EXPANSION OF RECORDS CENTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00450R000100170008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 14, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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C 0 P Y 14 May 1956
Chief, Management Staff
Chief, Records Management Staff
Expansion of Records Center
1. On the 30th of April the Records Center had on hand
26,225 cubic feet of inactive records, 65~ of its total capacity.
These records were received from almost every office and are distributed
by volume among the three major components as follows: DD/S, 5,632;
DD/P 3,759, and DD/I, 16,834 (includes 11,305 finished intelligence material).
2. The rate et which inactive records are now being received in the
Center, an average of 53 cubic feet per work day for the past 4 months, is
more than double our experience for the previous two years. This experience
and recently developed requirements in the DD/P and DD/I areas indicate that
the present rate of growth will continue during 1956.
3. The destruction of records held by the Center is increasing
gradually each year but this will not offset the increased rate of
receipt. I estimate that our present Records Center space will be
exhausted by about the first of April, 1957. I propose, therefore,
that the Records Center be expanded b;r 30,000 square feet.
4. I have discussed this problem with
and representatives of the an ons rue on
Division. The Real Estate and Construction Division will develop plans
and specifications when our need is officially made known and funds for
architectural services are made available.
5. The Records Center project outline approved by the Director on
24 March 1954 anticipated expansion within 5 years. The attached chart
shows the growth of the Records Center program from 1951 to 1956. Safe
file cabinets to house the records now in the Center would cost over one
million dollars or about five times construction costs.
6. Representatives of the Real Estate and Construction Division
advise that we proceed as soon as possible with our plans in order
to make the additional facilities available by the time that they are
required.
Appendix B
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