RECORDS DISPOSITION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00005R000100010034-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: January 5, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64
Approved For Release X1/08/30 CIA-R[P74-0000
: All Area Records Officers 25X1A9a
Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
FROM : Chief, Records Management Staff
suBJECT: Records Disposition
What do you suggest that we do to help Solve this problem?
1. Attached is a copy of an article which has recently come to my
attention. Our own position in this matter at the end of Fiscal '60
will be of interest to you.
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a. Records holdings in Headquarters offices totaled 188,000
cu. ft. - a very slight decrease against the preceding year.
b. Agency offices destroyed at headquarters 16,000 cu. ft. -
an increase of 53% over preceding year.
c. The Records Center receieved 10,500 cu. ft. - an increase of
9% over the preceding year.
d. The Records Center destroyed 5,800 cu. ft. - an increase of
11% over the preceding year.
e. The total cumulative receipts by the Records Center since
1952 are 96,000 cu. ft. This records accumulation would have
required over 96,000 sq. ft. of floor space at headquarters
and more than 12,000 safes and file cabinets. The safes and
file cabinets alone would have cost about $3,108,000.
f. On the average, it now costs the agency about $50.00 to keep
one cu. ft. of records in headquarters office space for one
year; the same amount of records can be kept in the Records
Center for about $2.00 per year.
2. You can see from the above facts that we are not making sufficient
headway in reducing our paper holdings despite the good efforts of
many offices during the preceding year. The lack of adequate office
space is still a serious Agency problem. People and paper can't
occupy the same space.
cc : DD/I
Aped For Release 2001/08/30 : CIA-RDP74-00005R000100010034-6