MINUTES OF THE EIGHTH MEETING, 2 FEBRUARY 1973

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February 2, 1973
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Approved For Release 2004/12/01 : CIA-RDP79M00062A000100010016-2 2 February 1973 MEMORANDUM FOR: Members of SIGINT Committee Ad Hoc Group on Requirements Satisfaction SUBJECT Minutes of the Eighth Meeting, 2 February 1973 25X1 2. The new Terms of Reference, as established in the SIGINT Committee meeting of January 31 were distributed and discussed. The emphasis of the discussion was on the intent of the changes mdde by the SIGINT Committee as gathered from the discussion in the SIGINT Committee meeting. The major changes in the Terms of Reference were: (1) The DCI (in his role as head of the intelli- gence community) rather than the USIB was specified as the principal consumer whose needs must be satisfied by the assessment methods; (2) in addition to the more or less quantitative measures of satisfaction of purely SIGINT requirements by SIGINT resources, there was added the task of assessing the value or use- fulness of SIGINT product in the overall intelligence problem; Approved For Release 2004/12/01 : CIA-RDP79M00062A000100010016-2 Approved For Release 2004/12/01 : CIA-RDP79M00062A000100010016-2 (3) rather than obtain measures of the performance of all SIGINT resources as an aggregate, it was directed that methods be developed so that the performance of some smaller groups of resources could also be evaluated. The determination of appropriate levels of aggre- gation were also added to the task of the Ad Hoc Group; (4) even though the Terms of Reference were not changed in the part which made implementation of the assessment procedures a function of the SIGINT Committee, in &fscussion in the SIGINT Committee meeting it was clear that the SIGINT Committee expects the Ad Hoc Group to provide at least trial runs of methods used with actual data. 3. It was planned to spend the balance of the meeting in discussing the ELINT EOB problem. Unfortunately, through a mix-up in conference room reservations the meeting was adjourned wi tho t substonti nl r.v,..,-.. ___ . ess 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/12/01 : CIA-RDP79M00062A000100010016-2