USE OF FEDERAL INFORMATION PROCESSING STANDARDS IN EXCHANGE OF INTELIIGENCE DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00097A000100050005-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 14, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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J U L 14 `971
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
ATTENTION: Information Handling Committee
SUBJECT: Use of Federal Information Processing Standards
in Exchange of Intelligence Data.
REFERENCE: USIB-D-71.1/5, 19 May 1971, subject as above.
At present the Department of State does not exchange
substantive data in machine readable form with other UST_B
member agencies nor does it contribute any machine files
to the COINS experiment.
The Document Storage and Retrieval System presently
under development in the Department will utilize the six-
digit numeric representation called for in FIPS PUB 4,
Calendar Date, and the alphabetic codes contained in
RIPS PU'B 10,-Countries, Dependencies and Areas of Special
Sovereignty. Use of these F P standards l~s als'o contem-
p7a ed for the Traffic Analysis and Guidance System (TAGS)
which will be undergoing operational tests scheduled to
begin in the near future.
None of the other published FIPS (representations and
codes) are pertinent to the Department's on-going computer
system design efforts involving substantive information,
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