PROGRESS REPORT

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CIA-RDP70-00211R000800320011-5
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RIPPUB
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C
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2
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December 19, 2016
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September 30, 2005
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11
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Publication Date: 
May 14, 1958
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MF
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Approved For Release 2005/11/21 : CIA-RDP70-00211R OS0 2D011 CONFIDENTIAL 1!4 May 1958 MEMORANDUM FOR: Division, Staff and Branch Chiefs SUBJT : Progrds s Report 1. RI has now destroyed a total of 1,115 feet of paper - or a pile of paper twice as high as the Washington Monument. This is paper that your records officers have authorized to be destroyed from the L Building collection alone, not counting Archives, Records Center, or superfluous holdings in the branches. 2. Destruction figures below have been tabulated according to division, comparing the amount of destruction against division holdings in RI on 1 June 1957. (Note: An additional 95 feet of Buikies which have been destroyed are not included in this tabulation.) Be it under- stood that the percentage in the right hand column reflect the amount of effort each division has put into this program, not the relative worth of their material: A detailed report has been prepared by the RI Projects Officer for each division, listing which files have been destroyed and which still remain to be worked over. Division Holdings in Cubic Feet, 1 June 57 Cubic Feet Des- troyed as of 8 May 58 Percentage of 1 June 57 Holdings FIE 740 355 148 FE 450 175 38 NEA 200 60 30 SE 210 80 33 220 25 11 WE 360 55 15 wH 240 50 20 Categories 510 220 143 100 & 200 TOTAL 2,960 1,020 34 Approved For Release 2005/11/21 69M- }TYAL0211R000800320011-5 22 MAY1 8 Approved For Release 2005/11/21 : CIA-RDP70-00211 R000800320011-5 C 0 N FI D E N T I A L 3. Although other measures have contributed to improved RI services - the introduction of the Night Shift, and new mechanical procedures - the removal of unnecessary and obsolete paper from the Files Section has had a direct effect on the work done by Ri. A year ago, the average name trace required more than two weektt~_. complete. Nowadays, the average request for an index search is com- pleted and returned in less than 2h hacuree, and the average request for documents is ready for return to the requester within t8 hours. About lO% of the references listed on name check forms are to documents which have been ordered destroyed as worthless. This factor alone greatly reduces the work of your name tracers. 14. There is still much work to be done, particularly in weeding out and destroying and correcting useless and incomplete index cards. We cannot be satisfied until the whole name trace process averages under 24 hours, and we are sure that is possible. But you have made great strides in the past few months; I congratu- late you and your personnel for your conscientious efforts to help RI help you. cc: COPS CSRC Members CONFIDENTIAL 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/11/21 : CIA-RDP70-00211 R000800320011-5