PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD RECOMMENDATION NO. 2 OF 15 JUNE 1965

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• Publication Date: February 19, 1968
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CODIB-D-113/4.8
19 February 1968
U N I T E D S T A T E S I N 'I' E I, L I C E N C E B 0 A R D
MEMORANDUM FOR.: United States Intelligence Board
SUBJECT: Progress on Implementation of the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Recommendation
No. 2 of 15 June 1.965
REFERENCE: USIB-D-39.7/18, 8 September 1966
1. Background. This is a brief progress report on the Community
On-Line Intelligence System (COINS) experiment which is being conducted
in order to implement the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board. Recommendation No. 2 of 15 June 1965. The concept of the COINS
experiment was outlined in the referenced report. It calls for DIA,
NSA, CIA and NPIC to maintain COINS files in their own information
retrieval computer systems which will be connected by secure data
links through a central store-and-forward network switch at DIA. The
Department of State and the National Indications Center (NIC) will
have remote query consoles connected to the DIA computer through
which they can interrogate COINS files.
Signifieint Milestones and Current Status.
a. On 21 December 1.966 a secure 300 character per second
(2400 BPS) data link was installed between the NSA RYE/TIPS computer
complex and the DIA network switch.
b. The first test message was transmitted on Monday,
13 February 1967. The first successful round-robin test of inter-
rogation cycles between a remote terminal. at NSA and the computer at
DIA and between a remote terminal at DTA and the computer at NSA
occurred on 20 April 1967 using unclassified files at each agency for
this purpose.
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c. In early September 1967 NSA and DIA operational COINS
files were made available in the system and the COINS link was activated
for two hours a day, two days each week. On 2 October 1967 the link
became active two hours each day, five days a week, and on 12 January
1968 it became active six hours per day, five days per week.
d. The system is currently undergoing further testing to
detect and isolate system faults and take remedial action. A projected
date when the NSA-DIA system can be declared "fully operational" twenty-
four hours a day, seven days a week cannot be stated at this time.
Latest available information indicates that DIA will be prepared to
activate circuits to all other COINS participants after 15 April 1968.
This date is dependent upon completion of construction of a new DIA
communication center and the installation and testing of equipment.
3. The attached chart depicts the COINS communication milestones
and tentative schedules for additional installation and testing.
4. A full report on COINS will be available to USIB about
30 April 1968.
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Chairman
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