EDUCATION OF USERS IN COINS I (EXPERIMENT)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: December 1, 1967
• Content Type: PAPER

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COINS SITUATION. PAPER NO.
SURTECT: Education of Users in COINS I (Experiment)
1. CURRENT SITUATION
a. Each major participating agency (i.e., an agency having files and a
computer system in the COWS I networ.?ls) must develop a training course for
users in their own agency as well as for users in other participating agencies.
For example :
(1) DIA must train their own users as well as those in NSA, CIA, STATE,
NPIC and NIC and
(2) NSA must train their own users as well as those in DIA, CIA, STATE,
NPIC and NIC.
b. In November 1967, DIA and NSA are going to exchange their first user
oriented training courses which at a minimum will cover the following points:
(1) Detailed description of information contained in each file including
such items as (a) format, (b) sources of information, (c) date range of
information and (d) security information, etc.
(2) Review of user manuals.
. (3) Procedures for retrieving information from these files using
either (a) specific "canned" programs or (b) users language.
c. The critiques following this course will be used to develop more
informative courses and user manuals in the future.
a. As indicated above each agency having files and/or a computer system in
the COINS I network must develop a user oriented training course not only for
its own users but also those of other participating agencies.
b. Multiplic y of user languages means that users must be trained as
multi-linguists (i.e., DIA/Query language, NSA/TILE and CIA/TORQUE).
c. Inability to agree on data standards for filesin COINS I (Experiments)
means that users must learn a variety of codes acronyms or abbreviations for:
(1) Referencing common fields in different agencies files.
(2) Framing interrogations on common fields in different agencies files.
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(3) Interpreting answers received from different agencies filep_,' adzdat 1Q
containing common .`.'ie_Ld' o Ifl a 'a!s; not
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3. POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES
a. Each Agency establish a group of instructors to tratrel from agency cto
agency instructing potential users. This means that users at any one
(e.g., NSA) be instructed once by their own organization and then three
additional times, once by CIA, DIA and NPIC.
b. Let each Agency use its own instructors to train its own users. This
means that only the instructors would have to be versed in each system and
files.
c. Establish one group of instructions which would travel from Agency to Agency
instructing potential users.
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Attachment
STATUS REPORT ON CONTENT CONTROL
This briefing covers action to date in response to paragraph
3 of USIB-D-39.7/20 which calls for each agency participating in
the operational test of the Content Control Code to submit plans
for initial. application or use, including types and quantities of
items to which the proposed code will be applied.
COMB ASSIGNMENT*
To coordinate agency plans for.test-applying CCC to insure
that a realistic and representative test will be conducted and
that overall, interagency considerations will be documented during
the operational testing, and evaluate results obtained during the
test and recommend appropriate follow-on actions regarding the
proposed Content Control Code.
CCC COORDINATORS DESIGNATED
e - or. Bruce en
Army - Lt. Col. H. R. Ross
Navy - Mr. Edward Barker**
Air Force -
FBI - Not participating
AEC - Not participating
P"aragi?iph q o t3S B-D-39.7/20
Administrative purposes
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