PRINTING - THE CLANDESTINE SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000700120007-7
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 29, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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29 January 1964
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SUBJECT Printing - The Clandestine Services
Executive Registry I
1. The CIA Printing Committee has completed a survey
of the printing problem as it relates to the Clandestine
Services. We find that in general the Clandestine Services
is conservative in its printing practices and that, as a
result, there are few areas in which economies might be
effected.
2. One of the latter is the CA Staff's Press Comment.
This publication is printed four times a week-Tian ate=
age of 510 copies at a maximum of 40 pages each. The plate-
making, printing, and binding work absorbs a total of eight
man hours per day in PSD. The Committee believes that this
load should be reduced.
Recommendation:
That the DDP examine the Press Comment with a
view to cutting the number of cop e s a pages printed
and to reducing by 506 the number of issuances. A
survey of recipients of this publication might indi-
cate that it could be dropped altogether.
3. You are familiar with the F --]project which was STAT
the immediate cause leading to the establishment of the
Printing Committee. In discussing this project with Com-
mittee members, the A/DDP reiterated very strongly his view
that PSD should be able to hold up its end when intelli-
gence breakthroughs of this type are achieved. However
desirable this might be, it is unlikely that PSD will have
this capability in all cases despite cuts being made in
work load. Part of the problem with respect to the
I project appears to have been the result of imperfect
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liaison between ^ and PSD. There was a misunderstanding,
for example, about which was to pay for certai inting
equipment purchased to carry out the project. t!lis crit- STAT
ical of the performance of PSD, especially regarding quality
control, but concedes that there has recently been con-
siderable improvement. Indications now are that col- STAT
lection effort will continue to be fruitful and his
will for some time to come provide a high priority load on
PSD the measure of which cannot be forecast with any de-
gree of certainty.
Recommendations:
a) that the DOP, like-the DDI, designate an
individual on his immediate staff with the authority
to deal with PSD on printing problems which do not
admit of
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ution at a lower level;
C n, CIA Printing Committee
Orig & 1 - Addressee
1 - ea Committee member (4)
1 - SA/CI Chrono
1 P tin Committee file
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