MINUTES OF MEETING AD HOC COMMITTEE ON CIA INTELLIGENCE MUSEUM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00326R000100040005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 23, 1972
• Content Type: MIN

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MINUTES OF MEETING
AD HOC COMMITTEE ON CIA INTELLIGENCE MUSEUM
23 August 1972
Present: Walter Pforzheimer
Robert S. Wattles
Bernard Drell
James Q. Reber, Chairman
Review of Cuban Missile Crisis Exhibit:
Dino Brugioni and members of his staff reviewed for the
committee the state of planning for the Cuban Missile Crisis
Exhibit. Everything seems to be progressing in good order.
Mr. Drell will with Mr. Brugioni meet with 25X1A
to clear up certain security questions pertaining to the
exhibit materials. Reber is to arrange a meeting with
Mr. Angleton on security questions relating to the Penkovsky
papers, the latter to be brought to the meeting by Dino
Brugioni.
Charter for the Intelligence Museum Commission:
The committee considered a draft paper prepared by Mr.
Director to the Deputies and embracing the plans for the
establishment of the commission. The attached draft is
presumed to represent the agreed amendments to
draft. The Chairman stated he would forward this draft
to the Executive Director as recommended by the committee.
25X1A
25X1A
JAMES Q. REBER
Chairman
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I hope within the next few weeks to establish a program
for conserving and when appropriate exhibiting material
which has been significant in the development of CIA and
its operations, before such material is lost or dispersed.
In order to accomplish this I intend to appoint an
Intelligence Museum. Commission, which will be responsible
for establishing and then supervising the following program:
a. Identifying, cataloguing and conserving
documents, photographs, hardware and other materiel,
and miscellaneous memorabilia which have been signi-
ficant in the development of CIA and its operations;
b. Arranging for their progressive declassification,
on terms agreed to by whichever directorate used the
material operationally; and
C. Exhibiting the material when-exhibition would
have a salutary effect on employee morale, on training,
or on special problems the DCI identifies.
The Commission will be responsible to the Executive
Director, but as noted in task b. above, it must also be
responsible to the operational security needs of each of the
directorates. Therefore I am asking each of you to nominate
one member of the Commission. Also I would like to have
your nominations for advisors to represent each unit within
your directorate which may have a special stake in assembling
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an historical collection of intelligence materials. NPIC,
TSD, and OC seem to me to be such units, particularly
because most of them already have developed similar programs
on their own.
I plan to appoint a chairman who would in addition be
responsible for being cognizant of the interests in these
regards of the independent units in the Director's office.
Furthermore, I believe there should be at least three ex
officio members. At this time I have in mind the Agency
Historian, the Curator of the CIA Historical Intelligence
Collection, and a representative of the Fine Arts Commis-
sion, the last in order to establish coordination between
these two commissions. The Agency's Historical Staff will
act as secretariat for the Intelligence Museum Commission.
I do not intend that the Intelligence Museum Commission
should take physical possession of all material that it
identifies and catalogues for the historical collection.
Offices which have the space and interest in housing their
own historical material may retain custody of it so long
as it remains under the ultimate control of the Intelligence
Museum Commission and is not destroyed or dispersed without
the Commission's sanction. Finally, the functions assigned
to the Commission shall in no way interfere with the histori-
cal and archival (records management) functions already
assigned in the Agency.
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