PLANNING COMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R002600120050-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: November 26, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

SECRET
Approved For Release,001/03/07 : CIA-RDP92B01090R002600120050-2
PLANNING STAFF/DCI ONLY
26 November 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to the Director
for Planning and Development
.SUBJECT
Planning Committee on Communications
I . Yesterday morning the Planning Committee on Communications
met, I am personally satisfied with the course of action outlined by the
Committee and trust you will be likewise,
2. In the course of the next two and a half weeks, the Committee
members will hold two sessions a week, the time to be devoted to receiving
25 1A briefings on the various as acts of the x communications systems
including a full briefing b on the existing capabilities
(which I gather are more extensive than many are aware of), current experi-
ments being conducted by DD/P on the use of telatape, diplomatic pouch,
internal dissemination procedures and practices, and new file reference
systems known to or sponsored by OCR.
3. This approach to the problems seems to me logical and very
desirable because theoretically it could turn out that we have ample or
developing elements of a more effective communications system, and, in
the process of this review, we will inevitably get better acquainted with
Office of the Director
Planning Staff
PS / DCI: JQR : cw
O-SA/PD/DCI
22-PS/DCI
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