CIA PUBLIC RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000200760003-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 28, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 656-4068
STATION W T T G T V
DATE June 28, 1983 10:00 PM CITY
Washington, DC
MAURY POVICH: The CIA is dealing with a sensitive issue
tonight. It doesn't involve the Soviet Union or any foreign
policy matters. The issue is one of public relations between the
agency and nearby residents.
And Metromedia 5's Morris Jones has just returned from
the meeting over a proposed expansion project at the agency's
headquarters. Morris, you even got inside.
MORRIS JONES: Maury, we did, without cameras. But
tonight's public meeting at the auditorium was historic in a way.
One official said it was the first time he could remember any
citizens were allowed on the compound. But the CIA knows it has
some public relations work to do.
The agency wants to construct a new seven-story building
on its property to consolidate its work force. Currently, there
are a thousand CIA workers in leased officies in Roslyn,
Arlington, Tysons Corner and Vienna. But residents are concerned
about the added commuter traffic if everyone is moved on to the
CIA compound.
Highway 123 is now the main route to the CIA with other
entrances coming off 193 and the George Washington Parkway.
Nearby residents are angry they've never been called in to
planning sessions until now, and then only because of their
protests.
The CIA wants to add 3,000 additional workers at its
compound with only 1,000 new parking spaces, saying it can make
room for the surplus. Residents don't want the added congestion.
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WOMAN: We have a great problem with the traffic
congestion that exists presently and we're afraid that with the
additional thousand new cars, three thousand employees, that
it's just going to be a tremendously impossible mess to get in
and out any time of the day.
JONES: And Ken, how do you feel? Do you think the CIA
is passing the buck?
KEN: Well, I'm not sure I'd call it buck-passing as
much as I'd say that there seems to be a need for a broader,
higher level coordination among all the federal and state and
local agencies involved.
JONES: Here's what the CIA proposed at tonight's
meeting. Again, cameras were not allowed. Staggered work shifts
so agency employees are not so much a part of rush hour traffic.
This will be even more important when the new building and
workers are added. Road and ramp improvements will be made on
Highway 123 by the state of Virginia. And the dirt that's dug up
to make room for the new building will be spread on CIA property
where a new parking structure will be put up that would keep
dump trucks off the roads.
There's still a problem with Highway 193 which is
already saturated with traffic, and the CIA isn't sure what to do
about the problem. Plus, residents still want the main agency
entrance changed to the George Washington Parkway. But more, the
U.S. Park Service doesn't want the commercial traffic there.
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