AD-HOC SUB-COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION PROCESSING A PROPOSAL FOR A CENTRAL INFORMATION AND ADVISORY SERVICE ON FEDERAL GOVERMENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85S00362R000600080011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 25, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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25 March 1958
A PROPOSAL FOR A CENTRAL INFORMATION AND ADVISORY
SERVICE ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVITIES IN INFORMATION PROCESSING
Attached for information is a copy of the memorandum ser..t to
the Head,, Office of Scientific Information,, National Science
Foundation,, revised pursuant to AHIP discussion on 2I. March.
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Paul A, Borel
Chairman
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25 March 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR: Dr. Burton W, Adkinson
Head, Office of Scientific Information
National Science Foundation
SUBJECT : Proposal for Central Information and Advisory
Service on Federal Government Research and
Development Activities in Information
Processing
1. The IAC ad hoc Subcommittee on Information Processing rev?ie4ved
subject proposal aT i'aa meeting on 20 March.
2. You will recall that membership on the IAC includes the heads
of the intelligence organizations of the CIA, State, Army, NEtvy, Air
Force, The Joint Staff, AEC, and the FBI. In addition to represents-?
tives from the above, our Subcommittee hag representation from NSA
and USIA.
3. Since our Subcommittee restricts its activities to dealing
with problems within the intelligence community, it would not accept
any commitment to report on developments outside the intelligence
community. For example., programs under way in the Research and
Development areas of defense agencies would not be within its com-
petence.
4. The Subcommittee's own experience over the past three years
suggests that there exists a need for machinery to facilitate the
exchange of information through some clearinghouse at the fecisral
level as set forth in your proposal. Indeed the proposal, as
drafted, is acceptable as a point of departure for a more precise
outline of the machinery and procedures envisaged to carry out these
objectives.
,o Whatever machinery is set up, we believe that the Subcommittee
should act on behalf of the intelligence community rather than have
each intelligence organization act independently. This view is based
primarily on the fact that the terms of reference of our committee
include the objectives which you have set out for the overall govern-
ment group. This approach should,, incidently, make your job easier.
6. A practical way to tie in our effort with your own would be
to have a cleared member of the technical advisory unit be assigned
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as technical advisor to our committee, and to have an authorized repx+v
sentative of our committee sit in as a member of whatever group you may
organize at the federal level.
7. We can foresee problems which may arise from security con-
siderations, but these can in all probability be dealt with without
jeopardizing the achievement of your objectives.
Paul A. Borel
Chairman
Subcommittee on Information Processing
Intelligence Advisory Committee
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