COINS WORKING GROUP MEETING OF 5 OCTOBER 1966

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000100130016-2
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 5, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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5 October 1966
Working Group Nesting of 5 October 1966
1. The COINS Working Group met at NSA at 1000 this date with the
following people present:
-11SA
-EPIC
-CIA
-State
-NSA
-DIA
-NSA
-NSA
-NSA
-NSA (plus 3 others frog MA)
-CIA
-CIA
-CIA
2. Minutes of the previous meeting were reviewed.;Ibers were asked
to review carefully the passa es ertaining to COINS status and. phone in
corrections and additions. reported that there had been no formal
request yet from the National Indications Center (NIC) for a COINS terminal.
He said that EtC had requested an index to the total NSA SIGIST end product;
speculated that this index might be suitable for COINS but that no
real thoughtor decision had been given to the matter.
3.I and a group of NSA T-COM engineers net on 30 September
with the ITV[ engineers responsible for the DIA 7740 connications switch.
The IBM engineers briefed their 7740 switch plans and asked several
questions dealing with Mt SPEC 188-B. The NSA personnel concluded that
the IBM plan is satisfactory. ontinued his point of the
previous meeting regarding the problems of how to detect and respond to
instances in which the NO-13 "goes out of met" (loses synchron; etion).
A very brief discussion between produced nothing of
substance about this problem in relation to the 7740 communications switch.
reported that he had not with (DIA)
andl (National Cryptologic School) to discuss
training requirements and problems. He said there seemed to be three
general areas where training is needed: (a) COINS general concept course
for management; (b)users' language courses; and (c) COINS files course*.
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presented the following chart regarding the COINS training requirement:
language
CIA Users lang.
C Users Zang.
said that; he wanted each amber to determine the n=ber of students
s agency would want to train in each of the courses. He also asked CIA
to designate its training representative so that CIA could work with
in the development of training programs and course
as e s . also requested members to give some thought to how the
course in G concepts should be aA inistered (i.e., taught by a single
agency for the entire crsrmeunityp or taught by each agency for its own
people).
TUM users
Language
1500
100
users
20
100
said there would be a seating at CIA on 6 October at which
A) would present a briefing on COIN security.
triggered a discussion of the sethods of perforating the COINS
evaluation. representing DIA at the meeting, said that
had suggested that the assgnitude of the COINS evaluation problem was
sufficient to warrant establishing a separate panel to handle it.
approaches to the evaluation:(*) narrative - which tends to become quite
thought the suggestion was an interesting one and requested that the aeabers
give some more thought to it.) 0 said that the following areas had
been identified so far as areas for evaluation: TISENS, C CATIONS,
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subjective and. is hard to handle; and, (b) weighted numeric - which offers
a greater chance for objectivity. Under the latter approach, a group of
mangers from the agencies participating (or from other sources such as
CODIB or the Knox Panel) would each independently assign overall weighting
factors to the major areas of evaluation and seal the weights in envelopes
not to be opened until the perforaaance evaluations had been completed.
Working level groups would develop lists of factors to be evaluated within
each of the major areas and then assign numeric values dependent upon the
observed performance of the system. The final numeric values observed would
then be tabulated and have the x-. Led weijzh factors applied to give the
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the system be evaluated at several points throughout a nine (or so) months
of the COINS experiment. The group agreed that this was a good suggestion.
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of a ma ei to simulate the COINS experiment. The model is being programmed
to operate on a computer. The purpose of the briefing was to get coments
of the assumptions underlying the simulation model and to verify the
accuracy of some of the system parameters used in the model.
8.~ announced that the next meeting of the group would be on
19 October. The main subjects for discussion would be the number of people
to be trained in COINS and the content of the various training courses.
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