NOTE FOR THE DIRECTOR (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000300030038-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2007
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: March 25, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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25 March 1975
NO'J E FOR THE DIRECTOR
audience clown).
asked to give it to you first (i. e. , keep the
data base. DLA will provide after Easter and have
You asked for a briefing on the distributed
The attached paper was prepared for General
Wilson's background and your use. It should be
read before you receive the DTA briefing.
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r!'liis rnemorancltitn serves as Zs briefing
paper re the ILIA DistribUtcd Dat-~: Bast (DDh)
concept Which is 1'o be briefed to C_lA and
IGS top management on Tuesday, ?5 Mar. 7"
The mernorandurn reports that DDB) is part.
of the DOI) general policy for ifit.elligence, per
ASD(I)'s Planning and Programming Guidance
for the G DIP.
The concept contemplates a broad-scale
assignment within the Services and UP.S Comnroa:
of responsibility for maintaining files on intel-
ligence subjects. Data from files would be avail
able to users via remote terminals and comp:--
terized telecommunications nets.
/ Major problems must be solved before this .
could become an effective reality. They in.ciudc
Provision for quality control of product -.
- Provision for solving multilevel security.
-- Provision for improved tole corrimunicatio:
nets.
Provision for vastly improved data stan-
All of these improvements are complex and, thu
will require several years at best. They also
require Ynuch more in the way of resources the
the comrnu-nity has been willing to alW e to
date. Finally, these problems cannot be addre
most effe .ively except comm - t
merely Dc.D-wide.
(emote: Advance copy direct to General Wilson)
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