AGENCY BLOOD PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00375R000200060006-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 1, 1969
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT : Agency Blood Program
At the end of last summer the number of Agency employees responding
to our request for donors to our blood program began to fall below our
quota of 175 per month. This trend continued through October 1969.
After the Bloodmobile only collected 142 pints in October a concerted
effort was made by the Office of Personnel to increase the number of donors
so that our quota could be met. This included notes and phone calls to all
keymen and other promotional ideas. This resulted in an increased
number of donors for November and December, when we exceeded our quota
by about 10%.
As usual the number of donors fell off in January and February 1970
and again we called all keymen and sent notes to them asking that they
personally contact the employees in their offices asking their
cooperation. Again the campaign paid off and our March 1970 donations
were well over our quota, to such an extent that the Agency received
a written note of thanks from Dr. Stone, Director of the Washington
Regional Blood Center, for the "Wonderful Collection".
One problem that has always been with the blood program is the
high number of scheduled donors that never show up, this averages about
30% each month. In an effort to call this problem to the attention of
all donors and keymen an article has been prepared for the Support
Bulletin to ask cooperation in reducing the number of "no shows" each
month. If the number scheduled each month actually showed up, we would
exceed our quota by a good margin.
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We are now designing, with the help of Visual Aids, new posters to
be used in our advertising campaign. We hope that these new posters
coupled with a continuing effort with each office Keyman will help the
Agency meet its quota in the coming months.
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EMPLOYEE BULLETIN
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27 February 1969
1. We urgently need to increase the number of Agency blood
donors to the Red Cross Blood Bank so that all employees and their
immediate families may receive whole blood without charge. For
Blood Bank participation the Agency agreed to provide 150 donors per
month. Unfortunately in recent years the number of donors has
steadily declined; in 1968 we averaged only 113 donors per month.
Unless we can reach our quota regularly, the Agency and its personnel
may very well no longer be allowed to participate in this program.
2. We appeal to all who are not now giving blood to become
regular donors and to give a pint of blood when the Blood Mobile visits
Headquarters Building on the first Tuesday of each month. To the many
who are already donors, please encourage your fellow employees to join
you in helping to maintain the Blood Donor Program for all Agency
employees and their families.
3. It is not always someone else--you too may require the
services of the Red Cross Blood Bank--as in the recent case where,
without cost to the employee, the child of one of your fellow staffers
received several hundred pints of blood. Without the Agency Blood
Bank Program one can't help wondering what would have happened if this
employee had been faced with the expense of buying this life-giving
blood at $25 a pint.
4. Your participation will help us maintain our privileges in
the Blood Bank Program; please contact your keyman through your
Personnel Officer and sign up--NOW::
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EMPLOYEE BULLETIN
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22 March 1968
1. The Red Cross Bloodmobile continues to make regular monthly
visits to Headquarters Building on the first Tuesday of each month
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Appointments are scheduled
through your component keymen, but "walk-in" donors who do not have
appointments will be most welcome during these hours.
2. In addition to the satisfaction derived from knowing that
your personal contributions may save a life, there is also a tangible
benefit. Participation in the Blood Donor Program benefits donors and
non-donors alike by ensuring that blood is available to any employee
or dependent member of his family whenever necessary.
3. Recently the Washington Regional Blood Center announced
several changes in policy regarding blood donor qualification criteria,
the most important of which are listed below:
a. Volunteers to age 61 may now donate blood. The previous
cutoff age was 60.
b. Self-supporting persons 18 to 21, living away from home
can now give blood without written parental consent.
c. A history of malaria or hepatitis now permanently defers
all donors. If suppressive therapy has been taken for malaria
prevention, two years must have transpired since the last
medication. There is no change in the policy of accepting donors
in good health provided six months has transpired since he
resided in a "malarious area."
d. Donors with a history of tuberculosis may now be accepted
if the tuberculosis has been arrested for over 5 years.
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e. Previously volunteers were deferred for 2 weeks following
a tooth extraction. Donors will now be accepted provided the
extraction was not within the past '1`2 hours.
4. Donating blood is a personal investment which only you can
make. Won't you plan soon to join our co-worker. who now participate
in the Agency Blood Donor Program.?
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