INVESTIGATION OF PAINTING FOR CIA HEADQUARTERS BUILDING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200030035-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: February 14, 1967
• Content Type: MFR

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1. On 17 March 1965 a GSA/R&I'contract #4490 was
His duties were to provide support, supply laborers
and escort while the painters were in the building,
and-to be responsible for blueprints and colors of
paint on the doors.
awarded to the Charles Bainbridge,-Inc., 111 Chapel
Drive, Annandale, Virginia, in'the amount of:$159,510
with a 200 calendar day completion specified. The
contractor's workmen first entered the building on the
night of 28 June 1965 and completed about 21 December
1965. F- I SA&FB/OL,was assigned as
the Agency representative to monitor this contract-
2. On 9 February 1967 at 1400 hours, Mr. Howard
T. Holmes, Office of Compliance, Region III, General
Services Administration, came to SA&FB and met with
Also with permission from
gation was motivated because
indicat t the -ipvesti
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ha worked under this contract. .
01'-certain alleged charges made by a few painters who
3. explained that the Agency's interest
.in the project was to obtain an above-standard paint job
for the entire building, both inside and outside, and to
have the work performed in the least possible time with
the least interruption to Agency operations. Our Agency
representatives indicated those areas or surfaces which
were not satisfactory to us; however, final acceptance
of the work and authorization for payment to the contractor
were the responsibilities of and carried out by the PBS
inspector. This Agency-worked with PBS on the selected
paint samples, endurance test, and finally in choosing the""
type and texture of the paint to be applied.
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SUBJECT: Investigation of Painting for CIA Headquarters
Building
4. Also brought out in the meeting was that after
the paint was selected and before the contractor began
(a period of approximately nine months) that the PBS
Paint Shop continued painting rooms in the new colors
and that it was not necessary for these rooms to be
painted again by the contractor. It would therefore
seem logical that the contractor should have allowed---I
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credit for these areas and that the contract price wa
adjusted downward accordingly.
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Deputy Chief,
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Space Allocation and Facilities Branch, LSE/OL
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