CODIB SUPPORT STAFF: MISSION AND FUNCTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000500240011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 30, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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CODIB-D-111/3
30 October 1964
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION
CODIB &tpcort Staff ; Mission and Puactions
Attached is the approved statement resulting from action on CODIB-D-111/2,
27 August 1964, as reflected in CODIB-M-57, 23 October 1964, Para. 2.
cartes A. Briggs
Secretary
GROUP I
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification
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CODIB-D-111/3
30 October 1964
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
CODIB @W port Staff: Mission and Functions
Pursuant to NSCID No. 1, paras. 3 b (2) and 6 a (3); DCID No. 1/4; and
USIB-D-39.7/6, Attachment, para. 3, a permanent secretariat activity for the
Committee on Documentation (CODIB) of the United States Intelligence Board
(USIB) is established. This activity is designated the CODIB Support Staff (CSS).
1. Composition and Organization
The CODIB Support Staff is composed of professional intelligence officers
from DIA and CIA, and of clerical support from CIA. The Staff Is under the
direction of a staff chief who reports to CODIB through its Chairman and Secretary.
2. Mission
The mission of the Staff is to support CODIB in promoting means by which
the Intelligence Community can make optimal use of information of intelligence
value, however recorded.
3. Functions
(a) To assist in the identification, definition, and specification of inter-
agency relationships which affect the flow, the processing, the control of
substantive information and evaluated intelligence, both internal and external
to USIB member agencies.
GROUP I
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassificatl.on
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(b) In the general area of information processing systems to assist
CODIB in problem identification, in determining feasible approaches to solving
these problems, In specifying and assigning appropriate tasks leading to problem
solution, in the acquisition, synthesis, and analysis of factual data pertinent to
problem solution, and in system design and specification responsive to the problem
solution.
(c) To provide a focal point for the exchange of information within the
Intelligence Community on the solution of information processing problems,
including studies, research and development, contracts, proposed agreements
and action, publications seminars, and demonstrations.
(d) To develop for CODIB consideration, policies on responsibilities of
Individual agency information processing facilities to perform functions of common
concern to the Intelligence Community.
(e) To assist in administering and supporting CODIB subcommittees,
ad hoc groups or task teams which have been organized to carry out specific
functions or to perform special tasks .
For example, with reference to the task teams organized to
implement USIB action on the SCIPS report, it is the function of
the CODIB Support Staff to assist in problem definition, fact
gathering, analysis, planning, and preliminary system design.
Day-to-day work will involve: determining essential elements of
information problem boundaries, specifying tasks, planning and
scheduling, forms design, instruction writing, interviewing, analysis,
systems design, and report writing. The Support Staff will provide
the continuity not realizable by ad hoc task teams and will coordinate
overlapping interests between task teams.
(f) To provide referral service from the SCIPS data base.
(g) To assist in the monitoring of interagency agreements in the field of
CODIB's responsibilities.
(h) To assist in the coordination of selected information processing
activities with foreign intelligence services involving the interchange of information
which has been authorized by USIB.
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