COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83B00823R000400140011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 21, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
THROUGH . Deputy Director of Security (PS)
SUBJECT . Computer Requirements
21 June 1966
1. By memorandum dated 20 June 1966 we were asked to prepare a
paper on possible future computer needs in IRD.
2. The possible future needs of IRD for computer services would
include the administrative aspects, the operational aspects, and the
research aspects of our work in IRD.
3. Administratively, the computer would be used in sorting through
records of cases handled in the past. At the present time our headquarters
records are on 3x5 cards. These contain only general data and do not
permit any kind of searching on specific points. With these records on
punched cards we would not only have a handy manual index but would also
be able to review the entire deck rapidly. With punched cards and a
related record system we would also be able to prepare the recurring
statistical reports used for management, including budget, purposes.
4. Operationally, we have no concrete plans at this time for use of
a computer. There are, however, two research programs underway at this
time both of which could conceivably result in the use of a computer.
One is on a new galvanic skin response detecting and recording system
in which the galvanic skin response is fed into a computer and the
results appear in digital form. The other, a major research effort,
is directed at the feasibility of using a computer to determine the
existence of reactions on polygraph charts as we now know them. Both
of these are being studied at this time. Assuming that these are
determined to be feasible, and worthwhile, the broadest use would be
on an on-line real-time basis for the polygraph examiner. A lesser use
would be an after-the-fact after-the-interview computer based backup for
the examiner.
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5. In our research program computers are already being used, in
contractors plants, to analyze the data being sent to them under the
current program. At some time in the future this portion of the research
effort may have to be inside the Agency.
6. Other research is underway on new physiological parameters, new
sensors, and new systems which could require computer services. This,
however, is mentioned only as a slight possibility at this time.
7. The question "what do you need from computers?" is answered this
Eventually we shall need a revised record
system which will permit rapid analysis of
prior cases for research, management, and
counterintelligence purposes.
8. The question "what would you want if we had all the necessary
resources available?" is harder to answer. TheorAtically, the polygraph
research program could be internal. Resources here, however, would have
to include a number of additional scientists, mathematicians, and engineers
who are doing the work externally.
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Chief, Interrogation esearc Division
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