UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION TASK TEAM V - BIOGRAPHICS WORKING GROUP ON NAME FINDING ACTIVITIES MINUTES OF THE SEVENTH MEETING, 10 AUGUST 1965

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 11, 1965
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION
TASK TEAM V - BIOGRAPHICS
WORKING GROUP ON NAME FINDING ACTIVITIES
Minutes of the Seventh Mee_tin 10 August 1965
Members or Their Representatives Present
NSA Chairman
CIA
DIA
STATE - Mr. Mite a an ey
SS ,- Mr. Frank Stoner
CSS - Secretary
1. The members of the working group approved the minutes of
the last meeting with several changes.
2. The discussion commenced with a continuation of consideration
of the Chairman's proposed status report submitted at the last meeting.
Further analysis was made of the meaning of the results obtained from
the sample requests between the various agencies. The validity of the
sample was again considered. The department of State representative
provided the group with some verbal reactions as to the validity of
the results obtained by his department. After considerable discussion
on the question of whether the sample was truly representative and on
the conflicting evidence produced by the various portions of the sample,
it was agreed that the sample requests did not provide conclusive
evidence of any gaps or duplication. The inability to make a firm
conclusion from the sample points up the very complex situation posed
by the name finding activities among the various agencies. Additional
comments were made concerning the several conclusions made in the
paper submitted by the Chairman.
3. No additional comments were provided on the paper entitled
"Requests" that had been submitted by the CIA member at the last meet-
ing. The CIA member distributed a short paper which canmented on the
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specimen request exercise and provided some suggested findings and
recommendations of the working group. These were considered in some
detail by the group. As a conclusion of the many points raised during
the discussion, the Chairman indicated that at least two of the goals
of the Community represented should be a single (or minimal) process-
ing of source documents and aggressive methods of getting the various
data bases into machine language which would be compatible between the
various agencies.
4. Attention turned to the need for a listing of categories of
searches. The NSA member suggested the following:
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These can each be further divided into the following types of searches:
5. The group pondered what to report to the biographic team
at its next meeting on 19 August 1965. It was agreed that the
Chairman of the group would prepare a report based on the material
submitted and the information developed during the meetings and
submit it to the Chairman of the biographic team on 19 August 1965.
(This was done)
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