LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM DANFORD L. SAWYER RE MAKING THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE COST-EFFECTIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002100110058-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2007
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: April 21, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable William J. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER
April 21, 1982
Since becoming Public Printer on August 5, 1981, I have taken some
difficult but essential steps designed to make the Government Printing
Office (GPO) a cost-effective, efficient organization. I have slashed
overtime costs, instituted an agency-wide hiring freeze and furlough, and
returned the Superintendent of Documents to solvency after years of deficit
operations.
Through these measures -- and by repealing the GPO's recent 16% price
increase -- I am attempting to arrest the uncontrollable upward spiral in
the prices which the GPO must charge your agency and the rest of the
Government for our services. The bottom line on all my efforts is to
reduce the unconscionable burden on the American taxpayer of Government
printing and binding. I know that you share these goals. A number of
special interests, however, put personal financial gain ahead of the
solvency of the GPO and the public welfare.
On April 9, 1982, the Washington Post and newspapers throughout the
country, ran a Jack Anderson column attacking me and the GPO. A copy of
the Anderson column is enclosed, and I can only describe it as a massive
distortion liberally sprinkled with factual inaccuracy. I have enclosed my
response to Mr. Anderson, which accurately sets forth the events which
Mr. Anderson either ignored or chose to misconstrue. So that you know all
the facts, I am also sending to you a copy of a summary of the GPO
Inspector General's report on the remodeling which Mr. Anderson questions.
You should note that the Inspector General concluded that no violation of
law or GSA standards occurred.
So that you fully understand the factors motivating this attack on me and
the GPO, I have enclosed in this package of material a notice circulated by
the Columbia Typographical Union No. 101. They suggest that the GPO raise
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prices, increase overtime work, impair the GPO's working capital fund
(currently adequate for only a 2-week period), and utilize the GPO's
capital assets to meet their demands. Sure, that would bring the GPO back
to apparent solvency in the short run; but, it would be disastrous for the
long-range financial condition of the GPO, would drastically increase your
printing costs, and -- worst of all -- would again shift the burden of
GPO's problems onto the backs of America's taxpayers. The GPO's in-house
printing costs are already twice the average low bid from private sector
printers, and if past practices again prevail the situation can only get
worse.
This may seem :Like an isolated problem, but it directly affects your
ability to pay for your agency's printing and binding requirements. The
choice is clear. Hold the line on spiraling costs, or do business as usual
and perpetuate the present intolerable, yet worsening, situation. You, as
a Reagan appointee, an agency official, and a taxpayer, must become
involved in this matter if my efforts are to be successful. Please give me
your assistance.
P.S. I am sure that you are aware that the GPO is a legislative branch
agency, and thus Congress is crucial in solving this problem we both face.
Telephone the Members you know best - they have already received the
information which I have enclosed for you - and urge them to help. The
situation is critical.
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