LETTER TO MR. JOSEPH MALAGA FROM MICHAEL J. MALANICK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A002100060020-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: November 14, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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Mr. Joseph Malaga, Executive Director
Administrative Services Reorganization Project
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D.C. 20503
Dear P?ir. Malaga:
The opportunity to provide information for your study
on organizational and procedural improvements to centrally
provided, federal administrative services is appreciated.
CIA is heavily reliant upon the General Services Adminis-
tration (GSA) for a variety of services, predominantly in
instances, however, centralized support is made dif icult
by the unique aspects of Agency operations.
As Nou are probably well aware, the Director of Central
Intelligence is statutorily required to protect intelligence
sources and methods including " . organization functions,
names, . . . or numbers of personnel . . . ." These require-
ments, as recorded in a specific CIA exemption within the
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949,
complicate the utilization of centralized federal services
in many functional areas. Because of this statutory require-
ment and the necessity to directly support sensitive foreign
ac ivi ties, the Agency: maintains its own telecommunications
agility; has a locistics orrannization providing supplies,
:_.i!ini.strative services, classified printing, and facilities
nport; has a centralized security organization which, among
cter responsibilities, coordinates Agency facilities protection
by GSA Federal Protective Service officers; and operates, in
coordination with the National Archives and Records Service,
a records management and storage system.
The Administrative Services Reorganization Project
memorandum requested views, problems, and priorities (and
the assumption is made that, as it affects CIA, GSA services
(Ey ECUTIVE R N ~ R Y E
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are of primary concern). First, CIA's dependence on GSA's
administrative services should be reiterated. The Agency
does not have the size to perform all of these functions
for itself, nor, given the resources, would it be desired
to do so. On balance, GSA support of Agency activities is
more than satisfactory and cooperation and responsiveness
by GSA senior managers can only be rated as excellent. It
is considered, however, that improvement is needed in
GSA/CIA's joint efforts to acquire and maintain and operate
facilities. This space acquisition/maint.enance function
is complicated by several factors: (1) the necessity to
vigorously screen and./or escort all GSA employees and GSA
contractors given access to Agency buildings; (2) the
occasional necessity for very rapid acquisition, relocation,
or modification of a facility either to house an impending,
"state-of-the art," technical collection system, for security
reasons, or to accommodate organizational change; (3) the
geographic isolation of the CIA Headquarters complex from
GSA's centralized professional staff and labor pool; (4) CIA's
necessity to install and operate, on a 24-hour basis, highly
technical, classified systems requiring dual, special utili-
ties systems for primary and backup operation; (5) the
necessity to provide expensive, structural modifications
to CIA facilities for physical securit and 6 the wide
distribution of small CIA recruitment
facilities across the U.S.
It is recognized that this area of primary concern is
complex and that a substantial amount of additional informa-
tion may be required. Accordingly,
Executive Officer, Office of Logistics as been
designated as the action officer for this initial phase and
will provide what further data your staff may need.
The provision of central administrative services is of
vital concern to CIA and of principal interest to this
Directorate. Please call me if I can be of personal assis-
tance or, if you have the opportunity, please let me arrange
a luncheon and tour of our Langley facility.
Sincerely,
/s/ Michael J. Malanick
Michael J. Malanick
Acting Deputy Director
for
administration
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Originating Office:
/s/ James H. McDonald
4 NOV 1977
James H. McDonald Date
Director of Logistics
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