STAGE I REPORT OF THE STAFF FOR THE COMMUNITY INFORMATION PROCESSING STUDY (SCIPS)

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UNITED STATES INTSLLIGENCE BOARD
COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTAIION
Revised Draft flODI"B Report on
pian I of the Staff for the Comrpunitr
Information ProceslAng_Study_
Attached for review and action at the naxt COMB meeting is the
flard, draft of the CODIB report to USW oxt tate SCIPLI Study.
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3 February :1964
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
COMMITTEE ON DOCUPIENTATITON
.StArLci_Re_port of the Staff for_the Community Inforstatiol.
Processin_g_S4c1x0C.IPE)
"e9ERENCES: (a) US1B-D-39.7/1, 24 July 1961
(p) USIB-D-39.7/3, 23 February 1962
c) US1B-M-202, 23 February 1962
1. This is a report on Stage I of tee Community Information Proceeeie.g
Fatioly which was undertaken by COD1B pursuant to US 7B direction containel:
Reference (c). The original terms of reference were set forth in Referenee (a)
and modified and reduced in scope in Reference (b), which constitutes the Stage I
en for this study, completion of which is now reported.
. The. SOIPS-repert deal-s-with uinfort flatton. preeese,ingu in-aereetei!;v'eti
eeelsece Information processing, as used in the SCIPS Stage !Report and le this
enport, includes only -those activities sequentially following initial or field
acquisition and preceding intelligence analysis, except that lampze_trans!ation
andiallptoAL4Dinttst.thalelivities are included. Thus e term as used biVIPS
Az primarily concerned with receiALsLie,qenination, ipde]di_lraLstor_a_z..scans'5 retrieval
tiaieted-to-the--di ssearriatetion-atiel-refevesee-service functions.
3. The directive to the Staff called essentially for doing four things:
a. To inventory intelligence information hoRdings;
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b. To measure the flow of informaqoe between intelligeace act eeies;
c. To recommend format and iede: speciiications, particula j.e as
eequired by attomated syetems;
d. To recommend what further stedy shouki be made te the id attic la
processing area (defined a e the portion ef the intelligence ceeee
between the collection of Worreation and the production of
intelligence therefrom).
The SOPS Report does include an ireentozy of intelligence inforeeelon
elees (or files) in a large part of the Imtelligence Community; wed it ide elYies
:ieee measured the flow of information between the many compoients seeveyed.
?Ne4 efedy effort did not yield the hoped-for oFecificatiens, because automeeei
3 generally have not been implemented or in some cases oven deverfeeed
Revel where input requirements are determinable. Recommendations 3
,20 concerning what to do next.
3. Or plan of presentation in this par firstl, to comment on the e:udy
-eee; itself, since this is necessary to an ueeerstandieg of what the Repo ee 3 or
eet: second, to sueemarize the major SOPS findings with CODUI commeee, thereon,
ele,e cross-references to the relevant portiens of the SCIPS Report; third, to
-euent some additional COreiB obeervatIons; fourth, to present oer own (Z.
recommendations for UB action.
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COMMENTS ON THE STUDY EFFORT
5. The SCIPS Report consists of sill volumes and its sheer !nilk and earious
ifications preclude its submission as a single unit. Volume which eentains
Fasnmary, Conclusions, and Recommendations as well as a Table of Ter.ents
FL/a v flumes, is attached hereto as Tab A. The remaining volumes are .3Qing
garded separately to the USIB member agencies. A selection of 17 of ifgz,
tre from the body of the report is also attached as .-rab B. eTc minientee
ible misinterpretation of the charts, they shouRd be studied together etli
ext of Volume II, of which they are a part.!
7. In spite of the necessary curtailroent of the seope of the survey
iginally conceived, the results represent the most comprehensive fat-.finding
.iudy of this kind that has yet been undertaken in the Intelligence Commun
,70nag perhaps one half of the Community's information processing act; ,ities.
extensive data base that has been created will continue for some time to
OA information of considerable value to the inclividusl participating agencies
_ as to the community as a whole. This data base consists of the Stee:,:e I
,:eort itself and, in addition, exhibits, survey forms, punched cards, magnetic
files, tally sheets, and machine listings. The machined portion castles
wZistical information on the kinds and quantities of people, equipment, files,
-ocesses, documents and document movement in the Intelligence Commulity.
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The following served in this capacity:
Mr. Willard R. Fazar, Bureau of the Budget
Dr. John H. Kennedy, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group
rin addition, Dr. William 0, Baker, Vice President (Research), Boll Labonstories,
2,nd a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, spent a
at t3CIPS headquarters while the panel was in session: The report of the
pFinel has been considered by CODIB in reaching its conclusions wad is atttched
as Tab C for information.
11. The members of CODIB, members of the SCIPS Staff, and others
25X1 wield two days
for the purpose of reviewing
the report and its findings. The group was unanimous in concluclivg that the
ECM Staff, and in particular its director should bo
commended for a useful job well done.
12. A word should be said about the factual data reported and the conclusions
reached by SCIPS. In the main, the information may be considered one year
old, though it varies in age from 8 to 24 months. However, since proces&kng
procedures change more slowly than organizations or subject interests, it is
believed that these data will remain valid and useful for some time even if ri o t
updated. It should further be noted that not all conclusions reached by SC;PS were
rived directly from the factual data alone. Some conclusions were reached as
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result of the broad experience acquired by the Staff during their long ane,
2atensive exposure to the survey's environment, supplemented by a high e,kgree
cf expertise in this field that some of them already possessed. Conclusions so
reached may be no less valid or valuable, but the reader should know that
juftmerit as well as fact played parts in their formulation. Unfortunately
etneof Those conclusions which seem less valid or even in our Atms
Aavalid if based on the data accumulated will be noted in the CODI3 COMMrAtS.
1:'he This mixture of sulctive invalid conclusions with a aersewhat-alarnaiet
2resentation rdrawn !orQposes of emphasis, prssents
e picture of the intelligence community which 4s-dieterted-and-whileh must be
carefully examined if misinterpretation and or unsound ill-grounded- actioi are
to be avoided.
13. One further note. The study consists, virtually, of a picture a
considerable size of files and flows. By its terms of reference it did not study
the analyst - the user of these files and the recipient of these flows. Hence,
:Tome of the dynamics of the situation are missing. We know a good deal shout
what goes on, but little about why. Moreover, the study deals jesimarily. with
the flow of document, not of information; and careful consideration must be given
Lily recommended action to insure that its impact would not...UR tp_IX#IefWw of
be-deleteriotte4e information. flews.
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.ZLECTED FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE saps EFFORT
14. The SCIPS effort was, first of all, a pioneering venture to determine
whether such a comprehensive and complex investigation was in fact feasible.
)11; was launched with few precedents for guidance and carried out on the basis
of curtailed terms of reference and with limited manpower. Nevertheless, the
first cc elusion of this report, and perhaps the Most significant one, is that
the SCI ?8 effort has indeed demonstrated that such a study is feasible. R. has
succeei ed in developing a highly useful methodology for gathering, collating
sand eveluating a great mass of valuable data on information processing br
the use of management at various levels of the community.
ii. The "findings" which are contained in Volumes II and VI of the SCIPS
Report, and summarized in Volume I, attached hereto, constitute the main
product of this survey. Given below, in very abbreviated form, is a selection
of son( of the major broad findings and conclusions of the report as well as a
few sel,)cted problems which hold promise for special study.
Selected Findings
a. Systems
(1) The present USIB "systems' are strongly oriented to method
of collection of information. There is, however, an apparent
absence of an effective information correlation capability
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across sources (human observation, photography, SIGINT, etc.).
(See Section 1, A, 1, Vol.!)
CODIB Comment: ifkieefinding-efeSCAPS-dees-neteappear-teebe-
Instilled by tte-eolleeted-faetse?SGIPS-aeteally-foundeeery-
little-dstplieation 4esepreeesei4lg-aotii4deee-4n-thtateerment-
this-lacleof-dupl4eatrien-isereferred-te-as-leekeePAeroseeceneelatienu
eapabilier.--Sinceethe-isfeemation-flew-betvmen-analyses-waseeete
studied etbeetaek-ef-effeetiveeeress-eeirelittionein-the- eemintinity-
eannetbe-estabI4sheel. 142 intent here, weg1erjE1,:o indicate
that existls retrieval systems Lr,sEst EigickeltlxiLliesource
oriented to ensure that all information relevant to stslyen
l_mq!Legt_but oriZinati jrom soniUve co_m_plt,r4ezted
sources or sources whoserodl_iciple...x.re ed ImdiVerent
te?hnjues is availabLe to files. 1.71Ath_
this we agree. TILe.c.c?j_s information flow between analysts
which was outside tke_Liclagl_he stt_AL _LEI2an lei can be
quite effective even thougpftentMous rather than controlled.
(2) Because of the number, size, organization and orientation of
existing files, it may often be more expeditious to reacquire a
specific item of information from the field than to determine
that it has already been acquired, where it has bee!' filed, and
to retrieve it therefrom. (See Section I, A, 1, Vol .1)
CODIB Comment: This is, inars____IJased on SCIESILid&rstenta
i-seese-ef 4he-gene4e4y-aletratist- statementee4n4be-
reper4-aud4s. not supported 9.3mtputsig_z.ecti by the collected
data. Controls do exist to assist in redudng unneoassart
collection and to attem t to insure that information sought
isn't alreAsiy_m_filej_g_leir effectiveness was be ond the scope
of the study. sCODIBup.22_Lhat the situation described in this
"finding" has exist_seilLnig recentiand robabILLots exist
tadAyLgaitisRILTI2l2i_etwem a encies and between different
source a stems. The controls that do exist are not representative
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of the Coremunitysisturelp alToad..scas9 and, since
scipS ata indicates that legc, that half of the exietinv
are for41,e.;',ted, Tao reel check. for existhminfornyq.lon
ben 4n-fact-r-ez-entels.caasiderablreeevidenesethet -
knialieatke 4Senetetentreel
ILLEGIB
thueeite&selateeteelvable-thatemeet-tkarea-fraetfien-4-alteleeent .
efeeelleeien-lendireeted4ewand-ebtaintag-knieeenotieneweleh4ee
alegealisea-iktbiree--Thkefraetlen-eta-per-eenteelecs-not
eeaet4tute-afe-eeenemkeencauoa-fer-the.4nereased-eaatete.-
refaneneeeand-nmenagenaeateeest.eeewh4eh-wetdd-be-rtegnieeei-
te-etim4nnte-4te-
(3) The information holdiegs of the community generally al- ar
to be deficient in their capability to make available the ecsults
of individual analysis of repoxta or items of informatic?
There is not sufficient motvation for analyst input (fee- -.pack)
into the data base nor is such input facilitated. (See a eilon I,
B,7,b, Vol. I)
CODIB Comment: This problem certainly exists but positiv?e steps
are being -taken attempted in some agencies to overcone:: the
problem; it is true that such feecfoactz has not keen_ obje::tned on_
an organized basis in the past. in-peenUeuls-r-,--the-BeD eeefleetien
Evalnaden-Systena-le-d4ree.eatewerreYeprevidittettles--lele
feedback-. It must be remembered, eltewever, that theypiiPS
conclusion relates only to central files; analysts' conclezions
are maintained in thousands of files by-anallents in the
organizations surveyed or in figateci_iltdittance is not
indexed in depth: Such conclusions in file could be ate esual-ly
separate, identifiable entries and are, theoretically, retrievable;
we would au_saL_e tlaatatch feedback should he a piiirt of ieformation
lystems design.
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Tr-I:formation ecafrol
rfhe pre.?,.ant system fails ?to eg,creise significant ctorL
control coding early enough in the processing Cycle to
effective Alter operations ar.id thus to prevent the Kuove.:.,:fat
of large quantities of redundant information throughout
I-3uccessive processing, levels 0; the community. (See
&odes E,A, 2, Vol. 1)
f-;oxnr, COMMrit: This finding?, alOcIghltropably_tr-cs,du
rise ,dirottly,frorntho lata geth, el.'ed. Since the ,'',.7.51PS
anaiyais covered, estif,mtililly, ..-/Rlyn document flows,
laormatir,n, the clegiee GI' redundancy cannot be datert -ed
except, reprof,c1.49,-:t4ss,y3.5.11k.skribRtion,oi: yoe2gelo 7. 74:A
reconnaiesance film red:,,Fertects_ihe problem. This .blem
deserves study in its owl right, but g-zeat care:517. distt-
between corroboratioa ElEld reek adqnov would be rcquirf,
to.,e41-mi-e?te.r.,efkly,22-reciAlga,,.assi-Ft met -cosz.eeLcsratl on,
of attplayi,i,nA,this_distinction;it the publication_pct:nt_ra::,,,..e thp
in an anahrtical environmrst ig not clear The Icylo cr --7-;emn4-Ing
to ste_ trqeyanerliosd spnehowl is clear.
;.2) There is a proliferation of co.ipies of items of info-fmatLD at RE
levels for local use, and for lateral and onward distrilon
with r without analysis. Because of the tendency ?or
source idwatification ,;:o become proFressively obscure f:;7ring
the processing cycle, the consumer may receive both
and processed information without knowing that tkiw
emanate f:vira the same original source. (Sao Section A, 2, Vol .I)
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wervh they am neelte not ensuccessful; the aea.e.el
data eieee-s that the -is-I?itat, no one agen,cyzek;
and that ,eaplication and-eone-4e-tekiltif-ied-ae.e-tegf;eeeeit 1'T
No factnej, basis for comment on the undesirability -
oveFlap (::.oers eyA'st., CPR be en_ale frenei the SCIPS data,:
Neeeele-ellailsel-expeetecgealystete-eeteeieler-all-aveiklel
emenisee-ieeeee-i-s-unaeMevetelte-(-See-GBEIBefinezireseelo
However_ with the increesinr develosmental effoets =ILing
EDP eqedpment, with lame $:,torve capacities and raeei data
manipul,s.don, , ancLwith separatIppLppl.i.31914 ure
remote 9ue nr_ Cap tIP frse other .ae,'-ertd,e,fl1esibably
is true that more is a.equired than is necessary to ste....e
deps.rtraental..mjesions. Uef,1tffortsareunderwav
consiste4t, with, e,f4tablkshed oktR.41 exie;
machine ianv,4,a7e files by DIA, &ate CIA and 'efe"41. e,:eether
in the long run. such elupUcat'ion is Food orbad ? whet' -ee more
service el common concrn alloattion should be;,....nade
is a maVer to be decided (see llecornmendation 05) e'elelly
since someone must he hold accountable for the firfiAle.ed.
intelligence product, the analyst is held' accoenteeile
checking.,en_alf,e4stiAgin!oatioqxocterer thougle eerbeee
he should not be inasmuch ee emnieei'ence IS not eLchic e'ele
We areeg_creedthat it is_both_dpsirable and posstqle .eez.ti_
our retrjeval system.,s_tf:, t9t;er organize, ?acrose,,sctue:,i;eat
information relevant to an appv ss,. needs. 5hen_this,:i,s done,
the analyst can feel more sure of his access to more eglevant
informg_tkop than Is now the case.
V) On theother hand, the study &.7 item-flow in the commeeity
does not support the view that all or most elements are tiow
getting everything, whatever their intent; on the eontrery,
the danger scists that items are missed by those who ehould
have them. (See Section 1,.E.,5, Vol. I)
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CODIB Comment: This danger is inevitable. See CODIB
Recommendations 3 and 4 for ameliorative action.
d. Indexingand m Identification
There does not exist at present a single set of indexing 4-cols
which will fill a majority of the crommunfty's needs.
(See Section I, B, 2, Vol. I)
CODIB Comment: Concur.
e. Report Form5lim_
Survey results on the status of report formatting requir-ments
for automatic input were essentially negative. The preut
state-of-the-art in Information Processing does not perleit
automatic input except to a very limited degree and the present
systems are generally not developed to a level where rewirements
for such inputs are determinable. (See Section I, B, 3, Vol . I)
CODIB Comment: The otatement made above that automatic input is
beyond the state of-the-art is for the most part true but
has been overtaken somewhat, and in limited areas, by eventsi
Saecessful-systeats-are-nove-in-eperraloa-witir
specifically, systems systems forlsts, processing of air
movements reports and shipping intelligence have been
demonstrably effective. The development of the World Wide
Military Command and Control System can be expected 1,e
lend further impetus to the development of formatting
requirements. It is certainly true that there remain several
thousand series for which formatting uiremenZ,e have
not been developed.
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f., ailttenation
The most pressing problems of systems integration or
interface appear to be between components within agencies
rather than between agencies. (See Section IB,4, Vol. X)
CODIB Comment; This statement is probably true and deserves
careful consideration. This is not to say that information
processing does not warrant Community consideration t'4?,z
considerably greater degree than it has had to date --it does;
but this findingfirst-things-first
.piiilosopbyJ See Recommendation 6.d...1_
g. The State-of-the-Art
A state-of-the-art survey was not made in Stage I. However,
many computer applications were observed and the SCIP3
data base itself constituted an actual application from which
valuable experience was obtained. The report raises doubts
whether the present general-purpose computers will ever
solve the bulk information processing problems of the substantive
intelligence community and yet points out that the use of ADP
remains one of the few hopes for real progress. The present
computers are generally successful when used for highly
structured and circumscribed processing of specific problems
but may not offer much promise as a base upon which to build
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an entire information processing system. (See Section I, B, 4
and 7 and Section II, A, Vol. I).
CODIB Comment: U. S. intelligence elements must learn to walk
before they run. Miniaturization techniques are demonctrating
considerable utility in intelligence information processing.
The "promise" of ADP should not be underestimatedejr.:..more
Major Conclusions
h. Content Contr.91SEs_glit
In order to improve our ability to deliver potentially
significant information in forms useful for exploitation and
to allocate limited exploitation resources, there are needed
immediate system-wide adjustments leading to sufficient
information content control coding to provide for adequate
cross-source comelation. Content control coding must be
applied at a point where items of information are being put
into comprehensible report form but before great numbers of
copies have been released. This means that this control and
filtering must be intmduced at an early stage in processing
and must apply to information obtained from all forms of
intelligence collection. Such a uniform system of shallow
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content control coding, applied early enough in the
processing cycle would permit identification and elimination
of redundant reporting and thus provide more specific
information support than is supplied by the present
dissemination system. (See Sections IA, 1 and 2 and I, B,
1 and 2, Volume I)
i. Standard Item Identification System
There is need for instituting a standard method for identifying
information items throughout the community in order to provide
for more efficient management of flow, processing, and filing.
A standard item identification system combined with a standard
coding system would constitute a significant first step in inter-
system compatibility and data exchange on a community
scale. (See Section I, B,2, Volume I)
System Identification
There is evident a goat need to develop in detail the specifications
of the intelligence information pencessing problems to be
solved as a basis for applied research and systems engineering
directed at entirely new EDP solutions. The SCIPS Field Survey
System is one of the best tools thus far developed to assist
In such an undertaking. (See Section I, B, 4, Volume I).
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Selected Special Problems
k. In the course of their broad syStems studies, SCIPS also
undertook certain vertical analyses on a problem basis in
special areas that seemed to offer fruitful opportunities for
improved operations. Among these were foreign publications,
biographic reporting, and photographic interpretation.
For example, they have pointed to significant advantages
that would accrue from the establishment of a central
bibliographic reference system for foreign publications,
while leaving exploitation in this field on a decentralized
basis as at present. In the biographic field mutual sharing
of certain types of information and processing techniques
might prove to be profitable. Photographic intelligence is
cited as an activity which would lend itself to standardization
of report forms and of selected procedures throughout the
community. (See Appendix F. Volume II; Section HI, B.5,
Volume II; and Appendix H, Volume VI)
RELATION OF SCIPS FINDINGS TO CURRENT UNDERTAKINGS
16. There remains the need to ascertain what impact the present findings
should have upon steps recently taken by the Intelligence Community to accelerate
the search for solutions to critical information processing problems.
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17. In his report* to the Special Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs, the DCI on 9 September stated that UB would:
"a. Consider the feasibility of establishing a national service
of common concern to centrally index all documents now
being processed on a decentralized basis. The index data
so developed would be available to all the members of the
Community.
"b. Consider organizing a small permanent group of technical
experts from within the Community whose sole responsibility
would be to concentrate on technical information processing
problems in the Community.
Further, that the "US1B will undertake to accelerate external research in perfecting
the art of processing language automatically."
18. The SC1PS Report is not directly responsive to the question of a central
documents indexing activity, but such findings as do relate to this question suggest
that other problems may be more pressing (e.g., biographic intelligence, and
CODIB-D-107/4, 16 Sept 63, pares. 6 and 7
COD1B-D-56/1, 14 Oct 63
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open publications referred to on page 18 above). Adion on this matter should
therefore continue to be deferred.*
19. The proposal to organire a small permanent group of technical everts
from within the Community is similar to the SCIPS recommendation that either
a Systems Coordination Staff or a Community Operations Research Center be
created. What needs yet to be determined is what each USIB member agency
would wish such an organization to accomplish that could not be accomplished
without creating new machinery. -Hen OBl4s-agaItuggeetIngdeferra1
efth iatte-unti14be-S6IP& Reps he been-thereuedy-analred-by -eedt-ageneyr
In any event experience_Lkliggpithat the shrnant of a competpnnanent
staff sIght take years. COMB, thereforsLaroposes to establish ad hoLgsoups_134_
supported by a ull time secrctariat,_ to tackle themtior problems identifiAritx?
? SCIPS.
20. As to steps taken to accelerate research in the art of processing
. non-numerical data automatically, General Carter awaits a reply to his letter
* DIA would replace this paragraph with the following:
The SCIPS Report is directly responsive to the question of a central
document indexing activity. The finding that a single deep indexing system is
unobtainable is directly relevant to the question. In addition, it was the
conesnsus of the scws grow that such a central indexing activity is both
unnecessary and unwise. This proposal should be dropped from further
consideration.
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for his views on how best to proceed inasmuch as
thts matter is of concern to the entire Government.
21. The SCIPS Report underlines a fact reoognind by USIB in authorizing
the study; namely, that USIB will in the future find It necessary to devote more
attention to the information processing portion of the intelligence cycle tinn
has hitherto been the case.
22. Cost considerations. The immediate cost implication of the following
recommendations is limited to
Office spaoe would be required and
hest provided either in CIA or DIA Headquarters, or, perhaps, at a midway point
25X1 such as
Additional costs not estimabl In
any firm sense now would include the part-time services of departmental
representatives on ad hoc groups such as those suggested in Recommendation 3
below. Long range costs of stimulating standardization of processes or equipment
compatibility are impossible to forecast, but a corollary purpose in develoling
a Community approach toward information processing is the introduction of
economies, particularly in research and development and laxge-scale computer-
based systems design.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
It is recommended that USIB
1. Note the general findings and conclusions of the SCIPS Stage I Study;
2. Request the several member agencies to study the detailed findings
as set forth in the six volumes of the report, plus the SCIPS data base, with a
view to relating these findings to their own processing problems;
3. Direct CODIB to establish ad hoc groups reporting directly to it to:
a. Develop the community coordinated content control code.
b. Develop and publish a standard item list.
c. Develop and implement standarized item description lists.
d. Develop a standard installation description format.
e. Develop a community coordinated R&D program in the areas of
non-numerical data processing, associative memories, and machine translation.
f. Develop a biographic intelligence processing plan.
g. Develop a coordinated plan for processing bibliographic data on
foreign publications.
h. Develop proposals for improved analyst-to-analyst com/unication.
4. Adept Explore the feasibility_EL ac_iMisi the recently develor_
Dol) standard photographic chip as a standard for the Intelligence Community,
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5. Extend USIB-S-13.1/4, subject: Automatic Data Processing,
dated 24 May 1963, to cover the development of a data files and systems library
and the exchange of files for all types of intelligence data.
6. Direct CODIB to continue the Director. SOPS, and a small
staff (CIA-2; DIA-2) on duty to:
a. Provide referral service from the SOPS Data Base;
b. Prepare for CODIB consideration additional guidelines for
the further development and implementation of procedures for improving information
processing in the Intelligence Community;
c. Review the SCIPS data on hand to evaluate the success of present
gtorage and retrieval systems by types of system and agency;
d. Develop for CODIB consideration a workable policy on
responsibility of agency reference facilities as community resources;
e. Assist the ad hoc groups.
7. Authorize the release of this CODIB Report and the SCIPS Report to
the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, pursuant to Mr. Coyne's
request therefor of 30 September 1963.
Paul A. Borel
Chairman
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