MINUTES OF COINS COMMITTEE MEETING OF 17 NOVEMBER 1967

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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
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• Publication Date: November 28, 1967
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1v MMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD 28 Nov 67
SUBJECT: Minutes of COINS Committee Meeting of 17 November 1967
1. The COINS Committee met at CIA on 17 Nov 1967. Attending were:
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2. Minutes of the previous meeting of 3 Nov 1967 were discussed and
approved.
a. Paragraph 3 - Discussion of the COINS information retrieval
language problem was continued.
(1) I Istated that CIA prefers that the Committee
attempt to reach agreement on adoption of a, retrieval language currently
existing or under development by one of the participating agencies.
(2) suggested the possibility of employing a
limited network language in which the desired file would be named, certain
search parameters specified, and all records meeting the parameters moved
from the file to a temporary file for further processing at the requesting
agency. One obvious disadvantage of this approach is the necessity to transmit 25X1
complete records when only a few data fields might be required.
b. Paragraph 4b: announced the assignment of
NSA Data Systems Analyst, to the as of designing a "COINS File information'
format, a draft of which should be available by 15 December 1967. COINS
participating agencies will be responsible for recording in magnetic tape
all specified information for their COINS files. NSA will then combine all
information into one tape file, copies of which will be made available to all
participants for incorporation into local computer systems for COINS file
reference.
c. Paragraph 5: Iexpects to complete a draft of the
final TMA No. 1 on COINS Communications by the next Committee meeting.
d. Paragraph 5a: DIA has budgeted for payment of COINS circuit
charges through FY-69. It will be necessary for COINS participants to pay
individual circuit charges for FY-70 and subsequent years. For budgetary
review and other purposes, Mr. Stein suggested some means be found for joint
funding for COINS rather than a "bits and pieces Ili approach (e.g.,All participants
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determine what the circuit charges from the DIA switch to each agency are.
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e. Paragraph 6: CIA was requested to plan assumption of the
central COINS network switch function in FY-71-
3.1 had received any comments on
the draft paper on COINS management drafted at NSA and being reviewed by
the. Legal Counsel and others. No comments have been received to date,
and hopes to present the draft and any comments to the Committee
as soon as possible.
4. requested that all participating agencies other than
NSA procure Western Electric Company Model 205 MODEM's for use on COINS
circuits.
5. DIA plans making their system and files available on-line to certain
military commands, and questioned if COINS files of other agencies could
also be available. The concensus of opinion was that other files in the
system were available to DIA and that it was a decision of that organization
to make them further available to DIA system subscribers.
6. Final draft copies of the COINS semi-annual report were distributed
to the Committee. Any comments or changes were requested no later than
1 Dec 1967. Approval will be assumed in the absence of any comments.
7. I Ireported meeting with General (Ret) Taylor,
I I for a discussion of COINS status and progress.
s group will- meet on an informal basis to discuss COINS and other problems.
Among these will be the groups consideration of the COINS Soviet biographic
problem which will be assumed from the Biographic Panel. The Panel will
continue to function as a working group, however General Taylor's group
will determine policy and provide high level direction towards a solution
of this community wide problem. In addition, the group will choose for
study one specific, hopefully well defined, intelligence area of interest
towards which COINS support will be directed. An attempt will be made to
select an area of interest to which all COINS participants can contribute
and make good use of the resulting data base.
8. I Icontinues work on COINS Situation Papers to highlight
and discuss specific COINS problems. Currently in preparation is a CSP on
the data base problem. This paper will discuss the selection, management,
data standards, etc. of COINS files.
9.1 opes to prepare and present for Committee consideration
at the next meeting draft charters specifying COINS Panel tasks, terms of
reference, etc.
10. The next Committee meeting is scheduled at DIA on Friday, 1 Dec
at 1000.
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