NOTE TO DIRECTOR, CENTRAL REFERENCE SERVICE FROM ROBERT S. WATTLES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R003900030003-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 17, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Director, Central Reference Service
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Harry -
This is a copy of a memo I prepared
for Mr. Coffey's information following our
discussion and understanding on the carpet.
If I have not accurately reflected our under-
standing, please "holler".
Robert S. Wattles
Assistant Deputy Director for Support
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DD/S 71-0546: Memo dtd 17 Feb 71 for Mr. Coffey fr Robert
S. Wattles, subj: Library Carpet
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. C
SUBJECT
: Library Carpet
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I reviewed with
the circumstances of the carpet in the CIA Library and then met with
Harry Eisenbeiss and We are all agreed that the carpet
in dispute will be remove from the Library and that. one of the Govern-
ment standard carpets will be installed. It is my understanding that,
although the Agency stocks only the salt and pepper carpet we have
presently under our feet, there is in the standard Government catalog
the same carpet in different color mixes. I ill be in. touch
with Mr. Eisenbeiss and I o make the selection. It will be
their choice as to whether they ask the Fine Arts Commission people to
participate in the color choice.
believes that there are grounds and reason
to hope that some recovery can be made from the installers of the present
carpet for the poor job -done and for either recovery or substitution of the
like quality of carpet from the supplier in matching color. If, as, will
presumably be the case, the present carpet can. be used for some other
installation, Eisenbeiss might get some offset in the cost of the second
installation. The use of standard carpet will permit both an earlier
correction of the situation in the Library and the use of this Fiscal Year's
funds, which would be Mr. Eisenbeiss' choice. He recognizes that they --
Eisenbeiss an - were partly at fault in not having objected more
strenuously to the original choice even though there was a misunderstanding
as to the authority of the Fine Arts Commission and Conse-
quently, he did not object to the suggestion that at least part of the cost of
replacing the carpet should be borne by his o
Robert S. Wattles
cc: Director, Central Reference .Service
Chief, Logistics Services Division, OL
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