MACHINE DIVISION

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MACHINE DIVISION
This chapter will. deal ?rich those aspects of the
Machine Division (SID) hot related to the Intellofax System.
Close too- 50 percent of MD's activities from 1947-67 were devoted
to the Intellofax System and as such are discussed in detail in
chapter r..- (Intellofax).
The first responsibili * bf the Office of the Chief of the
Reference Branch., Office of .'Reports and Estimates (ORE),
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z ac cpitding to the Statement of Mission in March 1947, was to %
"establish a machine operations? center for appropriately
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efficiently recrbding and filing intelligence information and
intelligence in a readily accessible state for later listings, tabulations
and statistical reporting by machine research techniques for CID
Tentttal Intelligence Groin and the member agencies. More specifically,
the Central Index (MD first nave) was to
1. Index, by business machine I4$4 procedures the subject matter
of all available reports, and other documents, of a foreign
inte ilig cane Mature.
2. Locate and identify on request all available intelligence
material pertaining to any specific foreign suvject or area.
9. Analyze the Index at regular intervals to determine super-
abundance or d earth of available documentary foreign intelli-
gence on any subject of interest to the national security.
1t, Apprise the pertinent offices of the results of such analyses
for appropriate action.
5, Prrpare and distribute accession lists of all newly acquired,
impatant foreign intelligence documents.
6. Provide, upon request, complete bibliogajhies of available
intelligence material on anyTecific foreign subject or area.
7. Maintain and analyze the IBM card files of Foreign Funds Contro
and similar special IBM files for listingsJu and statistical
intelligence inf oration, within the capabilitirs and physical
limitations of the eference Branch,
8, Acquire, code, and process the special US Bombing Survey Reports
and similar documentary files 'within the limits set down by
responsible intelligent: and re.;earch offices, and limited only
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AD/ORE to Advisor for Management, ICAPS, 25 Mar 1i7,
sub: Pro osed State~ent of Mission, Refers ce Br nc ORE, S.
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In requesting a grade raise for the Chief? Ventral Index,
the 'ssistant Director (AD)/CD added the following responsi-
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bilities.tA /90
1. Act as consultant on matters involving all types of
office machine/ operations and technical procedures
for CIA and member agencies.
2, Maintain continuous liaison with s peti.alists both
in technical indnctries and companies outside the
government and with specialists in the intelligence officer
associated wirh CIA.
3e Maintain continuous study, investigatianaj end research
in the field of management engineering to assure the
use of the most efficient and up-to-date mathods and
procures in carrying out the mission of the deference Cent(
Th e -,thre e ~.~~e constant xv- search on-the
me ods in ma chi
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not only for OCD/OCR but also fOtr.51ts~
M13 mis , Lorttwas realistically s e11hd cut in 195
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intelligence informati eld by c0r-
organizaed da a. related \neci
twin OCR cmymr one s' anwi chin its xnan capa li-
Agency compo..en 2)
ties2 perform, simi sr
Investigate and devel .,, new equipment T which aid in the information ems of the D-,/I. Upon re~,u st
/Central Index '- " ?s. (undated, probably early 1948) ;nar 3. File: Wables of Organization 1914-51 Job : 58-98/6
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8, Acquire] code,, ri"d ocess the pAoffnnng
Survey Reps a simi ec' cumentary files within
the limC"s set own sponsi e intelligence a nd
rese9x,ch offs es d limited only by the capabilities
and/physical limitations of the Reference Branch.
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Historically the Machine Division had three names from
ORE
Le (fcaquently-also
the Reference of A VI
1947-67. It was f~rganized as the Central Index of the I'eferenoe
from early 1947 until the merger of the nef erence Center with the
office of Collection and Dissemination (OCD) in May 1948.. Under
the new OCD, it was designated the Machine McChods Division. (M D)
which name it retained tntil 1950 Then it became the Machine Division.
It remained ND until September 1966 when ehe Office of U%entral
Reference (OCR, successor to OCD) reorganized ands machine elements
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were -deei-gna'Md the Machine Support Division. It will henceforth
be referred to as U) in this c haptere
MI) had four chiefs during its 20 years of existenceo
a Navy Commander who had headed a large IBM indexing
effort during World War II,, reported for duty in March 1947 to
cwganize the machine operations, He transferred to thr Management
Staff in September 1950 as chief of a machine planning and development
group for the gency* who alsoreported for duty in
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the development of much of the ear]y equipment for the central
reference facilities. He s erved as chief until September 19,94 when he joined
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the Eastman Kodak Company, Hems succeeded b who had
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machine developments in SR. With lo-is sudden death in January 1958,E
the division reins were taken over by rho had been
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the machine operations until he retired to 1971.
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Space orientation in 1947 dictated that separate machine
sections for the Industrial jgister (IR) and the Biographic xegister
(BR) be e stablished. It Maus Oil K/jjj the hope of
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when all the registers were fully activated, the machine operation
would be again be examined to detexmine the feasibilittr of organization-
ally separating machine personnel from the .Registers. As an airmative
to transferri) g all machine o:? ,rations to a single jurisdiction..
James M. Andrews, Ass3_stant Director (AD) of OCD in 1949
appointed the Chief? MD to exerciso general surveillance over all
a
0CD machine a tion.q.4 There is m indication in tko records fiat
In-July 1958 he machine operations of IR were merged with YD
jot\ A\
to units became collocated in the Riverside Stadium in April 19520
the absorption o o I t s machine section by TM was reconsidered when the
to Provide better job scheduling
the move to. the new building in 1961. A 'the BA machine ope rations
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merger was of primary importance to fu7.ly testy comb3,ned
.and machine utilization AD at the time, felt than this
absorbed bar ND in
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Memo, 13 Nov 47, sub : Reference Center
T/0. C. File : Tables of Crranig1tion 1947-551 Jcb : 58-98/6
J Memo, AD/CD to all !ii.sions., 16 ec 1) 9 sub : Coordination to Machine
Methods. U? File: OCR History Dec 19!!.6-52 Job: 59.875/1
/1Memo, DAD to AD/CR3 18 July 58., sub. Merger of Tndustria1 Register
Machine Operation with Machine Division. C. File : Machine Divisioh
1947-58 Job : 60..548/1
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Through a recOn-endation based on a
Management Survey of machine methods in the Agency, a-he Administrative
Projects Branch was established in the Centre. Index in the fa-11 of
194'1 to perform acc ting and administrative records -Tfork on a
punched card basis for the Acfninistrativ" Staff of fie Agency.
In August 1950 t hi-, Ple,,von T/0 s1
was
relieved of providing thin asainistrative support -
faith the transfer of eleven T/O slots to-the Sp' ois3. Support Staff
of Administration and Management.
One of the earliest non-OCD jobs that I,D assumed in 1943
and continued until 1967 was work for the National Tr _e?ligence
Survey (HIS) Gazetteers. A punched card procedure wrss developed in
order to produce gazetteers of place names for the NIS prograxa. Fof
purposes of sffici ent operation for an unclassified project, the key
punching T.es performed in the Board of 4eorgarphic Nam.-s (BGM), South
The machines and personnel (2 key punchers and one
supervisor) were those of MD. In a report to the Clark Committee in
191S the AD/CD stated that this activity consumed 5 percent of MD's
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manpower. In 1959 support iD this program cost OCR $35,635.
In April 1962 % MD moved the two key punch operatprs from Interior to
Headquarters because of the inability of BGN to release material for
punching on an even fl ow The scarcity of trained keypunch personnel
at a time when MD t s punching requirements for all customers were increasing
forced !' in 1963 to contract the job to a commercial keypunch service.
Evebtually- approlc.mately 1965- this also prov+ad unsatisfactory and the
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job was brought back to MD.
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:I CR5 EDPSD, May 1973
Memo, C, MD to AD/CR, 27 Feb 63, sub: NTS Gazetteer Production. C.
File : Machine Division 196243 65-?1X/4
]]Memos Management Officer to A ting Erecutive., 25 Ayg 50, sub: Adminis-
tative Tabulating Machine 7 ycti.ons. C. rile : Tables of Organization
19.L7-t.. 3ob : 58-98/6
Memo, Management Officer tc sting Executive, 12 July 50s sub: Machine
Methods and Agency Operatic... C. File : Management Office 19149-5..
Job: 58-98/3
]Machine Division, Priorities and Limitations on Manpower. 20 July 53
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4x,"--Indicative oft work ND performed in addition to
Inteliofax is the list of tabulating card files maintained
The starting c~te i
in 1957 as a service to Agency com~~onnnts s ,~tf?,Lw
1. The Library Book Order file served as an ac&uAtzng
record of all domestic and foreign publications rrocured by
the Acquisitions Branch of the Library for all offices in the Agency.
punched card
MD began thisile in 1949 for domestic book and periodical subscription.
2. The Card Catalog file was an index to all books in the
CIA Library. Begun in 19b9, this IBM file vti*as maintained by YL
until the Library switched its book cataloging from the Intelligence
Subject Code to Library of Congress classification scheme in 1959.
3. Three files' the Film (motion picture films),
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Spot Photography (gro?und
of persons) were indexes
OCR's Graphics Re ister.
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DD/P, was
photography), and Personality (photographs
to material held by or available to
For details
See chapter ~_. (Graphics Register)
maintahed for
used to prepare machine listings of information
people traveling to and from
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machine listings for ORR for
Commuhi.st
W/ countries.
as uded for preparing
the analysis of freight traffic.
6. The River Register File was used for preparing maching
for ORR
listings tof Russian river vessels.
7. The Foreign Trade Register, started in Februa!?y 1952
for ORR 7ranr 1?shL ~ nt-s----outside#.h
transarttrn~ trade
Svji - e wt'esinYss rnsaction was
used for preparing machine listings names of b asiness establishments
which were involved in
outside the Soviet Bloc 'Pi`- trade transactions with $ Comiuunist count
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9. The ORR Tie Stuc v File swrved as an analysis
of time expended are f?esearch projects in ORR,
10. The Policy and Program Co-ordihaticn file, maintained
for the War Plans Division of DD/P, contained names and iddntify-
ing information concerning persons recommended for evacuaticxi
from their native countrie in time of war.
25X1A2g 11. The rile contained the names,
geographical. latitude and 16ngitude of the primary bombing
targets in China and the Soviet Bloc countries. (Source documents
did not indicate which office in CIS; was the primary user.)
T -*--1946 ?he foll statistical data macs--
coft -to- indicat amo of mo s t ox~ extra-
office coaching t. This.ixtcluc the NIS Gaze 'En ,pogrom
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As new activities mushroomed, !)'s keypunch support *rcrk,,increased.
In 3-962 the creation of a Requirements Registry in OCR and the establishmenr
of the Committee on Documentation (CODIB)'s Staff for the Community Informa.
Lion Processing (SLIPS) added to the division's work 'load. Rapport to
SCIPS in calendar 1963 was reported as 3.5 matt years. Throughout the
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effort from 1964 to 1967 MD provided heavy support to the
Office of Computer Services (OCS). During the last quarter of FY 1966,
D punched and processed 25,000 cards or the equiiva nt af one man a
for t hat period. Ai Ad ot1 - I s D Public atidns Su--,-Vey l?uestionnai re
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a.nd rDD Contractor's lists OBI Map Library Area C'rd File: CODIS
Control Codes a subject and area code. Office of O?oeration's Far'eign Equipment
Directory, among a few. NID duuJ4catp~ index decks, such as the Tntelliigence
Subject Codes the USSR Travel Folders and the Ground Photography, to meet a DIA
request for input to iys computer system.
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Memo, A Ling AD/CE to D.D/I, 72 Dec 63, sub unctions a,d ?^ orb-Dads
Bbserbed Calendar Year 1963. S. File: DL/I 1963 Job: 66-1196/2
Memo, C/MD to D/CR, 11 July 66, sub: 1 ichine Division Monthly Repor
June 66. RC. File: Machine Division. Monthly Reports 1966. Job. 71-18
/Monthly eports 1965 and 1966. File-, Machine Division Monthly Rrrts
1965., 1966. Jab : 71-18/1
Descry"ption and statistical "ummarY oz vin
Sept 66. S. CRS Historical Files
Absorbe ender ear 1963. S. File: DD/I 1963 Job: 66-496/2
Memo AD/CR to DD/I 15 Jan 59, sub: Survey of OCR Functions, Tab B.
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Program and other activti ties approved bQ./OCR at the request of other
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 Charged with the responsibility for the development and
efficient operation of special machines and equipment for Ofd,
and for providing advisory s ervices for CIk offices and other
.4 ^ special machine developed by vans Luhn
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instanced led to the development of new machinery or new applications a
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methods and equipment for iaiel~i-gee-Qo the NID experts
maintained close contact from the outset with leading designers and
manufacturers of information storage' and retrieval and micro-
photographic equipment, In fact, the ingenuity and expertise of OCD
employees and the unique information I.sndling needs of OCD in some
intelligent urgencies on the availability- and use of new machine
of aperture cards for storage, the photostat Expeditor for rapid reproductions
`} existing equipment especially adapted to its operating needs. The utilization
introduction of the Fiexow.riter, modific tica of Recordak cameras, and testing
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closed circuit television equipment were but some of the irojects reviewed
and adapted by ND. Thetxpertise of the personnel of this Division vs constantl
ly refreshed by special training which 1mpt them abreast of the rapidly
changing technology and prepared them for conversion to the world of
computers in the 1- .the late 1960's? By mid-1959 fl persons in MD
had completed various Agency and non-Agency sponsored electronic
computer school courses.
Not all experimentation was successful. In 1952 NID personnel
worked closely with thw Ot"?g'agcientific Intelligence (OSI), which had
originally sponsored the et with the X1A5a
cf IBM was made available to NU), w _ and his team from -spent m?ny
months with MD personnel and OCD indexing personnel in designing and testing
Eor details ee chapter (INtellofax)
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' numbers were entered for each document that c ontained that s ubjec be
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proved upor_ by Ralph Shaw ) could be adopted for OCD's mass production
In the early 1950's)
requirements. 'MU and Library managers became interested in the
In this f orm of indexing,
Jw 4 r Taube-Gull. Coordinate Indexing scheme,( w s
cards were set up for each subject encountered,# and on each cards document
If a relationship between two subjects was required, then two cards
a comprehensive coding system., which w?rould serve the needs
other government departments.
Dr. Andrews finally stated to the Office
of Tntel.ligenve Coordination in JGx-~ 1952 that 1, did not feel m-
hat CIA would gain much tangible benefit from the
In 1954 MD JW had doubts whether the Rapid Selerc'tor (a machine for the
rapid sorting of material on microfilm? developed by Vannevar Bush and
project and that he did not approve of an extension of contract RD-20.
the
X1 or series of cards relit ng to the two subjectd were pulled and coincidence
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coordinate indexi.ng,, as bein g too cumbersome for a large collection
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indexed material
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tested gore- the Video graph Repro-
duction Systems developed by the A.E :dick Company., of interest tp-
K'as a'1 improved office reproduction system Chet would be dry process'
faster than the Photostat Expeditors 'used in the Intellofax System=
and equipped to handle both herd copy end aperture cards. Two ;rears of
M was one of the three
Library Consultants.* who surveyed the raryy 1957. See chapter
(Library).
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developnentaQtrork and testing (1960-62) led to its rejection
by ED bemuse the end product was of unacepptab].y poor quality.
MD tested a prototype of an automatic film mounter in J
but after a prolonged period of debugging rejected it in 1966 .,
flesh number display t for the micro ilm camera; a cP, ~idge
loading device a an automatic shut r for camera = exin;
for the lades ar (Recta dak) ~.e s; modifip ilri feeders on a ~rture
card feede3, and a TV caiaer9/mount for,-.he Off,_ce of -eouritye
or equipment services
it, .was-not only responsible for
thn oper^tion and maintenance of P11 the equipn nt used in the
Iiftellofax System lso cxxged tritli t he ma,ntenance of t :le
various types of ois:iQC copying equipment installed throughout
the Agency. A small machine and electronic shop was mvnintained
for lerearch and experimentat,_mi frith ne products to IA-1r ine
the feasibil tr of. their use. The shop Rico desig'i i and fabricated
cnrtin specialiaed egaip^ent for other components of the Agency.
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~rere d ,effective 15 J8n to -'1` +E OCR u?
In tj~14 O/Af 1958, OCR established P. small staff with
documentation and, technical backgrounds, +,o follow a.utc +ation
developments in indr;try and governrient and to plan applications o:~
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new ea, Tipment 'J~%h. This transferred, developmental respVn.sibu ik
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mQ, Special .Ass1l-tan`- to AD/PB to AD/CR, 20 Jan 59, sub: Detail
of ersounPl to staff I1inic-ard est C. Files Chrono 1959 Job: 6319
Moro,, AD/CR to Chief, Fig7_d Coordi-nation Staff, 31 Ju]y 1958,
sub: Contribution for 'the DDI Nocrgsl.etter. S. Files Chrono 1953
job-, t 63-9
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The IG found ND ts organization fundamentally strazig: T/O _ of_ 70
divided into three branches: Microfilm, Operations, and Planning.
"A genial spirit of friendship and comradeship, generated nrimari3y by the
key supervisors, has created an essontiai]y happy organization in which the
morale of many personnel in lower grar'r's doing tedious work is surprisinzLy
high." However, the IG felt that the related manner and informality resulted in
slacimess and inefficiency in certain of the Division's administrative practices,
such as disorderly dividlona.l r ec ords and unclear ins tructiors to subordinates,
The 110, cit-icized MLD for accepting too.many ad hoc requests for pray i4ng
service from its lab ~tor~r section of the ?MM crofilxn Branc The Survey
highlighted the inability of the Planning Branch to identify, on its or,?n
it '~ia.tive, areas in which machine technirues could in2prove intUli.gence
operations; the IG stated that generally the Branch waited for other cyflees
ih Itbe Agency to rc ^ to IT with a problem, The IG did commend thr nn iing
Branch, h%Tever, for the indexes in support of OCR, the NIS Gazetteer program,
rind. ORR, T ,e IG recommended that the LD/CR confer with the Chief of the Manage-
ment uteff and 1-grae upon an aggressive progrml utilizing the joint resources (f
Mil) and Business Machines Staff, Management Staff, to search for and identify
areas within the Agency, wherein machine techniques could contribute effectively
to the solution of long- Agency information habdling problems,
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1.963 (September)
On t1e wno1e the Tj Survey of 1963 was not too critical
of MD. 'here were a few operations which the survey pointed out
for correction. The TG found the 0ard-ounch gectieez of 25 individuals
est,s ~ment=
perpetually undermanned.and facing an enormous ?)acklog
because of keypunch load
from the new Uii Requirerents Registry of OCR. The 1G recom fended that
the DD/1 request _'the Li:'ector of rerzonnel. to provide oi. a temporary
basis from the clerical pool five ac.ditional keypunch operators for ?,'
-to obviate excesrive overtime and reduce baelrlog. The Tai a-^ w.r~nnv++-inn IC
tf ound that th? P t n++i n ct r .ester
computer
7~ r n &&ra. cl.zLot Agency units ieirying programmiik
requirements on /11/nNID v *r c am? th~~ ad per xiced,.
Planning Staff 1)ersonnel, - in-- ac?varme : wua:Uy established their own guidelines
before consulting the sid.lTed and experienced Planning Staff and then
tended t o r esist logical chances rec oniriended by the staff of e xpertsp
The N therefore recommended that the AD/CR instruct the C/M to
require all custo,aers to initiate requests for programming services at the
earliest pracicable stage with the Planning Staff and that the Planning
Staff review such requests and recommend any necessary modifivaLions
prior to their accertance by MD as an approved project. The lU was concerned
which had arisen
about the dissatisfaction among the former Biographic Register Twn.hine
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personnel zineG the merger o f N " t I s machine unit into MD,( the III s discusstcta
this problem with
with MD management and MD was taking construction action by rearranging
machine assignments among the several =nits(( on a more equitable bass.
The IU raised the question of ~$ Agency aid non-
Agency training far---M--pew. Tabulator equipment operators .?ere
interested in computer training and keypunchers were interested in
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