CD SUPPORT TO COMIREX

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05927A000300010006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 22, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, COMMEX Staff
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
CD Support to CO ?IREX
Your memo of 21 March 1972,
Subject: COMIREX Support
1. This is a follow up to our telephone conversation the
afternoon of 21 March.
2. CD can handle the job you have outlined. On balance, we
believe it to be a good thing. Programming and testing would take
eeks before we could become operational. Most of
effort would fill upon 0C5 because of the programming
or if you have not already done so.
and I suggest that you open early negotiations with
Working at the 3 x 3 figures scale, using the cluster program,
we estimate our plotter time would double. This presents no major
problems. Using the symbol flask program, our rough estimate is
that plotter time would increase 15 to 20 times. This would be a
burden to as and, I suspect, would not serve your purposes.
25X1A9a
JOHN KERRY KING
Director
Basic and Geographic Intelligence
cc: Chief, CD
Distribution:
0&1 - Addressee
I - Cb/CD
2 - D / BGI
D/BGI:3KK:jxnc/2845(23 Mar 72)
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