LETTER TO DR. ALBERT C. HALL FROM W. E. COLBY

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Dr. Albert C. Hall
Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Intelligence)
Washington, D.C. 20301
'&Your letter of 8 April asks for my views con-
i
cerning two suggestions fot'
ncreasing CIA partici-
ation Th the Community On-Line Intelligence System
(COINS).
One of the suggestions is to assign two full-
time CIA representatives to the COINS Project Man-
agement Office, one for NPIC and the other for the
CIA Headquarters elements. Our review of this
matter shows that the present arrangements and
points of contact are clearly adequate to meet
the needs of our analysts in both locations at
this time. This situation may change when the
upgrading of COINS is more advanced and begins
to have more impact on our activities. At such
time as CIA analysts make greater use of the
COINS data base or a substantial increase in such
use is anticipated we will be pleased to re-
consider this question.
The other suggestion is that we consider the
possibility of using a computer at CIA for providing
real-time access to CIA Headquarters files. Al-
though we are not yet in a position to make a
decision on this matter, I can assure you that
we are considering this suggestion. Obviously,
the effort involved in providing better community
access to CIA files must be justified and shaped
by a thoroughly developed concept of what files
CIA can contribute to COINS in the future and the
additional benefits and costs involved in real-
time access to CIA-sponsored COINS files.
We have begun to take steps to get the infor-
mation we need to make decisions about new COINS
hardware at CIA. The CIA Subsystem Manager for
COINS is conducting a survey of Agency components
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that will provide information not only about the
present utility of COINS to CIA production analysts
but also about any Agency plans for data bases
that might usefully be made available to community
analysts via COINS. The upcoming COINS workshops
to be run by the MITRE Corporation should also
provide new insight into how CIA participation in
COINS can be made more effective.
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