NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES BOARD MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST MEETING

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• Publication Date: May 21, 1970
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21 May 1970
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES BOARD
Minutes of the Twenty-First Meeting at 1430, 18 May 1970
DCI Conference Room
Lt. General Robert E. Cushman, Jr., Deputy Director jf
Central Intelligence, presiding, and Mr. Ray S. Cline, Director
of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, and Mr. Robert
F. Froehlke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administrati-,n
and Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence;
were present. Others attending included Vice Admiral Harold G.
Bowen, USN, DASD(I), Mr. Robert D. Crane from State/INR, and
Mr. John A. Bross, Maj. Gen. Jack E. Thomas, USAF (Ret),
and from the DCI Staff. Vice Admiral Noe..
Gayler, Director, NSA, and I f NSA were
present for the second and third items; of thse
DCI Staff for the third item, and of the DC I
Staff for the last item.
Item 1 - Approval of Minutes
Purpose: Obtain Board approval of Minutes for Twentieth
Meeting, 27 March 1970.
Action: Minutes approved as circulated.
Discussion: Mr. Froehlke requested that Minutes be disserni_
nested as soon as possible after each meeting, because he would like
to circulate them to the Directors of DIA. and NSA. for commen?
Admiral Bowen asked that the agenda and necessary supporting pale
be distributed to Board members at least a week prior to a schedu:: =3
meeting. It was agreed an effort would be made to do this, alt-iough
in unusual circumstances it might not be possible.
ive Regis"
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D;.sc.us s ion: I Chairman, GIRLS Cor. ,milt
reported CIA inputs for CIRIS-70 are in, with State and Defens c: in > I
stiles come. and NRP data will be developed frorz the iv's
which are to reach DASD~I) within a week bo _'Y
able for CIRIS use before the end of May. NSA is_2?rpvidin go
support by making available machine tapes from which CIRIS data
can be ~eve"Ioped:~~-'
reported DASD(I) was preparing format guidance tc
enable intelligence program managers to begin work on CIRIS- R'1., S.
working group to plan the intermesh of community data for CIR S-7
is already functioning and it is hoped draft guidance will be corrplete
by 1 June and be issued in agreed form by mid-June. Admiral Gay, e
emphasized the need for planning a major software program.
Costs and technical security problems
a CIRIS'/CTIP computer terminal in. DA.SD(,I) offices were descr iced
by No final recommendations have been formulated _)ut
the least expensive setup would be a teletypewriter-type send-r(mcei'
terminal installation costing about or less if the equipment
can be obtained from already-purchased stock within DoD. Lint rent
would be less than per month. Upon completion of the wcri ing
group consideration of this problem, D/DCI/NIPE will prepare
written reply to Mr. Froehlke for General Cushman's signature
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Item 5 - Status Report on The ELINT Review
Purpose: To bring the Board up to date.
status report.
J iscussion: I Ireported that a co,,-no1et< 25X1
of sample inputs had been distributed to DOD, CIA and the: USII-
for validation or modification. Returns are e meet, d
in the near uturee Except for changes that might result i:rom a:;odi-
fied inputs the computer program is essentially ready. Imoort:Lnt
interactions between ELINT and COMINT is one case for which n- oci . i
cation of the computer program might be needed. It is estimat:.d tl.::
significant results will be available three to four weeks after as reel
inputs have been received. Results with respect to specific decision
issues could then quickly follow their identification during the r_,vieu
process.
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3. Reports on CIRIS
presented his reports, Admiral Gavler
declared that it was desirable to move as quickly as possible ~o
guidance regarding the format for CIRIS-71. General Cushman are
Mr. Froehlke concurred.
introduced a colleague,
who had STAT
assisted in the preparation of the reports. Regarding CT.RIS-?0,
reported that CIA's contribution had been received. He
that a small State contribution and the DOD contribution were -xpec ec?
soon. He said that the DOD contribution would he drawn from the P. which were due in Mr. Froehlke's office by the end o this week.
expressed the hope that the CIRIS data to be derived from POI s v
be compatible with other CIRIS information. He said that he hoped
receive the DOD CIRIS inputs from Mr. Froehlke's office some tin
during the last week in May. lso reported that NSA, sure n STAT
to the NIRB staff on the CIRIS exercise had been excellent. He ex- a, f d
to receive data on tapes from NSA and this data would be tran s,orrr 6
by hand in CIA into the CIRIS computer format. After this had
said that he hoped to be able to produce data wh ch
would be helpful to Adrnira] flowen for completing his f)Ch';) CI12? ; sl missions by 5 July.
Regarding CIRIS-71, oted that Admiral Bowen
preparing guidance on the format in order to permit the intelli,g~ nce
program s to begin work on next year's expanded repor- as
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as possible. Ile said t.lat he hoped Lo circulate th e clruii ',Uic.uic,.
CIRIS-71 by 1 June and issue it in agreed form by miu-Jane.
then gave a preliminary report'of a working level ,.
examination of Mr. 1'roehlke's proposal that he be able to draw e
Paid that the NIRB working group c