REQUEST FOR REMOVAL OF POSTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G00186R000700830035-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: February 4, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chairperson, Fine Arts Commission:
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13 February 1985
This morning I noticed the letters SOVA had been removed
from the wall at the entrance to our Office Director's
Office. I learned it was at the insistence of the Fine Arts
Commission. I hope you will reconsider and reverse this
position. The letters reflected our pride in our office and in
our work.
Although many of your efforts are commendable, I do not
support this one which does not further art of any kind, but
merely supports the continuation of long, bland, sterile, gray
corridors. Surely a few clean bright letters on a wall cannot
disturb the "decor" of this massive building. As a thirty-year
veteran in the Directorate of Intelligence, I strongly resent
this intrusion into SOVA's private space.
De tense Management Branch, SOVA
CC: DDA
DDI
DILOG
C/OL/HOME
D/SOVA
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4 February 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Office of Global Issues
Chairman, Fine Arts Commission
SUBJECT: Request for Removal of Poster
1. At its January meeting the Fine Arts Commission
discussed a topic which has appeared periodically on its
,agenda, the display of office seals, logos, maps, posters, etc.
on corridor walls, and it reaffirmed its long-standing position
against such display. The only exceptions which have been
approved involve signs identifying service areas such as the
Operations Center, the Library, and the Security Duty Office.
The poster mounted on the wall near the door to 3-G-03 is an
example of the kind of display which the FAC has discouraged in
the past.
2. The FAC is responsible for advising the DDA and the
Director of Logistics regarding "proposals that would alter the
appearance of Agency premises." In keeping with the recent
reaffirmation of FAC policy, I have called the OGI poster to
the attention of the Director of Logistics and have suggested
that he ask the Chief of Headquarters Operations, Maintenance
and Engineering Division to work with your staff to relocate
the poster to a suitable location in office space assigned to
OGI.
cc: DDA
DDI
D/LOG
C/OL/HOME
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Harry E. Fitzwater
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Request for Removal of Sign
REFERENCE: A. Memo for D/SOVA fm Chairman, FAC, dtd
4 Feb 85, Same Subject
B. Informal note for Chairperson, FAC, fm
DMB/SOVA, dtd
13 Feb 85, same sub-3-e-ct
1. The removal of SOVA's large sign from the wall of the
4-E corridor, mentioned by in his note of
13 February to the Fine Arts Commission, was the subject of a
memorandum from the Chairman to the Director of Soviet Analysis
on 4 February. A copy of that memorandum is attached, and the
position of the FAC is self-explanatory. Please note that
copies of the FAC memorandum were also sent to you and to me.
2. It is clear, I believe, that we must maintain certain
standards if we are to protect the appearance of our
Headquarters Building, and over the years the Fine Arts
Commission has performed a useful service in recommending and
helping to uphold such standards. Their views have not always
been popular, but overall, under a number of chairpersons and
with a changing membership drawn from throughout the Agency,
they have served us well. In this particular instance I
support their position.
3. As noted in the memo, in some cases signs identifying
service areas have been approved, and the neat, black lettering
used for the Library has become the standard for such signs. I
have been advised by the C/FAC that the Commission is prepared
to consider requests for installation of office signs using
similar letters. You may wish to suggest that the D/SOVA
present such a request to the FAC.
4. You should know that another FAC memo, again with
copies to you and me, went on the same day to the D/OGI. In
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that case the subject was a poster which OGI had hung on the
corridor wall near 3-G-03. I understand that the poster has
been removed.
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Harry E. Fitzwater
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As requested here is a proposed response for the
DDA to send to the DDI regarding the removal of the
letters S-0-V-A from the 4E corridor wall.
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