UNCLASSIFIED CIA DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP93B01194R001700030008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 28, 1977
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: IP Staff
FROM
SUBJEcT
: Unclassified CIA Documents
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1. Unclassified (as distinguished from declassified)
CIA documents fall into three general categories, and are
released to the general public by three other U.S. agencies,
not the CIA itself:
a. Political, economic, and social reports and
research papers, and biographic reference aids. Be-
ginning in 1972, these items were handled by the
Document Expediting Service (DOCEX) of the Library of
Congress, a subscription service. Xerox or microfiche
copies of individual reports, however, may be purchased
from: Photoduplication Service, Library of Congress,
Washington, DC 20540. Requesters usually ask us for
individual documents. If it is something which has
been turned over to DOCEX, the requester should always
be referred to the L. of C. Do not go to the indivi-
dual CIA offices (0ER, OCR, ORPAT?Tor copies -- if we
start handing out free that which DOCEX furnishes at
cost, the L. of C. will stop taking our documents, and 0
they presently save the CIA a lot of dissemination and
distribution headaches. The CIA contact with DOCEX is
the CIA Librarian OCR regularly
furnishes us with an updated list ot documents released
to DOCEX, plus a list of DOCEX subscribers (including
the USSR embassy), which I keep in a DOCEX file in my
top drawer.
For pre-1972 times, you will have to go to the
originating components for copies to furnish the
requester. OCI- and OPR-originated items are now in
ORPA, and for ONE items go to the NIO part of NFAC,,
b. Maps and atlases. Public gets them from the
Government Printing Office (which gets the plates fro?m
OGCR). GPO furnished so many copies of the China Atlas
that they wore out the plates and turned the job over
to a private firm (Rand-McNally, I believe). Many of
the map reqbests we get are for rather off-beat maps _
(rather than the standard base maps in GPO), and a
quick phone call to the OGCR/FOIO (presently the ,
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the CIA furnishes them (OGCR often does), or whether we
I. refer the requester to GPO -- i.e., to:
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Superintendent
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Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402
c. Translations of the foreign_press and foreign
radio broadcasts. These are published daily in several
volumes by the TForeign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS). They furnish many copies to regular subscribers.
They also furnish copies to the Federal Depository
Library Program (FDLP) -- more about that program
below.'However, responsibility for distriubtion of
these FBIS products now rests with the National Tech-
nical Information Service (NTIS) of the Department of
Commerce, and requesters seeking this type of infor-
mation should be referred to: National Technical
Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield,
VA 22151. I have a few small NTIS brochures in the
separator behind my desk. FBIS services are explained
on pp 20-29 of the brochure. This is also a subscription
service; preferably (and cheaper) by microfiche copies.
As far as individual press or broadcast articles
are concerned, FBIS can sometimes retrieve them, other
ti For help on such questions, call the FBIS/FOI00
on
2. The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) has
been in existence for many years, and started out as an
adjunct of the Civil Defense Program. Only this year (1977),
however, has the DCI made a concerted effort to see that CIA
products reach the general public through this program.
Under the FDLP, producing CIA components furnish unclassi-
fied documents to the Printing 4 Photography Division, which
in turn furnishes two clean copies to the Government Printing
Office. The GPO furnishes microfiche copies to depository
libraries all over the United States -- about 1200 college
and public libraries (where in the original concept they
would survive if Washington were blown off the face of the
earth). The depository libraries can pick and choose what
they want to receive -- over 600 of them receive CIA material.
Whether any requester's local library is served by the
F.D.L. Program or whether CIA material is available there
can best be discovered by his local enquiries. But PPD
furnishes IPS on the first of each month with a machine
listing which describes all documents furnished GPO --
including DOCEX and NTIS material. These machine listings
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will be retained in the office files under "F.D.L.P."
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3. None of the material described above will generally
be found in the DECL system because it is unclassified from
its inception, and DECL contains only declassified material
or sanitized versions of documents ori znall
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