PURPLE PAPER EATER
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP73-00475R000200750001-3
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
December 27, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 18, 2013
Sequence Number:
1
Case Number:
Publication Date:
February 14, 1966
Content Type:
OPEN SOURCE
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/18: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200750001-3
FEBRUARY 14, 1966
PURPLE PAPER EATER: Today's proliferation of...s.R.er -secret
documents has given rise to the problem of how to get rid orgriliff
6per-secret waste paper. In the Los Angeles area the problem is
solved by a unique 40-ton vehicle owned by a firm called Document ?
Disintegration Inc. The mobile paper eater drives directly to the
plant or office door, where out-of-date but still top-secret riles are
fed into it by employes who, of course, have top security clearance.
The mobile machine, which grinds the paper to a fine, dry pulp, can
chew 750 pounds of paper in eight minutes; DDI also has a stationary
plant in Los Angeles that can handle 10,000 pounds an hour--for les
sensitive materials which can be removed from the company pi'
ises before they're destroyed.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/18: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200750001-3