COMMENTS OR RECOMMENDATIONS ON 'THE PROCESSING OF OVERTLY COLLECTED S&T INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00509R000100060002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/05/14: CFA-RDP90-00509R000100'06'0002-9 `
l:Orltlf;NTS OR RECOwtiLNUATToNS ON
THE PROCESSING; OF oVF1tTI.Y 'COLLECTED
S&T INThLLICENCE INFORMATION"
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d4t.a base. Funding is provided beginning in FY85 to establish and operate this
expanded data base. This expansion includes the 'serU0 uz Oh of JFRS an' I,WC/FRD
products as well as those produced by any member of the IC, Also, the CTRS.i.mple-
mentation plan, through the use of DDN and COINS, will provide extensive terminal
decision to implement the Community Information Retrieval System (CTRS'). CTRL:
,scope has been expanded to support the entire IC needs for aTt open literature
Marty. of the recommendations relative to CIRC have already been fulfilled by the
The recommendation that ion establish a data base for trip reports
and contractor reports Ian improved retrieval of JPRS reports, appear
to he contradictory to ion to prevent proliferation of overlapping,
data bases. Also, these recommendations are inconsistent with the concept of CIRS.
The recommendation for an intensive examination of CIRC indexing is accepted in
part. The need to improve coding of surnwme, organization, location, and nomencla-