RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION BRANCH HISTORICAL STATEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP54-00177A000100160017-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 17
• Content Type: STATEMENT

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Records Management and Distribution Branch
The Records Management and Distribution Branch began in March 1946
as the Central Records Section of the Personnel and Administrative
Branch, Executive Staff, Central Intelligence Group. At first the
Section was responsible only for the control and filing of correspondence.
To these duties were added the distribution of intelligence documents
,
operation of the courier service and control of Top Secret documents,
Under the Central Intelligence Group, the Section was named, successively,
the Central Records Section, the Central Registry and again, the Central
Records Section. It was first placed under the Communications Division
and later was transferred to the Services Division where it remained
until after creation of the Central Intelligence Agency,
After creation of the Central Intelligence Agency the Section was
made responsible also for matters of records management in CTA. It was
transferred to the Office of Collection and Dissemination in May 1911.8.
The courier service was transferred to the Administrative Office, OCD.
All the other original functions of the Central Records Section were
given to the Library Branch, OCD. The records management function,
itself, was transferred to a separate portion of the Library Branch and
was called the Archives Division, and later, the Records Management Branch.
It was moved in November 1950 from OCD to what was then called the
Services Office. During the following months responsibility for the
mail and courier service, distribution of copies of intelligence
documents, central control of administrative correspondence entering
and leaving CIA, and operation of a central administrative file were
brought together under the official who was responsible for the records
management and records storage functions. In May 1951 this activity was
given its present name, Records Management and Distribution Branch, and
was placed in the General Services Division of Administrative Service
Office,
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