INDUSTRIAL REGISTER CARDS (ICF)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00042A000100070004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 19, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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Subject: Industrial Register Cards (ICF)
References (a) Memo for Standing Committee Members of the
IAC, subject as above, dated 15 April 1949
1. All Standing Committee Members except Army and Air Force
concurred in the proposal contained in the referenced memorandum.
It is believed that the major objection of Army and Air Force to the
proposal is based on the size of the backlog which has developed in
the Industrial Register - in the neighborhood of L6,000 items.
2. Action is being taken in OCD of CIA to eliminate that back-
log as soon as possible. The backlog is construed as that material
being received, or which has been received, by Industrial Register
in format which is not substantially identical with the Industrial
Card File. Material received from U. S. Forces Austria, European
Command Intelligence Center, etc., on 8 x 13 sheets of paper but
susceptible to cutting and filing with 8 x 5 material, is not con-
sidered part of the immediate backlog. Backlog materials now to
be disseminated may be reproduced by mimeograph, multilith or by
ditto, provided that the format of reproduction is such as to permit
the. product to be filed easily and systematically with other ICF
materials.
3. In consequence, the proposal contained in referenced
memorandum will be postponed at least until the IR backlog is
eliminated. Once the backlog is eliminated the feasibility of
making dissemination of compiled information on a request basis may
be reconsidered.
4. As a result of the above, the necessity for further inter-
departmental coordination in this matter has ceased and the item
will be dropped from present Standing Committee consideration.
Chief, ICAPS, CIA 25X1A9a