INTELLIGENCE MUSEUM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06207A000100030001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 28, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Plans
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT : Intelligence Museum
I. The Agency needs a program for conserving and, when appro-
priate, exhibiting material which has been significant in the development
of CIA and its operations, before such material is lost or dispersed.
2, In order to accomplish this, an Intelligence Museum Commission
will be established, which will be responsible for establishing and super-
vising the following program:
a. Identifying, cataloguing and conserving documents,
photographs, hardware and other materiel, and miscellaneous
memorabilia which have been significant in the development of
CIA and its operations;
b. Arranging for their declassification when appropriate
on terms agreed to by whichever directorate used the material
operationally; and
c. Exhibiting the material when exhibition would have a
salutary effect on employee morale, on training, or on special
problems the Director identifies.
3? The Commission will be responsible to the Executive Director,
bUt as noted in 213 above, it must also be responsible to the operational
security needs of each of the directorates. Therefore, each directorate
12 requested to nominate one or more referents with special interests in
this field, or in offices which might have a special responsibility. NPIC,
TSD, and OC seem to me to be such units, particularly because most of
them already have developed similar programs on their own.
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4. The Chairman will be appointed by the Executive Director,
The Agency Historian, the Curator of the CIA Historical Intelligence
Collection, and a representative of the Fine Arts Commission will be
ex officio members, the last in order to establish coordination between
these two Commissions. Other members will be appointed by the Execu-
tive Director as appropriate, or as nominated by the Deputy Directors.
The Agency's Historical Staff will act as Secretariat for the Intelligence
Museum Commission.
5, The Intelligence Museum Commission will not take physical
possession of material that it identifies and catalogues for the historical
collection. Offices which have the space and interest in housing their
own historical material will retain custody of it so long as it remains
available to the Intelligence Museum Commission and is not destroyed
or dispersed without the Commission's sanction. Other material may be
transferred to the Agency's Archives. Finally, the functions assigned to
the Commission shall in no way interfere with the historical and archival
(records management) functions already assigned in the Agency.
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W. E. Colby
Executive Director-Comptroller
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REMARKS:
If you or someone
a particular interest
of an Intelligence Museum,
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