IDENTIFICATION OF OFFICES OF RECORD.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00099A000200130009-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 28, 1971
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 20049W CIA-RDP73-00099AO00200130009-5
DRAFT
28 October 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: (Each Deputy Director)
SUBJECT : Identification of Offices of Record.
1, The problem of voluminous files in Agency offices as well as
in the storage facilities at the Agency Archives and Records Center
requires that additional effort be made to eliminate duplicate
records keeping.
2, The Records Management Board, at my request, has studied
the problem and recommends to me that greater priority be given in
each Directorate to the development of "Records Retention Plans for
Permanent Records" in which the "offices of record" are identified
for all Directorate files if continuing legal and historical value,
The Directorate Records Staffs have been working part-time for several
years on these Plans to preserve the more important permanent records.
3. I will appreciate your personal attention to expedite these
efforts and assure their completion by the end of January 1972. When
this primary project is completed, I will expect the Records Managers
to immediately proceed with the identification of "offices of record"
for the temporary types of records which although many times more
voluminous should be completely listed by the end of Fiscal Year 1972.
4, I will expect the Records Management Board in its semi-annual
reports to keep me informed of the status and progress of the Retention
Plans in each Directorate.
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