STORAGE OF VITAL DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00211R000300220015-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 25, 1948
• Content Type: MF

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25 August 1948
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SUBJECT : Storage of Vital Documents
1. I have today discussed with Lt. Col. Marshall, Office,
Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, and Maj. A. T. Schrader, Signal
Corps (Room 5A910, National Defense Building, Ex. 4748), the
communication facilities which might be available to CIA
to be considered in "Disaster Planning."
2. The Chief Signal Officer has, as a part of the
Army's emergency plans, certain decentralization expedients
for immediate and longer range communications after a dis-
aster. And also a counter-sabotage emergency plan. In
essence they are:
a. An emergency command post at the Headque.rters
of the Army Ground Forces, Fort Monroe, Va. Communi-
cation facilities are available there in a stand-by
status for contact with the six Armies (1- Fort Jay,
Governor's Island, N. Y., 2- Fort George G. Meade, Md.,
3- Fort McPherson, Ga., 4- Fort Sam Houston, Tex.,
5- Chicago, Ill., and 6- the Presidio of San Fran-
cisco, Cal.) These facilities are inadequate for
full time communications with all Armies. They
will have to be scheduled and will be limited to
"command messages."
b. A stand-by team (stationed at Fort Monmouth,
N. J.) with sufficient equipment available for dis-
patch to a point to be designated as an alternate
Command Post. These facilities are capable of ex-
pansion to replace the full Army facility now in
the Pentagon Building.
c. A facility at Vint Hills Farms, Va. capable
of reestablishing Zone-of Interior communications
within two to three hours and overseas communications
within the same time IF the transmitters at Battery
Point (42 miles air lie from the Pentagon) are not
put out of action.
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d. A plan for reestablishing CIA (OSO) communi-
cations in the event those are put out of action. This
plan is available to the communications people of
OSO.
3. It is to be assumed that the various Armies have
communications facilities to tie-in to the Army Headquarters
each of the posts under their command. It is further to be
assumed that the Air Force Bases are within such a net work,
possibly the same. (This will be explored by ICAPS.) In most
cases, under the present organization of the Army and the
Air Force, the posts or bases are located at some distance
from the industrial centers in the United States. The possib-
ility of using Army Posts or Air Force Bases as "rallying
points" for CIA should therefore be explored.'
Colonel, GSC
SECRET
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