CIA/CRS PROJECT SAFE (SUPPORT FOR ANALYST FILE ENVIRONMENT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01082A000700030013-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 5, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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DCI-IC-74-1112
5 March 1974
SUBJECT . CIA/CRS Project SAFE (Support for Analyst File
Environment)
1. Attached is a pamphlet prepared by CIA/CRS to describe its de-
velopmental project SAFE. The development plan calls for collecting
basic design data during FY-74, with the assistance of several CIA/DDI
operating branches serving as "pilots." Based on this, "major software
work" is planned for FY-75, leading to a system that will support 150
remote terminal stations. In subsequent years the system would be
expanded.
2. The project's rationale is based on the premise that production
analysts "can not presently exploit fully their documents (and) infor-
mation services."
3. The design goal is to develop a system whereby "a production
analyst can, through a single remote terminal and a single query language,
access a wide array of information sources, and build and maintain files
of special interest to him."
4. The design concepts include developing capabilities to "6.11ow
analysts to view their electrical 'mail'" and to file any message and.
add comments thereto. Also, the analyst would be able to search, using
a single query language, an array of files.
directive of November 1971.
5. It would appear from the attached pamphlet that Project SAFE is
wholly a CIA-internal developmental project, without involvement to date
of other intelligence agencies concerned with supporting production analysts.
It appears to involve external contractor support.
6. My preliminary view - prior to receiving a briefing on SAFE - is
that the underlying problem being addressed certainly exists, both in CIA
and throughout the community. An experimental effort seems to be a
constructive step. Failure to date to involve IC Staff is another example
of compartmentalized efforts to solve a larger problem, and one which ICS
is charged with addressing in an overall sense under the Presidential
Attachment (with orig. and subj. file only)
AC/IHC
1 1 - IC Registry; I - IHC Subject:SAFE; 1 - IHC
Fea.ding File; 1 - NNCb~rono
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