AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE CIA FOR STATE SERVICING OF CIA BIOGRAPHIC REQUESTS ON POLITICAL PERSONALITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000400010036-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: November 5, 1952
• Content Type: CONT

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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT or STATE ADD TBE CIA FOR STATE
SERVICING OF CIA BIOGRAPHIC REQUESTS ON POLITICAL PERSONALITIM,
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1. State/BI agrees to provide, except as indicated in paragraph 3,
complete biographic service to CIA on foreign political, sociological,
and cultural personalities, hereinafter referred to as "political" a
-personalities.
, 2. CIA/RR will discontinue the processing of biographic informa-
tion and preparation of ::reports? other than provision of machine listings,
in the political field,
? . 3. CIA/BR will continue to maintain machine records on political
personalities and to service all requests for rapid sorting and repro-
duction of data by category or multiple categories.
4.- State/BI agrees to provide daily to CIA/OCD for machine records
maintenance all new or revised category data processed from all incoming :
biographic reports. Such information, which will be made available on
the prescribed form, and in accordance with present CIA procedures and _
instructions regarding machine maintenance, will include the following
categories: name, variants, organizational affiliation, location, ?
occupation, nationality, political affiliation, etc.? , a
5. State/BI agrees to provide prompt servicing of all CIA requests
and to assure special priority handling at all times of urgent CIA require-
ments. To this end, State/BI agrees to establish a separate and distinct
system for controlling the servicing of CIA requests. .
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- 6. CIA requests, other than for machine listings', for biographic
information on political figures shall be placed directly with State/Br
by the requesting offiee. State/BI will furnish CIA offices with -
directories arranged alphabetically by country indicating analyst in
charge, telephone extension, and room number. . a
. 7. State/BI agrees to provide direct access to its biographic
:files as required by CIA personnel and to loan specific files to CIA in.
emergency cases and for Short periods.
? 8. 'CIA/OCD will review its current files and make provision, in ,
collaboration with State/BI and interested CIA offices, for phasing the
transfer of appropriate materials to State/BI. All data classified
"CIA Internal Use Only" shall be retained by CIA/OCD and a cross-reference
by name and document reference made available to -State/BI for noting in
answering CIA requests.
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9. CIA agrees to make funds available to State/DI, in accordance
with Section 6(a), Public Law 110, comnUted on the basis of the additional
costs incurred by State in servicing CIA requests. The initial transfer
shall be estimated on the basis of current voikload experience trends in
CIA/BR. Future transfers shall be increased or decreased as mutually
agreed upon based upaa a, projection of current trends in the number of
CIA requests being serviced by State/BI. Allowances shall also be made
for any added costs incurred by State/BI in furnishing data required for
machine maintenance by CIA as outlined in paragraph 4 above.
10. To assure continuity of servicing of CIA requesto during the
transition, it is agreed that upon approval by both parties this agree-
ment will be effectuated as follows:
a. State/DI will begin the recruitment and clearance of
the additional personnel required to service CIA requests;
b. CIA/BR will discontinue the processing of biographic
information and, pending staffing by State/BI, will answer requests
from State/BI files; ,
c. CIA/BR, on an interim basis, and. pending staffing by
State/BI, will detail sufficient personnel to State/BI to initiate
referral of category data to CIA/OCD for machine maintenance.
11. State agrees to make every effort to complete its staffing and
assume full responsibility for servicing CIA. requirements by not later
than 1 July 1953.
'/s/ Loftus E. Becker
Loftus E. Becker
Deputy Director (Intel )igence)
Central Intelligence Agency
W. Park:Armstrong, jr.
? Special Assistant, Intelligence
Department of State
Approved subject to specific approval
by the Bureau of the Budget of the finan-
cial support by CIA as set forth in para-
graph 9.
/z/ Lawrence R. Houston
Lawrence R. Houston ?
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
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