document Control Section:
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The Hail sued Messenger function shown on Annex A would probably
be performed by your Message Center and the Code Designation function
on Annex A =lot be performed by the Office of the Chief of the
Registry prat. At a later date, when the volume of work increases,
it my be desirable to establish your Registry Branch on an organ-
izational basis approxinating the structure shorn by Annex A.
5. The Courier Service provided by your proposed Tf? is not
covered by the attached staff study. He veer, the function of this
unit may be readily integrated into the functions and procedures
recommended by the staff study.
6. If, at the appropriate time after reviewing this staff
study, you should desire, the Organization sand Methods Service
will develop detailed procedures to implement the recommendations
contained in this report.
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