SUBSTANCE OF MEMO IS EXCELLENT. SUGGEST TONE BE SOFTENED AS ATTACHED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00886R000700180027-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: May 5, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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NOTE FOR: DD/ODP
Per telecon:
Centro! Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
- Substance of memo is excellent. Suggest
tone be softened as attached: ICS
understands what was behind my memo
to C/IHC re CIRS.
- What I don't want to do is give
wrong signal to CIA troops to play
dog-in-manger.
- Right signal is: We'll do what we
can to make CIRS a reality but if
the thorny problems aren't solved,
we'll have to pull out.
STAT - I'm tol d was quiescent
STAT until of ~ rien aised
hackles. Change in tone suggested
might reduce further aggravation.
STAT
5 May 1983
Distribution:
Ori g - DD/Op'~
1 - PS attn: Roxanne
1 - 0/Exdir
1 - ER
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SUGGESTED CHANGES TO PARAGRAPHS T?0 AND THREE OF
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STAT CIA PARTICIPATION IN AND COMMITMENT TO CIRS AND
2. The IHC CIRS project is the result of a series of studies directed
toward improving information handling in the Intelligence Community. The CIA
supports the overall goals of the CIRS project, but the CIRS action plan (Refer-
ence A) leaves many management, resource and security questions unanswered.
Until such problems are resolved, CIA cannot commit to connect to CIRS. We~
will review the CIRS project, and the nature of CIA participation, annually and.
:at the completion of each CIRS implementation phase. But the Agency will not
concur in the placement of Directorate of Operations originated or derived
materilas in any CIRS data base(s) until satisfactory security controls and
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procedures have been established.
3. Accordingly, CIA participation in the first CIRS planning stage avid
include providing a member to the CIRS Management Group as well as representa-
tives to the various CIRS working groups.' Although we will make every effort
to help solve the various problems hindering full implementation of a GIBS
system, our active participation in these groups does not imply an Agency
committment to participate in suceeding stages of the effort.
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