COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION, CODIB SUPPORT STAFF: MISSION AND FUNCTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000400320009-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 30, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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30 October 1964
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
COIIe1T1TEE ON DOCi -TION
CODIB Support Staff: Mission and Functions
Attached in the approved statement resulting from action on CODIB-D.
111/2, 27 August 1964, as reflected in CODIB-M-57, 23 October 1964,
Para. 2.
Charles A. Briggs
Secretary
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
C)IB Su ort Staff: Mission and Functions
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Pursuant to NSCID No. 1, pares. 3 b (2) and 6 a (3); DCID No. 1/4; and
W MB-D-394/6.- Attacb^ent, para. 3, a permanent secretariat activity for the
Cc*snittee on Docunentation (CODIB) of the United States Intelligence Board
(USIB) is established. This activity is designated the SIB Support Staff
(CSS).
1. composition and Orgsnisation
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The CODIB Support Staff is ccnnposed of professional intelligence
offieerr, from DIA and CIA, and. of clerical support from CIA. The Staff is
under the direction of a staff chief who reports to CODIB through its
Chairman and Secretary.
The mission of the Staff is to support CODID in promoting means by
vhich the Intelligence Co minity can make optimal use of information of
intelligence value, however recorded.
3. Functlow
(a) To assist is the identification, definition, and specification
of interagency relationsblpri vhicb affect the flow, the processing, the con-
trol of substantive informa?tion and evaluated intelligence, both internal
and external to IISIB member agencies.
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(b) In the ge7osral area of iata- otion processing systems to assist
CODIB in problems idantifioation, in datrexudidAg feasible approaches to
solving the.. probless, is speei $ aged assigning GWpropriate tusks
lieeMng to problem .solution, in the acquisition, synthesis, and 8= 17814
of factual. data pertinent to problem solution, and in system design and
specification respeoive to the p dblsm solution.
(c) To Wowullis a fbeal point for the e~ocben?e of inforsstion vithin
the Intel3.iganee ?ossamoity an the solution of infom~t ion processing probluns,
including studim, research aM , cootrsats, proposed egr gnats
and action, pubiicatioass smyonrs, and doe imstrations.
(d) To dsae1. for CM D consideration, policies on responsibilities
of Individual agency infor ation processing facilities to perform functions
of common concern to the Intelligence Coe- nity.
(e) To assist in administering and supporting CODIB subcooiittees,
ad hoc groups or task teams which have been organized to carry out specific
functions or to perform special tasks.
For example, with reference to the task teams organized to
implement OBIS action on the SCIPS report, it is the function
of the CODIB Support Staff to assist in problem definition,
design. fact gathering, analysis, planning, and pre,_' 1nainaary sys,'~hem
dDay-to-day work will involve: determining essential
elements of information problem boundaries, specifying tasks,
planning and scheduling, forms design, instruction writing,
interviewing, analysis, systems design, and report writing.
The Support staff will provide the continuity not realizable
by ad hoe task teams and will coordinate overlapping interests
between task teams.
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Tb provide referral service from the SCII'S data base.
(g) To assist in the monitoring of interagency agre nets in the
field of CODIB's responsibilities.
(h) To assist is the coo nation of selected information processing
activities with foreign intelligence services involving the interchange of
information which has been authorized by TiiIB.
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