COMMENTS ON JIM CHANDLER'S MULTIPLE SETS OF VITAL MATERIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00402R000100340008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 20, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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DATE: 20 May 1960
Multiple Sets of Vital Material
1. I (proposal was based on the assumption
that the present agency relocation site and the Vital Materials
would not survive a nuclear attack.
2. To compensate for this he advocates dispersion of
selected finished intelligence. Dispersion is fine and I
feel that it is necessary to our Vital Materials Program.
However, the fact that these selected intelligence materials
are considered vital.to carrying out our wartime mission
they should be deposited, and maintained, in the most readily
useable form, (hard copy, bound and with all maps and exhibits
in proper sequence).
Experience acquired through participation in several
Operation Alerts substantiate the fact that requests for NIS
ctions were very high, percentage-wise, in comparison to
all requests received from DDI Offices.
3. Application of microfilm techniques does not appear
suitable to this type of operation. If we were forced to
rely on actifilm cards the efficiency of our emergency operations
would be greatly reduced through the limitations consistent
with actifilm viewing and reproducing. In addition to this,
must also consider the excessive costs to be incurred in the
Printing of 3 M copies (7ci per page) at time of emergency.
4. As to dispersal sites, I'd like to state that there is
,,-a--strong possibility that satisfactory dispersion is presently
available and not readily known. For example, several of our
offices receive copies of the NIS. If we could select
a few of these offices that are not on the list of critical
target areas and outfit them with the selected materials,
we would have a good dispersion program.
5. I do like his suggestion of placing a set
In this way we could receive additional protection through
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6. I would like to suggest that OCR prepare a list of all
rec ients of e NIS and other selected materials, not just
generally by agency-or service, but include more specifically
the unit and address of unit facility. Further, that this
list include a notation indicating whether each recipient
receives all issuances, and whether or not they keep and
maintain them to provide complete current coverage. A phone
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conversdion, this date, with indicated that
such information is not presently available, but he has agreed
to provide us with a detailed list iiithin the next two weeks.,
7. It appeared to me that the cost estimate for microfilming
of 700,000 pages ($8,800) was quite conservative. However, there
may be some new filming techniques which will cut the operator's
time resulting in reduced costs. I do think that we should
request that check the validity of the estimate.
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