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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04723A000100030012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 2, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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dNt,
June 1967
NW M FOR: Chief, Information Processing Staff, Office of
Planning, Programming and Budgeting
been unable to meet your deadline of noon Friday 2 June
967 for a coordinated written reaction to your draft paper from the
The fallowing observations are personal and should
h until I have an opportunity to discuss them with W.
n when he returns to town about 7 June 1967.
I re'rain from the instinct to edit your prose but wander whether
it wouldn't be us W1 to summarize the principal points made in your dis-
cussion as prelude to the recornnrendationa. under a paragraph headed
"Summary.. or "Conclusions".
ph might say that the DIA paper offers nothing neew
simply suggests a face lifting for the existing mechanism. The DIA
suggestion is apparently based upon the conclusion that CODIB has been
s effective than it should have been in doing exactly the same things
the new com tte a structure. 'nw potential for
Vin in such an approach seems mintmal. A sharper focus is needed; this
4um be achieved better by consolidation of the grains during the past several
concentration upon optimizing the information storage and
promsing operations in the community which are currently in a design or
ther than start anew to do the same things over again in a
lsse.
ns might then say that the existing arra
t $ should be authorized (i# such
ornmitteess it considers necessary; that it concentrate
s to be gained from systems currently being tested
mented that, using the results of such an evaluation, CODIB
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orendattons for future community system
ultanoously re-evaluate the recommendations
project to determine feaetl ility of implementing its second
DDS/SSS/RHW:jms (2 Jun 67)
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