THE INTELLOFAX SYSTEM

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Approved For Release 2600/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 THE M_C-6L0FAX SYSTFM Introduction The history of the Intellofax System encompasses many facets of the information and storage retrieval sy- stem of the eaci-j-U--stleee'smest" the Office of Central Reference ()CR). Two Divisions, the Machine Division (ND) (Oell'ulal lades& itif "trne Eag.1.9.14-2,P4-tkJiaa-gezetITIast-11cd1heZTr'rra:vie--onr!t-=Cfr"Ttrrte.a S4wItimabau-3434 and the CL & LibrarY Illx04444mr4Wr. n un ray ..:9t8). were responsible for the development and operation of the (EAM)-supported document storage, reference, and " ? 4 rts " ? it retrieval system. The office reorganization of November 1956 added a third layer' of responsibility-a new DOcument Division (DI)) history covers all aspects of the Intellofax tem from 1947 im its demise in 1967: equiprIent demi? nts and improvements, in uding microfilLing, print se ce, and fast transmission of dat classificstion input cheme; and retrieval. A project that had grea impact on t Intellofax System but was not adopted-Minicard'., is al o dia ussed in detail* The Intelliaence Pub ons Index (IPI), ths printed index of finished intel enc.?, docvnents, is historically part of ocp/ocats inf rmetion storage nd retrievn1 system and therefore appears in this chapter with th Intellofax System. Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300106001-9 ho Intellofax System as It related to the Graphes negieter, see Chapter (Graphics egister). Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 The effect ad the t,,,11ofax S,,,,*? of the Library Consul? tants? Survey of 1957 an resulting Task Team Reports of 1958 is discussed ,in7Chapte (the CIA 'Library) of the office hitpliclecaus of the overall impact on the Library* Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 1. Early Developmental History a. Objectives In providing a central reference service to the Central Intelligence Group (C13) and its successor, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as to the intelligence community, the early managers of the Agency recognized the need to develop a machine capability for indexing and retrieving a staggering quantity of intelli- gence documents? The resulting Intellofax System was unique--no other government agency, no university or library, and no commercial firm had anything 'Of its type in operation. The name .was coined in 1949 by Pro James M. Andrews, the first Assistant Director (AD) of 11.444/C44A OCD? to describe the system that combined IBM and faceimile reproduction techniques for intelligence documentation pur- poses? aa_anead4ect4,w- file.s.)_JuLt-alea-et-er. en a n The actual authority for establishing the Intello- fax System appeared in July 1947 in ORE Instruction 31-47, 25)(1A9a 1 entitled "Functions of the Reference Center.: /W/RE, charged the Central Index and the Intelligence Docu- ments Division to: ' (1) index, by business machine procedures, 1 the subject matter of all available reports, and other documents of a foreign intelligence naturc (2) classify and catalogue all intelligence documents of a foreign intelligence nature available to cm. Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 az. OR-2. Instruction 31-17? 15 July 47, sub: Fuetction of the. . a Reference enter, 0 pages:4. and 4. S. kale: D H15to7 _ Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A5a1 25X1A5a1 25X1A5a1 ilg.II4RAEcinipment Needs Chief of Central Index, was given the responsibility for organizing and developing the initial essential steps toward establishing a central indexing and filing system, .in conformity with an earlier Interdepartmental Coordinating and Planning Staff (ICAPS) recommendation in March 3_947. It soon be- name apparent that no exisbing equipment would be capable of meeting the need envisgtged.. Although an IBM punch card offered great flexibility and speed in thehandling of thousands of cards, each of which would represent a particular document, no card would carry enough printed data to supply the researcher with titles and descriptions of decurnnks. --17A9a During 1947 met with top management the possibilities of the use of standard Telefax machines and the adaptation of these machines to the documentation problem. AiticeAsident of said that his company would be willing to cooperate with IBM in adapting the Telefax machine to aut5matically reproduce bibliographic and subject abstract data typed on IBM cards onto any type of paper that included a duplicating__ medium. This would answer the problem of preparingf.accession lists and lists of abstracts requested. / eklYV) ? ? .Canagement originally planned for a daily accession list f`thare------ docunents redaved and indexed, all of which would be abstracted.- 0 This planiWas given up in 1949 as entirely imActical and uneconthmidr 2/Memo,/Acting ChiefA Reference Center, ORE_ to Chief p Central Index Approve A-ffeisaffecirAmorAeRobsof*ceauro, tro ) eSV XSZ es\filfter numerous meetings with oginvestigation r4 0 of otheilt9gwaRks, such as 0? and a contract was let in January 1948, By July o4 had produced the first of the Library Recorders and had 41)^) completed the final design for the IBM card scanner.. Both awaited Cl ci-7:rix the first 6 months of 1949; test runs were made during June, and 9 0 -1 0 ON the equipment was finAlly accepted in July. The Projects Review ri c0 ri 0 0 Committee (PRC) on 27 Ji4y. 1949 approved an amendment fo the origina ...N.4 ci-i 0 c.--; ?ri contract, which had been for -6100,000, to increase the amount to CO A ?./ $20310000 g 4 5. A 0 0 The Intellofax Card, or Faxcard,(see Figure 1) was wo crs:x. g 4 an IBM punch card of standard share and dimensions, which bore on its OCD approval. Experimenting and testing continded, and in January ,5! 1949 reported favorably on the equipment." Progress reports were prepared periodically throughout 4-1 face up to 200 words of printed information-- the so-called 0 ?-? bibliographic data: source, country, date, title, possible abstract, pagination)and secn4ity classification. The corresponding coded, punched and interpreted data appeared at one end of the card. The cards were sorted, selected9and arranged by standard BM machinasr and the printed information on the selected cards was transmitted e6V reproduced by facsimile process, The equipment delivered in May 1950 was the second proto- type resulting from the developmental engineering begun in nay 1948. )Shakedowndtests were still being conducted in mid-1951 concurrent e6v1,xszwith actual usagen Office of ComrninicilgficVIVSZ tjtZerau C bVVI" g -sc to AD/CR, 29 July 48, sub: co Volj. (in Machine Division 19a 5, I67344A) Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Ao&oved For Release 2600/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A9a employee (and for-merly anpangineer with Finch)) was on temporary du.t. with CC5-Axilppjaced in charge of the Fa.xcard rm..) equipment. He wrote to Div4. `a-let-I-since September 1950 )that since the equipment was not standard, additional development was anticipated before the equipment's stability could be placed in a class with if that afforded by existing teletype machines. The Intellofax tape, as it was known throughout the entire Intellofax history, as originally a h.-inch-wide tape prepared by the facsimile process. The "Intellofax punch card was fed into a transmitter, which optically scanned the printed information0 h. receiver received signals from the trahamitters the printed information was impregnated into a chemically treated tape, which was dried by a heat process. The early OCD managers had hoped to electronically- transmit the Intellofax information to requesters in their own office locations. As of 15 May 1950, six transmitters and 12 receivers had been delivered .(see Figure 2)1Experi.. 7 mentation continued throughout the summer months and was +?-) the first ttansraissionAstrictly local?transmitter and 0 rY'13'? .1J One receiver was placed in K Building in the Branch Library, but.ri receiver side by side in t security considerations and technical problems of transmission were responsible for not continuing with what seemed like , i 1xt)OIJA6, A , Utppian transmission phased The conpleted folded tapes * 484trensferred to the Manage i ; '''.! 9 l000cii -9 25X %Dar ? i zplein.05, 1 1 June l''.. sub: Faxcard Equipmnt. U. (in . -. - .. a . -, '1 .,..-p- _s, 11g ? ? r-t /Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A9a c. Coding Schemes (1) The Intelligence Subject Code In conformity with the wishes of 'CAPS., the Central IneLeY also took steps to prepare a unified subject classifica- tion schemecallIIIIIII.cting Chief of the Reference 21 Center, wrote July 19/17: Although the Reference Branch has taken the initial steps in the direction of establishing central indexing and filing procedures, any ',rained acceptance of the end product of these investigations will depend upon joint action of Ita CI.ntelligence Advisory Boar a and CM representatives and the agenciesibfinal. acceptance of the system decided upon. 25X1A9a Cn 114 JAY 19147 entered on dteGy as Chief of Ahe Classification Unit of the Intelligence Documents Division to work with the Central Index in 12/ developing a classification schedule for CM0 tt was soon evident that the War DepartmenVs Basic Intelligence Directive (3ID) devised during World War II for collect,ion purposes (although it had been used for classification of documents in the G-2 Library in Vienna immediately after the war) was not adequate. The subjects listed in the BID were not sufficiently compre- hensive to cover the ride range of subjects in intelligence documents because it had been devised for Army purposes only. The economic, political, and scLiritific sections were woefully weak. It ?..raq decided to prepare a list of subjects that would include those contained in the pro, $1.ddicott r?? ___,em0 (2 above . Ann 114 - Approved LO Realeaseili, -111:AlEMPW.Pi.1-7'nflen"'SnYafnle:.? 28 July 247. 30 File: Library 19474_8 Job: 58-93/1 Y-Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A9a the Navy Monograph Guide, the abridged Dewey Deci- mal system used by the State Department, and for scientific subjects, the Voge Classification, pre- pared and used by the Joint Research and Development A-9e09611113D) 'sits to the parent organizations using these classification schemes. By August 191. Ys Classification Unit of 25X1A9a three people, with the assistance of Norman Ball, a classi- fication specialist from 3R-3D, had completed a general framework of an all-inclusive classification schedule. The major subject categories included Army, Navy, Air, Political, Economic, Sociological, Scientific, Geographic, and Biographic. On 22 August a familiarization meeting was held with duly appointed representatives of the three services. The participating IAB agencies agreed to de- velop and/or revise their respective military categories in the BID. To tho8e categories' would be added the CIG contribution, consisting of the nonmilitary subjects. Because the War Department was not inclined to change the numbering system of'the BID (eight digits), it was to be 11/ used as the nucleus of the new classification system. * OCD tried unsuccessfully to recruit Mk. Ball as a permanent employee. 11/Intelligence Documents DWsion (Library) Monthly Status Approved For Re Ren?1-t- 28 1-`1' 1-..44MapORNIT -kbrtrITROMPAVYMO XL proved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 A9a 311Milwaa not veserttia,uaciastic about t he cc opera t, ioe. from t he ZbAlkk other agencies* and ilirad visited the State Department Librarians vhowelconed a comprehensive expansion of the Armjs Navy) and Air subject Classification but feltathat this expansion shoeV be incorporated into the a'iridged Dewey* The representatives of the IAB agencies seemed to feel that what CIG was trying to do with a new classification would replace the classification each agency was using* This wasp of courses the ultimatu aims but it would not be realized even partially until the Air Force adopted the Intelligence Subject Code Each representative took a cosmic view of the fields746.1.eh were of primary interest to Mo the. -whole structure of intelligence would be deviations with its own scheme* agency and argued that imperil,Ted by any chit So th jr --eset about continuing with its oun classification* ?= 5 c The first edition of the re-44etftegee-th____e_ was dated 15 March 1948* he Preface indicated that the edition was provisional and that the subject headings were intentionally kept rather general so that expansions and revisions could be vide as experience required* There was no ..index to this first edition. A b-1..eevei=orr-"Vh0t5 'Who? class wil;.;wih was,in the 0,11"4:4 original outline was deliberately omitted because -,e--g-lhe-,ioo-raohin Intelligence Register as already indix-ing biographic informatio- The main classes and the number of notations (codes) were: 000 International Situation (32) 100 National Affairs (120) 12/ Memos Cs Central Index to AC/ Reference Center SP t Approved Forske1ei*32410/4MMIceligeRITAKOD95,4,M9 File: Machine Divieion 1947-5 Jcib: -613-5h4141-51'le4* W ma5tell- Copy of 13Cs.March 1946, U. File: Intenorn,7 Zerver,4,1 'proved For Release 200109/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 200 :Army (139) 300 Navy (181) 400 Air Force (83) 500 Weaoons a nd Scientific Warfare (44) 600 Science and Technology (82) 700 Geography and Economics (232) 800 Social and Cultural Forces (67) Total notations: 980 Each of the eight categories was broken doun t% provide, as nearly as possible, for the needs of the agency chiefly concerned.---' the A-6., Navy and Air sections folla447g closely the patterns developed by the three services for their own use. The other sections had been worked over in detail with the ORE units chiefly concerned. Chapters 100 through 800 retained their overl, subject outline until the complete revision of the ISO in November 1960. Further chapter subdivisions appeared throughout 1948, but it was not until November 1948 that the 600 and 700 sections were expanded to the full six-digit capacity llotted on the IBR .N card'. A relative'-index (alphabetical) Wageprinted at the same time,. 25X1A9a who had reported for duty in the Library on 9 February 1948, took over from mid-1948 as Chief tt-r, of the Analysis Section (formerly the Classification Unit). (She remained head of the input or classification effort fo the intello- 25X1A9a SECRET beeCiOrbfW0/ Ahlk6A4latga`60BUOV0600?C-9r, ApprciettgcliEgrige ease . 41-v- Thi- %Wm w elnrt,Y"toaz. 100 25X,14 proved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 for almost 20 years until the demise of the system at the end of 19670 During the first 5 years she worked closely with analysts of ORE (became the Office of Research and Reports RRin November 1950) and the uffice of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) in the continuous revision process, to ensure more effective organization of the information in documents. These research analysts pointed out deficiencies in certain subject fields and suggested appropriate changes. Host suggestions benefited and improved the ISO; others reflected only parochial needs of insistent and narrae-in-outlook requesters who raised their subject specialty out of all proportion to the entire scheme of Imowledge. The latter type of requester 'made one section of the ISO look ridiculous' hich was later used as en example of wh.t not to do when constructing a classification scheme: the subject code for Plant Patholo- gY (632.4) was subdivided into 68 different codes for wheat, rye, barley, oats, and miscellaneous crop diseases, with the name in English followed by the scientific term in Latin. The 1949 ISO resembled the original 1948 edition only in the eight major chapter headings. ,Within each chapter much restructuring took place. A new heading for Communismwas added, and this 114 section becare the most nidely used arid remembered throughout the book. Geography was moved from the 700 to the 6C0 chapter. In 19500 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-ROP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 after the Library decided to catalog books according to the ISC, a 900 chapter (Organization of Information) was added. The history of the ISC was a history of change ant4...? and. were:iduced to hoped-for improvement. 980 codes grew tm 15,000 Itr1959-t,t ,000 in 1960. A review of the master copies of the ISC during these 20 years: reveals rm*rpages of revisions. New tions were pub- ** lished in 1954, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1964, and 1.6141, 19$70 Changes in subject codes necessitated the ;reparation Of IlereT cards. The printed information was transferred from the old card to the new card by reans of a heat process, whereas the punched data were cOnvertedbymadhine u-Aftatice-to the new codes. This vas a tint-consuming process and caused machine backlogs. . 25X1X8 All Classification schemes have linitations, and the ISC was no exception, particu1ar3y. since coda expansion was tied into the allotted spaces on the IBM card. By 1950 it had become evident that certain aspects of information could be uniformly applied to almost all commodity and equipment subject codes in the 700 chapter. The Library and ED personnel developed a list of one-to-- two-digit "action" or prefix modifier codes for such refinemeiits of the subject-, -?as production data, imports-exports, repair, procurement op codes-2 4: * See abter on-,the Library **For discussion of the con lete revision of the ISC in 1960, see page CI Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RbP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 25X1X8 Approved )91113 oickkii.A449.9? WC OP UP caqa sheet by placing a slash between the modifier and the subject 25X1 A9a code. For example, the production of coal was wriitQn,as 73501, 271 extra punch (cailoti an toverpunci*) slash appeared on the IBM card (4.sit;jdt field)? This importan.t change in the coding process eventually extended to other chapters of the ISC0 Prefix modifiers were applied to the military chapters in 1.954 for such aspects as security, vulnerability, sabotage, order of battle, specifications, anc descriptions of military equipment. Other devices to show as an- above r ciblumns 31-6 41* doding specifications were inaugurated as the need arose. 211 (2)) Area Classif.ication 141-2I-5-In their 1947 plans for the developrent of a classification scheme, chose the the best and most Mar) Service (ANS) Library Area Classification as adaptable system for coding geographic areas ? According to this system, the world was divided into 26 main divisions, A through Z. each gpiskareitilirtia avision was fke. subdivided, moving from right to left with a numeric designation? For example: 11 Europe, OA Scandinavia -1111 Denmark 21M Finland 31M Norway 141M Northern Sweden 43,,m Sweden Soytherlaweden The professional personnel who provided input to the Intellofax System were called by various titles: classifiers, indexers, coders (the most common, but the least professional), and finally Library or document analysts? In this discussion, they will be referred to as classifiers. it* See early editions o r the ISO V/Analysis Branch Archival Folder-Area. Codes 121 Intellofax Historical Files in ISCT Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 9 AMS did not maintain its area classification on an-to- date basis; therefore, the Analysis Branch was constantly expanding thtcode and updating it to specific Intellofax needs) as in the_ca.se of developing and emerging nation's. Rilated Areas TWO years of experience pointed up the inability of being able to show any area relationships. This came to a head with the 1950 Korean War, when it became necessary to be able to show- on combination of Corenunist China, USSR, North Korea, South Koreas or the United States. The entire punching area of the IBM card(other than the subject fields -which always remained the first six:fields) vas revamped, eliminating certain codes that did not seem necessary, such as day of information, and adding two two-digit abbreviated area codes to be used as related or secondary areas in cblumns 15-22. WArea File Theadvent of the Korean 'War o brought out the need for a separate e arramed by area. Requests coming in for everything on Korea ould no be answered quickly because the primary file arrangem t , the Intellofax cards vas by subject code. Beginning SepteMber 1950, ND started an adjunct Area File by epa g one extra card for eadh main area. (There s no card lied by related area.) No subject code va punched into thi card. The Area File continued to serve effe ively in retrieving al information on smaller NitektveckEtor ReietstGit Procedure Manuarin ocyliikaD1884eCi0951R0003-001?00001:9 Approved or Release 20G0/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 areas, such as ()blasts of the USSR and, the provinces of - China. Becav, the Area File grew so apidly andwas con- sequently usele a for large areas its set-up without subject co6e punc es, the Lib ry s Analysis and Reference * (Ff4P BrancheWin11.9 eo e an reement, concurred in by ED, that area cards would ot be prepared forWestern Eur 16 countries USSR, co, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1955 other imp ant change was made in the Area File0 The classifie underlined one subject/area combination considered uot representative the whole document. The entire six-dig subject code vas punche into the area card, but hin a given area the card was ed only by the Eirst e digits of the ISC kek., fi ,-eAe"'ta. oiloa4 ,,(444_, ?24-4-( * From the very inception of the Intellofax System, retrieval responsibility was placed with the reference libraria, because Intellofax queries were considered no different from other reference questionit,See,Fhapter. ocument Division: --.. or transfer of responsibilitylevember 1 o 0, Area UndeTaining, 23 Feb 1954. (in opecit I5, above) / Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-R P 951 00 .t.Liv-vrei Other bodes Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Aptp'-flo Miscellaneous Codes (a? Security Classification With the completion of the ISC('although there mouldAbontinual revision) and the adoption of the ANS Area Classification, thought was also given to other necessary codes to be punched into the IMA card for complete retrieval. Dr. Andrews issued a memorandum on 3 January 1949 establishing -..r/inifonftf,cod to be used in all OCD kz c9ding operations. The Intellofax System Procedure ? . e917/ ' dhow the security classifications with various controls that evolved as more and more non-CIA requesters tsed the System. These codes enabled if necessary, ND to eliminate,certain document citations with controls such A as Controlled Dissemination, Warning Notice-Sensitive Sources, No Dissemination ;Aloroad)and No Foreign Dissemination. _ it,p?w; q (14 Source Locato0 (Eor:,Souree Card File, see page 4 ) In June 1948 the Library issued Library. Bulletin No. 142ntitled"The Locator Systemo" 'it explained that the intelligence document files in the Library had been set up amcording to codes Sap sourcer, Arbitrary tmte designations were established to differentiate between r ports attache-t3rpeA so-called "A" type ? and finiShed intelligence reports ,so-called "S" type o These'sonrce codes were also used on the Intallefirz punch ga,r51. For exmtple. 05A7552 refe7re.d to an Army Attache' reperrt from Manila* 11!.-...4plaa:4-?Y:jit,:fr., (see Figure ? , e ,J1 Fr-' ? ?? ? ? --? ? , a/Procedure Manuals (op. cl,:fr? 2.5, above) ecj* 03.7xsis Bram*, Archival Folder-Source Locator a in Intellofax Historical xelease 2000/09103 : CIA-ROP84-009501000204400001-9 e"? Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 By 1 Jure 1949 it was necessary to Issue a second bulletin because of numerous changes in organizational divisions of government agencies. By February 1950 the ctr4itrz,17 "A" and "S'l type designations were no longer punched into the Intellofax card* The six-digit source locators remained basically unchanged until NAY' 1954, when specific city or post locators for Amy, Navy:end Air attache,reporta were po longer considered necessary for retrieval. By January 1956 only the two-digit source locator was used for everything except CIA, foreign government reportd_, and Top Secret documents. The coding schemes described in the prebious pages provided selectivity in retrieval. Requesters were always urged to be as specific as possible on subject requests and not to ask for too general a subject, such as Politics (the entire 100 chapterof the ISO-France,The only reason for a six-digit ISC was to pinpoint specific subjects, if possible. Provincial breakdowns of the USSR and China helped area specialists. Requesters were also re4nded that the date of publication was punched in the IBM card. Wkr ask for all years when only 1950 was needed? Security classification and source specificity were part of the retrieval picture, although not requested as often as subject, area and date limitqlAnns. The folloulng is a typical request using all the code parameters: 25X6 * Source loc 2U'J.L9 2 06-De1ense in general; 07-14 Other government agencies; 15-Executi1Te, Legislative and Judicial Branches; 16-NolOo7ernment; 17-International Organizations; 18-Foreign Governments _// CLPSg1442tILAx-"Zf-TM- Approli 111 - - a 25X1X8 2- Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 of severe 1952 manpower cuts and because thefl Registers picked up the personality and indusI plant informatiom found in the Daily Reports. OpeCebruary the Library discontinued the coding of all radio broadcast information Although the IBM card were retired to the Records Center, the Library retairmd a master printed form tf all the coding effor? /he,iSsue of the desirability of reestablishing a , / mac1th6 index to the FBIS Daily- Reports was raised periodicarly. (2) Early Intelloft= Cover With the publication of the ISO in March 1948 it was possible to start indming in earnest., The fat efforts were confined to 00-B re orts suedplff the Office of Operations. (00) Conte One Trnsmittal Sheet was prepared for each document: It contained a bibliographic statement (source, -document number, country, date of publication, date of information, title, and security classificaticn); an abstract of the contents, and pertinent codes. Until the Central indax had typing personnel and reproducing equipment to type and re- produce abstracts on the tabulating cards, oaly the punched data appeared on the IBM cards; the Transmittal Sheets were Mod iji,.the 14ibrar7 by som.ceo IC- See IOF nensultants Report of 1957 in 111:xE------3---'L.,,?,{ibrarY) . and the 11111Berner Project of 1958 in hilldnthe&mimant Divisio EyOperating Memo-Central Index, 12 /14y. 1948, sub: Index 'Cards for 00/B.' Report Interim Procedure for processing of. U. (in Machine Division 1947 04427t1) Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 tr- Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Flans 1,000 for the receipt of decumsnts a day. Experience already showed that a classifier coil -1 abstract only 25X1 A9a Zif 30 documents a day. Mr, noted that a Tb O of 20 professionals in the Analysis Sectioa mould not provide adequate manpower to abstract every document, In NoveMber 1948 the current intake was between 400 and 500 items a day, The 1948 backlog of apprmdmately 12,000 SO (predecessor of CS documents from the Clandestine Services) and 3,000 other CIA. reports was decreasing by 150 iters.per day? Of the backlog of non-CIA reports it was 'estimated that five percent of the 1549000 items would not warrant indexing because of content. The unclaseified and restricted documents for 1948 were indexed by Special Projects # 1 ("the pool"), Documents issued in 1946 and 1947 were ? processed but only those of priority areaa of interest. 14/.0 Becker stated that it appeared possible that "me can set a 1 January 1949 target for providing daily tab-fax service," And this did occur. EZ/Memo, Chief, Library to AD/CD, 10 Nov 489 sub: Classifica- tion and Indexing of CIA Library Documents, Status of. C. Approved For ReleasSildloliaRT31.9e1A4k1:44'.041R000300100001-9 d For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Heayy backlogs frequently fequired stringent measures that affected coverage For 4 months in 1949 unclassified State Department despatobee were nab indexed. This was briefly expanded to include any document from Greece, Turnor African and Latin American posts. No effort was rade later 'to fill this void. Document eoverege rose from 44681 docuzents in 1948 to 227,206 in 2950 or a total of 414,329 doceeents indexed 12 into the IntellofaxSysteatthelirst 3 yerg.T.hsre are no A comparable figuree aye-Ilene on the number of Intellofax requests received in this sails ieetiod. From 1951 through, 195,3 -, requests . i_ Jgoreraged 3111 raonth3,7 in 1 207./vokeghishe*ere,frora outside CTIF?Aechart-prepareVor he Ckrk tcemnittOre tiegett-the anretal the Irxtellofax System (ggur- a 3 ) By 1953 increased emphasis vas given to indexing all , available raterial on China by three projects in conjunction rith the Foreign Document Division (FDD): (a) the Chinese Periodir cal Index; (b) Chinese Annotated Bibliography; and (c) the Chinese EceonomIc Statistical Charts (CESCX. The CESC project of 3:957 items ras completed by-a classifiersof Chinese extraction in the Analysis Branch by March 1954. 1947-52 :,4y:ZO Statistical reboits ' on Reel No. 1 (in V 1.9/00D Statistical Reportm 1953-54 aa Reel SECRET ????????????. 7npd.7411 downgroding and /Jac/osscation Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 (3-1 Approved Aiede Early in the indexing process it became apparent that certain documents dealt with informatior of little or no intelligence value for retrieval purposes? Neerei The term "LN-arnar-* was coirad to represent those documents 14144-04.. ... would not be indexed into the Intellofax System. Originally these lere documents of a purely administrative nature. As the System grew: hogever: more subjective judgment as to the value of certain information for Intellorax retrieval purposes was exercisediand .the list of TIODEX items grew and changed. In some cases: it was subject information w as - - rejected.. in other cases it was an entire series:0 Thr- . The whole question of what should be nodexed was -v-Z.:117.. much debated throughout the entire Intello.fax history-. No two researchers agreed hand much criticism as levied on the System because of certain N / decisions 1;t4. A.,41 4 The selection out criteria thd ofax---5y' sbent fell mon the classifierotar-l-ee--- a eirumexxt en'J. 0.,duace ghe Incoming and Dispatch Unit of t he Library seeFt. recognized certain series, such as Army Who's Who ileports. These were LU eh-Envelope. batched separately and did not even come to the. fl.14402Pok 14kx-in--TT-T-75-W W-11 SECRET GROUP I Excluded from automatic downgrading and declastlficotton , f A ? 1 r)L6 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 The ear3zr 1950 19/ series as: Standards indiuded such topics or ao Purely a.tirriinistrative matters be Consular or comrsrc-lal functions (replies to complaints of Americans about lack of service) o. Notification of change in security classification do Agendas of various international committees e. Order of battle (considered a military responsibili-b 10 Transmittals of enclosures not attached and. not described adequately. enough for indexing go Industrial Cd File (OF) reports givi'ng prirorny plant data (and, therefore, an Industrial Itegister responsibility) ho Who's Who reports io Joint Wee kas (considered, cables) Out of 17,367 documents processed in January 1951, 1,125 or six percent of the total were nodextdo A printed list entitled 914' Stan/lards from Start of the Intellofax System to July 1966" is indicative of the colorful 22/ history of the NOM program* Translations and FDD products were particu3.ar- targets for chaneng criteria as tl's following dates sIxw from the Intellofax Chronology': August 3.954 Nodex FDD Smnmaries and Reference Ail October 1960 Nodex unclassified translations July 1963 Nodex all translations Sept 1963 Exception made on translations from about Comminist Ch1z2a Feb 1964 Nodex aU translations from newspape magazines, and books Index all others March 1965 Ind eat FDD Summaries The mAcrofilming of 1045t6 drEoussa7a6fig 'wttliTthe microfilm criteria on page , 22/Procedure Manuals (15, above) 33jPracedure Ilanuals C15, abov0 Approved For R ee208111291013mEllOgRafte4a0951R000300100001-9 Approved For Rea:ie.-406)6d: Cl2RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A 6g, ios- 55-Toni Approved For Release 2000/09103 :_Cl A - -4.-00951R000300100001-9 (f / Appr9efF?4ease 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R00030,0100001-9 36,f7,/ Vep, /G15' Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 L 444?e t*::siorsEliFor Release 00/09/03 : CIA-RDP -00951R?200100001-9 //,-/ akt ot -e4 /9, /at [5, cf-/3 c 3 3 / ) 9f 7 LC; 73 Y- 01, pc-05k r (d ) Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 rpMICed For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 1 byA Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Appendix C Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-0095131040300100001-9 Intllofax Statistic al ? Surra,g* Costa luiPersonnal Fiscal Year TA1 .L.LE1-22ft, 1963 120.5 $1;014,303 1964 111.4 1,1070314 1965 107.6 1,0870230 1966 98.9 972,719 tenofa_i_xn-outd..._ (Docum2nts) Fiscal Year Nodexed 1963 -1-970705 196h 138,862 1965 133,319 1966 120,112 1967222 116,282 intenofaxouests ...._____-... Fiscal ear CIA 1963 1,77 935 1964 1,494 877 2,171 1965 1,237 994 2,231 1966 1,356 1,099 2,455 Indexed Total 10,316 309,021 113,988 2{)1850 170,256 3030575 1700704 2902816 175,028 2912310 Non-CTA Total Year Intellefax Output Fiscal References Furbished Documents Furnished 1963 ?127-4-87- 1964 3262911 127,234 1965 310,017 1240389 1966 394,626 101,644 3 Ppprpcyne..50t90819eMe09149%(%SlfkApriA411999K1392ANOMM 23/ 12 Se pt 66 3. File: CRS Historical Files K-109h TAM nr7-4 104'7_ 4n Tn-1-4-,A11ocrn,r T-T4o-knlAnnl W41n, 4, Tqr. 4. Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Intellofax Statistics (q)ntinued) . 22,2 Intellofax Files (IBM Cards) "B" File (1948-Nov 60) 7,551,000 (exclusive of separate area file) "A" File (Nov 1960-67) . )4950,000 Documnt Images Aperture Cards 3,778.06 Hard. Copy floolaments 2,920,021 Microfilm Reels 12,556 515avoo Source Card File (Cards) 127/ (sPP0) 40/ CR3 EDP Support Division, May 73 4 CRS Document and Pictorial Services Division, My 1973 ed.1-111-6r Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R0003001?00001-9 Ilnellorax Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 APPENDIX C * 123/ Intellofax Statistical Summary Cost and Personnel Fiscal Year Tb O Budget 1963 120.5 $1,074,303 1964 111.4 1,107,314 1965 107.6 1,087,230 1966 98.9 972,719 Intellofax Input (Documents) Nodexed. Indexed Total 1949 105,910 1950 227,106 1951 220,352 1952 220,200 1953 227,292 1954 207,228 1955 182,916 1956 235,608 1957 261,300 1958 207,341 1959 193,951 1960 259,100 1961 298,900 1962 288,000 1963 158,205 150,816 309,021 1964 138,862 143,988 282,850 1965 133,319 170,256 303,575 1966 120,112 170,704 290,816 1967 116,282 175,028 291,310 Intellofax Requests CIA Non-CIA Total 1959 1,386 684 2,070 1960 1,900 1961 2,250 1962 2,300 1963 1,519 935 2,454 1964 1,494 877 2,371 1965 1,237 994 2,231 1966 1,356455 ;-,099 2, * Statistics are not available in all categories or each of the 20 years Of Intellofax. Methods of reporting statistical data were not always the same and therefore there is some variance in figures. 123/ Intelligence Material Received, Processed, and Disseminated in OCD/ OCR) 1949-57. S. File: OCR Yearly Statistical Tables 1947-57 Job: 59-875/1; OCR Annual Reports 1958-65. S. Job: 68-487/4; OCR Non-Codeword Storage and Services Program. The IntaLlofax System. 22 Sept 66. S. File: CRS Historical Files K-109h; OCR 1967 Surveys in Intellofax Historical Files in ISG Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09fkerltRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem SECRET Approved For Release 2000/0V/6Vie1RAI5P84-00951R000300100001-9 GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Approved For Release 2 /09/0 -RDP -00951R000300100001-9 25X1A Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 0100001-9 0100001-9 25X1 proved For Release 2000119103 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 i...-.1 1 1 1 . . ss III II 1111 Approved For Release 2010/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 ' 25X1 X8 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 Approved For Release 200 -RDP84-00951R000300400001 Approved For Release 22O06903 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A9a Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 i-n_cconmy_...was-te-pechtee--thrr"InnerIng-of tellaterat-thrruments- for intellofax by, abeut 21 percemts This-was- aecorrplishad inoreasing-4he-rrarber- of docuients to be nodexed. 25X1A9a Both in his 1966 study of OCR entitled techoosing the OCR File Sy-stem" and the 1967 user study group, appointed by Mr= to stuct- OCR's information retrieval services, opted- far-recommended shallow indexingif or most inf-tr ft:tient:lank- i21-.depth. indexing in the -case of selected categories, such tar critical areas-of-the twortd.---reva f-suctlearm-tu.altetag The User Study Group indicated that users requested in-depth indexing only for military-related subjects in critical areas of the world. The Intellofax System therefore,. in the ORS reorganization of September 1967, ove weir to a relative1,7 inexpensive computerp assisted irxdexing and retrieval system through which CRS could get minimal control over that portion of the document flew that had to be controlled at all. The ISC was replaced by a greatly modified 1 version of the CHIVE Subject Irxtelligence Code which had a combination of the SR coding schene and the ISO. After 20 yeqrs of operaticn the Intellofax System was still unique. It was the onr systaxn in- the intellirefice?MITtrifitty that wttich eneempaszed e2.3. -zmoveaztraw informa.ti_en, reports provided machine vsC5 retrieval to all information reports issued by nrnib?gencies -e-f--tilas. intelligence d'ern, It finally ogical d evelopments In the computer f1e1dteraret14,- 25X1X8 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 utagsta Olatod ON IJILDAS uo9ow9iI3opap puo 6u!poJeumop ;!4011.101110 WOJi poi:ming anotio ULOSSla 2.110,10.4 ON Approved For Release 2000/0916MASRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Conclusion NO one doubted that the Intellofax System WAS a high cost operation. Intellofax questions made up only 10-15 percent of the total number of reference questions put to OCR. During most of Intellofax history, an average of 30 people were directly associated with the necessary indecing operations. Another 50-60 operated the IBM equipment and conducted auxiliary operations, such as microfilming and DARE, exclusively in support of Intellofax. The depth of indexing issua'Sad been with lantellofax during its entire 20 year histoxf. Some analyst oeigiaaited,*t s AF from Erzeriogsge-- tbny-weicived4A Intellofaxl ethers tO 'the ethvwi slag they-teatrot5iVnon4pecialists witivedti-htk?statrblve bgitgtoun couId/not index sufXiciently in depth A(FE.Itzmwd41.43,_ - tWe-Fe7iWSTa -eaciugli:Aipeede4eiexause they Acked substantive backgroFid? As with most inde4ng ii/aallida operations there was the constant battle between too much vs:too little. :,?'urveys =4 user studio-a- dnring-i the- ok5 t49,4- Faced with T/0 and budget cuts. the Director of Central Reference during the 1965-67 years looked at the IntellofaxSysten.--as-with saa-etiter-OOR--syst-esse, .91th a critical Surveys-and-ezertudiera Should there be more in-depth indexing as CHIVE !es planning or should Mere be shallow 1. FN-Al indexing*Whichever way OCR went, the Intellofax System as it had been operating for 20 years was doomed. The-ittetrafftep---- IApproved For Release 20 0/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R0003001000011-9 a Approved For Release 2000/09/03: CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 wassia OpJog ON IgNOIS uoitow,nssol"P pup eulpoifiumep s!iowoino wOJ papnpx3 dI10110 manta ulaJog ON JLTIDIS A roved For Release 2000/09/03 : C E.. Approved For ReleasfAiRCIRIM3cnight-BRE84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A Cost a nd Personnel 4 Intellofax File"( separate "B" File (1948-Nov60) 7,551,000 (exciusive of 66t6( area file) "A" File (Nov 1960-J1967) 4;950,000 Document images Aperture Cards 3,778,962 Hard copy documents 2,920,021 Microfilm Reels 12,556 Source Card File 5,500,000 (app.) cards 'k-CRS EDP Support Divisons May 1973 ** CRS Document and Pictorial Services Division May 1973 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/02973a:u9A-FRD84-00951R000300100001-9 ,LANDIS tiownipsopap pup BuipoAumop 3!401/101f10 woJ pepllinta df102I0 tudsva op./0d oN Approved For Release 2000/09/0441AYDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03: CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Intellofax Input. V/ Fiscal Year Nodexed Inaered Total 1963 158,205 150,816 309,021 1964 138,662 143,988 288,850 1965 133,319 170,256 3033575 1966 120,112 170,704 290,816 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/0M3a:g),ARRF84-00951R000300100001-9 IDIS uownwssopap puo Butpo..18umop agowokno wog popning I eon mama otatod ON Approved For Release 2000/09/0bRf1AXtuP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 21000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Intellofax equests Fiscal Year CIA Non-CIA Total 1959 lour 6e4 2,070 1960 1,900 1961 2,250 1962 2,300 1963 1,519 935 2,454 1964 1,494 377 2,371 1965 1,237 914 2,231 1966 1,356 1,099 2245 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/AliRl1fDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem CENTRAL REFERENCE SERVICE Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2o6tWo3c: CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A Intellofax statistical suramsor Cost a rd Personnel intellofax Input (Documents) Fiscal Year 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1993 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1914C? 105,910 2e 1960 220,352 220,200 227,292 207,228 182.916 235,608 261,300 207,3/41 193,951 259,100 298,900 288,000 1965 1,237 994 2,231 1966 1,356 1,099 20455 Int lofax Output Fiscal Year References Fur4lahed Documents Furnished 1963 12i-04d2 1964 127323k 1965 310;t17_, 3214,389 1966 394,626 / 1046111. 25X 1 A9_1/ h AppramerthidetaelesakelgeOeWORGRdcGIANFOAK4Tfle9SIRCOM031600414 Sept 66 S. File: CRS Historical Files K.109h 124/ OCR Surveys, 1967. in Intellofax Historical Files in ISO Approved For Release 2000/0013d W84-00951R000300100001-9 JAIIDAS uoliotossopap puo 13u!pogiumop *!4ousoAno wog popnpa anoso ItIOSSUI ttfatOd ON Approved For Release 2000/0910VRI1AWDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 20 0/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001 (i4 A4'1 cAe, a.Act, - GQ:dest-it/ ZON'D mit dji74144f 44 /L'it/'? ,./040/4t,v Approved For Release 2010/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001 -9 -9 Intellofax.91 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Finale No one doubted that the Intellofax System was a high cost operation. intellofax questions made ui only 10-15 percent of the total nuMber of reference questions put to OCR. During most oigtellofax history, an average of 30 people were directly associated with the necessary indexing operation. Another 50-60 operated the IBM equipment an0 conducted auxiliary operations, such as microfilming and DARE, exclusively in support Intellofax. Faced with T/0 and budget cute on the one hand and the prospect ofdKpollsive CHIVE on the others the Utioestool-eilp%-aentrei RoferoneeCILduElke_1964-67 looked at the Intellofax SYstem with a critical eyei Should 'cllere be more in-depth indexing as CHIVE was planning or ahould there be shallow indexing as an economy measure? Whichever way OCR wents the Intellofax Systemlls it had been operating for 20 years was doomed. 25X1A9a Both appipipmmoin his 1966 study of OCR entitled la/ "Choosing the 11 system" and the 1967 User Study Group recomended Shallow inddxing for most information.!re User Studv Group indicated that users requested ift-depth indexing on for military- 122 related subjects in critical areas of the world. 25X1A9a *1===lans and Technology Officer, OCI, chaired a DWI Study %roup. xf Agency representatives established a user St uer Group/)to conduct a study. of OCR th' .,,,,,,.rieval services. 12 Dec 66, sub: services. the OCR File System. S. ft : older Job: 68-.l87/1 222/memo, D/CR to DWI, 14 Apr 67, sub: Re-examination of OCR's role. Attachment A. Summary of User :Requirements. S. File: Chrono 1967 Job: 69. 592/1 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/ORRk94-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem SECRET Approved For Release 2000/karrel TATP84-00951R000300100001-9 GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification inte11ofax-92 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 he Intellofax Syste therefore)in the CRS reoranization of September 1967) eve way to a relatively inexpensiv!icomputer- assisted indexing and retrieval system through which 0113 could et rinimel control ovIr that portion of the document flow that had to be controlled at all. The ISC was replaced by a greatly modified version of the CHIVE Subject Intelligence Cod!) which had been a combination of the ISO and the SR coding scheme. Gla"t in spite of the ma7 criticisms levied law it, ranging from too many references reritved to too few, the Intellofax System iwir.ateitehrel.was unique. It was the only in the intelligence community that provided machine retrieval all information reports issued by USIB member agencies* It finally bowed to the needs of the all-source world in an improved input and retrieval rapabilay of the computers Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09AVS4?TRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem SECRET Approved For Release 2000/64/6aRI5P84-00951R000300100001-9 GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification proved For Relea2MOR2609/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Impact of CHIVE on Document Division is Bra In October 1964 four A for .9=moutiev? detailed to CHIVE for t including the Branch chief oh nnalysto were .-eckt,L4A, indexing experiment", m Curtailment of OCR Activities for CHIVE" 2eme from Vance to DWI CONF /28 Sept 65 (in CHRONO 65 Box 71-21/1) CR 1...4 23 Opt 66 a. Recluse indexing of incoming collateral documents fees Intellofax by about 25%. This will be accp.slished by greater selectivity of specific items to be index6d. As we index about 60% of collateral items received now, we would be moof reducing this to about 45% ewer the coming years until we can hopefully develop a Keyword in Context (KWIC) index to pick up the slack. b. aeduce dissemination of incoming doements by (1) eliminating sone duplicate hard copy cissedination of special intelligence reports by specific series, (2) eliminating the dissemination of FBIS rejects to components of ORR and (3) seeYing toreduce lower priority dissemination requirements of the various components of the Agency. Continuing the program to transform OCR to an all.. in Septedbef 1966 seurxe service role, the Dim announced the creation of three new divisions to be reconstituted from the Mkehilso Divisions Special Registers Document Division and a portion of the CIA Library. 0/0040/%01(/ The dissemination 25X1 A9j0 or i VddJ constituted the Dissemination and Files ( 1) Division whereas the indexing functions joined the new Indexing and Services Division 25X1A9a Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2089R9h5E144.19T4-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem CONFIDENTIAL GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification _N_o Foreign Dissem Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03,: CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001 rfloommlwalii."006"."1111111.1111111111"0110011111111111111111100011411161110111.11.0"6101111?1011111011111.11111111011.1011 25X1A9a co/8 2:141 i'2A'&1kA9)Al kr") t Li 9 Lit -9 /, _21 ttt f)d i) /4',15 11 yoy, ,ii sLIL Yr& 25X1A9a Approved For Release 20 0/09/03: CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001 -9 Approved For Release 2010/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001 25X1 X8 Approved For Release 2010/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001 -9 -9 Approved For Release 2000/09?FROP84-00951R000300100001-9 Intellofpx Criticism The greptest number of Expressed criticisms of the OCR support Pctivities cnn be related more directly to collaterpl document retrie-al (Intellofpx) than to pny other single "subsystem" (Briggs paper to Acting AD/CR, dtd. Mpy 65 "Proposed OCR ?rganization Group PI in Chrono 1965 Box 71-21) A proposP1 to reorgpnizn so that special iy104i0g intelligence Group A nnd Group B indexing be remo-ee from SR end combined under one manngement with Intellofax (Document Division) indexing roe not considered fensible as e pre-CHIVE action. (see Briggs paper above) OJ) 14C41/44?-"A:17(11 25X1A9a , I MMilli?1 r .") try\ iv6,4, ,,, cc-- ."7 (lok,?i, 0,1 ? C./ cleA 0- SECRET GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Approved For ?Retease-2000/09t03- :-et-A-LRI:Walt=00951-R0003-00t00001 4- \Aka Release 2010/g1ira-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Intellofax is a high cost operation. Intellofax questions make up only 10-1_5% of the total number of questions put to the information section of the IT. Some 30 people are directly associated with the necessary coding operation. Another 50-60 people operate the IBM equipment and conduct auxiliary operations exclusively in support on Intellofax. While I. questions make up a small prcentage of total requests, these result in yurning up a large percentage of the total number of references given to usnrs. One-half the searchesmade yield in excess of 100 references which are relevant to the question posed. Some of the difficulties of the I. System are inherent in the scheme of things Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09WcRI-IRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem SECRET Approved For Release 2000/0?f050!*e&A12015P84-00951R000300100001-9 GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Approved For Release 20 0/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1X8 Approved For Re ase 2 '/09/03: -RDP 4-00951R (Y5 00j,00091 -9 (ACT n/WitY I?IpLeiti c4t7 46A --Aot Lte -11), ciqt ketukt cv5ivr 0/17 Warpe1a1 rAld. 71-1 M(:4 (et/4(611 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Page 83 1 APP62 RON CIA-RPP84-00951R000300100001-9 cept DARE) Along with the chapgesils, input and systems design in he Intellofax System in the 1960's came lismr-improvements in the equipment used in the various facets of the System. MD continued its efforts to find technological inno- vations that seemed to hold promise for a better system. Some proved successfulf whesSee others did not. 7 An IBM-type 108 card selector that operated at ism cards per minute and two IBM 088 collators that operated speedAp to lpoo cat A copies per minute were installed to replace slower machines. The card input portion of the Intellofax System was programmed in 1964 for ailIBM 1401 comput5anll this part of the operation was performed in itgir OC-s $ producing le a significant savings in manpower and faster input. (./f particular significance was the extent to which the computer was used to generate the contents of the files and "?fiAhle4itAtiviii) n /.4 Mao ?reeiLL V116 MD replaced the Intellofax Tape, which had been a folded tape since its inception in 19501 with a cut-sheet booklet. The requester's name and address appeared at the bo of each citation. This was to encourage the requester to submit the citation when requesting a copy of the document and thus simplify the library search, Tt also expedited the tape preparation because the number of processing steps was decreas Improving Document Retrieval System, Meeting 28 Mar 62 FOU0 File: Machine Division 1962-63 Jbb: 65-433/4 personnel came to the conclusion after much investigation that electro- static printing had progressed to the point where it could truly be OCR Annual Report Fr 1964 68-481/11 ''Approved For Release 2000109/03 : ciA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09/03?L%RP84-00951R000300100001-9, No Foreign Dissent SECRET Approved For Release 2000/09/03 IltfAr-ftrYne-n010951R000300100001-9 GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgroding and declassification Intellofax.80 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : gIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 1 July 1963 for the development of a pal:19 machine that mould enlarge the DARE image to approximately original document dimensions and provide a positive print by an electrostatic 2?" procesie In the meantime, MD's Photostat Expediter was adapted and deed until the Xerox machine mas available in November 1,64. MDIs Equipment Services Staff also developed a Viewer-Selector for magnifying and selecting DARE cards. Full realization of the potential of the DARE Systen regnired the resolution of other problems, some of which involved inter- Agency cooperation. Problem one was the development of "meaningful" Or-Lg(NA) control numbers for incoming documents.=g4/710-digit maaningfu2 nuMber with the Agency's establishment 11January 1963. Through the ma/ efforts of a spedial OCR study gruurrtMSTIA, reporting amponents ** began to assign a ne0.10-digit number eta July 1964. State remained the significant hol ,ias in the past (see-Tego- )fandAISS Deesamb-aiashmimm continued to assign numbers to incoming State (i0. reports. (State still does not compZy as of 1973.) Pieblem twq concerned 4Hf* the standardization of qualityand format of indemLng documents., alsolkele. The adequacy af the first page * See Intellefax Proceduge Manual 1964 for complete list of 10-digit control numbere.71:01rriteU?fax Procedure Manuals in IntellofaX ' -toriCil7Files ) effective date was set at 1 July 1964 in order to permit DD/P's , // (///'' large-scale maohine operation, Project 'WALNUT, to revise its programs to accomm th odate e new 10-digit control number. *** rilvaymyth: this niutleilz ? e sdb1::cti. COp3B-D-78, 61 's: CommonFormat for State Department Poreign-Arvice_Reporting and Problems. C. in COMB 1961 64441/1) Meme,ChairmanTARE-Conimittie to Wm, 19 June ?kt inbs_Scan Size on Ajerisc DARE Printer. C. (in DARE Folder. 68-487.3) 1. 014-.Amos Chairman DAR; Committee to CiDD,MD, and Library, 10 Oct 63, lu sub: Appointment of Study Groupe for DARE Project. 3. (In DARE add\ Felder 68-487/3) Approve 640 rifinigiveraftianitoOkkfiaiege OWITO80180000134,1417 ) Wimp...m(4 Chairman DARE Committee to 104 21 Jan , sub: Con/$01 Approved For Release 2000/09/RpafilppDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem CENTRAL REFERENCE SERVICE z GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic dowrgrading and SECRET - declassification Approved For Release ;000/et`9763riCIRIRVP84,00951R000300100001-9 inte11ora58 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 the film in aperture cards for a total aperture card files and CIA would return an aperture card to the participating agency where required. CIA's services of common service were outlined as: (1) eentral IAC source files (2) *antral IAC control nuriber files (3) neutral IAC aperture card files (4) Intellefax subjeet card files (5) Intellefax taped ter all agencies en requests and (6) print service from central aperture files en request. This plan also included a common numbering sywton, a prerequisite to any systematie cooperative IAC library By $eptember 1956 programs and a eommen document formal,. all the IAC agencies axeept for Stateswhieh to-ttkils68dpte has never agreed, adopted a common control number system4 In 0Cf this seven- * f_ digit control/ number served as a tiling devise for the aperture cards and for the source garde. The IAC also adopted a modified commenlintenigenee doeument format with ---------- uniform#7 on masthead; s ze of papersjaver-eoler. AHIP working groups devoted many hours to the agreementand final ) adoption the common numbering sywtem andd ferna* The aspecteotheofr l the 11.evision theot Planjoiieverstklever more than a dream. Th We 195,= the Air Faroe completed its revision of the had 400 chapter of the ISC)and it was Air Forge. The. Working Or Cede drafts centa adopted by lath CIA and the litted to,ciA tOubjeet ?Atteuto 4,4" detailed revisions anAleApansions of the entire ISC with emphasis en the military, scientifie, and meaningful * A 1 i control mpnber system replaced the sevem.digit number in 196 J-4-u-1477 111 9 AHIP?H-25, 19 June_56. C. .Lin AHIP 1955-56_5815) 4 56 HIP9M-28, 16 Aug . C. (in Am 1956 55- 58-98 5) Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09AWRIDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem CENTRAL REFERENCE SERVICE t21 GROUP 1 ExcludOd from automatic downiroding and ,SECRET declascation Approved For Release 2000AY9k193ei.gelikRbP84-00951R000300100001-9 Inte11efax-57 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1A9a Chairman i.) 4f/ AHI 4 in August 195Fia11dd to the attention of the committee oputy Assistant Clre t iocD,And members that the Clark Task Fere. en Intelligence Activities ef the Hoover Commission had recommended that "all departments within the Defense Establishment and the Department of State adopt the single index system based *lathe Intelligence Subject Code nem in use by the CIA and Air Force libraries." Soonthereafter A..2, 04, Navy's Off is of Naval Intelligence (MI), and NSA endorsed the ISC for adoption and use by the intelligence coonnutity. At the mama tine they established working Croups for the revision of pertinent sections of the ISC, State Department's answer was typicalt " Theoretically, a uniform classifieation cede for inbelligence documents is highly desirable*, but the Department cannot substitute its own classifieatien.eede which encompassed mere than subjects of intelligence 4.?.?/ _ 25X1A9a _, interest.* ? liM Utopian In the meantime, pr'posed a4plan for an integrated documentation system prior *Am the implementation er if accepted. Each agency would index its own documents according to the ISO, CIA would prepare the ppnehed ISM ear& for the eantral Intellofax file and would return Bourse cards to the originating agency. Each sgenoy would film its own documents, CIA would mount 65/ /AHIP64.7, 1 August 55.C. (in AHT2 1955-56 58-98/5) 66/ g AHIP-A-9, IS August 55. C. (in, klin, 1955-56 58-98/5) Moreau to MeMbers of AH/P, 26 Sept 55 (Folder AHIP 1955-56 0-98/5) Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09g(ffiffAiRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem 4. I SECRET CENTRAL REFERENCE SERVICE 1 GROUP I Excluded from automatic ddwrigroding and declassification Approved For Release 2000/69/63r!iC9RiRtYP84-00951 R000300100001-9 Intellorax-56 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 In April 1956 Ihe-Aechiam-Dilrbrievins given permission through .) en 'a reimbursable basis inter-Agency agreement to furnish NSA/Ath a film caw of all material received and microfilmed by OCR, with the exception of Internal Use Only. IBM punched cards were also furnished for control purposes so that NSA could prepare its own aperture cards. This agreement, which-is still in effeot in 1973, has saved,Onlication on NSA's part in the Photographing of deptimenber- - Toward the end of 1959, OCR began to receive from the Arils, iCtifilm copies of single-copy documents with enclosures, to test the feasibility of interfiling this material with OCR's aperture cards, thus avoiding Ake duplioatot filming in both. Agencies. ND's experiment with this system proved successful?and all Army Actifilm was accented for input to latellofax. Cooperation with the Air Force in the use of the ISC included CIA's willihgness to provide a training program!** Air Force personnel in the nee of the classification scheme. Thus in J1117 1954 the firsk Air Force analysts participated in .7th4 the Analysis Branch's training program?o program Tokio& grew and continued until the Air Force was able to index and retrieve information from its MINICAR]) operation. During the late 1950's more thani0 Air Force indexers and disseminators were trained. As the ISO became more widely known and accepted throughout the communtkr (after all, ISO subject and area cedes were appearing en many printed documents) and as the word spread about CIA's formal training program, analysts from other defense agencies were also enrolled in the class, whieh usually lasted 344 weeks for complete [Odoctrination in the ISC and the Whole Intollofox System'. This exposure to CIA's Intone= System and the Defense agencies' informal acceptance of the ISO as the best available Classification soheme resulted in urgent requests for copies of the [SC. The first *Medal printed version for outside censumption appeared in 1994. mos ? vu 0 so? ra one s 08 en ored to ^ Outside Government Agencies. 14 (in Policy 56 & 57 60-139/1 Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000/09ifil.tRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem CENTRAL REFERENCE SERVICE sLI./(4 ? / t% GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and SECR ET declassification Approved For Release 2000/0Cirrelk-iktYP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Release 2000o09opckkIRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 gs The Intelligence Publications IndeuOlgelk Equel'ly as important as the Intellofax System in the history xp-r. of OCR's document and indexing schemes was the Tilt eine e?P ttlyi it- at t ons- 01011111r. Because the IPI was actually a corollary to the Intellofax System, its history is dealt with inArrirgetivrt--4. Although thethe Intellofax System included finished intelligence /1 documents since early 1949 with a special "fin Intell" punch %A added to the DNA card, OCI made a strongstrong plea in 1951 for ak "/printed index of finished intelligence studier5 89lrequest was all-encompassing and included intelligence studies and featured articles in intelligence ; A periodicals, up through Top Secret, published byvIAC)agenciesw certain subordinate commands Library personnel made trips in November 19 to the 25X1A9 aNew York Times and to H.W. Wilson Co. to review their"Idexing procedures. 41111111111111111was ultimately recruited from Catholic Dniversitylwhere she had been involved in the preparation of a Readdrsi Guide typeJindex. One of her first tasks as chief of the A Editorial section of the Book Branch of the Library was to prepare a prospectus to the Index to Intellgnce Periodicals.. Issued in October 1952,it listed as purpose: A To establish a current, continuing, cumulative, sybject Index to articles and studies contained in a selected list of the more important intelligence periodicals heretofore not covered by cumulative indexing. Frequency was to be monthly ag-eysfigkWm*Amialnual*p or annual*. 4 * A full set of the IPI is kept on file in the ORS Document Library. 5.2 Memos C$Analysis Branch to Chief, CIA Library, 17 Nov 51, sub t Trip to New York, Nov. 13-14, 1951. Us (in IPI Historical Folders in CRS His orical for Index-to lligenc Periodicals, (in Op. cit, 52 above) ---Approved-Fef-Release-2000109t037 ebttrItlaP84:00961-R000317CTI0IIIIITT-9- cE11952. Se GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification 25X1X7 INTELLOFAX-; page 1? ISC Approved For Release 2000/09?WEWIRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 25X1 X8 25X1A9 - in the Library 2 wpeAUrported for daly,lon 9 February 19482 took over fromrlv In mid-1948 as Chief of the cm *te Analysis Section (formerly Classification Unit), cH ori 1?. and Ifttorinuous revision process43mapicti:-.44te-4.4rs ,1 to ,pl-mmms-,,ensure more effective organization ate Information in 04 0 43 et4 0 41V tUD 0 (.Shememained head of the input or classification effort for the Intellofan. System almost 2) years until the demise of the O. 4 ;_-) ,thz-illtut e,,:,,A. 5 .4-ext,t4-4 system the end of 194k7. Peworked closely with analysts of 0 o ..,1 0 o 0 scheme of knowledge._ ? The latter type of 43 iX1 A9 a requester made one section of the ISC look ridiculous: the ,--) subject code for Plant Pathology (632.4) was subdivided into 68 different codes for wheat, rye2 barley, oat)amd miscellaneous documents. These research analysts pointed out deficiencies in certain subject fields and suggested appropriate changes. Most suggestions benefited and improved the ISO; others refOlicted only parochial needs of insistent and narrow-in-outlook requesters who raised their subject specialty out of all proportion to the entire crop diseases,with the names in Enzlish followed by the scientific term in Latin. The 1949 ISO resembled the original 1940 edition only in the trajor chapter headings. Within each chapter much restructuring book place. A new heading or Communismlaas added) and th-e114 section became the most widely used and remembered throughout the INTAllorevectigo Release 2000/09NeR9)RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 'Sc 25X1A9a 25X1A9a and scientific sections were woefully weak. It was decided 1 ticIr to prepare a list of subjects wis4oh would include those contained in the BID, the Navy Monograph Guide, the abridged Dewey Decimal system used by the State Department, and for scientific t e Jo subj.)cts$ the Voge Classification, prepared t_Research end Intellige c Board (JRBD). AtLuak no, VKTWIs to the parent organizations using these classific2WpAROemes. ' By August 19L( Classification Unit oftr--.11 peop14had completed a general framework of an2Wramluei-sre AR9561Acat1on schedulV with the assistance classification specialist from JUDI The major subject categories includedy'Army$ Navy, Air$ Political, Economic, Sociological, Scientific Geographic, and Biographic. On 22 August a familiarization meeting was held with duly appointed representatives of the three servies. The participating IAB agencies agreed to develop and/or revise their respective military categories in the BID. To those categories would be added the CUD contribution2consisting of the no,tailitary subjects. Beoause the Wax, Department was not inclined to change the nuMbering system of the BID ('digits), it was to be used as the nucleus of Vie new classification system.'0 25X1A9a 41,N)1 )0/104/0y ? E ic .of r ,.. ,.. un ? ttilafe 0-4- ,_4_,'f 4p 25X1A9a lik ,pcp tried unsicessf to re uiti. as ) 4E/Inte1ligence Document:Division (Library) Monthly Status RemtlUlg.28 Sept b7,fi n F. Docu!entDivisMnef ed tort'Se te1]eio for" a rmanent employee. OUP1 IgasAic 1947-48 /I' 516.9e/i) Approved Foi Re ease-2000/09t01-: etAFRIal,84=0095-1R0003'001-00001-9-- INTELIAparcleORpr Release 2000/09?kRtiRDP84-00951R000300100001-9 130 - boding Schemes CL?) The Intelligence Subject Code (ISC) In ccformity with APS wishes)st.epe were also- 5 t" S teisee-19y the Central Index to prepare a unified subject classification scheme. July 194T Although the eference Branch has taken the initial steps in the direction of establishing central indexing and filing procedures, any unified acceptance of the end product of these investigations wi depend upon joint action ,o_ , Cinte?1.1t-enee Advisory Board of IAB*Cnd CM-representatives and the agnciess final acceptance of the system decided upon.- 25X1A9a f----- On 14 J1127 19147 iilloMMA41.4 Ye ,.entered on duty as Chief of the Classification Unit of the Intelligence Documents Division towork,with the Central Index in developing a classification schedule for CIGA 25X1A9a It was soon evident that the liar Departmentls Basic Intelligence Directive_010 devised during World War II for collection purposes (4 although it had been used for classification of documents in the G-2 Library in Vienna immediately after the war was not adequate. The subjects listed in the BID were not sufficiently comprehensive to cover the wide range Of subjects in intelligence documents because it 25X1A9a had been devised for Army purposes ally. The economic, political) memo, 7 July 47 (2: abgEt RET rid R 1 Ex r dc dnnd dirday06 lion /;j89egMletaw _)Monthly Status Report 28*June-28 July 1947 (in CIA "qot - i/09t03-: elArltriP84=0095-1R000300100001-9------ Approved For Release 2000/09/03: CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9 1, learlY Developmental History 'Objectives c 25X1X8 25X1X8 In providing a central reference s ervice to OIA amd eue the intelligence community, the early managers of the Agency recog- nized the need to develop a machine capability for indexing and re- trieving; a staggering quantity of intelligence documents. The re- sulting Intellofax System was unique--no other government agency, no university or library) and no commercial firm had anything of its in 1949 type in operation. The name was coined,,by Dr. James M. Andrews, the first 4S8istant Director of OCD, to describe the system that combined IBM and facsimile reproduction techrities for intelligence documentation purposes. Later, Intellofax became a household word not only as an agtjective (the Intellofax System and the Intellofax filds) but also as a verb form (intellofaxed and intellofaxing for the indexing aspects). . The actual authority for establishing the Intellofax / /0 "'- system appeare REititruction entitled of the Reference Cepters!)de0a**gegtr-k*Sr c ar d the Central T and the Intelligence Documents Division (1) index, by business machine procedures, the subject natter of all available reports, and other documents of a foreign intelligence nature and 25X1X8 _ (2) classify and catalogue all intelligence documents of a foreign intelligence nat Approved For Release 2(6)8eq.b.ii.thRt84-00951R000300100001-9 No Foreign Dissem CONFIDENTIAL GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Approved For Release 2000/AC rs r:eior DfA-WbmP84-00951R000300100001-9 Approved For Re 951R000300100001-9 -3/ 25X1A9a /01 kct. ' ptA.vt4:4k /9v1,-- ytV?o re-25^-1 ZA...400-41 tA.41/ 6 141 ttY ey) (() 25X1A9a 6' C.6 (rA-c-"---,, 01(4- 7iv 646(5. 16.-t; )40.,0tAt (v.A Approved For Release 2000/09/03 : CIA-RDP84-00951R000300100001-9