MEMO TO TOM CORMACK FROM (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100080047-3
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: March 16, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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16 March 1984
Tom Cormack
Executive Secretary
History Staff Bi-Weekly
Ken, assisted by Bob, completed his study on "Control of Intelligence
Assets in Wartime" for the DDCI. It was forwarded on 5 March.
He also has attended a series of meetings dealing with the fate of the
OSS records. Action now rests with the National Archives to write a
procedural letter and with IMS to make arrangements for the transfer of the
first batch of documents.
Ken attended a half-day seminar at the National Archives on 13 March on
the subject of Documentation Standards. He has also been consulting with
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DDI/OGI, who are preparing a stuay manual for DDO/IAD.
Also completed was a short memo for the Chairman of the Critical
Intelligence Problems Committee on the historical background of the current
committee's predecessor.
Bob has finished the first week of a three-week part-time course at OTE
on Intelligence Successes and Failures.
Don has arranged to interview on the subject of targeting
and to consult with until recently the RMO for OD&E, on two of
the later overhead programs.
Diane has received back from DDO the last batch of documents from a
series of requests by Dr. Wayne Thompson, an Air Force historian. This case
has been running since November 1980, but she expects to be able to close it
out this month.
E___~has rearranged the office files and inventoried our holdings of
the paraphrased histories submitted to the Senate Select Committee in 1975.
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A building electrician has been in our area for much of this week. He
has rearranged our power outlets and Wang connections--and also disrupted
our work.
will represent the staff at the Director's speech today.
The Society for History in the Federal Government will hold its annual
meeting on 11 April. This is an all-day affair held at the Library of
Congress. Ken, Bob, and possibly Don, plan to attend.
History Staff
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