FUNDING OF THE(Sanitized) ACTIVITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R001200130004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 10, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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10 July 1980
MFM)RANIXJM FOR: Chief, Information Services Staff
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SUBJECT : Funding of the -Activity
1. I want to express my particular concern about the lack of funding for
the activity for FY 81, and. would appreciate your good efforts on our
beha , in your presentation at the Third Quarter 1980 DDCI Goals Program
Review, to emphasize the need for allocating funds to continue the program.
Considering the circumstances of this activity, it seems to be penny wise and
pound. foolish to discontinue the program at this time, if there is any sugges-
tion of doing so.
a. The continuing high interest in this period of history in general
and the intelligence game in particular ensures that we will continue to
be pressured to review this collection for declassification and release
to scholars, researchers, and the general public.
b. Working from the statistics supplied to you for the Review, we
estimate that the OSS Review Team, at the current production rate, will
complete its review by the relatively near term of mid-1982, particularly
if the Team's strength is rebuilt to 15 members. This momentum will be
lost if the program is discontinued.
c. The unique nature of the collection (documenting a wartime intel-
ligence activity no longer in existence) requires uncommon experience and
substantive knowledge which, after all, has justified the contract. All
the Team members have extensive intelligence experience dating back to
early periods, some including service in the OSS. This special knowledge
will become lost irretrievably to the Agency with passing time.
d. The Team has received extensive training in, has built up a body
of guidelines and procedures for, and has developed special expertise in
the processing of the material, especially as pertains to that information
requiring continued protection. Further, the Team has become familiar
with DO perspectives and requirements through its contacts with DO person-
nel. All of this would be lost if the Team were disbanded. Review of
this material at some later date by a retrained (therefore more costly)
team of inevitably lesser background and training will increase the odds
of our releasing information which will be potentially damaging. (C)
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2. In sum, we have in the present OSS Review Team the most cost effective,
efficient, and secure instrument available to conduct the classification review
of the (ASS permanent records. To discontinue the activity at this time would
be foolish, for to reestablish the effort at a later date, as I believe we
would have to do on whatever scale, would be accomplished only at a substantial
increase in cost at a considerable loss of effectiveness and security. (U)
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