QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT ON RECORDS PURGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00099A000200050030-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 3, 1969
• Content Type: MEMO

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C O N F I DENT I A L
3 JAN 1969
MEMORANDUM TO :
CIA Records Management Board
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Attention:
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FROM :
Chief, Historical Staff
SUBJECT :
Quarterly Progress Report on Records Purge
deposited with the Historical Staff during the
Agency reorganizations of 1951-53, were transferred
to the control of the A/RC for screening, discard
of surplus duplicates, integration into centrally
established files at A/RC, and future servicing.
Based on a sample inspection conducted by A/RC and
Historical Staff personnel on 23 September, it was
evident that almost all the items were duplicates,
and it was mutually agreed that A/RC would under-
take the necessary item-by-item screening and dis-
card the surplus duplicates, without further
review by the Historical Staff.
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A. General. At the request of the Records Management
Board, the Historical Staff on 25 September compiled an
advisory paper, "Historical Documents: A Checklist," which
was subsequently discussed and circulated, on 20 December 1968,
in the Board's series of guidance sheets.
B. Historical Staff Holdings Reduced by 50%. The total
bulk of the to s holdings at the Archives and Records Center
has been reduced by exactly 50%, from 20 cubic feet to 10 feet,
in accordance with plan outlined in memorandum of 12 September,
as follows:
1. 4 feet of DCI/ER reports files (job 66-600)
ere transferred back to DCI/ER control.
2 -1-0-feet of ORE and ICAPS files 1946-50
'),' obsX64-655, 656, and 657), which had been,
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