MICROGRAPHICS CONSOLIDATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002400100033-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: February 2, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Deputy Director for Administration
FROM .
R.E. Hineman
Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT :
Micrographics Consolidation
REFERENCE :
(a)
Memo for EXCOM from Director, DCI/DDCI Executive
Staff, dtd 21 Dec 1981, Subject: Minutes of the
14 December 1981 EXCOM Meeting: CORE Recommendations
(b)
(EXCOM 81-9056)
Your Memo dtd 26 January 1982, Same Subject
1. I strongly recommend that you contact the Executive Director about
calling off the micrographics consolidation study mentioned in your recent
memorandum. This same question has been examined extensively by intra-Agency
groups several times previously and has already been found to be a non-starter.
2. In addition to the negative findings in the previous studies, there
is a new condition that makes consolidation even less feasible, namely the intro-
duction of the ADSTAR system in OCR and in DO/IMS. ADSTAR is an integrated
system in which the input cameras, the storage devices and the retrieval stations
are all connected to a single minicomputer. There is no logical way that dif-
ferent parts of the system can be managed by separate organizational entities.
3. The people that operate the ADSTAR microfilm cameras in OCR are part
of the Document Services Division. If these people have any spare time, they
are diverted to other Document Services functions. I do not see, therefore, that
any consolidation within the DDA would provide either savings or a rational way
of managing these functions.
4, A study at this time will divert resources needed.to implement the
ADSTAR system in OCR and will only corroborate previous
cc: Executive Director
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