OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL RELOCATION TO ORIGINAL HEADQUARTERS BUILDING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89G00643R000900080003-7
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 30, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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3 0 JUL 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy General Counsel
VIA: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: John M. Ray
Director of Logistics
SUBJECT: Office of General Counsel Relocation to
Original Headquarters Building
1. Thank you for relatin. to me the substance of your
conversation with He's helping us manage the
very difficult task of getting the original Headquarters
Building (OHB) ready for another 25 years of operation, while
at the same time trying to resolve some very serious life
safety and utility shortfalls. This undertaking has given us a
unique opportunity to also resolve some equally serious
organizational integrity and space equity problems as we
backfill the building up to its designed capacity.
2. As you are aware, some offices in the OHB are
scattered throughout the building, which is nearly as awkward
as being split between the OHB and external space. The life
safety and utility work will require a lot of moving in and out
of vacated space to clear large areas of the building for
construction. We intend to take advantage of this fluid
situation to reunite as many offices as we can in contiguous
space.
3. The space equity problem is more difficult to resolve,
but it must be done and this is our only opportunity to do it.
As Bill's staff looked into the equity issue, they discovered a
huge disparity across the building. Some organizations are
presently occupying space averaging 50 square feet per person.
Others are in space averaging as much as 160 square feet per
person. In fact, within the same Directorate we discovered
accommodations ranging from 50-115 square feet per person.
While we all agree that an argument can be made for some
offices to have a larger-than-average allocation of space per
person for operational or security reasons, we cannot continue
to underwrite the huge disparities in working conditions within
and across Directorates as exists today. There simply has to
be some give on the high end to provide reasonable working
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conditions for those presently at the low end. To do so, we
have reallocated every square foot of space in OHB using a
universal rule, with full realization that we are tempting the
fates in so doing. The Executive Committee, which has approved
the program, was briefed on the equity issue and on our plans
for resolving it.
4. All of the above is by way of background. Let me now
address the portions of our program which you find
troublesome. We are quite aware that open landscape design,
depending on how you define that term, is not appropriate for
every office. In fact, OGC was singled out early in the
program as one office wherein a larger than average number of
private offices of limited size would be required. Thus, OGC
was assigned a larger per-person square-foot average than was
allocated to other offices. We think we can do more
architecturally, per square foot, within the OHB footprint that
can hp doni~~ ithin the rather wasteful architectural design of
the Building. Nonetheless, it is entirely possible
that 14,000 square feet will be unworkable for OGC, but we wish
to give the firm we have employed to do the space and
engineering design for OHB a chance to work with you and Bill's
staff on that 14,000 square feet to see how much can be done
with it. If it doesn't work out, we will be prepared to make
appropriate adjustments. But please be patient.
5. The firm we have employed to help us on the OHB
project has been asked to take a hard look now at the
allocation rule Bill's group devised in order to fit everyone
into the building to see if it is workable. We expect an
answer in the next month or so. If it is unworkable, we will
likely be faced with eliminating some organizations from the
compound, an unpalatable thought at this time, and making
another total reallocation of space.
6. I hope you get some reassurance from all of this. We
don't intend to produce either a ghetto or luxurious
accommodations. What we are saying is, give the designers a
chance to sort this out, give us a chance to work with you, and
be prepared to join everyone else in accepting less space than
you asked for.
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7. Be assured that we will be working closely with you on
this issue when we get further along in the process. In the
final analysis, there is no way that we can provide all the
space that everyone has requested. The requests we have
received total 90,000 square feet in excess of OHB capacity!
Jdhn M. Ray
OL/FMI~ (29 July 87)
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