BUILDING PLANNING STAFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86-01019R000200080004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 2, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: ? Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Plans
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Inspector General
General Counsel
Director of National Estimates
Legislative Counsel
SUBJECT Building Planning Staff
1. The report of the inter-Directorate Domestic Real Estate Task
orce (DRETF) included a recommendation that: "The Office of Logistics
be provided funds and personnel in order to create, during the current fiscal
year, a Building Planning Staff; and that this Staff develop plans for Headquarters
consolidation in the Langley area so that a request for an architectural and
engineering appropriation may be submitted as a part of the Agency's fiscal
year 1972 budget request. " The recent Executive Director-Comptroller
approval of the Task Force report contained the following paragraph:
/ "b. Building Planning Staff: I agree with the thought that the Agency needs
a small, streamlined, long-range building and space planning staff with
clearly assigned responsibilities and tasks. Such a unit should be limited
to from one to three competent professionals and the resources required
(positions and money) will have to be absorbed by the Support Directorate. "
2. 1 have approved the charter for the Building Planning Staff drafted
-4 -the Offi
ce of Lo istic. a ropy of which ;s attach
3. The Building Planning Staff has a long and very difficult task.
Its accomplishment will require the assistance'and support of the entire Agency, C
with particular emphasis on you as its most senior officials. As the Staff 3
gets organized, the Chairman will ask to meet with you and your principal
offic r 'in order to outline the modus operandi.
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4. .I emphasize that this is a planninaction only_at~l~i_~_time~ We
da.rnt have any Administration or Congressional approvals for additional
buildings here. It is nonetheless necessary for us to complete this planning
in order that we can make appropriate proposals as over-all political and
economic circumstances dictate.
4 iF+r?~: .~ 1 . S . c .. ..i
R. L. Bannerman
Deputy Director
for Support
Att: Cy of Charter for the Building Planning Staff
cc : Executive Director-Comptroller w/att
Director %of Logistics w/att
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 PROPOSED CHARTER AND OPERATING PLAN
FOR THE BUILDING PLANNING STAFF
1. Thee 7r mission of the Building Planning Staff fs to nxapanreronunc ~-
Lions leading~o_le approval ?f a_plan which, when completely implemented, will see
in being by calendar year 1980 the maximum lea le degree of consolidation of Agency
rsonnel and physical assets now distributers throughout the ashington metropolitan
11r-ga located at the .angley Headquarters site Its recommendations should also include
i Iy or a_l tl and hod ,gs r -fie. , as~jg ed to the Bt. ~a f Piblie Roach whiff
n4ed be acquired by this At ency_in order to effect the rn solidation The recommenda-
tions should further include:
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a . The functional purpose of new bu'1 lings to be er ctec in o S to
accommodate the movement of additional personnel to ' Langley
b. The number of such structures, by function, to be erected
c . The actual location, of any new structure or structures in relation to
current buildings on the lung e_p perry
d. The need for additional
po ation growth
e. _ Determinations as to the adequacy of current employee serviecs
facilities, or need to expand them such as cafeterias, credit union and in prance
offices, etc.
f . Determinations as to the adequacy of current access roads in connec
tion with the planned population growth
jr. The adequacy of current commercial telephone and power input into
Langley in connection with the nlannpci - - ' Srir - ,
2. In undertaking its study, the Building Planning Staff must be constantly mind-
ful of the fact that actual construction ma not be commenced until a maximum period
of ten years has transpiredi Accordingly, by consultation with appropriate Agency tech-
nical personnel and probably with external Agency sources, some projections must be
developed as to the state of the art in certain fields that may be developed in the maxi-
mum ten-year time frame. This would include, but not be limited to, new generation
automated equipment, new advances in the entire spectrum of telecommunications,
developments in the printing and graphics industry, and other such matters.
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the group should compute the approximate total cost of special-configuration work done
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3. The Staff should review the methodology used and the studies prepared
by the original group who planned the Headquarters building at Langley. It should
also review the work done n 1966 in connection with planning
to build at that time a."special -purpose" building at Langley. It should further obtain
briefings as to future developments in the reconnaissance field which might be the
responsibility of this Agency and, accordingly, have to be reflected in the planning.
4. In arriving at a determination as to whether new construction should be
primarily designed for organizational units needing particular technical configuration
or whether new construction should be primarily for conventional office purposes
restore such s cia y confi 1rc space to conventional offi space as this will be a
direct cost input to a total development plan
5. The contents of the recently concluded Domestic. Real Estate Task Force
study should be reviewed and any guidance contained in it should be included as a
planning factor. The "Fifteen-Year Planning Guide", prepared by Mr. Lyman B.
Kirkpatrick at the direction of the then Director of Central Intelligence, Admiral
Raborn, should also be reviewed for what planning assistance may, be contained therein.
6. It is further suggested that, in its initial stages, the Building Planning Staff
be composed of only four individuals. These individuals should consist of the Staff
hief, who should he appointed with the assumption that he will carry the project
through its conclusion. The other three members initially should be an engineer, an
architect, and a general-duty staff officer. This group should first address itself to a
further definition of its mission and the development of a course of procedure and
estimated time schedule. When these matters are accomplished, the Chief of the Build-
ing Planning Staff should then decl 're what additional personnel assets believed to be
necessary. ?. .
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