TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF IN-TOWN OFFICE FROM EAST BUILDING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003100170018-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2009
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 23, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT
23 April 1963
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: Temporary Removal of In--town Office from East Building
1. Although the General Services Administration and the District Highway
Department have assured us that we will have access to the 2430 E Street
buildings at all times during construction of the approaches to the new
Roosevelt Bridge, it is becoming more and more apparent that access to these
buildings will be difficult and may occasionally be impossible for at least a year.
There are numerous subcontractors working in this area who are concerned
with different deadlines and different phases of the project, and we have already
experienced several uncoordinated closings of some approach roads. When
the demolition of North Building starts next month, our only entrance will be
from 23rd Street through the complicated construction area north of Constitution
Avenue. The accidental blocking of this road by breakdown of heavy equipment
or bursting of water mains is always a possibility. Furthermore, the continuous
changing of the traffic pattern will make it extremely difficult for the Director's
visitors to find their way to East Building.
2. We recommend that the Director agree to the temporary removal of
his in-town offices until the construction work in the East Building area is
completed and suggest for this purpose the rooms now occupied by the Assis-
tant Director for Operations on the fourth floor of the Matomic Building at
1717 H Street.
3. We now occupy three full floors in this building which are under 24-hour
security guard control, so no additional guard post would be required to protect
the special telephones and other equipment which would be installed. The
suggested space would provide private offices for the Director and the Deputy
Director, a reception room, an office for the security staff, and the necessary
secretarial space.
4. Components now at 1717 H Street can be identified as capable of carrying
on their work in temporary quarters in East Building, albeit inconveniently, for
the duration of the construction job, thereby permitting the AD/O to remain in
the Matomic Building in rooms other than those he now occupies.
GROUP I
Exeloded from autonratic
downgrading and
SECRET
L. K. White
Deputy Director
(Support)
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