LETTER TO DR. DONALD L. BITZER FROM EDWARD W. PROCTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R001200140003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 18, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
Dr. Donald L. Bitzer
Computer-based Education Research Lab
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Thank you for your willingness to serve on the overview
committee which will advise us on the design and construction
of a new comprehensive information processing system called
SAFE. Other members of the committee are:
Dr. William J. Perry, President of Electro Systems
Laboratory, Inc. and Director, Electromagnetic Systems
Laboratory, Los Altos, California
Dr. Harold E. Bamford, Jr., Program Director, National
Information Program, Office of Science Information
Service, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Richard L. Garwin, Thomas J. Watson Research
Center, IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights, New York
This letter is an official invitation to attend the
first meeting of the committee at which we propose to brief
you in considerable detail on SAFE, to obtain your initial
comments on the project and on how we might proceed, and to
set a time for the next meeting. The meeting will be at
9:00 a.m. on 8 January 1975 and should last most of the day.
It will be held at the CIA Headquarters Building (just north
of Washington, D.C.) off Virginia Route 123 or the George
Washington Memorial Parkway (Virginia side). You may arrive
at the Headquarters Building between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m.
You will receive reimbursement for your travel--air or
whatever--to Washington, local transportation, per diem at
the rate of $25 per day and an independent contractor fee of
about $140 per day while you are here on 8 January. The
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enclosed form must be completed before we can process your
contractor fee. A self-addressed envelope to return it is
enclosed.
If you have any questions or if we may be of any
assistance to you in securing hotel reservations, please
call F_ -1 This numhPr will put you in touch with
Again, many thanks for your willingness to participate
and I look forward to meeting you on 8 January.
Sincerely,
war w. _roc or
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Enclosures:
1. Form 2553
2. Return Envelope
Distribution:
Orig. & 1 - Addressee
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1 - D/JCS
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