COINS STATUS REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000100120017-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 9, 1967
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chairman
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Community Or!-Line intelligence System (COINS) Committee
SUBJECT: COINS Status Report
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1. This report is intended to summarize ~summarize the current status of COINS. A
comprehensive semi-annual report will be issued after the end of September 1967.
2. tiT T 7 1 ~if;~_(?i7 The COINS Committee continues meeting bJ--weekly to
review COINS status and problems, and to formulate policy, objectives and plans.
Four ad hoc panels have been formod_ to consi.der and resolve individual.
COINS problems or tasks. Definitive results of panel efforts will be expressed
,~ s binding on
in Technical Memorandum of Agreement ('ilil~) containing conventions all COINS participants and formalized by signatories of each participating
concerned
agency. Currently
data base requirements, and consolidation and construction of common!
The Remote Computer Transmission Panel
deals with technical aspects or computer and communications interface, and the
COINS Evaluation Panel will develop criteria for evaluation of the system
3. System . Status :
a. A secure 300 character per second data link was installed between DIE`.
was transmitted on
and NSA on 21 Dec~:Ilioc.r- 1a .,06. The first s_at ~ test: l.ICssac;e wa.~
13 February 1967. The first successful round robin test of interrogational
cycles between remote terminals at NSA and DIA and an unclassified file at the
other agency occurred on 20 April 1967. The NSA/I)IA system is currently
Undergoing further tests using operational files at each agency. Tentatively,
the system will, be operational by I Nove; ibex 1967.
b. Latest avail hi.e iDformation indicated that DIA will he prepared to
activate circuits to all other COINS participants after 1 March 1968.
4. System Files : A total of 25 information files, broadly categorized
below, are heill I, a e available in COINS by participating agencies. The files
primarily concern the Soviet Union and China but contain limited information
on some Southeast Asian nations.
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a. The files to be included in the COINS Experiment were selected by
each participant based upon his own criteria and one or more of the following:
(1) Contain
directed by the President's Foreign
information, i1UI.,i"ia>:i_S on which was
Intelligence Advisory Board.
(2) Include data of wide interest in the intelligence community.
(i) Existed in or were planned for machine application in the
COINS agencies.
b. It is recognized, in an experimental system of this nature, that a
period of trial usage must take place to evolve the best sot of intelligence
files for community use. Concurrently, efforts must be made to develop file cia.ta
standards, and eliminate duplication and redundancy among agencies if at all
nossibl.c. Such efforts are currc ntly being made by two COINS Panels, the Soviet
S. The Future: Three problei:7s of immediate concern to which the COI tiS
Committee will address its efforts are:
a. The most efficient and effective method of present and future COINS
management.
b. COINS user training at each agency.
c. Future objectives and plans for the system.
Chairman, COINS Commit toe
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