HEAT-SENSITIVE COPY PAPER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00211R000800300089-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: February 1, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
DATE: 1 February 1961
FROM : Chief, Records Nlanagement Staff
suBJECT: Heat-Sensitive Copy Paper
1. About 4 years ago an Agency Notice.was issued warning
that heat-'sensitive-copy paper would deteriorate and that such paper
should not be used for official documents of record. This Notice
expired in 1958.
2. The National Bureau of Standards has completed a study
of the stability of heat-sensitive copy paper that confirms the
warning of the Notice. The Bureau estimates that under ideal storage
conditions and with little use heat-sensitive copies might remain
in good condition for 10-15 years. Poor storage conditions can
cause deterioration within one or two years.
3. General Services Administration has now notified all
Federal Agencies of the findings of the Bureau study and has
requested the following action:
"Each agency should take steps to insure that documents
on heat-sensitive copy paper will be excluded from the
permanently held records which, will become part of the
National Archives of the United States."
accomplishing this objective.
4. Those of us 'who are responsible for the management of
records are concerned with insuring the preservation of permanent
and long term retention records sent to our own Archives an& Records
Center. The assistance of Area Records Officers is essential in
Approved For Release 2006/09/25: CIA-RDP70-00211 R000800300089-2