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18 March 1955 

UNITED STATES COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

AGENDA FOR 

Twenty-seventh Meeting at 1330 on Friday, 25 March 1955, 

in Room 2E-687, National Defense Building, 

Washington, D. C. 

Captain Rufus 1. Taylor, USN, Chairman 

PART I - Agenda Items 

Date of Initial Subject 

Consideration Numbers 

25 March 1955 5.3/ 

25 March 1955 4.2/ 

23 Sept. 1954 9.3/ 

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Sub,ject 

l.. Approval of Final Minutes 

of the 24th and 25th 

Meetings. 

2. Consolidation of CIBD #7 

and CIBD #14. 

(USCIB 4.2/40; 4.2/41) 

3. USCIB Master Requirements 

List. (USCIB 9.3/30; 

9.3/32; 9.3/33) 

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Secretariat 

Exec. Secy. 

Exec, Secy. 

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PART II - Background Information on Agenda Items 

Item No. Subject and Summary 

1. Final Minutes of 24th and 25th Meetings. Comments and the 

tentative minutes of the 24th meeting have been received and 

distributed. Comments on the tentative minutes of the 25th 

meeting will be distributed. in advance of the meeting. 

2. Consolidation of CIBD #7 and CIBD #14. Background information 

is contained in USCIB 4.2/40. 

3. USCIB Master Requirements List. This item was scheduled for 

consideration at the 113th meeting of USCIB (11 March 1955), 

with USCIB 9.3/30 as a basis for discussion; however, time did 

not permit introduction of the subject. Had the item been 

considered, the USCIB Chairman would have proposed discussion 

of his views, which have since been distributed as USCIB 9 .3/32. 

The Secretariat has been informed that the NSA member of USCIBEC 

will present in time for consideration at the forthcoming 

meeting of USCIBEC a paper to assist in resolution of the problem of a mechanism for supplemental guidance. Meanwhile the 

Executive Secretary convened an informal ad hoc group with a 

view to developing a CCMINT .Requirements List in as short and 

succinct a form as possible. The results of that meeting are 

encouraging. However, it is not anticipated that such a list 

will be circulated in time for consideration prior to this 

regular meeting. Therefore, the Executive Secretary will report 

orally on this point and will, subject to the views expressed on 

his report, suggest a special meeting of USCIBEC during the week 

commencing 2S March 1955 to consider the results of efforts to 

construct a succinct, meaningful and useful COMINT Requirements 

List. The object of all this is to make as much practical 

progress as possible towards two goals, namely, (1) creation of 

a COMINT Requirements List which USCIBEC can agree will serve as 

an adequate basis upon which USCIB should ask the Director, 

National Security Agency to prepare an implementing plan; and, 

(2) creation of a. supplemental guidance mechanism which USCIBEC 

can recoJIDD.end to userB as a practical solution to that aspect of 

the problem. With these two objectives in view, it is hoped 

that USCIBEC can report to USCIB at its next meeting sufficient 

progress to warrant a conclusion that a solution to the problem 

is well ·in hand and needs only the additional time necessary to 

complete tedious details. 

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