VISIT TO CIA OF KNOX PANEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000500160016-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 15
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 7, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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S. We are firming up plans to have the Panel here at
Headquarters from 1600 to 2100 on Thursday 13 January
Dining ROOM),; and again
(including dinner in the Executive
from 0900 to 1530 the next day, Friday
6. At the Thursday dinner I plan to have the P*nel
ed by those essentially involved in the briefings that
7. 1 believe it is highly desirable for the panel to
have an opportunity to meet some of your top assistants and
suggest this be done at the Friday lunch. I recommend that
you host this lunch and that it be held in tb e-c-Mve Dining
half
Room to enable us to accommodate some 18 people (roughly
guests and half CIA officials).
Assistant T ?guty D
or intelligence
Attachments
w_.TjL I. .mbership Of Knox Panel
TAB B; Background papers Relating to Organization of
panel (see particularly bottom p. 5 and p. t)
B/
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PFIAB/OST JOINT GUIDANCE AND EVALUATION PANEL
Mr. William T. Knox
Technical Assistant to the Director
Office of Science and Technology
Dr. William 0. Baker
Vice President for Research
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Dr. Launer F. Carter
Vice President - Research
System Development Corporation
Dr. Merrill M. Flood
Professor and Senior Research
Mathematician
University of Michigan
Medical School
Project MAC
Dr. Ralph W. Gerard
Dean of the Graduate Division
University of California, Irvine
Dr, Anthony G. Oettinger
Professor of Linguistics
The Harvard University
Dr. Richard C. Raymond
Consultant - Information
General Electric Company
Dr. Oliver Selfridge
Associate Director, Project MAC
Lincoln Laboratory
Dr, Jerome B. Wiesner
Dennn of Science
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Mr. Thomas McFee
Institute for Defense Analysis
Mr. Bernard Urban
Bureau of Budget
Mr. John Griffith
IBM Corporate Research
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John Bross
Paul Borel
Sherman Kent
R. J. Smith
Till ann Yiiorel i
James Brainell
Arthur Lundahl
Edwin Ashcraft
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Attachment (a)
THE WHITE HOUSE
WAS H.INGTON
u1y 15, 1965
1 i C .?; ;,fir F CP. THE D.:.'1 ECT0R OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
S 3J CT: U. S. Intelligence Community Canabi1iti es
for the Handling of Intelligence Information
Enclosed herewith is a report and recommendations
:~ci ~e Presi cent s s Forei Icwr d (USIB) which; under the chairmanship of the
~ ~ c rc ~ c Central : tell gence, has been pursuing the
c:i: ~a n e~_e_^c se not- 2 as SO:-PS (Staff for Community
___fc :r.atic~ Processing Study).
Our P nel'I s study 1-cads us to the following conclusions
.anu _ wl = _t recommendations for action in an,area of
U. S. _nte ligenca act-iv ties which we consider to have a
:roc t i :~Jcrtant bearing on the national defense and security.
principal objective of these recommendat=ins is
~:~ :7 c "tanCe Of negative information,
of ..~.'f a pion 4
'' Oii7? ~ rrsCU2 e., ~ha"~ access to
lz_ll . ;e _f orr-,.at on art cure a completeness of response
0'. ;_1a :T 7.,_Ch is exoeCted1'. fro--Ii many large files of
_- Z, _st- i on. Like to ", stics, -Intelligence cannot
s< with the high y anecdotes but requires that all
items o are allowed to co atribute
-? f tart to h final su~.., .?'. r or other intelligence
.: vk~avvo
r, .
3. A a cO_' sec~uerce c _ntelligence comaunity require-
c .$ `~ l ig re -1, the mechanized and automated means
of C e ' to many sorts. o` inyell genre files cannot be
c I:_ :^ u to meet sir:~ulten.eous .y,, rigid requirements a to
Accordingly for some time to come the mode of
access to intelli ;ence inforn :tion will be through
ii :._-ad --,z:.chin'a?-human systems that will seek the machine
t ie :r l o s co.^ d i nteili? ;~.:c` information in order that i e-
" ._ - ~evaY.ce may be estab? is ed by human examination.
ytha.s combined m acnine-hu'_nan f~ c ;:or wh ch generates
syo.~C=_--. _prcblems of great cif'fieul ;y and dimensions.
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c,~r t e ::c e users rec uir ina access to a common information
recoru~_~ :d that the following actions be undertaken
_: wrap w~ tel~T :r th__b t?_e inteilf
ence community.
c" ~ d 3n c. J That selected pars personnel a,,nong
)aa c z , r ~:.ing ixj;: the U. S. intelligence 11
specs alizcd y
q ~ ~ ^a::..,n; rig and advanced
cy cente:_ or cen-i:ars where systems
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ys LJ Skit=Ls a 2e uade! food. and in-oar ed
h E" t - e same time 'p3? Jess adt.. P ate background in
1 a o~_og J^y and ether mare classical approaches
:ample o he tape of s ~ecia.lized training
center we ,_`ave in mind is the Library School at
he Un i-tire , < sty of Chicago. waded by Dean Don W.
Te c to 'L-is `q ckgro u:^d in mat. ematics and physical
and his cur-rent emph
in 1 as.L on i11Cr,:S SEd
s n iJr ary education, accent the
c:ombi ,: ,ion of educational capabilities and background
wh ch ar : considered neccosary for purposes of
_tarp~i h ob ive..o_ r.
=^-g ~;c" ?_~:~s rec.omne:dati c .
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