ADDITIONAL SPACE REQUIREMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01143A000400030003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 17, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

DARD FORM NO. 64
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
:Assistant Director, Reports and Estimates DATE: 17 June 1949
FROM : Chief, Global Survey Group
SUBJECT:Additional Space Requirements
1. The space presently allotted to the Global Survey Group is
already crowded (five persons in some 450 square feet). The summer
leave schedule will permit the accommodation of on his
expected arrival in August. The need for additio space will become
imperative, however, on the arrival of - in September. The
total space then required will be three rooms which, for reasonable
convenience, should be contiguous (as, for example, in the case of
the space allotted to G/SI).
2. Ecpansion of the space presently allotted to this Group is
obstructed by its location between two "immovable" objects: the
Deputy Assistant Director and the Assistant Director's Conference Room.
3. When the Group was originally assigned its present location
this difficulty did not exist and was not anticipated. The location
of the Conference Room was then regarded as a matter of temporary
expediency subject to change. In fact, the Conference Room was made
up in part of space then allotted to G/GS, but "borrowed" until
actually needed by G/GS. It was the subsequent "sound-proofing of the
Room that caused it to be regarded as "immovable".
4. Last winter G/GS was assigned three rooms in "Q" Building
(exactly the space now required). At that time the present require-
ment for additional space was not anticipated. Moreover, objection
was made that the Group, in view of its stated and actual functions,
should be kept conveniently near both the Assistant Director and the
Staff Intelligence Group. The final decision was that the Group should
remain where it was.
5, If, to meet the present need for additional space, the Group
should be located in some remote area, the same objections would arise
again. I believe that a valid case can be made for keeping the Group
in close proximity to the Assistant Director and G/SI. Moreover, it
is questionable whether the room and a half now assigned to the Group
could be efficiently utilized by any other unit. The problem of
properly utilizing that space will remain as long as the present
Conference Room is maintained. It would seem to me that it would be
better to face that problem now and solve it once and for all, by
moving the Conference Room to the place-where it properly belongs,
contiguous with the office of the Assistant Director on the main corridor
(Rooms 2071 and 2501, an exactly equal space). This would permit G/GS
to have a suite of three rooms exactly opposite that of G/SI.
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6. I understand that NSG action on the Dulles Report may
lead to the establishment of an estimates group on terms presently
undefinable, but possibly obviating the present problem. It may
be advisable, therefore, to defer action in this matter. Subject
to that reservation, however, I request that the Assistant Director
approve in principle, for planning purposes:
a. Transfer of the Conference Room to Rooms 2071 and 2501.
Assignment of the present Conference Room space to
G/GS effective on or about 6 September.
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