CHIVE NEWSLETTER, FEBRUARY 1966

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000600140028-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: February 28, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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CHIVE/C-41--66
28 February 1966
IEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Reference
Director of Computer Services
SUBJECT CHIVE Hew.letter, February 1966
~.. Chief of the Development Staff
which is t M e arc..n .nation to which all OCR members of the
CHIVE Task Forea belong, left CHIVE in Februar t wept
a position at the State Deepartment. is
the new Chief of the Development Sta his career designa-
tion will once more be with OCR. has left
the Task Force to become L taff Ass to the Chief..
Graphics register. of the DD/I Admini-
st.;ative Staff will report to the CTF as Staff Assistant as
soon a : his replacement h1,7.s been identified.
2. The personnel on - he Current Awareness Task have
drafted a mock-up index o:? 65 representative titles with
an average of three keyw{o:-ds per title. Transcription of
an additional 265 titles Las been completed for keypunching
aid program testing. All programs planned for the first
phase of this activity have beer. coded and are in various
stages of testing.
S C R}:T
GROUP I
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification
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4. In the Forms Design Task area, effort is underway
to complete a draft of the handbook of header data input
instructions.
Installation of the 915 System intended for CHIVE use
is now projected for April 18 (vice 8 March). Checkout and
test time will be made available at CDC/Rabinow prior to
delivery.
5. A two-day Task Review Meeting was held during which
Group and Design Area Chiefs reported on all tasks underway.
6. Interviews on the proposed CHIVE policy were 25X113
completed in BR on 1 February, in FIB on a ruary, and in
SR on 24 February. The results are being analyzed and a
report will be produced in March.
7. Personnel assigned to the ALP Lexicographic Task
prepared 350 actions during the month for the next update
of the Steno Master Dictionary.
8. LPU Steno_progranning for ALP has been aimed at
compacting the core table: of photostore disk directing
entries. A new compaction scheme which will save about
20,000 bytes of LPU storage is almost completely checked
out.
A procedure for getting errata and addenda into the LPU
store is being debugged on the 7090.
A 1401 program was written to assist the customer
engineers in cleaning the ALP chain on the 1403 printer.
9. of DD/S&T.on the DD/S&T
position wit respect to the CODIB paper to USID on installa-
tions data handling.
The PFIAB Guidance and Evaluation Panel (Information
Processin was briefed on Project CHIVE by
on 14 February..
Director
CHIVE Task Force
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