NIC'S URGENT SPACE NEED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00153R000100080032-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 2008
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: April 18, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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NIC# 2866-83
18 April 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM : Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT : NIC's Urgent Space Need
1. I realize that the NIC is currently programed to move into adequate,
permanent space in the Headquarters building sometime early next year. We
look forward to that, but in the meantime we desperately need some stopgap
solutions to some severe space shortage problems.
2. Because of recent and imminent additions to the NIC personnel roster,
we now lack space to house nine individuals. They are as follows::
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3. All the positions other than the two in the AG have been or are being
added to the NIC as the result of recent DCI decisions. The AG positions
reflect normal expansion to-its programed full strength, but its present
temporary quarters in GH62 lack the capacity to house the two analysts now in
in process. In short, the NIC's present space holdings are inadequate to
accommodate the nine new persons who are joining us.
4. If we had our druthers, we could solve our problems by acquiring an
additional 800 to 1,000 square feet of space on a temporary basis somewhere
close to one of the existing NIC units in 7E62, 7635, 7F18, 5G00, 2E49, or
GH62. Less ideally, we could in a pinch subdivide some of the rooms we now
occupy (a costly and not very efficient solution if we are to vacate these
premises within a year, and this would pull GSA personnel away from other
high-priority, already programed construction work). An even less
satisfactory alternative would be to double up some of our people in our
existing space, which would mean a nearly intolerable degree of crowding.
5. I realize that space problems in general are nothing short of
horrendous for many. Headquarters components at present, but our immediate fix
seems to us to be more horrendous than most. Is there not some way which you
can give us some temporary relief?
Henry S. Bowen
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