REQUIREMENTS DETERMINATION INFORMATION AND DIGITIZED DATA COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS OF THE AGENCY AND, AS APPROPRIATE, THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY PHASE 1 REPORT

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• Publication Date: June 1, 1974
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REQUIREMENTS DETERMINATION
INFORMATION AND DIGITIZED DATA COMAgUNICATIONS
REQUIREMENTS OF THE AGENCY AND, AS Ai'PROPRIATE,
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
(RESUME OF PEQUIREMENTS
CURRENTI~Y BEING ADDRESSED)
PREPARED BY: Office of Communications
Communications Engineering
.TUNE 1974
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION I - INTRODUCTION
A, Purpose
B. Scope
C, Method
D, Observations
E, Requirements Considerations
SECTION II - DIGITIZED DATA COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS
A. Tnterconnection of Headquarters Area Remote
Terminal Devices with ADP Centers
B, Terminal and Control Switch and Resource
A1locator
C, Interconnection of headquarters Area Data
Access Centers with ADP Centers
D. Interchange of Data Transmissions Between
Agency Headquarters and Other Agencies and
Remote Locations
L;, Direct Data Access From Headquarters User
Offices to Remote Non-Agency Sites
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G. Data Transmission from a DDS~,T/OEL
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SECTION III - NARRATIVE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION
A. Exchange of Narrative Information Between
Agency Headquarters and Agency Field Stations
B, Dedicated Network Requirements
C. Exchange of Narrative Information Between
Agency Headquarters and Other Government
Agencies
D. Exchange of Narrative Information Between
Agency Headquarters and Contractor Facilities
E. Dedicated Narrative Circuit Requirements of
Agency Components
F, Dissemination Requirements
SECTION IV - FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION RE UIREMENTS
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A. Requirement for Inter-Agency Facsimile
Capability for Intelligence Report
Coordination
B. Requirement for Infra-Agency Headquarters
Area Facsimile Service
C. Requirements for Dedicated Point-to-Point
Facsimile Service
SECTION V - VOICE COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS
A, Nan-Secure Voice Requirement
B. Intra-Agency Secure Voice Requirement
C. Secure Voice Requirement for Inter-Agency and
Agency/Contractor Conversations
D. Dedicated Zroice Communications Requirements
E. ~ieadquarters to Overseas Station Secure
Voice Requirement
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SECTION VI - INFORMATION COMPARTMENTATION REQUIREMENTS
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SECTION I - INTRODUCTION
A. Purpose
The Office of Communications has been charged
with determining the information and digitized data
communication requirements of the Agency and, as appro-
priate, the Intelligence Community. The purpose of such
a determination is to ensure that those rcauirements ar.e
met by the Office of Communications in a timely fashion
a.nd to permit that Office to ensure the appropriate pro-
gramming of the required assets.
Periodically, either on their own initiative or
in response to queries from the Office of Communications
ar the Deputy Director for Iv4anagement and Services,
various Agency or Intelligence Community components levy
requirements on the Office of Communications far support
to individual programs or units. The possibility exists
for requirements to be overlooked or to become known. only
in a time frame not conducive to support in the most effec-
tive manner. The present requirements determination. will
be beneficial in assuring that the broad range of communi-
cation needs are known and met, both individually and
collectively, and that they axe met with the most effi-
cient use of resources. Thus, the study should be of
benefit both to the supporting Office and to the com-
ponents possessing the requirements.
A thorough understanding and review of the
communication requirements is especially desirable at
this time. Reduction in the number of Agency personnel
overseas has, in some instances, resulted in a transfer
of support functions from overseas to ~~eadauarters with
a resultant increase in communication requirements for
support information. Efforts, both by this Agency and
others, to convert increasing percentages of their report-
ing from dispatch to electrical form result i.n yet other
increased requirements. The increased use of automatic
data processing in the day to day business of the Agency
with the proliferation of remote computer terminals in the
IIeadquarters area creates a whole new set of problems. The
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growth of data communications, until recently very limited
in scope., requires greater attention to the support of that
area. The need to improve personnel productivity overseas
by precluding multiple keying and manual media conversion
of material to be transmitted electrically requires the
application of new technology in several areas including
communications. Developing requirements for near real
time exchange of data between remote locations and Head-
quarters and for bulk transmission of data also present
new problems. The need to support such diverse and in-
creased requirements with severely limited assets makes
it necessary that those assets be utilized as effectively
as possible. The effort in that direction is well served
by early and thorough knowledge of the full range of com-
munication requirements.
B. Scope
This requirements determination is concerned, at
least initially, with the staff narrative message, data
transmission, voice and facsimile areas. It does not
address video requirements, certain compartmented project
requirements, or covert communications. Communications
mechanisms supporting the latter requirements are recog-
nized as a vital function of the Office of Communications,
but t}ie requirements themselves .are (and in many cases must
be) determined by other means.
Requirements of the Agency itself are addressed
comprehensively. Requirements of the Intelligence Community
are addressed whexe the Office is charged with providing
support or where the element is housed in Agency facilities,
e.g., the Intelligence Community Staff.
For purposes of this study, the term "narrative
information" is used to denote communications which are
generated by and/or intended for use of a human, i.e. -
readable narrative material. The term "data" is used to
denote communications which are generated by and/or in-
tended for input to a data processing system, i.e. -
digital material..
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This report does not address the mechanisms by
which the Office of Communications supgorts the require-
ments. It is intended to be a compendium of the require-
ments themselves.
The means of satisfying those requirements vary
from the provision only of secure transmission means, with
the customer providing and operating the terminal equip-
ment, to the provision of media conversion, retrieval
capability, transmission continuity assurance and other
diverse services.
The requirements determination is being conducted
in three phases. Phase I, the subject of this report, deals
with those requirements which are the object of already exist-
ing or planned communications systems. The report contains
the compilation of such requirements, including both those
implied and those specifically levied. Phase TI of the
determination will address those requirements presently
projected by OC or recently developed by users but not yet
addressed by existing or planned communications systems.
Phase TII will attempt to unearth requirements which exist
but which have not yet been stated and, those require~r~ents
which previously have not been well-defined or quantified
and to establish a means far their definition. Subsequent
to completion of the final report, the capabilities and plans
of the Office of Communications will be compared with. the
total requirements for communications support and recommenda-
tions may be made for modification, elimination or addition
of communications programs.
Due to the status of the requirements being
addressed, the Phase I study has been performed largely
within the Office of Communications. This report is, how-
ever, being made available to users for their validation
or comment. Later phases will require increasing input
from user components.
The method employed in Phase I included a review
of.the documentation on operational or planned communica-
tions systems to determine the requirements against which
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they were directed. It also included a review of Directorate
responses to previous requests for statements of require-
ments for communications support in particular years and a
review of several previous studies of communications require-
ments.
D. Observations
In many instances the requirements against
which existing or planned communications systems were
developed were not ~tirell defined and quantified in advance.
Particularly in earlier years, communication requirements
(whether levied by users or developed blr the Office of
Communications and validated by users} ~~7ere initially
stated in rather general terms with det~.iled definition
being developed jointly by OC and the users as the con-
cept of the required support system wa.s evolving. At
times, customer requirements have had to be ferreted out
by OC when it became apparent that a ne~~ activity would
require a different type ox level of cc~~nmunicatioiis sup-
port.
The observation of these facts is not surprising
nor disturbing. The absence of detailed ar quantified in-
formation relative to a requirement ire its early stages is
not unique to communications as a technical support service.
It is common in the provision of such services, an excellent
example being the automatic data proc#:ssing area. Customers
of technical support services have often been described as
being poor at stating their requirements. Such a description
does a disservice to the customer. Generally some technical
knowledge of the support system is required in order to
state a requirement in terms which are useful to the pro-
vider of the service. The customer does not normally
possess this knowledge and a dialogue between the customer
and the support element is thus necessary to define and
quantify a requirement and the supporting mechanism,
Additionally, requirements often do not become
defined until the means of achieving them are available.
Rapid developments in technology, either within or out-
side the communications area, often make possible services
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which are worthwhile but which were not previously requested
since they were thought to be unachievable. This often
limits the ability of customers to project or define require-
ments beyond a short time frame.
Further, only in recent years have management
techniques been incxeasingly employed which permit and
often require Longer range, more detailed, and better
quantified projections of requirements.
In the context of this communications requirements
determination, the observation of a frequent lack of firm
definition and quantification of needs is not viewed as
a negative result. Rather, it is viewed as a validarian
of the desirability of the current review and the probable
usefulness thereof, both initially and on a continuing
basis .
E. Requirements Considerations
There axe many means by which communication}
requirements can be characterized, even when fully
defined and quantified. These include the broad cate-
gories of volume of information to be handled, the
medium in which the information must be accepted by
and output by the supporting system, and the criticality
and sensitivity of the information.
In unique instances, due to the need to inter-
face with existing systems or for other technical reasons,
the requirement as levied by the customer is quite specific
with respect to speed. of transmission, information code
employed, link control procedures or similar technical
parameters. More characteristically, the requirement can
and should be stated in terms of the result desired, in-
cluding limiting factors only to the extent necessary,
leaving to the technical support office the discretion
of determining the precise means of assuring that result.
In this manner the technical competence as well as the
available and developing assets of the supporting office
can best be used.
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An a.lmast universal requirement parameter is
information or data volume. It is frequently not one
of the more vital considerations when the supporting.
mechanism is a totally new system. In that instance,
while the volume consideration affects the sizing and
cost of the system, it often does not impact greatly on
the technology required or the difficulty of satisfying
the requirement to the extent that the information medium,
cricitality, sensitivity and end use do. It is, conversely,
of great importance in imposing additional workloads on
existing systems which may result in a need for significant
modification or even replacement of a system before its
obsolence.
It is thus vital that newly developed support
systems be sized to accommodate not only current volumes
but a.lsa reasonably predictable increases. This can best
be achieved if components requiring camrnunications support
practice the art of long range planning to tl~e maximum
feasible extent and provide their requirements to the
support component, even in rough form, at the earliest
possible time. The support systems can then be developed
with sufficient flexibility to accommodate future expansion.
Due to the variety of means by which
communications requirements can be characterized, and
since the needed specificity of the requirements varies
greatly with the particular application, the compilation
of communications requirements in Sections II through VI
of this report contains varying degrees of detail and
varying numbers of parameters. Only that whi.~ch is believed
to represent the actual customer requirement is stated.
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SECTION II - DIGITIZED DATA COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS
The. fallowing requirements axe those considered
to fall within the broad area of communications generated
by and/or intended for input to a data processing system
rather than that of human readable narrative material,
A. Interconnectian of Headquarters Area Remote
e~rm~inal Devi ces w1t~ADP Centers
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR AN
EXTENSIVE NUMBER OF REMOTE
TERMINAL DEVICES LOCATED IN
USER AREAS TO COMA4UNICATE
DIRECTLY WITH THE AGENCY ADP
CENTERS.
This requirement commenced with a series of
individual requests for the interconnection of vaxious
remote terminal devices throughout the Headquarters
building with the several ADP centers. It grew to the
extent- that it became necessary for the Office of Com-
munications to develop a standard means of providing
such service. The Headquarters Data Distribution Grid
system xestzlted. In re oration for that system, it was
forecast that remote devices would be installed
in the building through FY-1976 for information up to and
including TOP SECRET, This was accepted as a reasonable
projection. The Data Distribution Grid system, as in-
stalled, has a maximum capacity of terminals. How-
ever, a practic 1 capacity, due to c ustering?and other
factors, is The number of remote terminals installed
has increase rom 16 in FY-1969, to 0 in FY-1971, to C
in FY-1973. While certain portions of the system are fully
utilized, it continues to enjoy unused capacity as a whole.
OTERMINALS, THE PRACTICAL
.CAPACITY OF T}-}E INSTALLED SYS-
IN FY-1976.
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THE PRESENT MAGNITUDE OF T}iE
REQUIREA~}ENT. PROJECTION'S BY
OJCS INDICATE THAT OTERI~IINALS
WILL BE REQUIRED IN FY-1975 AND
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B. Terminal and Control Switch and
A1locator
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR REMOTE
TERMINAL DEVICES TO BE AUTOMATI-
CALLY TERMINATED IN THE OJCS COMPUTER
CENTER, FOR THOSE DEVICES SINGLY OR
IN GROUPS "I'0 BF. SWITCI-iABLE FROM ONE
COMPUTER SYSTEM TO ANOTIiER, AND FOR
QUALITY CONTROL TO BE EXERCISED AT
TI-IE INTERFACE POINT.
'The; large and growing number of remote terminal
devices which must be interconnected with the OJCS com-
puter center greatly exceeds that which can be terminated
in any one of the six large scale computer systems in that
center. It also exceeds that which can be terminated in a
single front-end processor such as may be utilized in that
center. A need exists, in the event of failure of one or
more large scale computers ar front-end processors, for
their workload to be switchable in whole or in part to
another system. Future multi-purpose use of the terminals
further requires termination control. A further need. exists
to be able to perform quality assurance checks and trouble-
shooting on the terminal circuits. That composite require-
ment is to be met by the OJCS Terminal and Control S;witch
and Resource Allacator currently being defined by OJCS and
OC.
THAT SYSTEM IS 'TO BE SIZED TO
ACCOMMODATE AN EVENTUAL
REMOTE TERMINALS AND TO INTER-
FACE WITH UP TO SIX LARGE SCALF.
PROCESSORS OR THREE FRONT-END
PROCESSORS. T~iAT IS CONSIDERED
TO BE THE CURRENT MAGNITUDE OF
THE REQUIREMENT,
C. Interconnection of Headquarters Area Data
Access Centers wit ADP Centers
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR A
LIMITED NUMBER OF DATA ACCESS
CENTERS (DAC) IN THE HEAD-
QUARTERS AREA TO COMA4UNIGATE
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WITH T'I-IE ADP CENTERS . DATA
ACCESS CENTERS WILL BE LOCATED
IN THE KEY, AMES AND CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE BUILDINGS, THE SEVERAL
LOGISTICS DEPOTS, AND THE HEAD-
QUARTERS BUILDING. THIS TS CUR-
RENTLY CONSIDERED TO REPRESENT
THE Iv1AGNITUDE OF THE REQUIRE-
MENT . THE UPPER LIMIT COI~IMUNI -
CATTONS SPEED REQUIREMENT FOR
ANY SINGLE DEVICE WITHIN A DAC
TS CONSIDERED TO BE 9600 BPS.
D. Lnterchange_of Data Transmissions Between
A~enc?~= Ilcadc~uarter'-?s anc~-Other Agencies and
Remote.~ocatzons
THERE IS A REQUTREI~IENT FOR THE
AGENCY HEADQI3ARTERS TO EXCHANGE
DATA TRANSMISSIONS ON A NON-REAL
TIME RECORD BASIS WITH DISTANT
AGENCY LOCATIONS AND WITI-I OTHER
AGENCIES AND CONTRACTORS.
This requirement commenced with, and remains
almost solely in, the Science and Technology Directorate.
It is analogous to the exchange of "cables" in the nar-
rative message area, daes not involve direct connection
between the originator and the recipient of a transmission,
requires continuity and control procedures ta?be employed by
the communications facilities involved to protect against
non-delivery, and requires structuring and formatting of
a transmission to be acceptable to the communications sys-
tems employed. A relay function is required on the part
of one or more communications facilities to effect eventual
delivery from the originator to the recipient. Some trans-
mission originators or recipients are directly connected
with the Headquarters building data communications (1)ATACOM)
facility while others are reached through remote data com-
munications facilities which are in turn connected. with
DATACOM. The record transmission of data by the Agency
is of recent origin and is as yet small in volume when
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compared with the transmission of narrative messages. It
is, however, growing at a vastly greater rate and will
surely surpass the narrative message valume in the future.
Numbers of transmissions processed by DATACOM
under this requirement have grown from 5,252 in FY-1969,
to 8,180 in FY-1971, to 14,357 in FY-1973. Numbers of
data records processed have grown from 8 million in FY-1969,
to 21.5 million in FY-1971, to 67.5 million in FY-1973.
Planning projections developed by the Office of Communica-
tians in 1970 and validated by DDS$T components as good for
planning puxposes included predicted volumes of 13 to 16
million records in FY-1971 and 19 to 24 million records
in FY-1973. In each year, the actual record volume has
far exceeded the planning projections. Projections made
at that time for future years were:
FY-1974 28 to 35 million records
FY-1975 29 to 86 million records
FY-1976 30 to 90 million records
FY-1977 30 to 90 million recaxds
Third quarter figures indicate an estimated. FY-1974
rate of 76 million records.
New projections were obviously required and
were developed to permit realistic sizing of the data
switching system (DATEK) being built far DATACOM.
THE DATA TRANSMISSION AND
RECEPTION RF.QUIREI~iENT OF THE
AGENCY HEADQUARTERS IS CONSIDERED
'TO $E UP TO 200 MILLION RECORDS
BY FY-1977.
Among the major facilities directly interfaced with
DATACOTZ under this requirement are the OJCS computer center;
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in the headquarters Building may be directly connected with
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the DATACOM Switch (DATEX) to provide real-time dissemination
and origination. of data messages. Data transmissions are
exchanged, either directly or indirectly, with same 25 other
military and contractor locations.
An interface link is to be established between
t}ze DATACOM facility and the military AUTODIN message and
data switching network. A significant increase is anti-
cipated in the number of remote non-Agency facilities with
which data transmissions are exchanged. It is further
anticipated, however, that many of those f cilities will
be reached via the AUTODIN network and the etwork 25X1
anal will not require direct interfaces with DATACOM.
THE DATEX SYSTEM }SILL HAVE AN
INITIAL CAPABILITY TO TERMINATE
DIRECTLY Q REMOTE TRAFFIC CIR-
CUITS RANGING FROM 150 BPS TO
50 KBPS AND IS READILY EXPAND-
ABLE TO SUCH CIRCUITS BY
ADDING THE NECESSARY PERIPHERAL
EQUIPMENT. TI-IIS IS CONSIDERED
TO EXCEED THE PEQUIREMENT THROUGH
1977.
The DATEX System will accommodate more than ~ 25X1
lines. however, t}pis tiri11 result in a reduction in t rough-
put speeds during peak traffic flow periods.
E. Direct Data. Access from Headquarters User
Of l~s to Remote Nori-Agency Sites
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR
SEVERAL AGENCY CU~iPONENTS TO
ACCESS DIRECTLY UNCLASSIFIED
llATA BASES OP OTI~ER GOVERNMENT
.AGENCIES OR COh~4ERCIAL ORGANI-
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THERE TS A REQUIREI4IENT FOR
SEVERAL AGENCY COMPONENTS TO
ACCESS DIRECTLY CLASSIFIED
DATA BASES OF OTHER GOVERN-
MENT ORGANIZATIONS.
Requirements under this category currently
include access by a dedicated Office of Security faci-
lity in the Headquarters Building to biographic files
at Fort Holabird, Maryland, and access by dedicated
terminals in the Data Access Center in the Headquarters
Building to the COINS (Community On-Line Information.
System) at NSA. There are CRS requirements to access
the SIGINT On-Line Information System (SOLIS) facility
at NSA, the DoD Documentation Center facility at Cameron
Station, Alexandria, Virginia, and DTA. There is also
re uirement for a secure data circuit between OTR and
F. Data Transmission fz~otn the
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT TN
DDSFT/OEL FOR THE TRANS-
ION OF DATA FROM THE
Y
FY-1076. 9600 BPS CAPA-
BILITY WILL BE SUFFICIENT
FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
This requirement does not demand a dedicated
transmission path but would require part time use of a
9600 BPS link between the cited points.
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G. Data Transmission from a DDS~T/OEL Remote
o~cation
THERE IS A REQUIREA~ENT IN THE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE
FOR FOUR VOICE BANDWIDTH CHANNELS
BETWEEN AN OEL REMOTE LOCATION ANA
BY FY-1976.
This requirement addresses the need far secure,
real time transmission, without loss of quality,
for analysis by linguists availablE~ in the Head-
quarters area but not at the remote location.
H. Data Dissemination
Tlie dissemination of data to the intended
recipient, either at Headquarters or at remote locations,
is not as complex a process as is the dissemination of
narrative information. .This is due to its nature
(essentially non-readable) and to the limited number of
components having the requirement to receive it or the
capability to make use of it. This dissemination, unlike
that of narrative information, does not require analysis
of a substantial portion of a transmission. Rather, it
is determined by information appearing at the very beginning
of a transmission such as a project or operation name. Also,
copies of outgoing data transmissions are not normally dis-
seminated. It is none the less important that incoming data
transmissions be compartmented and delivered to the appropri-
ate component.
T1iERE IS A REQUIREMENT THAT DATA
TRANSMISSIONS RECEIVED AT HEAD-
QUARTERS BE ANALYZED TO THE NEC-
ESSARY DEGREE TO DETERMINE THE
APPROPRIATE RECIPIENT, BASED ON
REAI)TNG REQUIR~:I~tENTS PROVIDED
BY USER COMPONENTS, AND THAT TI3E
DATA BE PROVIDED IN THE AGREED
UPON MEDIUM TO THE RECIPIENTS.
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This xecluirement is satisfied in some instances
by over the counter ar courier delivery Pram the DATACOA~i
facility and in others by electrical delivery to an auto-
matic data processing facility.
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SECTION III - NARRATIVE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION
RI; tJIREiv~?~TS - -~ -~
The following requirements ar.e those considered
to fa11 within the broad area of communications generated
by and intended for the use of a human, i.e., readable nar-
rative material.
A. Exchan ~e of_ Narrative Information Between
~ency Headquarters and'-A~icy Field Stations
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE
RELIABLE, SECURE AND RAPID (BUT
NON-REAL TIME) EXCHANGE OF NAR-
RATIVE INFORMATION BETIt~EEN AGENCY
HEADQUARTERS AND ITS FIELD STA-
TIONS AND LATERALLY BETtiVEEN FIELD
STATIONS. '
This requirement includes the need for the.
exchange of administrative, operational, and intelligence
information via the Agency's staff communications telet pe
network. That network includes stations and bases~in 25X1
overseas areas. The requirement is satis-
ce y t e interconnection of several sub-networks in the
various geographical areas. While, for reasons of volume
or other considerations, direct links are maintained between
a number of remote stations and Ieadquarters, the information
exchange is generally accomplished via one or more relay pro-
cesses.
THE NUMBER OF FIELD STATIONS
SERVICED UNDER THIS REQUIRE-
MENT AND THE TOTAL VOLUME OF
TRAFFIC I-IANDLED VARIES ONLY
SLIGHTLY FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
THE TRAFFIC VOLUME INCREASES
BY APPROXIMATELY SIX PERCENT
PER YEAR. THE NUMBER OF STA-
TIONS APPROXIMATES 0 IT IS
CONSIDERED THAT WHILE THE NOTED
VARIANCES WILL CONTINUE, THE
MAGNITUDE OF THIS REQUIREMENT
WILL NOT CHANGE SUBSTANTIALLY
OVER T'IiE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS .
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Due to the code, equipment, and procedures
utilized in the staff communications network, it is
vulnerable to an error rate which, ~tiThile not inter-
fering with the readability of textual information,
is generally not satisfactory for the passage of infor-
mation far which an extremely high degree of accuracy
is required, e.g., information to be used as a direct
input to a data processing system.
B. Dedicated Network Requirements
Several Agency components require the
interconnection of a group in closed
communications networks rat er t an as a part of the
staff network. The reasons for such closed network
operation include operational control, special security
considerations, and a need for non-association with. the
Agency and with the other closed nett,rorks. The components
with such re uirements are the Office of Security, the
1. Office of Security Network
The Office of Security operates its
own communications nettivork with facilities
located in Room GE31 of the Headquarters
ing facility serves as the hub of this net-
work. The information exchanged within this
network is essentially informal and unformat-
ted and is not interchanged into other networks
for transmission or dissemination purposes.
T}}ERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE
OFFICE OF SECURITY TO POSSESS AND
OPERATE A PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK INTERCONNECTING ITS HEAD-
QUARTERS AND FIELD FACILITIES AND
rOR TI}E INFORMATION F,XCHANGED WITH-
IN THAT NET}YORK NOT TO BE INTER-
C}IANGED INTO ANY OTHER NETWORK
EITHER FOR TRANSMISSION OR llISSEM-
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THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR
DEDICATED NARRATIVE ELECTRICAL
COMr4UNICATION FACILITIES TO BE
D AT
That exchange of information is almost
wholly of an unclassified nature and is accom-
plished via the Military Automatic Digital Net-
work (AUTOI)IN) and leased circuits. Both the
transmission facilities and the terminal equip-
ment employed are provided by AUTODIN rather
than by the Office of Communications. Agency
facilities are used to encrypt and/or exchange
the limited volume of classified information ,
required b the peration. At Headquarters,
the Agenc interchange of such information.
is accomplis e by telecopier or courier delivery.
TIIERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE
AGENCY NETWORK TO ACCOMMODATE
THE ENCRYPTION AND/OR EXCIiANGE
OF A LIMITED AA-10UNT OF CLASSI -
PIED INPORAZATION BETWEEN
REMOTE LOCATIONS Alv'D THE
WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS.
For the distribution of information
collected at its remote .locations, Omain-
transmission facilities and equipment.
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THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE
~0 DISSEMINATE COLLECTED
ATION TO SUBSCRIBERS VIA
UNCLASSIFIED TELETYPE CIRCUITS.
THOSE SUBSCRIBERS CURRENTLY
NUMBER 18. THE CRS HAS A
REQUIREMENT TO RECEIVE
FIELD ORIGINATED REPORT TRAFFIC
FOR FILING, INDEXING, PUBLICA-
TION GENERATION, ETC.
It is anticipated that none of the
rec{uirements cited will change significantly
in magnitude in the foreseeable future.
C. Exchange of Narrative Information Between
~~ency I~_~Iea~c~uartErs _an~~ Qt~ier government
~encies
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR
NARRATIVE INFORI.IATION TG BE
EXCIIAIv'GED BETWEEN THE AGENCY
AND O'I'IIER CIVIL AND MILITARY
AGENCIES OF THE GOVERND~tENT.
This reQuirement for the transmission and
receipt of messages to and from other government agencies
both at domestic and overseas points ia~cludes the exchange
of administrative and intelligence information with the
National Security Agency, the military services, the Depart-
ment of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Secret Service
among others. This exchange is accomplished primarily
via a relay process involving interface links between the
Agency's staff communications network and the networks of
other agencies.
IT IS ANTICIPATED Ti-IAT I~viCREASING
EMPHASIS BEING PLACED ON ECONOMIC,
NARCOTICS AND OTHER AREAS WITH WHICH
THE AGENCY I-iAS NOT BEEN INVOLVED TO
A MAJOR EXTENT IN THE PAST WILL RE-
SULT IN A CONTINUING INIJRI~ASE OVER
THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS 3N BOTH THE
NUAtBER OF AGENCIES WITIi WIiICIi COM-
MUNICATION IS REQUIRED A~'~D IN THE
VOLUME OF INFORb~tATION HANDLED.
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D. Exchan e of Narrative Information Between
~ency H-~ac~guarters and Contractor Facilities
T~iERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR
ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL
INFORh4ATI0N TO BE EXCHANGED
BETWEEN THE AGENCY AND A
NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL CON-
TRACTORS.
This requirement, non-real time in nature,
results from the fact that a number of commercial
firms are engaged in classified contracts with the
Agency. A means must be provided for the timely
exchange of contractual and technical information
in a secure fashion. To avoid the hazaxds inherent
in permitting contractor access to the staff cammuni
cations network, each requirement of this nature is
satisfied by the provision of: a dedicated manually
operated link between the Agency Headquarters and
the contractor facility.
IT IS NOT ANTICIPATED THAT THE
MAGNITUDE OF T~}IS REQUIREMENT
WILL CHANGE SIGNFICANTLY EITHER
WITH RESPECT TO THE NUMBER OF
FACILITIES SERVICED OR THE VOL-
UME OF INFORMATION.
E. Dedicated Narrative Circuit Requirements of
_~;ezicy Components
Various Agency components require the capability
to exchange information on an infoxmal operational basis
via dedicated (non-shared, non-switched) circuitry with
individual remote Agency and non-Agency activities.
.THERE IS A REQUTRED4ENT FOR FULL
TIME CIRCUITRY TO BE AVAILABLE
BETWEEN THE AGENCY AND NON-AGENCY
ACTIVITIES LISTED BELOW FOR USE
BY THE TWO END POINTS FOR INFORMAL
OPERATIONAL INFORMATION EXCI3ANGE.
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F. Dissemination R-ec~tzirements
The Office of Communications and, at present,
several other. Agency components have the responsibility
for providing dissemination, distribution and file and
reference services on alI information received or origi-
nated electrically in the Headquarters area. The tata.l
responsibility for provision of these services will be
assumed by the Office of Communications for all categories
of traffic, Agency and non-Agency, with the implementation
of the Cable Dissemination System beginning in FY-1975.
1. CIA Operations Center Requirements
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE
CIA OPERATIONS CENTER TO RECEIVE,
NOT LATER THAN RECEIPT BY TfiE
DISSEMINATION FACILITY, A COPY
OF VIRTUALLY EVERY INC01.1ING AND
OUTGOING MESSAGE ORIGINATED BY
OR ADDRESSED TO AN AGENCY HEAD-
QUARTERS AREA COMPONENT.
As a result of certain security and
administrative considerations, some categories
of messages are exempted from this requirement.
Since those categories, and the percentage that
their represent of the total message volume, vary
from time to time, the capability must exist to
include or exclude any given category. The basic
capabil~.ty must exist, however, for virtually the
total message volume to be made available to the
Operations Center.
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THERE IS A REQUIREIv1ENT FOR ONE OR
MORE I-iEADQUARTERS ADP CENTERS TO
RECEIVE, IN MACKINE LANGUAGE FORI`Z,
A COPY OF VIRTUALLY EVERY INCOMING
AND OUTGOING MESSAGE ORIGINATED BY
OR ADDRESSED TO AN AGENCY HEAD-
QUARTERS AREA COMPONENT.
Messages received in machine language
form by an ADP Center would be for input to
indexing, filing, and retrieval systems and
far availability to intelligence analysts.
The number of messages so handled might ini-
tially be Quite low and a given category of
message may be added to or deleted from this
requirement from time to time. It is antici-
pated, however, that within several years the
majority of messages would be included.
3. Dissemination Based on Reading
Rec~ui.rements
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR ACTION,
INFORMATION, AND CONFIRMATION COPIES
OF ALL HEADQUARTERS ORIGINATED 012
ADDRESSED h~ESSAGES TO BE PROVIDED
TO TAIL' APPROPRIATE AGENCY COMPONENTS
AS DETERMINED BY READI\TG REQUIREMENTS
.PROVIDED BY THE COMPONENTS.
Same dissemination will be determined auto-
matically by comparison of messages with computer-
stored dictionaries representing user requirements
vahile, in other cases, it will be determined by
similar comparison by cable analysts. The pro-
vision of copies will in some instances be in
electrical form to a teleprinter in the compon-
ent area while, in other cases, it will be in
page copy form subsequent to a reproduction pro-
c:ss. The method of determining dissemination
will depend on the degree to which the require-
ment can be structured. The method of delivery
will depend on such factors as component opera-
ting hours, component message volume, and similar
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THE VOLUME OF MESSAGES DIS-
SEA4INATED IN Ti-iE HEADQUARTERS
AREA CURRENTLY AVERAGES 125,000
PER MONTH, AND IS INCREASING
AT A RATE OF SIX PERCENT PER
YEAR.
4. Intelligence bVatch Officer Group
R~ec~uirernents
TIIEP.E I S A REQUIREMENT FOUR
INCOMING INTELLIGENCE MESSAGES
TO BE DELIVERED, EXCEPT UNDER
SPECIFIED CONSTRAINTS, TO THE
INTELLIGENCE WATCH OFFICER
GROUP FOR EDITING AS REQUIRED
AND FOR CONVERSION INTO I=INISHED
INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS FOR
DISSEMINATION TO THE INTELLI-
GENCE COMMUNITY. FOLLO?t'ING
-SUCH EDITING AND CONVERSION,
THEI:E IS A REQUIREMENT FOR
THE?PRODUCTS TO BE ENTERED
BACK INTO THE COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK FOR TRANSMISSIOR' AS
APPROPRIATE.
5. Reference Service Requirement
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR A
CENTRAL MESSAGE REFERENCE SER-
VICE TO BE MAINTAINED FROM
WHICH AUTHORIZED AGENCY COM-
PONENTS MAY OBTAIN ADDIT'TONAL
COPIES OF MESSAGES WITHIN 90
DAYS OF TRANSMISSION OR RECEIPT.
6. Field Station Di.sseminati.on
AT REMOTE AGENCY LOCATIONS,
OVERSt~AS, SERVED
BY OTIIER THAN THE IIEADQUARTI:RS
COMMUNICATIONS COMPLEX, TI-iERE
IS A REQUIREMENT FOR PACE COPIES
OF INCOMING AND OUTGOING MESSAGES
TO BE PROVIDED TO STATION PERSONNEL
AS DETERMINED BY THE CIiIEF OF STA-
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SECTION TV - FACSIMTLE COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS
Requirements for facsimile communications axe
few in comparison with those in other categories. The
requirements give evidence of increasing, however, and
this fact coupled with their unique nature warrant
addressing them as a separate category.
A. R~e~uirement for Inte~enc_ Facsimile
~a a-bil~ or Inte111~er~ce Report
oorc .nation
In its production of Intelligence Reports,
the CIA Operations Center has a need to coordinate tie
content of such reports in draft with other members of
the Tntelligence Community prior to their publication.
For certain types of reports, the time available for
coordination and the fact that coordination is accom-
plished simultaneously with several Community members
preclude the use of the narrative message or data net-
works for this purpose. Other community members have a
similar requirement in the production of their reports.
For this purpose, as well as those instances where a
single copy of a document must be exchanged informally
between Community members, a facsimile transmission net-
work has been established. That network, referred to as
the WASHFAX net, consists of single Lung Distance Xerox
(LDX) encrypted full duplex (simultaneous transmission
and reception) systems at the White House, Department of
State, NMCC, DIA, NPTC, and NSA and two such systems in
the CIA Operations Center. Either of th.e two systems at
CTA can be placed an-line with any other member of the net.
Normally, coordination of a document is accomplished. by
transmission of a draft to the appropriate Community mem-
bers via the WASHFAX net and discussion of the document
with the members via secure voice facilities.
The creation of new categories of reports, the
current volume of documents exchanged via the existing
network, the transmission speed limitation of that net-
work, and the fact that inter-Agency coordination dffi-
culties frequently show up as a problem area in post-
mortems of crises all indicate that an inter-Agency docu-
ment coordination system with capability greater than that
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been stated by the Operations Center. While on-line text
editing capability is thought to be a longer term require-
ment, the immediate need is for higher speed and more
nearly simultaneous transmission capability t.o Community
nzembexs. The Treasury Department and a DDS~T 25X1
must also be added to the document coordination
in the near futuxe.
TI~ERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR A
RAPID AND SECURE MEANS OF 000RDI-
NATION OF DOCUMENTS AA40NG MEMBERS
OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMh1UNITY.
TIi05E MEMBERS CUP.RENTLY INCLUDE
THE CIA, WHITE HOUSE, DEPARTMENT
OF STATE, NMCC, DIA, NPIC, and NSA
AND WILL INCLUDE THE TREASURY DEPART-
MENT BY MID-1974 AND A DDS$T
BY JULY 1975. WITHIN APPROXI-
MATELY A TWO-YEAR TIME FRAME THE
REQUIREMENT tiVILL INCLIIDE ON-LINE
TEXT EDITING CAPABILITY AT ALL
NETWORK TERMINALS, IF TINS PROVES
TO BE FEASIBLE. IN THE INTERIM,
TIIE RF,QUIREhIENT IS FOR AUGhIENTA-
1'ION OR REPLACEMENT OF THE WASHFAX
NETWORK TO PI~OVIDE MORE RAPID (AT
LEAST SIX PAGES PER MINUTE) TRANS-
MISSION CAPABILITY WITH SIMULTANEOUS
TRANSMISSION TO SEVERAL RECIPIENTS
TF POSSIBLE.
B. Requirement fox Intro-Agency Headquarters
Area Facsimile Service
A number of Agency offices in the Headquarters
area have a need for the informal, rapid and secure cx-
chan.ge of documents for information or coordination pur-
poses in instances where the courier service is not suf-
ficiently timely. This need is currently satisfied by
the installation of XEROX Telecopiers in thane offices
and by the utilization of the Agency secure voice (KY-3)
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coupling. Same 0 offices are currently equipped with
this capability.
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR A LIMITED
NUMBER OF AGENCY OFFICES IN THE HEAD-
QUARTERS AREA TO EXCHANGE GRAPHIC AND
NARRATIVE INFORIviATION INFORMALLY,
RAPIDLY AND SECURELY AND TO DO SO WITH
A FREQUENCY WHICH DOES NOT I4'ARP.ANT DEDI-
CATED FULL-TIME FACSIMILE SERVICE. THF'
NUMBER OF OFFICES REQUIRING THIS SERVICE
WILL UNDOUBTEDLY INCREASE BUT NOT AT A.
SIGNIFICANT RATE.
C. R~uirements for Dedicated Paint-to-Point
Facsimile Service
A small number of Agency components have a
requirement for facsimile service to a single point and
with sufficient frequency to warrant the provision of
dedicated point-to-point facsimile capability.
THERE IS A REQUIREIYIENT ON THE
PART OF DDS~T/OEL FOR A DIDICA-
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the exchan e of analog data, engineering drawings anc~
DACOM facsimile units have been installed
at the two paints and the system has undergone operational
evaluation and been placed in operation. (Note: This
communications circuit is a wide-band, high-speed, mi.zlti-
plexed data link which is used far the transmission of
data, facsimile and voice signals.)
TIIF.RE IS A REQUIREMENT ON THE
PART OF DDS#~T/ODi;,E FOR A DEDI -
CATED FACSIMILE SYSTEM BETWEEN
SAND A
The OD#;E is expected to be
operational in June e requirement arises from
the need to exchange information from documents and
engineering drawings.
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OF DDS~T/0'rS FOR A DEDICATED FACSIMILE
SYSTEM BETti'~rEN I'HE SOUTH BUILDING AND
TF~E OTS ENGINEERING LAB
This requirement arises from the inadequacy
of the thrice-weekly courier service for rapid document
transmission in suppoxt of quick-reaction technical pro-
jects. The DACOM system will be used to satisfy this
requirement with installation expected in the early
summer of 1974.
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A great deal of the Agency's day to day
business must be conducted over the telephone. The needs
in this area are both inter-Agency, infra-Agency, Agency/
contractor and personal. The telephone facilities are
used far both classified and unclassified information.
A variety of voice communications systems exist to fill
this need. These include the Black unclassified system,
the Red Button system (utilizing the black instruments),
the Gray system, the Agency Green system, miscellaneous
small private or secure systems for special uses, and long
distance secure voice (via satellite
and military systems) overseas. ze vc~lce requirements and
the related systems are as follows:
A. Non-Secure Voice Requirement
For the informa7_, non-record exchange of
unclassified. information inter-Agency, intro-Agency,
Agency/contractor and personal unsecured telephone
service is needed accessible to virtually every Agency
or contractor emplo ee housed in Agency facilities.
Far this purpose ~ unsecured tole}hone instru-
ments are provided in the Agency's Headquarters area
facilities. Infra-Agency calls are routed through one
of several Agency switches by the dialing of a faun
digit number and access to an external telep}~one is
gained via a normal trunk circuit by the dialing of
a "9" followed by the appropriate telephone number.
Since the number of Agency employees is expected to
stabilize or decrease rather than increase in the
future, and since the number and ready availability
of unclassified instruments and lines in comparison
with that of secure instruments and lines is out of
proportion with the percentage of telephone calls
which are of a classified nature, the need far unclassi-
fied instruments and lines will most likely decrease
over the next several years. This is, in fact, desir-
able a~? a security measure to reduce the probability
of: the inappropriate use of the unclassified system
for the discussion of classified information.
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THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR NON-
SECLIRE VOICE COMMUNICATIONS CAPA-
BILITY TO BE READILY ACCESSIBLE
TO VIRTUALLY EVERY AGENCY AND
CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEE HOUSED IN
AGENCY FACILITIES FOR THE EX-
CHANGE OF UNCLASSIFIED INFOR-
MATION. TIIE DINSTRUMENTS
CURRENTLY MEETING THIS NEED IS
A MAXIMUM AND THE NUIv1BER ti'~ILL
DECREASE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL
YEARS. THE NUMBER OF UNCLASSI-
FIED LINES, AND LINES PER INSTRU-
MENT, CURRENTLY E?~CEED THE REQUIRE-
MENT.
B. Intro-Agency Secure Voice RecLuixement
Since much of the Agency?s day to day business
dealing with classified matters of various security levels
requires extensive informal coordination and information
exchange with a timeliness not afforded by courier ar other
delivery means, there is a need?in virtually every Agency
component for secure telephone service approved for the
SECRET level (including operational matters). In a large
number of components there is a need far such service
approved f.or the highest security levels including TOP
SECRET multiple codeword. These needs exist both within
the Headquarters building anti. among the Headquarters build-
ing and other Agent}r locations. They are currently
addressed by the Red Button system on Black instruments,
which is available only within the headquarters building
and which is approved only for SECRET non-operational
information, by the Agency Green system which is avail-
able within and among Agency Headquarters area buildings,
and which is approved for all categories of information,
and by several small private systems for special uses.
Although the Red Button system is approved for discussion
of SECRI?T non-operational information, it is not a secure
voice system as there is no encryption of the signals and
na physical protection of the system other than the faces
that it is contained solely within the Headquarters build-
ing. This system is a four-digit dial system which does
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not .provide an interface capability with othex s stems of
the Agency or other agencies. Approximatel Red Button 25X1
.lines are currently in service with some instruments. 25X1
The Green system is a point-to-point encrypted four digit
dial system with limited interface to other buildings and
agencies. The Green system switch is in the Headquarters
building and provides a maximum of Olines with each line 25X1
accommodating one call director and up to six subscriber
ins trtzments .
similar to the above bit
An internal system
,
non-encrypted, serves the NPIC building and has a 25X1
line capacity. Another such s stem with a
0
line 25
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capacity serves the The NPIC and
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25
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systems are interfaced wit the Headquarters
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uil a.itg and form the infra-Agency TOP SECRET multiple
codeword approved network.
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT ON THE
' PART OF VIRTUALLY EVERY AGENCY
COMPONENT FOR READILY ACCESSIBLE
SECURE VOICE SERVICE APPROVED I~OR
SECRET LEVEL IRTFORMATION AND ON
THE PART OI~ A LARGE NUMBER OF
AGENCY COMPONENTS FOR SERVICE
APPROVED FOR TOI' SECRET MULTIPLE
CODEWORD LI~VEL INFORh~IATION FOR
INTRA-AGENCY USE. THE EXISTING
SERVICE IS ALMOST FULLY CoMr~tITTED
WITH SERVICE REQUESTS CONTINUING
TO BE RECEIVED. EXISTING CAPA-
ABILITY IS INADEQUATE FOR CURRENT
NEEDS . IN FACT , TI-IE FREQUENT USE
OF TI-iE NON-SECURE SYSTEi~i FOR CLASSI -
FIED INFORTIATION (EVEN ti+IIiEN CRUDELY
DISGUISED) INDICATES TI-iAT A SIGNIFI-
CANT TNCREASE IN CAPABILITY IS
REQUIRED WITIi RESPECT TO THI NUMBERS
OF LINES AND INSTRUMENTS AND TO THE
INTERCONNECTION OF THE VARIOUS AGENCY
BUILDINGS AND SYSTEMS. A RECENT SUR-
VEY OF USER REQUIREA2ENTS IN THIS AREA
CONFIRMED THE NEEU FOR A SIZEABLE
EXPANSION OF OUR PRESENT SECURE VOICE
CAPABILITIES AND THE NEED FOR FULL
INTERCONNECTABILITY OP ALL SUCH SYS-
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Secure voice communications between Headquarters
are provided via dedicate
paint-to-point links a.nd a manual switchboard in the Head-
quarters Telephone Facilities Branch. (Note: These communi-
cations circuits are wide-band, high-speed, multiplexed data
links ~,~hich are used far the transmission of data, facsimile
and secure voice.)
C. Secure Voice Requirement far Inter-Agency
ancT-Agencyj~Contractor Conversation
There is a need on the part of many Agency
components for Secure Voice communications with other
agencies. This need is currently met by the provision
of dedicated Green lines between the 0 erations Center
and the White House and between and the
a Green line to the Atomic Energy
ommzssion, ray lines with 0 instruments in
the Ileadquaxters building, a.nd limited interfacing of
the Green and Gray systems. The Gray system is primarily
administered by and serving the National Security Agency
but provides limited service to~ather agencies as well.
Interfaces axe also provided between the Agency Green
system and Military, Department of State, and White
House Secure Voice systems. The existence of these end
other secure voice systems, the poor voice quality on
interfaced conversations, and the limited number of points
reachable by any single system and by the total configuration,
aI1 render the existing systems less than adequate even for
current needs.
There is also a need for Secure Voice communica-
tions between Agency components and contractor facilities.
This need is met by dedicated point-to-point links between
the Headquarters Telephone Facilities Branch and the con-
tractor facilities, via a manual switchboard.
THERE IS A REQUIREI`IENT ON THE
PART OF A LARGE NUIviBER OF AGENCY
COMPONENTS FOR SECURE VOICE SER-
VICE APPROVED FOR TOP SECRET
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MULTIPLE CODEI,VORD INFORMATION
FOR INTER-AGENCY AND AGENCY/
CON'T'RACTOR USE. IMPROVEMENT
IN ALL THE AREAS OF ItiEAKNESS
PREVIOIISLY CITED IS REQUIRED TO
PROVIDE SERVICE WI~ICH IS SATIS-
FACTORY ENOUGIi TO A4AKF. UNNEC-
ESSARY~THE USE OF THE NON-SECURE
TELEPHONES FOR 7'HE DISCUSSION
OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.
D. Dedicated Voice Communication Requirements_
1. Head carters Communications Complex
ntercom--~ eQuirement
WITHIN TI-IE IiEADQIJARTERS COMMUNT -
CATIONS COMPLEX THERE IS A REQUIRE-
MENT FOR A SECURE, RAPID, AND DEDI-
CATED VOICE INTERCOM SYSTEM FOR TI-iE
COORDINATION OF ACTIVITIES WITHIN
THAT COMPLEX.
2. Special Project Secure Voice Requirement
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT ON BEIiALF OF
A SPECIAL PROJECT FOR A TERMINAL, OF
THE POINT-TO-POINT TO
BE MAINTAINED IN THE HEADQUARTERS
BUILDING.
E. Head carters to Overseas Station Secure
~oice Requirement --~' -- - - - ---~~~
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR A
LIMITED SECURE VOICE COMMUNI-
CATIONS CAPABILITY BETl4'EEN
AGENCY IEADQUARTERS AND THE
OVERSEAS STATIONS.
The Agency's satellite communications network
will provide a. limited capabili~~y-for Agency controlled
Secure Voice communications between Headquarters and over-
seas stations. Initially, such calls will have to be pre-
scheduled and will be limited to two at any one time in
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either the Atlantic or Pacific areas. Such satellite-
carried calls can be interfaced into the Headquarters
Green system but require manual switchboard handling.
Heretofore, overseas Secure Voice service was normally
limited to that available through the Military Automatic
Secure Voice Communications (AUTOSEVOCOM) network, in
which network plain text of a conversation is accessible
to non-Agency personnel at certain siti~itcli points .
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SECTION VI - INFORMATION COI~?1PARTI~?iENTATION REQrUIREMENTS
The Agency communications systems and facilities
including those performing both inter-Agency and intra-
Agency narrative message, data, voice and facsimile ex-
change functions and those performing dissemination and
distribution functions within the Agency process a wide
variety of information. This includes Agency staff -infor-
mation, classified and unclassified information of other
agencies, SI and codeword information, Restricted Handling
information, technical communications information with a
potential impact on the security of the Agency network,
messages with a "Prescribed and Limited" distribution,
and other categories of information with varying degrees
of sensitivity. it is essential that such information
and-data. be accessible at each stage of processing to only
those persons or activities who have been identified to
the Office of Communications as possessing the appropriate
clearances and access approval.
THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE
APPROPRIATE COMPARTMENTATION
AND HANDLING 1VITIIIN "THE COMMUNI-
CATIONS NETti90RK OF EVERY CATEGORY
OF INFORMATION IDENTIFIED TO THE
OFFICE OF COMP~IiJNICATIONS IN SUCH
FASHION AS ENSURES THAT NO INFOR-
MATION BECOMES ACCESSIBLE TO
UNAUTFIORIZED PERSONS OR ACTIVITIES.
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