THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF SAFE IN THE DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00060R000100280002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 3, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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OIT #0960-88
. 3 OCT 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Information Management Staff, DO
FROM:
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE:
Acting Director of Information Technology
The Future Direction of SAFE in the
Directorate of Operations
Memo to D/OIT from D/IMS, dtd 23 Sept, 88 Same Subject
1. As you might surmise, your expressed desire to remain with SAFE
Delivery 1 instead of transitioning to MDS-3 as planned was a surprise. Such
a redirection represents a substantial change from the implementation baseline
defined in our approved Tactical Plan.
2. Before we, as the jointly responsible offices, make that decision, we
need to understand fully its ramifications. I appreciate your budget
constraints. However, our quick review of your stay-with-Delivery-1
alternative indicates that there are major resource requirements associated
with it as well. These resource requirements derive principally from the
additional communications facilities that will be required, but there are
other costs as well, and schedule implications.
3. I believe the most straightforward way to approach this key decision
is to have technical teams from our respective offices fully define and then
cost the implications of staying with SAFE Delivery 1 for the time being,
while continuing to operate MDS-3 in some sort of truncated manner. We have,
in fact, identified most of the members of our team, about ten, and they are
available to begin work with yours on short notice. We believe that it will
take about four weeks to complete this effort. When completed, the team can
then brief us jointly, putting forth the necessary data for us to understand
the resource and schedule ramifications of the various alternatives.
4. We look forward to addressing this important issue with you. Please
let me know when you will be ready to start.
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SUBJECT: The Future Direction of SAFE in the Directorate of Operations
OIT/RPS
(30 Sep 88)
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
3 - ISC Registry
1 - C/RPS/OIT
2 - D/OIT
1 - C/ESG
CONFIDENTIAL
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/04/15: CIA-RDP91B00060R000100280002-3