Requested External Use of IBM cards for NIS Gazetteers

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05597A000300070033-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: July 17, 1964
• Content Type: MFR

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17 Juty 1964
25X1 A9a;
` t A614 referred to Chief D/P a
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request by Mormon Church people to borrow and eetecctro} icaliy
Manipulate, for limited specified foreign areas, the i'EM cards held
by iu lvaac:hi;ws lAvea ? ii4,;-~rt which *re-used to transfer
s~ h r+1 BGt name research iato the published Gazetteers. At some point
something was said about the church having one of the best name-
check lies in existence. At some point people also got 25X1A9a
irivoi. dd, indicating that they had an interest in the techpicalitiee of
tine. proposed card utilization; ltJAri phoned one 1-oontr as to O B119 lnosition.
The position taken by UBI was that, inasmuch as the name research
aireariy had been done, there would be no direct reason fo: OBI objection
to loam of ttta., wanted , i s, but that (l)-would have to determine 25X1A9a
whe the. it would be feasible jacceptable_ to lej.:the IBM cards be removed
and re-arranged, t2) a.? tI had paid for the ".me research and
staff and 6i-tpioze nonrCove inment requests (even via Co>gre!s
rrrurnoer itxsuiriea) h .d been told to buy gasetteeer,s through the GPO,
and l~ OBI would not have adeciuat,6 basi's for,'4udging the, extent to
hit i~thernet-inteiiigenca' a~ln cunuderations might be*r on such
a, ,request as the Arkr;oas' 25X1A9a
r.t lie d1T.TtO t Wflolesai?: tr'T#di ri`~ of the, car-di r i?'.^a C*Ct
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