PROJECT SAFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R001200150009-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 25, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Project SAFE
1. This memorandum outlines the current status of
planning for SAFE and requests your approval of additional
staffing for a SAFE project team under OJCS.
2. Work on SAFE proceeds as follows:
a. The paper on functions and process require-
ments is in its third iteration. This paper details
the things that SAFE must do to what kinds of informa-
tion, for how many people, in what time frames. The
months of April and May will be devoted to reworking
this paper with the office of Security and with the
users--12 office or division representatives and 130
branch representatives.
b. The Technical Advisory Panel of outside
experts has met twice and has recommended that CIA
proceed with SAFE. The Panel acknowledges that SAFE
will push the state-of-the-art and emphasizes that
constant oversight is necessary to see that the project
is under management control. The Panel urges continua-
tion of the effort, recognizing that all of the project
may not be feasible but believing most of it can be
done. The Panel attributes most of the risk in the
project to the size and the complexity of the system
while acknowledging that the individual pieces already
exist. The Panel's major concern at this point is with
the managerial structure for the implementation of
SAFE.
c. The SAFE pilot operation continues. It
serves as a continuing source of design data, a test
bed for experimentation, a teaching and demonstration
device for the potential users and as an operating tool
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for an increasing number of production offices. The
Technical Advisory Panel urges its continuation as well
as examination of the possibilities of expansion. This
examination is currently underway.
3. In recognition of the major concern of the Technical
Advisory Panel, CRS and OJCS have proposed, and the DDA and
the DDI have accepted, a managerial scheme for SAFE.
a. Mr. Fitzwater and Mr. Eisenbeiss and their
deputies will constitute a Steering Committee with
Mr. Eisenbeiss chairing the Committee as the customers'
representative for the system.
b. CRS's Systems Analysis Staff will represent
the customers with the responsibility for setting the
requirements of the system, training the users, and
providing the criteria for the acceptance tests.
c. OJCS will set up a SAFE team with responsi-
bility for the design and implementation of the project.
It will be headed by a highly qualified manager with
the responsibility of seeing that the hardware, software,
operating system, logistics, and work flow schemes are
consistent, compatible, and reasonably scheduled.
d. The DDI Management Staff will be responsible
for putting the funds into the CIA budget for SAFE and
for explaining to OMB the objectives of the system.
The DDI Management Staff will be supported by OJCS'
SAFE team in terms of details on the various items for
which they are responsible. Once the money is obtained,
the Management Staff will transfer it in large blocks
to the builders of the system, mostly OJCS.
4. To put together its team, OJCS needs additional
positions, a gross addition of about 17 slots in FY 76 for
development and about 13 in FY 77 for operation of the
system. CRS will be able to contribute (from its planned
allocation of personnel to SAFE) 5 positions in FY 76 and 2
in FY 77. (These CRS positions will become available when
COMMO picks up the responsibility for the dissemination of
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NSA and NPIC electrical reports.) This leaves OJCS with the
need for 12 additional positions including one supergrade in
FY 76 and 11 positions in FY 77. Neither DDA nor DDI can
provided these necessary additional positions.
5. We recommend that you approve the continuation of
SAFE under the general procedures described in paragraphs 3
and 4, including 12 additional OJCS positions in FY 76 and
11 additional positions in FY 77 (in addition to the 7
positions to be provided to OJCS by CRS).
6. Incidentally, CRS has briefed on SAFE to Community
audiences numerous times. The audiences included Mr. Hall's
deputy and staff, General Graham, his deputy, General Faurer
with staff, and the IHC with numerous quests.
EDWARD W. PROCTOR
Deputy r for Intelligence
JOHN F. BLAKE
ctor for Administration
Recommendation
APPROVED:
DISAPPROVED:
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