COMMENTS ON THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-COMPTROLLER'S MEMORANDUM OF 9 MAY 1972, ARCHIVES, HISTORY, AND RECORDS

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 12, 1972
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12 May 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: MPS, Mr.
SUBJECT : Comments on the Executive Director-
Comptroller's Memorandum of 9 May
1972, Archives, History, and Records
1. The following comments are per your request,
to be considered in the preparation of a response to
the Executive Director-Comptroller's memorandum.
2. The program outlined by the Executive Director
would emerge more clearly if its three components,
archives, history, and records, were treated separately
with their inter-relationship pointed up by appropriate
cross-referencing.
3. The CS historical program should be essentially
autonomous, under the general guidance and coordination
of the CIA historian.
4. If a centrally directed CIA historical program
is to continue, the CS should participate in overall
management. The CIA historian, or his deputy, should
come from the CS. A CS representative should partici-
pate in reviewing the preparation of overall and other
directorate histories. He should be able to monitor
their readership and use.
5. There is a diffusion of CS information identi-
fying operations, methods, assets, agents and staff
personnel, in other directorate (primarily DDS) and
overall Agency histories. As of now the CS does not
review drafts of these histories, does not receive
published copies, and has no voice in and is not in-
formed as to their use and readership. Recommendations
in paras 3 and 4 above would serve to improve this
situation.
6. Beyond the purely historical objectives of
preserving a record of CS activities over the years,
the CS has its own internal interests in the preparation
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of historical papers. To be sure, the CS contribution
to-overall Agency history is, and will continue to be,
substantial. Beyond that, however, the CS should be
free to prepare papers for its own purposes, on sub-
jects of its own selection, and in its own manner. In
addition to internal CS use, these papers would provide
valuable source material for papers of larger scope
prepared at the Agency level.
7. Preparation of "catch-up" chronicles of DDP
units will in itself be a substantial task. A list
of uncompleted papers scheduled in the current program
is attached. The names of writers are listed with
those in preparation or partially completed. If field
stations are to be covered in the "unit chronicles" there
would be an additional dozen or so stations which were
not scheduled in the existing CS historical program.
Executive Secretary
CS Historical Board
Attachment:
List of uncompleted papers
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MPS (Mr. Attach, as stated
EA/DDP - ~~ - Attach, as stated and
copy of Subj. Memo
C/CSHB - Attach, as stated and copy of
Subj. Memo
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