COINS LOG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000100060026-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: May 15, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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15 May 1970
A regular COINS subsystems managers meeting was held
at NSA at 1.000 on the 14th of May 1970. Unfortunately, no one in
the Support Staff knew anything about it until it was over. None of
our usual friends had let us know it was to happen; let us hope by
oversight. The following information was gleaned from a conversa-
tion with
He thought the only bombshell in the meeting was his annouce-
ment that CIA was not going to give financial support to the COINS
switch ( as designed in the "contingency agreement").
CIA has written a memo to the COINS manager signed by Red
White which should be out on the 14th of May. CIA feels that the present
m anner of budgeting is too complicated; that NSA i;.as the System Manager
should go to the BoB which is already aware of COINS for all the money
not needed, for COINS internally by the agencies. In other words, all
external funds should be budgeted by NSA. Actually, funds for the 360/30
switch in the DIA budget were approved.
Melt that the money
in the contingency agreement was to reimburse DIA for some of the
things they could not do because of COINS and the budget reductions.
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There was a discussion on the update of files. George felt that
the files should have fields added with the record information date and
date of update of each record.
The semi-annual report was supposed to be out today at last.
-ACDA wantsa COINS terminal. I do not know if they have the
STAT
required area for a SI terminal. There have been other terminal difficulties;
~owe,ref~
iiIA has been late getting MOD 37's. there are not enough Mod 37's
which are necessary for the GE635. By the time of the switchover to the
635 system in DIA~) some subsidiary terminal users like State, the
NIC, will have to close down until the 37's arrive. So I do not know
how this will effect the ACDA terminal.
STAT
The 635 switch-over will probably lead to other problems. Under STAT
George wants
or even if there is going STAT
STAT
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George is sending a letter to CIA. asking for NPIC to come back
into the COINS system in a passive mode; as a user without
contributing any files to the system. Bob does not know how this
will be received. He thinks that the solution to the NPIC security
problem probably depends on how HQS. solves their own COINS
security problems. However, OCS has still arrived at no solution on
getting COINS off the /67 (which they are most anxious to do) and
onto an eight hour shift.
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