DD/P VIEWS ON FUTURE OF INTER OFFICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, REQUEST FOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000300060040-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: May 10, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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10 May 1960
SUBJECT: DD/P Views on Future of Inter Office Telecommunications Advisory
Co mrsitte~e, Request for
1. Following is an excerpt from the minutes of the 82nd IOTAC
meeting, held on 5 April 1960
*Since CIA appears to be heading toward releasing itself of all
obligations undertaken under }C 169 and. NBC Action 1910, the
Chairm= posed the question of the advisability of terminating
the activities of IOTAC which was established to deal with the
Interests of diverse elements in the Agency in regard to these
obligations. A discussion followed after which the Chairs.an
requested members to...report back to the Secretary the views
and wishes of their organizations on the future of IOTAC."
2. *Releasing itself of all obligations" refefs to the termination
at the end of this fiscal year of the Radio Stations Branch, which maintains
a radio frequency usage register, and the Broadcast Evaluation Sections which
produces intelligence evaluations of the technical effectiveness of US inter-
national broadcasting.
3. IOTAC was established in 1954 by the same internal directive
ated the above mentioned activities; its membership includes
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DD/P, and M /So while it appears to have performed
resentatives of Dt)/I
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certain meritorious advisory and review functions earlier in its life, my
paid the Year of my membership is that it has been singularly
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passive. It has lip service in successive meetings to the need for the
RD and the BES, but has taken no step to make its views known. If, in the
it has served the DD/P in any way, its present and future usefulness
is not apparent.
4. 1 propose to inform the Secretary that the D1/P agrees that
ICTAC should be terminated.
APPROVED
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