UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION TASK TEAM II - ITEM IDENTIFICATION MINUTES OF THE FOURTEENTH MEETING, 15 APRIL 1965

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• Publication Date: April 26, 1965
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26 April 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 0 A R D
COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION
TASK TEAM II - ITEM IDENTIFICATION
Minutes of the Fourteenth Meeting 15 April 1965
Members or Their Representatives Present
CIA -
DIA -
NSA - I STATE - Mr. Robert pp
ARMY
CSS
- Mr. Robert Baxter
Secretary
Others Present
1. I opened the meeting with a discussion of the status of
the team effort and the nature of a final report on planning an item
identification system. He noted that we had finalized elements necessary
and desirable to identify items uniquely and to describe them adequately
for a broad spectrum of purposes. He noted that considerable time and
effort had gone into devising a category scheme within which intelligence
items could be placed.
2. A paper was then distributed by Mr. Baxter which concluded that
no clear-cut need for a categorization scheme had been established and
that the team therefore should abandon further effort to develop such a
scheme. distributed a paper entitled "Proposed Category of
Intelligence items. Discussion of the requirement for a categorization
scheme ensued. It was the consensus that the purposes specified in
paragraph 3 of T/II/M-13 were sufficient to justify further effort at
attempting to categorize intelligence items.
3, categorization scheme was then considered along
with proposed schemes y and by Mr. Fritz who was represented
by Mr. Whipp. It was decided that an 'ttempt should be made to analyze
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these schemes and insofar as possible determine and specify areas of
agreement and disagreement. noted that while 25X1
scheme included description of items to be included within each category;
the other schemes did not do so. In some cases, understanding the pro- 25X1
posed cateogries required such statements or lists of actual items which
the originator felt should fall within his proposed categories.
and Mr. Fritz were asked to provide such back-up material for the r
schemes to With this information in hand, would 25X1
undertake t e aforementioned analysis and come up with a new posal.
The team also discussed attempting development of a new scheme at a meeting
to be held on TuesdaK 20 April. Subsequent events precluded such a meeting
and suggested that be provided with necessary infor-
mat on y p one. As soon as t hl- ormation has been provided and the
tentative scheme developed, a meeting of the team will be scheduled.
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