RECORD STORAGE SPACE AT THE RECORDS STORAGE CENTER (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00402R000100030003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 29, 1969
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2006/12/16: CIA-RDP73-00402R000100030003-8
29 September 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT : Record Storage Space at the Records Storage
1. As you know, on behalf of the Director, this office is the
repository of all Agency and much non-Agency correspondence pertaining
to Vietnam. Aside from the more routine correspondence we also hold
traffic of the utmost sensitivity, including single copy traffic read by
only a few Agency officers individually authorized to read such traffic by
the DCI. This correspondence is not only of daily use but is of critical
importance for historical and record purposes.
2. The volume of this special traffic has now reached a point where
we are faced with the problem of permanent storage and quick retrieval of
the older files when needed. We have on hand at the moment approximately
two four-drawer safes of material that I would like to store at the Records
Because of the sensitivity of this material, however,
we would need to have a small wire-mesh cage built enclosing a small area
that could eventually contain approximately six four-drawer safes. Because
of the sensitivity of this material, this staff would retain the combination of
the safes and nol records personnel would have access to it without
our prior approval. Therefore, there would be no need for Records personnel
to catalogue or formally file the material. We have had preliminary conver-
sations with Records Management officers and they are willing and able to
build such an enclosure and allocate the small amount of space involved.
However, there would be a minimal cost factor of a few hundred dollars
and for this I am requesting your authorization. Your approval will allow us
to proceed as quickly as possible to solve a storage problem that is daily
becoming more burdensome.
eQrrge arver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs