FUTURE PLANS FOR THE CIA HISTORICAL PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03087A000100030024-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 8, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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Deputy Director for Plans
Deputy Director .o.r Science and Technology
Deputy Director for Support
SUBJZCT ; Future Plans for the -CHistorical Program
10 .f. publication of l-e-ta-en h star es .from July to 30 Novern-
per of this year hring3 the >o l nurnba of histories publiabad or corn-
a'at-?d '-draft and in final pi oc4333ing for publication to about nniocty
percent of the histories now scheduled in x1.18 Catching-'r.3 progra-n. This
pro-gr-_ss has bean achieved in part by the cancer tion of o e 3 }y- five
histories h ich tie; e -,ac ative for ; he lack ox writers or other r ea33oaa.
of .he Scheduled DDS histories have now been auclished or are in
draft and close to publication. -Completion of the catc lhig-up phase is
also ,; lthin tight in the other three directorates.
Looking ' .3 the tur , have vquested the CMe of he His-
torical Staff to develop a smaller Prograa which would de-emphasize
com onant or station history and locus Instead on situations in. which
the Agency has provided .signiiicantt support to U. &&, policy or other
topical subjects involving major support to intelligence programs. A
list of Proposed topics is a- t-tached for your consideration. May I invite
other s?
3. It is my thought that by a more compact prograns, oriented
in large part toward actions wi ~z Which the %-aancy has been pus licly
identified., we can reduce the personnel - rain on direr orates, mini-
'. i' dependence . n contract nnuitant3, -,.nd tie as ;-rrikeri, :at orian:
now ns i~rh 1 to %ha rataricsi taff> toget"he ~ ith other persons detail-ad
to the Staff for limited periods of time to write on :particular tonics for
,which they are qualified by their on experience. This neat also put us
in a better position to respond to pressures that x.u ht develop as the
result of .~ecuti ve Order lip a2." 1 believe we can antica `:e increasingg
numbers of requests for documents of '1 Oi and OSS that lave Passed the
magic thirty-year mark as -44ell as requests for mandatory review of tea-
ear-old documents,
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FW I will b di.acusaing 1is ~qubj' ct with you at an -aaxiy me Uzig,
.b Which time I s111al -weicome your tho g is on A hw proposed E, paca as
well a a on ways Lo ataif this program within our means.
W. E. Colby
Executive Director-Comp
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