COINS FILES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00096A000400020003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 8, 1973
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT COINS Files
DCI/IC 73-0847
8 August 1973
REFERENCES: a. Memo for /Gen. Allen; Subject:
COINS Fi es; ,Aug 73; Handle Via
COMINT Channels
b. IHC/USIB Inventory of Community Informa-
tion Handling Systems; Secret, Annex A
to IHC-AR-5; 1 Aug 72
c. Draft paper fromi
for a Council for international Economic
Policy from the Joint SIC-EIC USIB Work-
ing Groups; Secret
1. Ref A, para 1 - Agree. Ref A, para 2. The DIA
SINO-SOVIET AIR ORDER OF BATTLE (SIAOB) is on the DIAOLS/
COINS system. Some of the files marked with paper-c-l-ip-s---
(Ref B, Att A) includes items that should be available
to the community. Some of the systems should probably
be connected to the COINS/IDHS network (e.g., AF CIRCOL).
Some of the files rather than being rewritten to be put
"on-line" should be made available by remote request and
outputs furnished by batch medium speed printout. Another
alternative is to make an index available on COINS regard-_
ing what is available, where it is located and how this
information may be obtained. Some of the items marked in
Att A with a paper clip include biographic files.
2. Ref C. Att B, is a draft paper that the Joint
SIC (Scientific Intelligence Committee) and the EIC
(Economic Intelligence Committee) has prepared on the
computer industry/technology in Hungary and Poland.
Other studies for the USSR and PRC have been prepared.
Perhaps an index of what is available and where and
how it may be obtained would be useful on the COINS.
3. Ref A, para 3 - Agree. Computer files are
expensive to build and expensive to update and should
only be put on-line when the need and timeliness of
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the information so dictates. Therefore, I am not advocating
that the items discussed in this memo be put on COINS but
that the COINS Files Working Group consider these items.
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