MINUTES OF COINS COMMITTEE MEETING OF 3 NOVEMBER 1967
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July 14, 2005
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November 21, 1967
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Minutes of COINS Committee Meeting of 3 November 1967
1. The COINS Committee met at NSA on 3 November 1967.
a. Attending:
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*The COINS Committee welcomes who has been appointed
DIA COINS Representative.
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2. announced the appointment of f CIA as 25X1
Chairman COINS Evaluation Panel vice, who has left DIA. 2 5X1
on ovember for a discussion
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o he problem
3. Minutes of the meeting of 20 October were discussed and approved.
a. of the COINS information retrieval language problem was
continued. distributed copies of four "COINS Situation Papers".
These Situation Papers will be used as media for highlighting and discussing
specific COINS problems. Situation Paper No. 1 concerns the retrieval language
problem.
(1) Initially COINS users at the participating agencies must be
multi-linguists (i.e., They must learn the retrieval languages of the other .
agencies), or they must use fixed, "canned" (i.e., stored program) interrogations.
At this time it is not known if CIA will have canned interrogation programs
available.
(2) f CIA and of NSA will investigate the 25X1
possibility of either of those organizations assuming responsibility for a
comprehensive study of the language problem, either in-house or contractually.
(3) Other alternatives mentioned were:
(a) COINS Committee adoption of one participating agency
language for use by all.
(b) Adoption of a subset of an existing language.
(c) Investigate any action on this problem by the National
Bureau of Standards.
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