TEST PLAN DATED 6 JUNE 1968

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2005
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• Publication Date: June 20, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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20 June 1968
DUM FOR:
Test Plan dated 6 June 1968
REFERS CE: s-2185/MS-1
SUBJECT:
1. Since your memorandum was prepared, I have sent you a
revised operational teat plan. The need for this revision was
discussed in detail at our initial OPTEG meeting. It proposes
that the initial phase of the CCC operational test and evalua-
tion be confined to the application and usefulness of CCC nota-
tions on NSA product. Comments on the revised plan are being
developed by CIA. NSA and State have indicated their concur-
rence. Specific DIA conints on the revised plan would be most
helpful.
2. Along this line I wonder if you would identify the basis
for your conclusion that the proposed plan is "far too detailed"
by indicating which, if any, of the details provided in
I{C-D-111tL.1/14 are not essential to the conduct of the opera-
tional test called for by USIB-D-39.7/21. You state: "As a
minimum, to be effective, such a test, it would seem, would
require that all agency personnel involved, i.e., field collectors,
dissemination indexers, ADP system analysts, and intellig-tnee
research analysts, covering one world area, e.g., Africa South
of the Sahara, or the Middle East, or Latin America, would convert
to the use of CCC for a given period, say six months.;" You
conclude that "hundreds of people would be involved in such a
test." From this complex, intricately qualified, yet unsupported
statement of opinion the reader can only infer that, contrary to
existing instructions, I have proposed that DIA, indeed the
entire intelligence co unity, chit large numbers of people
from all processing levels on a full-time basis for a protracted)
period of time. Further it implies that regular on-going operation
will be replaced in their entirety for this period by an unproven
technique. Whatever else it is, this is certainly not the proposed
plan on which OPTEG is deliberating. Finally, you state that
training and implementation of such a test (your test) will be
"prohibitively expensive". This statement ignores comment.- made by
thXSA representative made at the meeting to the effect that the
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additional time it takes a report writer to apply CCC notations
to his report is so mall as to be essentially unmeasurable,
and that training In applying the notations to reports requires
a maximum of four hours for the report writers themselves and a
maximum of two days (16 hours) for training instructors, who will
in turn train report writers.
3. In the proposed test and evaluation plan I suggested a
number of ways in which the testing volunteered by CIA., DIA, and
State might be done which would result in data and information
which OPT#C could collate, analyze, and evaluate from the overall
Interagency point of view. It was not my intention to, nor did I
In fact,, Call for substantial expansion of present agency eoninit-
nts to the testing of CM For example, the proposed plan calls
for determining the adequacy with which CCC notations can be used
to represent users requirements. CIA, BIA, and State proposals
all ~ incorporate testing this aspect of CCC. This is also true of
determining the extent to which the appearance of CCC notations
on intelligence documents might facilitate document exchange between
ins and reduce screening time at dissemination points within
a. The proposed plan calls for determining the impact of
having producers apply CCC notations to their products. This
objective is included in present CIA and State plans. In addition,
State plans Include testing and evaluating the suitability of the
CCC structure as a basis for organizing small or specialized
document filing systems and Its suitability in providing a useful
arrangement for entries on accession lists, compilations of extracts
te. The proposed plan calls for determining the extent to which
the appearance of CCC notations on Intelligence documents can
nhance and expedite intelligence research and analysis when new
or unanticipated aspects of old problems arise.. This derives from
t3SIB-D-39.7/21, 3 May 1967, and the MIA proposal to determine if
CCC "provides useful help to research analysts as a quick look-up
of document: content." Determining adjustments and changes in the
CCC which would Improve its responsiveness should derive from
Information and data which would be obtained in determining how
well CCC satisfies its basic objectives.. The same is true in
determinin ; whether Improvements resulting from the application
and use of CCC are sufficient to justify changes in existing methods
and procedures.
4. In the proposed plan I carefully avoided establishing tent
boundaries (See Section c, paragraph 1. a, IHC-D-lll/l. l/I) . I
hoped that OPTEG could, through careful definition of testing
procedures and Judicious selection of data and information available
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within the framework of present agency conanitments, minimize the
impact of the overall CCC test and evaluation and at the sum time
obtain sufficient relateeble data on which to base its evaluations.
This responds to USIB recognition that, "Availability of personnel
in the operating environment Is acknowledged as critical. Every
effort should be made to channel the test effort into areas w sere
ijr diate, increased support to the productf ,< analysts and system
managers can be anticipated. (See attachment to USI3-D-39.7/21) .
Turning to your recommendations that NSA conduct the
of present agency commitments which will result in the collection.
of edeaate data in a controlled fashion which will permit us to
draw firm conclusions of the relative usefulness of CCC and to
generate practicel rec ndations for follow-on phases, if any.
6* It is my hope that OPT'EG can in the very near future
inalize a realistic operational test plan within the framework
as suggested is not a bright one.
f actg. The prospects of successfully weighing different
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