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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00450R000100100026-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: January 13, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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I. Definition
The term "printing and publication capabilities"
as used in this report is defined as that equipment in
the Agency which is involved in producing copies by
relief, offset, hectograph, stencil, and photographic
are not limited to, letterpress and offset printing,
multilith, mimeograph, ditto, microfilm, photocopy, and
similar processes. All general purpose copiers--Xerox,
thermofax, etc.--are excluded from this definition and
accordingly are not discussed in this report.
The capability to process film and produce photo
prints is also included in the study for the Printing
Services Division and the Central Reference Service. In
the case of the National Photographic Interpretation Center
only that capability directly related to printing is included.
For a discussion of Agency general purpose copiers
in headquarters and the metropolitan Washington area
including an inventory of such equipment, the reader is
referred to the draft Copy Machine Study, April 1968,
which was prepared jointly by the Systems Analysis Staff
of the Office of Planning, Programming and Budgeting
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II. PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CAPABILITY
The Agency's printing and publishing capability is
primarily in the three printing plants under the
Printing Services Division, Office of Logistics. However,
significant capability for printing and publishing also FOIAB3B
I Ind the National Photographic
Interpretation Center. A myriad of smaller centers
scattered throughout the Agency also total to a fairly
significant capability.
A. Printing Services Division
At the end of World War II, the printing establishment
which had been built up to print maps and reports for OSS
was transferred first to the Strategic Services Unit, then
to the State Department (early 1946). State, feeling that
this,printshop, located in the basement of South Building,
had a capacity far exceeding their requirements, invited
the Government Printing Office to survey State's printing
needs and make recommendations. Subsequently this
facility in South Building was designated a secure printing
facility of the GPO. It was called the State Service
Office of the GPO, though before long, because of its
location and facilities, a majority of its work was being
done for the CIA.
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 At the same time that this unit was being transferred
to State, the newly established Central Intelligence Group
had the need for reproduction facilities. *Multilith,
mimeograph, and photostat machines were installed, first
in the attic of South Building; then as equipment such as
offset cameras, platemaking and binding facilities were
acquired, into larger spaces in the basement of North
Building. The conversion of CIG into the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, and its rapid growth, multiplied the need
for printing facilities. In 1947 the Agency accepted the
responsibility for the National Intelligence Surveys,
which had to be printed at the GPO facility in South4
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(too tie-QPO,- In 1948 this CIA unit, known then as the
Printing and Reproduction Branch, then division, and after
1954 as the Printing Services Division,took over the FOIAB3B
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Organizationally, during the late forties the
printshop had been under ii Ser_D' ion,
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the establishment of the D15A (later DDS) in 1951 the
Printing and Reproduction Division had been part of the
Office of General Services. Finally, in February 1954 the
present Printing Services Division became part of the new
Office of Logistics.
On 13 January 1957 the GPO plant in South Building
was taken over by CIA and its personnel amalgamated with
those of the PSD in0. Consolidation of their 25X1
equipment, however, had to wait ten years until the new
PSD building was finished at the Headquarters area in
Langley. This was accomplished by the time of the
dedication of the PSD Building 13 September 1967.
Earlier, two smaller reproduction units had also
become part of PSD. A special reproduction facility had
grown on the second floor of Q Building, keyed to the
security classification and speedy publishing requirements
of current intelligence publication. PSD absorbed it from
OCI on 9 November 1952, though it remained cdlocated with
and almost exclusively used by OCI. It moved to the new
Headquarters Building, 7th floor, with OCI in October 1961,
and maintains round the clock highly classified printing
.support.
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In the early days of the Agency, the security require-
ments of the Clandestine Services seemed to justify a
separate reproduction facility. A ditto machine operation
began in "L" building under 0SO(later one of the constituent
parts of the DD/P) auspices solely to print raw clandestine
intelligence reports. It was converted to a Multilith
operation and moved into "K" Building. In the general
reshuffling of the Agency in the early 50's it was involved
in one of the many "centralized-decentralized" arguments.
PSD assumed operating control of this facility on 1 February
1953, expanding its scope to include quick-response, small
printing jobs for the "I-J-K-L" complex. It moved to the
ground floor of the Headquarters Building with the DDP in
the spring of 1962, ai-d?was further expanded to do small,
quick jobs for the whole Headquarters, andr?wenntseean
The Printing Services Division presently is capable
of producing upward of 200 million impressions annually
and some 5 million photo prints. It `vas a personnel
strength of positions and an annual budget in excess
of 0 It has the capability of printing by
letterpress andi'f~CQtzs offset ,rFi~QYJ1a$c: Its composing
capability includes hand set, hot lead, photo composition,
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and most recent, automated photo composing using computer-
assisted methods.
PSD has the capability for typesetting in a number
of foreign languages including any using the English
language as wellas Russian and Greek and has a limited
number of diacritics in type faces used for headings.
It has, of course, the capability of printing any
language through use of photographic processes.
B. Technical Services Division/DDP
The Graphics Arts Branch/Technical Services Division/
DDP, which has been continuously located in the basement
of Central Building since 1942, devotes about five/to- rc'
percent of its effort to overt printing. Because of its
highly specialized printing equipment, it is called upon
to make such things as Honors and Awards Certificates,
Agency badges and ID cards, and other very high quality
printing. Its two overseas branches in the FE and Europe
have also done printing of Agency forms on a time available
basis.
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D. The National Phft4graphic Interpretation Center
When the Agency's photo interpretation effort moved
to the steuart Building a very limited scale reproduction
effort was established in July 1956 to publish PI reports.
Once again the justification for a separate facility was
the time factor and the very sensitive security classifica-
tion of the reports involved. Security no longer is a
major factor in the determination that the printing and
photographic services be located in the Center. However,
 because of the specialized nature of NPIC reports and
the time frame under which they must be reproduced and
disseminated, co-location of these facilities with the
PI activities is desirable. This facility has grown
with the establishment of NPIC and the move to Building
25X1 =until it presently has a broad capability for
graphic and print reproduction and produces some 21,000 J
impressions and 500,000 photo copies annually.
E. The Cable Secretariat
The Cable Secretariat employs multilith presses to
reproduce incoming and outgoing cables. The produce
approximately 25 million impressions annually.
P. Other
Printing capability also exists in a number of other
Agency components, principally in the Office of National
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elsewhere account for perhaps 7-9 million impressions
annually primarily on mimeograph, ditto, and multilith
 Agency requirements for printing and publishing
services for FY 67 amounted to an estimated 307 million
impressions and 5.6 million photographic items (prints
III. Agency Requirements for Printing and Publishing Services
and negatives) at an estimat cost of
By major printing facility, this breaks down
No. of
No. of Photo
Impressions Items
Printing Facility (millions) (millions)
Printing Services
Division
*Only overt or "white" printing is considered.
All covert or operational printing support to .
DD/P is excluded.