RECORDS STORAGE SPACE (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00402R000100030002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 2, 1969
• Content Type: MF

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/06/25: CIA-RDP73-00402R000100030002-9
MEMORAXDUM FOR: Special Assistant for Vietnam Affairs
SUBJECT : Records Storage Space
1. In response to your 29 September request for space to store
16 cubic feet of sensitive records, I can accommodate you immediately,
if we can house these files in our Records Center vault with the six
cubic feet of your records stored there since February 1969. These
are alongside some 1711 cubic feet of the Director's records. Like
yours, his include codeword, TOP SECRET, and uniquely sensitive items.
Although the Records Center has not had occasion to provide you any
reference service on these, the procedure for you would be the same
as for the Office of the Director--(i.e. special courier delivery with-
in two hours or available on a routine basis twice per day via codeword
or TOP SECRET channels and controls). Your staff has available to it
the experienced assistance of the Director's Records Officer and file
room to get your files in and out of the Records Center in an expedi-
tious and controlled manner.
2. If, on the other hand as your memo suggests, you will require
the construction of a special compartment this will require time for
logistics to plan and GSA to construct. Even more serious than the
time and cost is the scarcity of space. As you know the Records Center
is crowded and Col. White has requested the entire Agency to reduce the
volume of its records in storage. To construct a screened compartment
for the six safes you mention to house 48 cubic feet of your files will
require removal of shelf units now storing 180 cubic feet of records.
Besides the loss of storage capacity and the awkward precedent such a
special compartment creates, the new storage and retrieval procedures
required would be a decided disadvantage to your office. At present
the Center services thousands of sensitive records directly to the de-
positor without opening the specially taped boxes.
3. I earnestly suggest that you reconsider the details of your
storage request. I will appreciate if you will discuss some of the
possible alternatives with the Agency Records Administration Officer,
Perhaps,an examination of the security controls avail-
trieval procedures to serve the sensitive storage requirements of your
records.
able at the Center will enable us to develop adequate deposit and re-
R. L. Bannerman
Deputy Director
for Support
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/06/25: CIA-RDP73-00402R000100030002-9