LETTER (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00096A000500060019-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 17, 1970
• Content Type: LETTER

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Executive Registry
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY -/__ -:?./ -.7 cD
Serial: N 0531
17 JUN 1970
AD DCI NIPE
Room 7E22, CIA Headquarters
Washington, D. C. 20505
II
As you have requested, I have put together some thoughts on the
R&D Institute under consideration in the IHC with a view to identifying
other alternatives which would have a lower resource impact. I agree
that the proposed Institute submitted by the R&D Subcommittee is too
grand to fly in the current environment.
a. A reduced version of the proposed Institute which might
considerably be scaled down by a factor of 2 or 4 and still be a viable
operation.
b. The use of one of the Defense Department laboratories as
the base from which to expand activities related to the Intelligence
Community's IHC interests. The most likely candidate would be RADC.
Even a 10-12 man level of activity could become a constructive force
if properly directed.
c. An agency of the Intelligence Community such as CIA or
NSA could try to carry out a community program. This is difficult to
achieve because of the conflict of interest.
d. A not-for-profit group like Mitre Corporation (who inci-
dentally are doing work in information sciences when I last checked)
could also be contracted to carry out a directed program in this area.
e. There may be some way that ARPA could be utilized although
they do not have a laboratory themselves. They do have a program in the
area which they carry out via contractors as I am sure you are aware.
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My own thought is that in a very austere resource environment
the idea of tasking RADC has the most merit. I don't have any idea
about the practical problems of making such arrangements.
Assistant Director, NSA
for
Science and Technology
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