TASK TEAM II REPORT (T/II/R-I)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000300020008-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 20, 1965
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20 August 1965
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 OAR D
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman CODIB
SUBJECT: Task Team Ii Report (T/II/R-1)
1. Task Team II has done an excellent job of responding to the
Terms of Reference (CODIB..D-lll/102/2) approved by CODIB for the Task
Team. It has reaffirmed the need for a standard item list (a con-
elusion of the SCIPS report), has determined the essential elements
necessary for such a list and has delineated methods by which it can
be accomplished.
2. The big task left is the actual development and publication
of the Item Register. This must be done in order to respond to the
USIB directive to CODIB to establish an ad hoc task team to "develop
and publish a standard item list." (USIB-D-3907/6)
3. The CODIB Support Staff agrees with those portions of recom-
mendations A and B (page 33) which recommend that an Item Register System
be implemented. However, we believe that this can best be accomplished,
and .t the same time serve the best interests of all of the Intelligence
Community, by the method described in alternative 1, page 28, rather
than by reassigning the whole task to one sgency with reimbursement and./
or manpower inputs from other agencies. The following are some of our
reasons for this conclusion:
a,, Since USIB directed that an ad hoc task team be
established to develop and publish a standard item list, we
do not believe that it would be a wise move now to recommend
to USIB that completion of the task should be assigned to a
single agency.
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bo Since this is a community project,it needs con-
tinuous community participation and cooperation if it is
to be successful. The CODIB Support Staff, and any
temporary assistants on the project, would provide a
community viewpoint and would be more concerned with the
needs of all the community then would a single agency,
co The CODIB Support Staff participated in all of
the deliberation,; of Task Team II and did a substantial
portion of the work and thinking which resulted in the
subject report. Thus It is the logical choice to continue
this effort and to give the necessary background and
guidance to anyone who may be designated to assist.
da Before personnel of a selected single agency
could proceed to implement the Item Register System, a
great deal of nonproductive time would be required of
the CODIB Support Staff, and perhaps the Chairman of
Task Team II, to acquaint them with what has been accom-
plished and learned by the SCIPS effort and by the Task
Team, This time could be better spent in productive work
on the system implementation.
eo The CODIB Support Staff has the mechanism for
dealing directly with each of the agencies from which
contributions and cooperation will be required for imple-
mentation of the Item Register System. Any component of
a single agency selected for the task would have to obtain
approval of the many administrative and/or supervisory
echelons of its own agency for each portion of the project
before it could proceed or deal with an external agency.
This would not only increase the total cost but could
impede completion of the project.
f0 We believe that the total cost of the project, in
terms of manhours, will be substantially less under direc-
tion of the CODIB Support Staff than if it is assigned to a
single agency, except possibly under conditions as discussed
in paragraph 4 below.
4, If CODIB does not elect to assign completion of this task to
its Support Staff, with some temporary assistance as necessary, we
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recommend, as the most feasible alternative, that it be assigned to
the Systems Staff CIA/OCR and continue under the direction of the pre-
sent Chairman of Task Team II, The implementing organization would
thus have full advantage of all that has been learned in the SCIPS and
Task Team II efforts, Because of its close proximity, the CODIB Support
Staff could provide assistance.
5e We do not believe that CODIB should take action on recommendation
C until after Functions 1 through 4 (pages 25-26) are accomplished.
Again we seriously question the wisdom of assigning that task (develop
item description element standards) to a single agency now in view 'of
the fact that it also was one of the problems for which USIB directed
the establishment of an ad hoc task team. We believe that the CODIB
Support Staff, with a modicum of assistance, principally of a consulta-
tive nature, could handle that problem after the Item Registry System is
Implemented.
6. We concur in recommendation D, provided that the Task Team
first complete any revisions of its report which CODIB may require and,
further, that the members remain available in a consultant capacity to
the organization selected to complete the work remaining in the item
identification problem,
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Chief, CODIB Support Staff
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