COINS STATUS REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000100080003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 9, 1967
• Content Type: MEMO

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Allemarandum
Ch.ai.rran DATE: 9 Oct 67
COljllili tee on Docum n'tation
Unite States Into ligence Board
Chairman
Community On-Line Intelligence System (COINS) Committee
SUBJECT: COINS Status Report
1. This report is intended to summarize the current status of COINS. A
comprehensive sermti-annual report will be issued after the end of Sehte n'ber 1967.
iii, The COINS Co mittee contimres meeting bi--weekly to
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review COINS status and problems, and to formulate policy, ok -ect. Ives and plans.
Four ad hoc panels have been for,,'ied to consider and resolve individual
COINS problems or tasks. Definitive results of panel efforts Will he e;.n resser.
in Technical Neillorandum of Agreement ('i'~4) containing conventions binding on
all COINS participants, and formalized by signatories of each participating
agency. Currently concernodi
with data base recll:tiroil ents, and consolidation and construction of corrnmon
deal.,-; with technical aspects Of Computer and communications interface, and the
COINS Evaluation Panel will. develop criteria for evaluation of the system
3. System Status:
was installed between DIP,
a. A secure 300 character per second data ].In!
and NSA on 21 December 1.966. The first test message was transmitted on
1.3 February 1967. The first successful roe-icl robin test of interrogational
cycles between remote terminals at NSA and DIA and an unclassified file at the
other agency occurred on 20 April 1967. The NSA/DIA system is currently
undergoing further, tests using operational files at each agency. Tentatively,
the system will be operational by 1 November 1967.
b. Latest available information indicated that DIA will be prepared to
activate circuits to all other COINS participants after 1.i`-arch 1968.
4. System Files: A total of 25 information files, broadly categorized
below, are being made available in COINS by participating agencies. The files
primarily concern the Soviet Union and China but contain limited information
on some Southeast Asian nations.
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a. The files to be included in the COINS Experiment were selected by
each participant based upon his own criteria and one or more of the following:
(1) Contain information, emphasis on which was
directed by the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
(2) Include data of wide interest in the intelligence community.
(3) Existed in or were planned for machine aT)pliCation in the
COINS agencies.
b. It is recognized, in an experimental system of this nature, that a
period of trial usage must take place to evolve the best set of intelligence
files for community use. Concurrently, efforts must be made to develop file data
standards, and eliminate duplication and redundancy among agencies if at all
possible. Such efforts are currently being made by two COINS Panels, the Soviet
5. The Future: Thrce problems of immediate concern to which the COINS
Committee w llrvadcress its efforts arc:
a. The most efficient and effective method of present and future COINS
management.
b. COINS user training at each agency.
c. Future objectives and plans for the system.
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