BRIEFING OF REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES ROSE (D., N.C.), MEMBER OF THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, 9 FEBRUARY 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000700030031-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: February 9, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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9 February 1978
SUBJECT: Briefing of Representative Charles Rose (D.. N.C.),
Member of the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence, 9 February 1978
1. 0 On 9 February 1978 I met Representative Charles
Rose and Dick Giza, of the staff, at 0800 hours at the front entrance
to the Agency. Four separate briefings were scheduled with OTS,
the Operations Center, OER and OSR. The (DER section was skipped
due to the press of time. The briefing sessions went as follows:
a. 0 The OTS briefing was accomplished in the
Office of the Chief of DDS&T, Mr. Les Dirks, and was
largely handled by the Chief of OTS, Mr. David S. Brandwein.
Mr. Rose had three questions that were essentially unanswerable
by the briefers (but will be directed to DDO at some future date):
(1) 0 He wanted to know what kind of technical
support is rendered to other U. S. Government agencies.
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b. ^ Mr. Rose was taken to the Operations Center
where he received a fairly quick run-through by Vince J.
Heyman, Director, CIA Operations Center. Mr. Giza
in an aside told me that Congressman Rose had already been exposed
to imagery and the results we could achieve with it and that
this portion of the briefing was redundant.
c. Congressman Rose was then taken to OSR where he was
briefed by OSR, on the use of the "safe"
computer system. Mr. Rose was clearly impressed with the
utility, usefulness and efficiency of the safe system. He was
mildly shockd to find out that the vast majority of the Intelligence
Community is not hooked into this kind of a computer system.
Dick Giza went out of his way to flag the rather dramatic
contribution made by this analytical and retrieval system.
Analysts who otherwise would have to deal with literally
mountains of paper, are thereby freed to devote themselves
to analysis rather than processing of paper. I gained the
impression that Mr. Rose left thoroughly and favorably
impressed with the safe system as employed by OSR.
Assistant Legislative Counsel
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