LOAN OF CIA FLAG TO SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 24, 1977
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24 June 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: George L. Cary, Legislative Counsel
SUBJECT: Loan of CIA Flag to Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence
1. (C) Action Requested: This memorandum contains. a
recommendation for the approval of the Director of Central Intelligence
in paragraph four. This recommendation suggests that a CIA flag
be presented to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on an
indefinite loan.
2. (C) Background: As you know, Chairman Daniel Inouye
recently contacted me to express a desire in purchasing a CIA flag
for his office. He raised the basic question as to whether CIA flags
were sold. I told him that his question was a novel one to me and that
I would look into it. I subsequently learned, through the cooperation
of the DDA, that the protocol regarding Government flags is set out
by the Institute of Heraldry, Department of the Army. Under this
protocol, service or departmental flags are neither sold nor are they
given to Members of Congress for their personal offices. Departmental
seals or plaques are donated to Members for their personal offices.
Service flags are loaned to committees having oversight over the
individual services or departments for display in committee rooms.
For example, the Armed Services Committee has all of the flags of
the military services displayed in their Committee hearinfroorxs. I
also learned, through the DDA, that a CIA flag costs In rp.ther STAT
startling figure.
3. (C) On 23 June I called Chairman Inouye to explain the cost
of an Agency flag and the protocol regarding departmental flags' As
expected, Chairman Inouye said he 'vould not be interested in purchasing
a flag at that price even if it was available to him. He expressed shock
at the figure commenting that he had gotten a handsome flag, made in
silk, for approximately $30. 00. (Ile did not say when.) I told him that I
thought we could consider providing a flag to the Committee on a loan
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basis as soon as the Committee has permanent office space where it
could be displayed. At this point, he told me the Committee has officially
acquired the Senate half of the space previously occupied by the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy and is remodeling that space. He added
that he thought it would be in the Agency's interest to have our flag
displayed in that room noting that we were supposed to be "pros in the
business of public perceptions, etc. "
4. Recommendation: It is recommended that you approve
the loan of a CIA flag to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
for display in the Committee's offices and that the flag be presented
to the Committee in a modest, non-publicized ceremony.
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Geo ge L. Cary
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Director of Central Intelligence
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