VITAL RECORDS PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05399A000100010045-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: December 14, 1973
• Content Type: REGULATION

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RECORDS AND CORRESPONDENCE
14 December 1973
VITAL RECORDS PROGRAM
STATINTL
1. In October 1969 President Nixon issued Executive Order 11490
which revoked Executive Order 10346 and reaffirmed the Federal Govern-
ment's position which requires that each Federal agency must be able
to perform its essential functions during any emergency. Whereas the
earlier order addressed itself to civil defense emergency plans, its
successor is more comprehensive and includes emergencies arising not
only from warfare but fire, theft, sabotage, flood, or any other disaster.
2. Executive Order 11490 specifically requires that each agency
establish a program for the safekeeping of essential records. Since
this program is administered on a decentralized basis, 11 places
the responsibility for the selection, scheduling, and tr of
these vital records with the appropriate Deputy Director or Head of
an Independent Office. STATINTL
3. To ensure that the Agency will be able to operate during and
after an emergency, it is essential that each operating component
identify those records that are essential to it on a continuing basis
and which, if destroyed, would constitute an irreplaceable loss.
Once identified, copies of these vital records should be scheduled
for transfer to the Agency repository for safekeeping and routinely
replaced when updated versions are issued.
4. The DDMFS/ISAS/Records Administration Branch is available
to advise offices on all matters pertaining to vital records.
FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE:
Acting Deputy Director
for
Management and Services
DISTRIBUTION: AB
STATINTL
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