INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION HANDLING COMMITTEE MID-YEAR REPORT

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• Publication Date: January 26, 1972
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOAR D
MEMORANDUM FOR. THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT Intelligence Information Handling
Committee Mid-Year Report
REFERENCE USIB-D-71. 1/3, 22 October 1968
1. The attached Mid-Year IHC Report from the Chairman,
Intelligence Information Handling Committee, covering significant
information handling activities in the intelligence community for the
first half of FY 72, is submitted herewith for information of Board
Members.
2. This report is prepared in lieu of an update to the Fourth
Annual Report and is pursuant to the DCI's proposal in reference that
it be used as the normal means of reporting on community information
handling activities in response to National Security Action Memorandum
No. 368. In addition to the regular dissemination to the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, plans to forward
a copy of the subject report to Dr. Kissinger after it has been noted by
the USIB.
3. It is not now planned to schedule this report on the USIB
agenda for discussion unless specifically requested by a Board Member
to do soprior to the close of business 4 February 1972. In the absence
of such a request, it will be considered for record purposes that USIB
noted the subject report.
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U N I T E D S T A T E S I N T E L L I G E N C E B 0 A R D
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, United States Intelligence Board
SUBJECT Intelligence Information Handling Committee
Mid-Year Report
REFERENCE USIB-D-71.1/3, Subject: NSAM 368 (Intelligence
Information Handling System), 22 October 1968
1. Enclosed herewith is the mid-year IHC report covering
significant information handling activities in the intelligence
community for the first half of FY-72. This report is submitted
in lieu of an update to the Fourth Annual Report. The Fifth
Annual Report of the IHC, to be submitted at the end of FY-72,
will contain administrative details and status of plans and
programs for improving the Community Information Handling
System (CIHS).
2. The report is prepared pursuant to the DCI's proposal,
reference above, that it be used as the normal means of reporting
community information handling activities in response to National
Security Action Memorandum 368.
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MID-YEAR REPORT
of the
INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION HANDLING COMMITTEE
of the
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
A. INTRODUCTION
In the following paragraphs the Intelligence Information
Handling Committee (IHC) provides a report to the United States
Intelligence Board (USIB) and the President's Foreign Intelli-
gence Advisory Board (PFIAB) on significant information handling
activities during the first half of FY-72. A report containing
administrative details and status of plans and programs for
improving the Community Information Handling System will be
provided at the end of FY-72.
B. COMMUNICATIONS
1. Intelligence Data Exchange--Washington (IDEW). An
IDEW working group, chaired by NSA and composed of communications
planners from the intelligence community, is involved in long-range
planning for improving the exchange of intelligence information in
the Washington area. A draft study of community requirements for
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secure communications through the mid-1970's with recommendations
for their satisfaction is now under review by the IDEW Group. A
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2. Wideband Communications Network
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is a wide band communications network that could satisfy
some of the communications requirements identified in the IDEW
study. Successful testing, including the use of commercial
multiplexers and communications security equipment, was conducted
in July and August 1971 between NSA, CIA, and DIA. During
August-October a remote terminal located at CIA was activated
was shifted tI
the Project COINS link between NSA and DIA I
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C. STANDARDS
1. Federal Information Processing Standards (YIP,). During
this period all agencies responded to a USIB/IHC memorandum
asking for their compliance, or timetable for compliance, with
Federal standards when transmitting information from one agency
to another. All agencies will have complied by 31 March 1972,
2. Standards Panel. DIA finished work on a DOD/IDHS Security
Markings Standard during this period and will publish it in January
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1972. The Standards Panel is also investigating a possible per-
sonality name standard.
3. Content Control Code (CCC) Group. Members of the CCC
Group have been involved in two large test programs using dif-
ferent variations of the Code. State Department's Traffic Ana-
lysis by Geography and Subject (TAGS)
II test, held during
November, involved source coding at some 30 posts in five
countries. During the same period CIA has been testing and
evaluating a 2200 message data base developed when the Code
was added to the wire output of the
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D. INFORMATION TRANSFER
1. Inventory. An information storage and retrieval system,
Chiefs of State, was nominated by CIA and a system description will
be issued as an addendum to the Inventory of Community Informa-
tion Handling Systems (CIHS). With the addition of this system,
there will be fifty-two systems in the Inventory.
2. Intelligence Guidance for COMINT Programming (IGCP).
Work continued on tasks assigned to the IHC in the IGCP. De-
tailed guidance for the Soviet and East European Communist
Countries air movement portions of the on-line data base to be
established at NSA was developed. The guidance was commented
on, or concurred in, by IHC member agencies in preparation for
transmitting it to NSA.
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E. EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1. Information Science Center Defense Intelligence School.
(DIS/ISC). During the reporting period the DIS/ISC presented
the fourth iteration of the courses on Information Science in
Support of Intelligence Functions and Survey of Intelligence
Information Systems. Although there have been notable improve-
ments made in the "Functions" course, the DIS/ISC continued to
experience difficulty in getting the intelligence community to
assign their allotted quota of students. Plans are now being
formulated within DIS/ISC to restructure the "Functions" course
in order to meet objections on its length--12 weeks--posed by
IHC members.
2. Indications and Warning (I&W) Course Planning. In Sep-
tember 1971 the Education and Training Subcommittee (E&TS)
established an I&W Course Planning Panel under the chairmanship
of Mr. Melvin Hendrickson (former Director of National Indica-
tions Center, retired). A proposal by the I&W Panel to have
the Information Science Center develop a 5-week course, was
approved by the E&TS in November 1971. The first pilot course
is planned for September 1972.
3 Symposia. The E&TS and the System Design and Develop-
ment Subcommittee (SD&DS) have established working panels to
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develop agenda and program plans for symposia to be held in 1972.
The R&D Symposium Panel of E&TS has scheduled a one day symposium
on "Mass Memories" to be held on 13 April 1972 at CIA Headquarters.
The Program Committee of the SD&DS has scheduled a symposium on
"Terminals" to be held on 23 and 24 May 1972 at CIA Headquarters.
F. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Indications and Warning Information Network (IWIN)' Concept
Paper. The IWIN paper describes in detail a concept for handling
information and communications among indications and warning
operational centers in the Washington D. C. area. The concept
suggests an independent system that provides faster and better
common communications services for handling crisis information
between approximately 19 centers. Among the services recommended
are common secure voice with conferencing capabilities, facsimile,
and computer-assisted information exchange. A Working Group of
the Research and Development Subcommittee is currently in the
process of defining a minimum test prototype configuration of
IWIN.
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