FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION CODE FOR DESIGNATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF INSTALLATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000400310006-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: REPORT

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FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION CODE FOR DESIGNATION AND
IDENTIFICATION OF INSTALLATIONS
1. Our committee is faced with the matter of selection of a functional
classification code for designation and identification of installations.
2. The Intelligence Subject Code (ISC), initially developed by the
Central Intelligence Agency in 1948 and since revised under the auspices
of the U. S. Intelligence Board's Committee on Documentation, is an
example of one possibility for consideration. The subject classification
code contained in the ISC is an excellent one and is applicable to both
manual and machine systems. It is currently used in some applications
by the CIA, Department of State, DIA, and others. It is a very compre-
hensive code in subject, covering a wide variety of categories, such as
climate, coconut oil, compromise of foreigners, education, glandular
fever, glue, human disease incidence, labelling machinery, political
indoctrination, domestic trade, wine, etc. , all of possible intelligence
interest. For adaptation to installations, however, it often fails to be
definitive enough to allow the proper degree of functional description.
For example, the ISC includes code
missiles, with subcategories
subject classification.
intercontinental range. This breakout is undoubtedly adequate for
for surface-to-surface
for short and medium range;
for intermediate range ballistic missiles; andl for
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3. Another prime candidate for our consideration is the functional
classification code described in the DIA Manual 65-3-1, IDHS Handbook
for Installation Naming and Functional Classification. Although these'
codes were initially developed by the Air Force for targeting applications,
they have since been expanded and developed for application to all types
of installations and are used extensively in ADP files throughout the
DOD and other Agencies. To illustrate by similar example as above,
s ystems, general, and
Ito be operational missile installations for fixed
for SSM sites, fixed, general. The latter
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has subcategories for ICBM, IRBM, MRBM, SRBM and SSM sites, cruise.
This 5-digit code can be further extended in most instances to provide a
more detailed functional breakdown if warranted. A complete tabulation
of these codes and their general interpretation is contained in the DIAM
65-3-1, with a more detailed description for adaptation to special intelli-
gence requirements depicted in the category summary sheets for various
DIA publications.
4. Recognition of the great value of both systems is apparent in the
operations of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which uses the intelligence
subject code as a subject code and the operational category code in
65-3-1 as the installation code. Both codes are used by DIA research
analysts. Installation coding is used for categorization of installations
with the same category code found in all of DIA's targeting publications,
target files, and in the operational plans of the U&S Commanders.
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5. It is recommended that the committee carefully consider the matter,
and if warranted, give its blessing, for whatever value such a blessing
may be worth, on both coding systems: The first for a coding system
for the very wide range of subjects of intelligence interest, and the
second for intelligence community-wide use in categorization of
installations.
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