INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION HANDLING COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT UPDATE

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USIB-D-71.6/2
4 February 1969
SUBJECT : Intelligence Information Handling Committee
Annual Report Update
REFERENCES a. USIB-D-71. 6/1, 9 September 1968
b. USIB-D-71. 1/3, 22 October 1968
1. The enclosed memorandum on this subject from the
Chairman of the Information Handling Committee (IHC) and its attached
report and annexes submits for information and noting by USIB an up-
dating of the First Annual Report of the IHC which was circulated by
reference a.
2. A Memorandum for the President from the Director of
Central Intelligence on NSAM 368 (Intelligence Information Handling
System) which was submitted on 22 October 1968 (see reference b. )
contains, among other things, a proposal that the"IHC Annual Report
(which will be updated by a summary progress report at the end of
the calendar year) be accepted in the future as a normal means of
reporting on community information handling activity." Accordingly,
in addition to the regular dissemination to the President' s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, General Robert Taylor plans to forward
a copy of the subject report to Dr. Kissinger after it has been noted by
the U SIB.
3. It is not now planned to schedule this report on an agenda
for Board discussion unless specifically requested by a Board Member
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prior to the close of business 12 February 1969. In the absence
of such a request, it will be considered for record purposes that the
USIB noted the subject report on that date.
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U N I T E D S T A. T E S I N T E L L I G E N C E B 0 A R D
INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION HANDLING COMMITTEE
MEMORANDUM FOR: UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Intelligence Information Handling Committee
Annual Report (AR-1) Update
REFERENCES: (a) USIB-D-71.6/1, 9 September 1968
(b) USIB-D-71.1/3, 22 October 1968
1. In accordance with the proposal in Reference (b) that an
update of the IHC Annual Report be provided at the end of the
calendar year, the attached report is hereby submitted. The report
updates information handling activities and projects reported in the
referenced documents.
2. Full and detailed reporting on a number of efforts mentioned
for the first time will be included in the Annual Report to be
submitted at the end of FY69.
Chairman
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downgrading and
declassification.
Attachment:
As stated
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A. Membership.
For Army, Col. Harry N. Roller replaced Col. Raymond W. Kelley
as member (effective 9 September 1968), and Lt. Col. Richard H. Koenig
replaced Lt. Col. George A. Parsons as Alternate (effective 14 Jan 1969).
For DIA, was designated as Alternate (effective
29 October 19
joined the Support Staff as the second DIA
member e ective November 1968). who was a
DIA assignee to the CODIB Support Staff remained as the other DIA
member of the Support Staff.
B. Reorganization and Restructuring of the IHC and Support Staff.
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The three subcommittees of IHC, i.e., Education and Training (E&T),
Research and Development (R&D), and System Design and Development
(SD&D), were staffed during the last few months of CY 1968. A list
of the members and a brief statement of subcommittee responsibilities
is contained in the Annexes.
C. Completion of CODIB Task Team Reports - Photo Chip.
In July 1968 the Chairman, IHC initiated correspondence with the
Chairman, COMIREX regarding the formation of a Photo Chip Working
Group to be sponsored by these two USIB committees in accordance
with USIB-D-39.7/24. A member of the IHC Support Staff was designated
to work with the Chairman of the National Imagery Data Base Working
Group (NIDBWG) to carry out joint work in connection with photo chips.
Since that time, several meetings have occurred between the committee
designees. IHC Support Staff members have attended NIDBWG meetings
including one held at ACIC, St. Louis, Missouri during which photo
chip applications in the mapping and charting environment were
discussed.
D. Item Register System.
Plans, procedures, criteria, incident to the review and evaluation
of various proposed Item Register products are still under development.
Delay is due to higher priority demands placed on the IHC Support Staff.
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E. Content Control Code Operational Test.
CIA conducted an operational test of the Content Control Code
(CCC) applied to SIGINT end product received by teletype. This was
done as part of a larger study to determine the relative merits of
manual and automatic dissemination within CIA. Insofar as CCC is
concerned, the test is (1) to determine if content control endings
can be used as a basis for dissemination, (2) to test CCC alone for
its usefulness in expressing both technical requirements and broader
political and economic requirements for purposes of automatic
dissemination, and (3) to test CCC in combination with keywords for
representing the contents of documents.
At the end of the calendar year, the CIA test had been completed
but the findings and conclusions pertaining thereto had not been
announced.
F. Intelligence Subject Code (ISC).
In October 1968 it was determined that DIA could not accept
maintenance responsibility of the ISC (previously used and maintained
by CIA) because of budget and personnel cuts and the fact that a
study is underway to find a replacement for the ISC in DIA/DoD.
DIA will inform IHC of the results of their ISC replacement study.
In the interim period DIA will record changes made in the ISC to
serve DIA/DoD needs only.
G. Government-wide Country Codes Task Group (CCTG).
Basic revisions to the proposals for country code standards have
been made as a result of comments received from 54 executive
departments and agencies. At the end of this reporting period, the
proposed revision had been put in draft form for review and comment
by CCTG members.
H. Community On-Line Intelligence System (COINS).
With the exception discussed below, installation of the network
for the Community On-Line Intelligence System (COINS) Experiment
had been completed by the end of CY 1968. Installation of the low
speed teletypewriter circuit and terminal equipment at the
National Indications Center (NIC) has been delayed pending receipt
of the necessary hardware being procured by the U. S. Air Force.
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A teletypewriter circuit from the DIA switch to the Department of
State remote query terminal became operational in August. The first
round-robin interrogation from the NPIC computer took place on
26 September. While messages have been transmitted between CIA
Headquarters and DIA since September, various problems have delayed
successful file query on this portion of the system.
The test and analysis period of the experiment has been set back
three months, and is now scheduled for 1 April to 30 September 1969.
The system will also probably be inoperative at NSA and CIA for a
period in February while these agencies switch COINS to new, larger
computers. The COINS Master Plan, Part 1, FY 69-70 was submitted to
the DCI by the Director, NSA in his capacity as the COINS Executive
Agent on 5 December 1968.
I. Information Science Training for Intelligence Personnel.
By the end of December 1968, the Information Science Center at
the Defense Intelligence School had three individuals assigned
(the Director, Assistant Director, and Secretary). Authority was
obtained for a grade of GS-16 for the Director. The position was
filled on 9 December 1968. A strength of 22 professional and support
positions was planned for the development, initiation, and conduct
of two courses. Lack of personnel has delayed initiation of coursf,s.
J. New Activities. Community Information Handling System (CIHS).
A preliminary plan for improving the Community Information
Handling System (CIHS) was written, concurred in by USIB, and
forwarded to the President. (Memorandum for Holders, USIB-D-71.1/i,
22 October 1968).
Computer Security.
/ IHC Support Staff liaison was established with the newly established
Computer Security Subcommittee of the Security Committee of USIB.
Dr. Willis Ware, Rand Corporation, spoke at an IHC meeting on
15 July 1968 on computer security.
IHC Support Staff Liaison with the Intelligence Guidance
Subcommittee (IGS).
In September 1968 liaison was established between the IHC
Support Staff and the IGS, SIGINT Committee, USIB.
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The IGS is charged with drafting intelligence guidance for COMINT
programming. The purpose of this liaison is -to ensure that the
guidance drafted by this subcommittee is consistent with the
information handling responsibilities of the IHC.
K. Department of State.
Substantive Information System (previously reported).
A Request For Proposal on developing elements of the Substantive
Information System was prepared and sent to selected companies. A
bidders conference was held and the evaluation of responses will
begin shortly.
Economic Problem Computations (first reporting).
The Bureau of Economic Affairs has installed a QUICKTRAN
(IBM computation support system for commercial use) terminal for
manipulation of data and solution of problems, mainly in the
field of international trade.
Selected Policy Statements File (first reporting).
During 1968, an automated retrieval system was developed to
manage selected kinds of policy statements. Initially, the system
was set up to handle statements concerning a single geographic
area, but has subsequently been expanded to include statements on
general foreign affairs subjects. Approximately 5,000 documents
or extracts and associated indexing information are stored, mainly
from the period 1965-68.
Latin American Program Analysis (first reporting).
The Bureau. of Inter American Affairs (State) and the Bureau
for Latin America (AID) are engaged in establishing a data bank of
resource commitments to 24 Latin American countries, arranged by
objectives in a standard format, as an aid to manipulation and
analysis of program allocations. AID computers are used to receive
data from country policy and program papers encompassing all U.S.
programs.
L. National Security Agency.
VIDEOFILE (previously reported).
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The pilot VIDEOFILE system is scheduled for delivery in
October 1969. Four files have been selected to test and evaluate
the system.
SIGINT On-Line Information System (SOLIS (first reporting).
An NSA working group has been established to investigate
the feasibility of providing an on-line SIGINT information handling
system for the intelligence community. The working group will
determine the interface requirements between SOLIS and other
information handling systems under development, the NSA information 25X1D
requirements, and prepare a plan stating such things as scope and
course of action needed for implementation.
System for Processing Engineering Data (SPED) (first reporting).
The objective of this system is to provide a capability for the
storage, retrieval and processing of research, engineering, and
logistic documentation in support of the design, procurement and
configuration management functions. Many formats can be included
in the documentation including technical reports, technical
development plans, engineering drawings, documentation cost and
price data, and those other items whose accessability would serve
to expedite the design, development, and procurement of new
equipments. The system consists of two parts: (a) a Configuration
Management System which provides for the management of engineering
systems and (b) an engineering and technical information data base.
Information can be displayed in visual or graphic form with a hard
copy printout capability.
M. Central Intelligence Agency.
Priority Targeting System (first reporting).
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Programming, system test and parallel operation of a priority
targeting system have been completed for real-time control of a
complex collection system.
Central Computer Services (previously reported).
Operational testing of the CAPRI general file management
system has been completed. Several large files have been selected
for installation into the CAPRI system to test its capability against 25X1A
present processing techniques.
Research and Development (previously reported).
The initial feasibility study of an on-line system to assist the
intelligence analyst's creation, use and control of a large, all-
source data base on military ground forces (QUIKTRAK) has been
completed. On the basis of favorable results obtained in this study
work is underway to expand the data base, to elaborate the system,
and to undertake preliminary operational use of data base modules
as they are developed.
N. Defense Intelligence Agency.
DoD Intelligence Data Handling System (previously reported).
The worldwide DoD Intelligence Data Handling System (IDHS)
currently includes 56 intelligence computers installed in 24
locations. In addition, there are 28 computers installed in mapping
and charting organizations.
Optical Character Reader (OCR) Automatic Indexing and
Abstracting (previously reported).
A Philco-Ford Optical Character Reader, with a capability for
reading eight selected fonts, was delivered and accepted by DIA in
November 1968. The Typist Guides for use by participating stations
were distributed in December 1968.
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Other Projects (previously reported).
(1) Project ANSRS now has 23 remote query terminals.
(2) The Project COINS switch computer has been converted
from an IBM 7740 to an IBM 360/30 and the DIA on-line computer
from an IBM 1410 to an IBM 360/50. Conversions were accomplished
by 8 November without any appreciable delay in service.
(3) The interim Data Management System being developed to be
a machine independent will use COBOL. The expected date of completion
is October 1969.
Automated System for Transportation Intelligence (first reporting).
The basic objective of this project is to provide for the
storage, maintenance, manipulation, computation, and retrieval of
intelligence data on lines of communication (LOC). The initial
efforts are to give an operating capability for rail transportation
intelligence by May 1969 on an IBM 360/65. Subsequently, the system
will include transportation intelligence for highways, inland water-
ways, pipelines, and civil air.
Project PREMSS (Photo Reconnaissance and Exploitation Management
Support System) (first reporting).
The function of this project is to furnish automated support
to the complete cycle of intelligence production based on photo
reconnaissance. It provides the required data processing support
for DIA to effectively support and manage overall DoD participation
in the various data bases and systems identified in the National
Tasking Plan for the Exploitation of Multi-Sensor Imagery. This
system is now operational and is updated daily.
National ELINT Plan (first reporting).
In implementing DIA's responsibilities under the National
FLINT Plan, elements in DIA expressed a strong requirement for an
improved intelligence data handling capability in the following
major areas: (a) maintenance of collection requirements and
priorities; (b) capability to levy collection requirements on optimum
platforms; (c) evaluation of collection performance; (d) capability
to identify intelligence gaps; (e) evaluation of the adequacy of the
information and intelligence used in the development of U&S Command
EOB publications. A system is being designed to meet these requirements.
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AUTODIN (first reporting).
DIA is making use of the DoD AUTODIN for electrical transmissions
of a limited number of file update products which fall within the
limitations of AUTODIN, i.e., security, (presently Top Secret) length,
format, etc.
0. U. S. Army.
Intelligence Data Handling Capabilities (previously reported).
(1) The installation of an IBM 360/40 system at the European
Electronic Intelligence Center (EEIC), Weisbaden, Germany.
(2) The installation of a CDC 3300 system at the Missile
Intelligence Directorate (MID), Huntsville, Alabama.
(3) The installation of an FMA microfilm document storage and
retrieval system at U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC), Hawaii.
(4) The approval by DIA of the functional requirements for an
OACSI, DA intelligence data handling system.
P. U. S. Navy.
Ocean Surveillance (previously reported).
The installation of a direct source input to OSIS from the Net
Control Office Lant (BULLSEYE) station was completed.
COMUSMACV J2 ADP Intelligence Support (previously reported).
The WHITE DOVE II deployment at the Pacific Elint Center was
cancelled in November 1968. Thus, action was taken to release the
Government from contractual agreement made in support of WHITE DOVE IT.
The CICV IBM 1401 was replaced by an IBM 360/30 computer system.
Naval Investigative Service (NIS) Data Communication System
(previously reported).
The Personnel Management System (PMS) was completed in
December 1968 and is due to go into operation 7 January 1969.
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Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center (previously reported.)
Analysis and design of a multi-file query capability for
Armament and Electronic characteristic files was begun.
Reduction of Planned Development of Navy IDHS (first reporting).
Due to budgetary cuts (2.5 million), a number of plans have been
adversely affected. Some of these effects are:
(1) Deferral to FY70 of third generation OSIS hardware.
(2) Deferral of Navy's FY69 participation in the IDHS-C plan.
(3) Deferral of CINCPACLFT as an established IDHS organization
in FY 69.
(4) Deferral of the STIC acoustic processor system for FY69.
(5) Deferral of some software development for several Navy
supported commands and organizations and deferral of other computer
support to intelligence.
Q. Air Force.
The DoD Foreign Disclosure System (previously reported).
The management of this system has been transferred to the Economic
Affairs and Foreign Disclosure Directorate, OASD/ISA.
R. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
National Crime Information Center (NCIC) (first reporting).
The NCIC provides a real-time system designed to provide speedy
access to participating police agencies throughout the country to
certain specified types of police information on file with the NCIC.
Specifically, the items of information presently stored in the NCIC
include stolen motor vehicles, stolen, missing, or recovered guns,
stolen license plates, other stolen articles, stolen securities,
and wanted persons. The NCIC became operational in a pilot study
phase on January 27, 1967, with approximately 23,000 records in file
and a limited number of participants having remote access to the file.
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The NCIC network now comprises 76 control terminals (including ten
computer-to-computer interfaces) in 45 states, the District of
Columbia Records filed as of December 1, 1968,
total 743,950. Continued growth in the size of the file and the
number of participants is anticipated as well as additional applica-
tions to other types of file material,
Possible Automation of Fingerprint Searching (first reporting).
The FBI has been seeking a means to read fingerprints electronically
and, toward this end, contracts are presently pending in private
industry for development of a bread-board model of a device capable
of scanning ink fingerprint impressions and correctly identifying
certain pertinent points for purposes of classification. It is not
known at this time when the bread-board model will be available.
Pilot Study for Automation of the FBI General Index (first reporting),
A pilot study was begun in 1968 to determine the feasibility of
searching the information contained in the Bureau's central card index
(54 million 3x5 index cards). The pilot study is in its initial stages.
A limited number of cards have been converted into machine language.
A search program has been devised and initial tests are underway to
check the thoroughness of this search program. Early in 1969, a much
larger sample of index cards will be converted into machine language
for use in the pilot study, and a more sophisticated search program
will be applied to this file holding for test purposes.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING SUBCOMMITTEE
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MEMBERS
Mr. John D. Adams, Chairman
Mr. William J. Trainor, Jr,, State
, NSA
Mr. Donald L. Southall, Army
Mr, Edward L. Barker, Navy
Maj. Harlan L. Bruha, Air Force
Mr. Donald W. Stigers, Executive Secretary
SUBCOMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES
This Subcommittee is responsible for
determining present and future
intelligence community requirements
for education and training in informa-
tion sciences and intelligence informa-
tion handling, and for making recommenda-
tions for the satisfaction of these
requirements, The Subcommittee will
keep the community informed of all
sources of education and training in
this field, both within and outside
of the government.
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
MEMBERS
SUBCOMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES
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Dr. Howard H. Campaigne, Chairman, NSA
NSA
Mr. Donald A. Lakatosh, Army
Mr. Edward L. Barker, Navy
Mr. Roger Weber, Air Force
Dr. John F. Egan, DoD
Mr. James T. Tippett, Executive Secretary
This Subcommittee will be responsible
for identifying community needs for
R&D in information handling; for
recommending an R&D program to meet
community needs in information handling;
for recommending a specific agency
assignment of community R&D activities;
for monitoring the information science
activities of the experiment research
activities in the community agencies;
and for keeping the intelligence
community informed on scientific and
technical aspects in information
sciences.
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SYSTEM DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
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Mr. J. Neil Wallace, Chairman
Mr. Charles R. Stein, State
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Mr. Marlin R. Makin, Army
Mr. Carl R. Lambert, Navy
Mr. Charles Mangio, Air Force
Mr. Harrison Williams, Secret Service
Mr. Howard E. Lewis, Jr., AEC
Mr. Rudolph J. Susege, Executive Secretary
SUBCOMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES
This Subcommittee will assist the
Committee in carrying out its
responsibilities in the general area
of system design and development.
The Subcommittee will engage in the
development of system requirements,
conceptual design specifications,
and subsequent recommendations for
agency assignment of systems imple-
mentation for document processing and
community systems for information
storage and retrieval. It will
assist as necessary in the develop-
ment of an ADP system to support
NIC; the development of a program
for a follow-on COINS-type system;
the study of bibliographic control
of foreign publications; and similar
tasks.
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