CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PURCHASE OF HILLSIDE SAFES THROUGH GSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001800040025-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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OLC 78-3157
11 October 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Michael Malanick, ADDA
OIG
PA
OGC
FROM STAT
00 eview Staff
Office of Legislative Counsel
SUBJECT Chronological History of Purchase of Hillside
Safes Through GSA
1. In late September, we received a telephone request from
Pete Roman, on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices and Open Government,
who reported that he had received an anonymous tip that the
Agency had "half a warehouse full. of defective safes from a
subsidiary of Art Metals Corporation." Roman said that he had
also been provided the names of two Agency employees who could
provide him the details about these safes. After a discussion
with Mr. Malanick, we decided and Mr. Roman agreed that at this
time it would be better to make arrangements to provide him the
pertinent documents on this matter.
2. On 2 October, Mr. Malanick provided this office with
23 documents which provide a chronological history of the purchase
by CIA of Hillside Safes (a subsidiary of Art Metals Products).
On 6 October, the undersigned showed Mr. Roman the 23 documents
with the instructions that should he want any of these documents
they would be released to him in an unclassified version and that
the names of Agency employees would be deleted as appropriate.
Mr. Roman concluded that he wanted the entire package of documents.
3. The release of document number 1, which was originated
by the Department of State, was approved by Mr. James Kolesnik,
Chief, FOIA Office of Security, Department of State. The
release of documents numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 was coordinated
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with Mr. Paul H. Riley, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and
Logistics, Department of Defense. Neither Mr. Riley nor
Mr. Kolesnik had any objection to our releasing these
documents to Mr. Roman in their entirety.
4. At the reque of Mr. Malanick, the names of Agency
employees, except for Charles Kane and Howard
Osborn, have been deleted from Me-se documents. Mr. Malanick
reviewed the attached material for classification purposes and
determined that the Agency originated documents could be released
to Mr. Roman in an unclassified form and those documents which-
bore classification markings or internal handling markings
have been re-marked and declassified accordingly.
5. Attached is a set of the documents as they will be
passed to Mr. Roman. Your concurrence on the release of this
package is requested. When these documents are provided to
Mr. Roman, we will request that no public use be made of these
documents without prior clearances from the Agency.
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Michael Malanick, ADDA
)IG
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