DISPOSITION OF RECORDS HELD FOR SILVER RECOVERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00402R000100090012-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 18, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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SECRET
CIA ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CE14TER
18 November 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Records Administration Branch
SUBJECT : Disposition of Records Held for Silver Recovery
REFERENCE : Your Memo for the Record, Dtd. 18 July 1969;
Subject: "holding Photographic Records to Reclaim
Precious Metals"
1. As instructed in referent memorandum, the A&RC has delayed
disposition action on all records containing film material.
2. There are now 1.258 cu. ft. of these records at the A&RC.
378 cu. ft. of this volume have been pulled from the shelves, sub-
tracted from the statistics and are stored in the isles. The other
880 cu. ft. remain on the shelves and are counted as part of the A&RC
holdings because there is not room to store this volume elsewhere in
the A&RC building. 715 cu.__ft. of the total volume consists of NPIC film,
and the other 543 cu. ft. consist of map negatives, roll microfilm,
x-rays and reproduction masters.
3. On 22 October 1.969, the official in NPIC responsible for the silver
recovery program visited the A&RC. Be was shown samples of the various
negative materials being held at the A&RC. It was determined that all the
items could be readily processed and that the machine was operational and
had been approved by the Industrial Safety Engineer. However, the Agency
Safety Officer has turned down the installation and will not permit NPIC
to run the machine. It is not known at this time what the solution will
be.
4. Using the formula outlined in referent memorandum, the silver con-
tent of the records being held at the A&RC would be worth approximately
$6,642.24 (2.4 ounces per cu* ft. X $2.20 per ounce ? $5.28 X 1,258 cu. ft.-
$6,642.24).
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5. In view of the above, we need advice as to whether we should
continue to hold or to destroy. The atoraXe space in the A&RC is
adequate to continue.-to hold for a"er 4 or 5 months, if necessary,
while it is being resolved as to whether the Industrial Safety Engineer
or the Ageney Safety Officer is right,
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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
Disposition of Records Held for Silver Recovery
Chief, Records Administration Branch
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
24+ November 1969
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
The Attached Report if For
Your Information.
The Silver recovery Program
is very profitable and required
in each Agency.
The C/Printing Services
briefed DDS last week on his
successful silver recovery from
Chemicals.
The NPIC is ready to go with
a machine to recover silver from
old photographic film but the 0/S
Safety Officer says its dangerous.
Last July told the Center to
wait for IC until November.
Now we are holding 1,25$ cu. ft.
of film. If NPIC can't process
it in the next few months we will
have to fly it to Kodak in
Rochester, N. Y. and they will
get the silver for disposing of
the film. (That is an NPIC
arrangement used the last few
years.)
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I will tell; hold
our Film until Marc 970, in
hopes that NPIC will be ready
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