RECONSIDERATION OF SECURE RECORDS STORAGE POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00402R000100260007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 12, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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DDB'S 69-4245
19 Septemaber 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Socarfty
SMECT : Re cousiderat in of lure Records Storage Policy
1. The Agency Records C4ow is neariy filled sad we are not Psr-
mittetd any new construction. We have a continuing Used for recoreds
storage and our temporary arrangement for 2.5. 000 c 1c feet of vault
space In the GSA Records Center at Suittead wilt expire to December
1970. The GSA needs that vault space sand cannot continue to authorize
us to operate on our term I. e.. with our personnel, In their facili
2. On the other hand the GSA Is rem to provide :gage and
service for records from any Agency. And they do so for ten million
cubic feet of records In sixteen Federal fieaos* Center across
the country. They include vault space for security classified records
from Atomic Energy Commission, State Department. cued the Department
of Defense. In Vault 01 at Sultfld, Immediately adjacent to the Agency
compartment, the DIA records are accessioned, sco eed, and regardless
of classification are serviced by GSA security-clft red employees and
their courier syston. At present the AEC is aegaUating with GSA to
store its most sensitive "Nuclear Weapons Data" in a vault at the Denver
Records Center. Only CIA sad NSA at Port Hotabird. Maryland
continue to use their own Bearer Centers The FM has no records
stored outside its offices.
3. ID order to protect Information on our s urces and methods,
we built and manned an Agency Records Center_I 'here we
store temporarily inactive office records and an arch" operation
for Agency records of enduring value and historical or legal interest.
For expediency we also include in that Records Center our emergency
Vital Records collection and the highly classified .zz ra copies of Agency
publications for Supplemental Distribution.
4. 1 would appreciate it if you would reexamine our Agony's long-
standing records storage policy and by 1 November 1969 provide me with
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your ratcommendatisas as to t e ssity or advisability from a security
standpoint of continuing our present melt of operation as opposed to
moving toward a greater use of the Federal Rinds Centers operated
by the National Archives and Records Service in GSA fer We storages
and servicing of at least a portion of our inactive records sad archival
material. A move is this latter direction if feasible would obviously
assist greatly in the resolution of both our more immediate (Suitiand)
and longer-range records storsyae pr9blems.
vS3 R. L. R2rsrcn
R. L. Bannsn
Deputy Director
for Support
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1 - SSS Subject
RAB Subject
DD/S SSS/RAB
rewritten: SOS/L-,
1969)
ma b (18 September 1969)