OCS CAREER SERVICE PANEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00803R000200080046-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: January 19, 1968
• Content Type: BRIEF

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OCS Career Service Panel - Developed following criteria
as guides to recruiting, after observation of on-the-job
experience and careful monitoring of personnel qualifications
standards in outside computer organizations:
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General rule, require applicants for programmer trainee positions
to have a college degree with C+ or better grade. ACS-had
l~emlleel-stteeess-w#-hfgh-wheel-g~~dttses In addition to
educ prerequisites, a high score required on the Programmer
Aptitude Test and an indication in the Professional Aptitude
Test Battery of high analytical and numerical ability.
Experienced applicants for more senior positions are evaluated
individually (primarily by interviews) to determine their
level of competence. There are no good tests or statistically
valid standards for estimating computer systems analyst
potential. Successful analysts and programmers have majored
in English, history, and zoology as well as math, computer
science and electrical engineering.
Because it was found difficult to compete with industry for k
the more experienced ADP personnel, recruitment emphasis was Z
shifted to the college graduate trainee candidates with the
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9 February 1968
NSAM No. 368 called upon the DCI to develop a phased plan
"for implementation of a community-wide information handling
system to insure the secure and efficient dissemination, processing,
storage, and retrieval of intelligence information."
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in information handling in the Intel Community, and a
draft DCI Directive was being considered one result of
which would be establishing of an Information Handling
Committee (or an Info Processing Committee), Mr. Briggs,.
opposed the idea of CIA, under pressure of a Presidential
Directive to the DCI, being forced prematurely into a
community network system development before the need for
such a community system had been seriously discussed in
USIB. He said that the blunt fact (hard to discuss in
USIB) was that experience and competence in information
storage and retrieval activities in the community was
best by far in CIA, which had done pioneer work beginning
with an EAM system in 1947). NSA's experience was in
machine application to data transmission and reduction;
DIA and the Services experience and competence was not
good and State's practically non-existent.
DCI Directive No. 1/4 (New Series) was promulgated
effective_4 April 19968 and announced the establishment of
an "Intel igence n ormation Handling Committee" under
USIB -- "To facilitate intelligence information handling
within the community, a standing committee of the United
States Intelligence Board on information handling is hereby
established.
".The United States Intelligence Board's Committee
on Documentation (CODIB) established 21 April 1958, is hereby
terminated."
Mission of the Committee:"Under the general guidance of the
DCI and the-USIB, to promote and coordinate within the
intelligence community the accomplishment of USIB objectives
for information handling and to assist the DCI in the con-
tinuous improvement and integration of USIB member agency
intelligence information handling systems."
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A small grp of sr personnel drawn from CIA, DIA & NSA and
wkg under the gen. supervisoon of the DOCI/NIPE has examined
the field of info handling within the IC for the purpose of
recommending to USIB a statement of community objectives for
info handling. Full attn was given by grp to past present
and proposed activities by each agency in this field, and
full consideration was given to the recommendations of the
PFIAB and the DCI which resulted in the Piesidential
Directive of September, 1967.
Need for greater integration of Intel comm info handling
systems recognized by members of I/C for some time and
arrangements for exchange of intel info between agencies/
have been made & within agencies
In June 1965 the President approved certain recommendations
of PFIAB which resulted in development by selected USIB
members under the tech guidance of NSA of the Community
On-line Intel System (COINS). A pilot experiment to determine
technology necessary to provide remote query of selected
computer files in several USIB agencies by authorized analysts
in any of the agencies.
An addtl recom of PFIAB which the Pres approved, established
a select panel (external) to make study of info handling
problem. Some of its recommendations were included in the
PFIAB's memo to Pres of 22 June 67 which was used in the
Presidential Directive of Sept 1967.
The DDCI/NIPE felt an effective community system could be
better built from the continuous improvement and increased
integration of the component agency systems.
DRAFT 118 Aug 67;(revised by 6 Sept 67)
"Memorandum for USIB, Subj: Intel Info Handling."S
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