AGENCY ROLE IN TIPS NETWORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R001300060004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 28, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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D D i S It )11 I 6 '? 2 j. P-
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FF.B 1966
: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Plans
Deputy Director for 3hence it Technology
Deputy Director for Support
SUB CT : Agency Role in TIPS Notwork
R1S1titlENCES ; (a) Memo did 1.5 hose 1365 to the Preside*:
itt Chola. PM*, mai: U. S. Intelligenc?
Community Capabilities for the Hancring
of Intellience Itformation
(b) Memo *415 Jely 965 to DCI fr McGeorge
Bundy, *erne subj
(c) Mento dtd 2. Oct I'M to McGeorge Buncy
sad Chum, MAD fr DCI, same subj
1- in Itenrinc* (a). the President's roxeign Ints1LIen. Advisory
Beard made three recommendations as follows:
a. "RecornmendaliptQloi. 1; That stlected personnel at ong
the departments and agencies risking up .:be U. S. intelligence
community be provided spezialisec: training and advanced stutie
at a university center or centers irrhere *Totems thinking and
systems edits are understood =Ina L.pard and which at the
earns time possess adequate backgroun conventional biblit g-
trophy and other more classi:al Approachaa to literature and
ii-
foru-stion managerfient. "
b. ."Recorrris. No. Z: That Lts Technical Inforrnallan
Processing System (T -IPS) pi eject:, now ander way within the
National Security Agency, be e:cpuslcied to include participatiot,
other member agencies of the intalligenizts community in an ex-
perimental operating system constituting a first step toward
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interagency (and interb lding) rroatian handling. Since
resulte should be sought from the experi:r.ent as promptly as
feasible, the participation of other agencies should be achieved
by September of 1963; the capability for extensive handling ct
the Russian biography problem- should be available in the
community-wide system by the sumer f 1966; and by the
summer of 1967 it should be possible to exchange output* fro
various rnechanised sources ir the fashion pioneered by the
TIPS project. H
c. "*coramudatlpn No. ? That there be established,a
Panel. under the joiat sponsorship of the Special Assistant to
the President for Science and Teahnology and the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, having rasponsibillty fcr:
(a) providing guidance to the intelligence cornrrnuiity in the for-
warding of methods and facilities for information hand/ing awl
access; (h) evaluating in technical terms the true meaning of
the enormous and somewhat heterogen*Oas growth of the into.
Biome community's inforilation pool."
Z. In Reference (b). McGeorge 13 dy advised that the peostdent
had approved thee* recornmeadatiole and requested that ommenda-
tions Nos. 1 and 2 be carried out by the intelligence connonnity under
the coordination of the Director at Central Intelligence. Mr. Suaiy
also edvised that,, with respect to Xeconamen3ation No. 3, his offIce
would look to the PTIAI3 and the Special Assistant to the President
for Science sad Technology for periodic reports concerning the ac
tivities of the Panel to be established pursuant to that recomnienda-
tion. (The Guidance and Levalnation Panel chaired by Mr. WiUian. T.
Xnox has been appointed purbuant to this rscotlrosndation. )
3. In Reference (c) the Director reported to Mr. Bundy and the
as follows:
a. 1 respect to Go I : Formed a
Working Group, under -CIA chair.iranah4-,-te?nicertain specific
requirements for training, to develop a responsive curricultua,
and to determine whether or not any existing university or in-
stitute offers what is needed. The alliatjace a a group of on
side consultants is being arranged, including that of Dr.
(as suggested by the Preeident'e Board). "
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b. 12)Itlit4 1,esg. tq LW:ion 2: Formed a
Working Group, under NBA chairmanship, to extend the TV'S
time-sharing system concept to include a Commurdty?wida
experiment in an on-line, LorrAmort data base. Both CIA and
DU have identified personnel Em(1 initiatoct the two month tratt-
ins effort required to develop a capability to put systems on
the equipment associated with TIPS."
4. The 171113 Committee on )ocurnsntstjon, chaired by Paul
Bard, has a working group charged with prol_oting corn unity par -
ticipetion in NSA's Technical Informetion Processing System (TIPS).
Mr. Sorel has advised me it is increasingly :Isar that the trend Ind
outside pressures such as the Knox Panel aro in the direction of raurs
interagency linkage between automated information storage syetet
Recognising that the Agency ili5 multiple. nr.1-er than a single, infor.
motion storage and retrieval systems, it is nevertheless importer-it
and urgent that the Agency (a) focus on the lipluige problem and reach
a decision on how it will be handled within the Agency and (b) deciie
what the Agency's position will be on how it should be handled witin
the community.
5. I have asked Paul bore to chair an ad hoc panel to c
this matter and to make specific recornn3enclations without de
should appreciate your designating to 191r. Borel a representative to
serve on this panel, and I should like to receive the panel's; report
and recommendations not later than n March 1966.
Li. It. Whit
Ezecutiv. Dtr.ctor -Comptroller
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DRAFT SCOPE OF CIA POLICY STATEMENT ON
COMMUNITY ON-LINE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM
1. Reference to and quote from Bundy/Clifford papers.
2. General statement of Agency intention to participate fully
as a member of the Community, within the spirit as well as
the letter of the PFIAB directive.
3. General statement of Agency intention to discharge its
obligations in this field as the leader of the Community
by playing such central role as the full and effective
implementation of a Community system requires.
4. Specific purpose of participation.
5. Priority to be accorded to the Agency effort.
6. Security level of initial phase.
7. Minimal standard of reliability sought.
8. Phasing guidance, if necessary. How far, how fast?
Agency vs Community priorities.
9. Identification of Agency participating components.
10. Identification of category of files for early inclusion.
11. Identification of categories of files to be excluded from
any Community system.
12. Machinery for developing and implementing the Agency
program.
13. Machinery for guiding and participating in the Community
program.
NOTE: Proposed addressees of this policy statement are the
Deputy Directors; statement to be signed by DCI as both
head of Community and head of Agency, though in former
capacity he will no doubt wish to consult USIB at some
point.
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DRAFT SCOPE OF CIA POLICY STATEMENT ON
COMMUNITY ON-LINE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM
1. Reference to and quote from Bundy/Clifford papers.
2. General statement of Agency intention to participate fully
as a member of the Community, within the spirit as well as
the letter of the PFIAB directive. D
3. General statement of Agency intention to discharge its
obligations in this field as the leader of the Community
by playing such central role as the full and effective
implementation of a Community system requires.
4. Specific purpose of participation.
5. Priority to be accorded to the Agency effort.
6. Security level of initial phase.
7. Minimal standard of reliability sought.
8. Phasing guidance, if necessary. How far, how fast?
Agency vs Community priorities.
9. Identification of Agency participating components.
10. Identification of category of files for early inclusion.
11. Identification of categories of files to be excluded from
any Community system.
12. Machinery for developing and implementing the Agency
program.
13. Machinery for guiding and participating in the Community
program.
NOTE: Proposed addressees of this policy statement are the
Deputy Directors; statement to be signed by DCI as both
head of Community and head of Agency, though in former
capacity he will no doubt wish to consult USIB at some
point.
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