COINS WORKING GROUP MEETING OF 7 SEPTEMBER 1966

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• Publication Date: September 9, 1966
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
9 September 1966
SUBJECT: COINS Working Group Meeting of 7 September 1966
1. The COINS Working Group met at NSA on 7 September. The
following attended:
Chairman (NSA)
CIA
State
NPIC
CIA
Secretary (NSA)
DIA
DIA
NSA
CIA
2. 0 initiated the meeting with a reference to the CODIB
meeting of 30 August. He covered the following points:
a. CODIB approved and forwarded to USIB a COINS rogress
report in lieu of the COINS Implementation Plan. said
that he was writing a "position paper" for the Director NSA to
use at the USIB meeting when the COINS progress report is dis-
cussed. He gave no indication of the "slant" of the paper.
b. 0 reported that he had been asked byl to
provide a list of the members of each panel established by the
COINS Working Group. He said he would provide the name of the
chairman of each panel but that the continuously shifting composi-
tion of the panels made it difficult and unproductive to provide
the names of people assigned to each panel. (He listed the panels
as BIOGRAPHICS, AIRFIELDS, COMMUNICATIONS, and MESSAGE FORMAT).
e. 0 referred to CI:ATs statement that it was still
waiting for the "Helms letter" on COINS; he asked
about the status of the letter. 0 said he does not know where
the letter (which deals with CIATs file nominations) is now but
thought it might be in 0 office, I indicated that
NPIC had gone as far as it could with COINS preparations until
the "Helms" letter is signed and funds are authorized.
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d. 0 described CIA's request that NSA study the direct
linkage of consoles to the NSA computer and compare this approach
to the computer lash-up approach. He said it was hard to determine
who was behind the question because Briggs said it was 0 and
said it was Briggs. 0 said he expected to "take a day
in about a month" and think about the question.
2. 0 said that the draft paper on COINS communications
equipment (i.e., equipment needed, exchange of equipment already in
inventory, acquisition of new equipment) was ready to be signed as soon
as CIA and NPIC can approve it.
3. has almost completed a paper on the message formats
to be used in COINS. 0 would like to have (CIA)
participate in this paper.
4. II said that his BIOGRAPHICS panel had a requirement for
a common transliteration system. He said the BGN system is deficient;
NSA had developed an independent system; thatl _j had drafted
a proposal to change the transliteration scheme; and that Task Team III
had studied the problem and recommended that another committee be set
up to deal with it. I said that DIA's (spel-
ling) had done some work on transliteration problems and is preparing a
paper. 0 said that COINS needs something now and asked for comments
on the advisability of asking CODIB to handle the problem or task the
COINS Working Group to produce a workable solution. 0 said there
should be no formal group action because this might complicate achieving
a solution. then said that it might be better to solve the
problem by unilateral or bilateral action rather than involving CODIB.
5. I lasked that training in COINS query language be
scheduled for STATE personnel. DIA will arrange for the training.
said that DIA is preparing a paper on training for the user
at the console station.
6. When asked about the status of software for the communications
switch, said that the program specifications for the "logging"
tape at the switch had been drafted.
7. I Isaid there is a problem on determining the minimum
elements of information to be included in each file regarding the source
of information in the file. He suggested the following:
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