REPORT ON COMMITTEE MEETING -- (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200030012-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Content Type: REPORT

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Report on committee meeting---Jackson to Borel
Following seemed to be the consensus of what M told the committee
it thought about the cover question:
1. All ORE reports and estimates should be a standard size (with the exception
of basic intelligence whose size has been fixed)- This size would presumbaly
be 8- X 10 which seems to be fairly standard for the government. (It was
suggested that 4 the NIS size be used so wx that we'd have full standardization,
but it developed that their size will be too big to fit in filing cabinets.)
2. A standard cover should be used on everything but the Daily and the
Special evaluations. The latter should have the same cover as the former
which will remain as is. fhextypnz 2 The only type of cover thought of
at this particular meeting is one M has cooked up for the M series
which features two billiard balls floating in a mystic sky.
3. We ought to get away from printing the random thoughts that now appear
on the inside of the covers because the process is taking hours of the printers'
costing thousands of dollars. This could be printed on a fly
leaf if it has to be printed at all.
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and numbers on the front as it deeply offends his aesthetic sense. I was
directed to find out how that idea statted and to determine whether there
is any chance of getting it changed.
5. Our Flow Chartist also brought in a bill which is about to be passed
by the Congress which will order CIA to have a seal. When this is decided
on, it will obviously have to appear on all covers and will gs=zszdaxix?9
help give a desired standardization to the extent of making customers realize
when they see a certain type of cover that they are getting CIA reports
under them.
6. Probably the strongest argument in favor of our unvaried cover is that
it will save a hell of a lot of money and time. A new overlay will be all
needed for a new report.
7. There was discussion of possibilities of getting away from these in-
terminable maps and globes, but nobody could think just how to do it. My
thought of an apprpriate sketch showing Admiral Hillenkoeter dressed in a
cloak and dagger, whispering into the ear of President Truman was rejected.
8. Meeting adjourned at 1118 until next Friday at, 11. At that time
all ideas for a standard cover will be brought in;xdiz sxd; and discussed.
We will then pick one and come up with our recommendation.
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