NOIWON PROCEDURES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00776R000500040054-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: June 4, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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'RANDUM FOR: Chief, CIA Operations Center
Chief, National SIGIN'f Operations Center
Chief-, State Operations Center
Di t'ector, National Military Intel 1 i gAnce %-L :11f.'_-9
Director, National Mi=litary Command Center
Director, Whi >re House Situation Room
Di Lector, White House Communications Agency
SUBJECT: ? : MAIWON Procedures
1. I..appreciatedthe opprotunity to lrnet with the representatives of
the agencies participating in heat.i~~nal Operations and Intelligence
Watch Officers. Net (NOIWON) on ?.8 May. As you know, there is.risin,g? interest
in the improvement of our indi ations ind warning capabilities, and NOIWJON.
can, I -thinkr; make d si.gn.ifica t contribution to this goal. -
2. Following the exchang of views at the 28 May meeting, the following
modl'fications to current NOIWOq procedures were developed-.
a..'- The ?cl ai rmanship of the net will rotate, each intelligence. center
providing a chairman (net' controller) for specific periods (perhaps one
or two' rix) nths CIA has 1een ask-:d to provide the first chairman so that
file Intelli gerice Community Staff can observe and monitor the operation at
first hand dur'nits ini lial phases,
i the creation
b. ? The chairman wil be responsible for superv sing
of an Advisory wh.cn he, or.
justifies.. Each. NOIWON n
dissemination of the.'Advi,
is re sponsiblefot?-assuri
if it'had not itself part
subjects of conferences, a
shoot-down. of i a U. S. hel-i
attack on an 1 rae.l i sclho
any two other NOIWON Weirbers believe an event so
inber- is 'responsible for the lateral and upward
ory within his own organization, and the chairman
g dissemination to the White )louse Situation -Room
cipated in the -conference. (Recent events which were
d which would have justified Advisories were the
otter in Korea and the Palestinian
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terrorist
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c. Narrative -information concerning an event which. Is the. subject
of an. Advisory s1-o.oul d ben ovided under COMMENTS (line 15)` on, the .NOIWON.-
.form whenever ap,propri ate.. I The CO?IMENTS section- should also. include
? -1'~ b i t }? to ac ui re addi tion.al information.
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3. May staff an I''welcome ?suggest ons for increasing the utility of the
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NOIWON o eration. We will be c nducting a formal review of NOIWON in October'
1974. We hope by tht' tine tha4.. it wi 1.1 have proved its.--value
intelligence and operatibnal co
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