LETTER TO: (Sanitized)FROM: DALLAS IRVINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00211R000500190023-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2005
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 26, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
National Archives and Records Service
Washington 25, D. C.
July 26, 1960
Records nagemen cer
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
In February 1955 the Selective Service System requested authority to
dispose of the individual case files of all registrants for the draft
for the years 1940-1947, excepting those of aliens (Class IV-C). This
request was approved by the National Archives and Records Service, and
Congressional authorization was contained in House Report No. 198, 84th
Congress, 1st Session.
One of the conditions under which we gave our approval was that the
Selective Service System would continue to retain for an indefinite
period of time the classification lists of local boards, showing
successive actions on classification of registrants. It was also
stipulated that if the classification lists of any local board had
been lost or destroyed, or were otherwise inadequate, the pertinent
individual case files of that local board would be retained in their
stead . .
In letters dated February 26, 1954, and September 30, 1954, the National
Archives and Records Service requested the concurrence of the Central
Intelligence Agency in this proposed disposal program. This
General
concurrence was given in replies by STAT
Cabell, in letters dated May 14 and October 14, 1954, respectively.
Other interested agencies were consulted and gave their concurrence at
about the same time.
As a result of the stipulation cited above, the Selective Service System
found that the individual case files of some 110,000 registrants, in
twenty-three local boards, had to be retained, because the classification
lists of those boards were inadequate or had been lost. The Selective
Service System has now, however, requested authority to dispose of
these remaining 110,000 individual case files, purely on the ground that
the use made of them in the past five years has been "so small. as to
be insignificant."
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The National Archives and Records Service believes that it is justified
in disapproving this request, for to approve it would mean the destruction
of the only remaining source of classification information for these
110,000 registrants. It would also gravely weaken the case for the
further retention of any classification lists whatever, should the
Selective Service System propose to dispose of them also. Our own
experience, furthermore, has shown that there is a considerable, steady
demand for classification information pertaining to World War I
registrants even at this late date.
Before taking action we felt it incumbent upon us to present these
facts to the Central Intelligence Agency, since its concurrence in 1954
was based in part upon our assurance at that time that full classification
information on all registrants would remain available.
Would you please advise us, therefore, whether you agree with the
stand we propose to take in this particular instance, and, if possible,
whether you believe that the continued availability of classification
information for all registrants is of importance to the present and
future operations of the Central Intelligence Agency?
Sincerely yours
Dallas Irvine
Chief Archivist
War Records Division
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