REPORT OF CABLE SECRETARIAT OPERATIONS 1 - 31 MAY 1966

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00499R000600020070-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: June 8, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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8 June 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR : Executive Director/Camper 1 er
SUBJECT
Cables Processed
: Report of Cable Secretariat Operations 1-31 May 1966
a. The combined work units of CIA and non-CIA cables totaled 57,172 items
broken down as follows:
CIA IN
20.008
CIA OUT
7,775
Miscellaneous-Archive. (743)
4.784
Non-CIA units
24.605
Total work
57,172
b. CIA IN and OUT cables totaled 142.573 for the period Januar
1966, down 2% compared to the same period in 1965 (145.282) and 3%
the same period in 1964 (137.924.
-May
more than
c. Non-CIA cables for January-May 1966 totaled 120,354. an increase of
28% over the same period in 1965 (93.631) and 55% more than the same period
in 1964 (77,610),
d. Work units totaled 289.022 for January-May 1966. up 10% over the
same period in 1965 (261,979) and an increase of 27% (61.439) over the base
period of 1963. The Cable Secretariat completed an average of 1.844 items
each 24 hours including bitur day s and Sundays. Our Monday-Friday average
for May was 21.631 items. Our peak day was 6 May on which we processed
2,565 items.
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e. 1.675 cables or 3% of all cables processed were furnished to the
Director as compared with 1,474 or 3% for April 1966.
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nine short of our ceiling of We did gain three people but we lost three.
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Two tone Cable Analyst and one Clerk) went into the service and one Clerk
resigned to continue hie schooling full time. We have received the first of
our eight summer employees. By the middle of June all eight of them should
be on board. They will help us through our clerical shortage until the Office
of Personnel is able, we hope, to process permanent employee, to fill our
existing vacancies.
3. General
a. The change in message ?orrnatlng direct. :erne 25X1
effective 15 May 1966. By overprinting our supply of message forms, Form 12.
we salvaged approximately $2.000 worth of forms. The procedure of spelling
out the names of addressee stations is working well and we believe the address
line of cables is now much easier to: everyone to read.
b. As stated in our April report, we started to receive INTE
from Signal Center on reproducible masters and by pasting headers on
masters, have eliminated to a great extent the need to run INTL/. tapes
through a flexowriter to get masters. The objective of this change is to reduce
the cost of processing INTEL items and reduce Cable Secretariat processing
Wu*, of such items. In order to have a basis for comparison of the new and old
system a study was made between the two systems. This study showed the
following. During the week a 143 March 1964, using the old system. the
Cable Secretariat time for processing immediate and priority INTEL 'terns
was 1 hour 53 minutes and for routine INTEL items 3 hours and 10 minutes.
During the week of 1541 May 1966. using the new system. the Cable
Secretariat time for processing Immediate and priority INTEL, items was 53
minutes and for radius INTEL items 1 hour and 13 minutes. The comparison
shove that the Cable Secretariat saved an hour on immediate and priority
INTEL items and approximately & hours on routine INTEL items. Because of
a problem with the master material, we bare not made the study we intended
to mak* which would reflect combined IW and Cable Secretariat processing
times. We will probably make such a study tz June.
c, On 19 April 1966 Director Office of Computer Services,
recommended to the Cable Secretary that the automation of the Cable Secretariat
could be made an integral part of the systems planning for automating the
Signal Center. The concept involved would be for the Cable Secretariat system
to be interrelated with the Signal Center complex rather than with the computers
installed in the Office of Computer Services. Combining the Cable Secretariat
requirements with the Commo plan should result in economies of both time and
money. Director of Communications, agrees with this approitch
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and, with an appropriate budgetory authorisation, Is prepared to join 'with
the Cable Secretariat in a team effort to implement the system. On
June 20, 1966, and myself will meet to discuss
a joint plan of action.
d. Bond report - 60% of Cable Secretariat personnel are now buying
bond*, an increase of 23% over the last time we had a bond drive. In
addition, S personnel increased their withholding allotment.
Cable Secretary
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