OIA MOVE TO HEADQUARTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01332R000800920008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 26, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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DDI- 2-)Q _ X - 6
26 June 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: OIA Move to Headquarters
1. The move of the Office of Imagery Analysis from) Ito the
current Headquarters Building is becoming of increasing concern to me. The
move is going to occur in the same period when OIA is gearing up to handle the
new collection systems and introduce new and com lex equipment into the
mainstream of their production effort. Director, OIA, wants to
initiate a detailed planning program for e move to ensure that there is
minimal loss in productivity during the transition and, more importantly, that
the efficacy of the interface between the imagery analysts and their tools is
preserved in the headquarters environment. We have been frustrated, however,
by the lack of any precise information on where OIA will be located and the
timing of the move. I understand and appreciate the great burden your people
are under because of the size and complexity of the new building project and
the impact of the Reston effort. Nevertheless, I have been told that you want
to have final space allocations and locations of components involved in this
whole exercise settled by the end of July. Before these plans are firmed up,
I would like to get a detailed briefing on current plans for OIA and to give
your planning folks my thoughts on these issues.
2. Specifically, we have been. informally advised that current thinking
in the Office of Logistics would place OIA on the fourth and fifth floors with
their analytical support facilities (mensuration equipment, Intergraph, IDEX
stations, etc.) on the ground or first floor. Additionally, it has been
.indicated to us that there will be a delay in OIA's move from the first half
of 1988 to late that-year or even to 1989. As we have endeavored to make
clear to OL on numerous occasions, the support equipment for an imagery office
is integral to effective functioning of that office. Indeed, the IDEX-2 is
the analyst's light table of the future and must be close at hand. Ideally,
OIA requires a contiguous space where the divisions could be grouped around a
core of analytic support components. While this ideal may not be possible,
the proposed five floor split is unacceptable. I would be willing to consider
moving other DI cpmDonents if that would assist in providing the kind of space
required by OIA.
3. The timing of the move is also of concern to me. Given the new
collection systems coming on line in the next few years and the major impact
we expect them to have throughout the DI, I would like to get OIA into the
building as soon.as we can. The colocation of OIA with the rest of the
Directorate will be essential as we become more involved in near-real-time
intelligence production. Any delays will also impact upon NPIC
which has an urgent need for the OIA space in FY-88 to accommoda a scheduled
growth in personnel and programs.
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SUBJECT: OIA Move to Headquarters
4. OIA has been planning for this move for several years. I have
attached some of the correspondence with various Agency elements where OIA has
documented its requirements for the move. Up until now the dialogue has been
pretty much one way. The decisions that will be made in the next few months
will affect the environment in which OIA must function--and thus its
productivity--for years to come. I don't want these decisions to be made
without a full participation by this Directorate. At this point we need to
get some hard facts in order to move ahead with our planning. I would very
much appreciate having opriate DA officers brief me on these issues as
soon as possible.
Attachments:
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SUBJECT: OIA Move to Headquarters
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DDI 102933-85
22 July 11985?
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy -Director of Central Irtellis.e_ce
Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Clair E. George
Deputy Director for Operations
SUBJECT The Space Crisis: No Nore Roo-
1. We are out of room. The working conditions in a nu_~e_
of our offices and divisions are intolerable. There are a
gro-!ng number of components in both of our directorates that are
so Crapped that they literally do not have s-aCE to add another
a feral hun__ed more
we are expecting to grow by se
,person. nd
people in the next couple of years.
2. We could describe at great length the nnsat_s=actory
conditions in which our people work and the require=eats we nave
ge=;:==ely _s
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for additional space but, in this case, a r ttu_e
worth a thousand words and we refer you to the boto_=-a:hs
=o weeks_ We
attached that have been taken within the last t
cannot expect professionals to work in conditions s=ib as
portrayed in these photographs. These conditions affect
rec_u t=ent, morale, retention and per=or--amce. Moreover, the
ceded
photographs ego not convey the noise level in such c_=
cuarters.
3. We believe that there must be a realignment of space
the new building to accommodate both past and future DI and DO
growth, and to give our people minimally acceptable Modern
working conditions. Speci_`ically, we urge _ou to alter present
plans sufficiently to permit SE Division and OGI to more into the
new building. This would give us the additional space in this
building to provide acceptable space for the other elements of
the DI and the DO.
CONFIDENTIAL Cl By Signer
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