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DIRECTOR  OF  CENTRAL  INTELLIGENCE  DIRECTIVE  NO.   1/41 
INTELLIGENCE  INFORMATION  HANDLING  COMMITTEE2 
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Pursuant  to  provisions  of  NSCID  No.  1,  and  to  facilitate  intelligence  informa- 
tion handling  within  the  community,  a  standing  committee  of  the  United  States 
Intelligence  Board  on  information  handling  is  hereby  established. 
The  United  States  Intelligence  Board's  Committee  on  Documentation 
(CODIB),  established  21  April  195S,  is  hereby  terminated. 
1.  Composition  and  Organization 
(a)  The  committee  will  be. known  as  the  Intelligence  Information  Handling 
Committee.  It  will  consist  of  a  chairman  designated  by  the  Director  of  Central 
Intelligence  in  consultation  with  USIB  and  of  designated  representatives  of  the 
departments  and  agencies  represented  on  the  USIB. 
(b)  The  committee  will  be  supported  by  subcommittees  as  approved  by 
USIB.  Membership  on  subcommittees  need  not  be  limited  to  member  agencies 
of  the  committee  but  may  be  extended  by  association  under  the  provisions  of 
NSCID  No.  1,  paragraph  2,  footnote. 
2.  Mission 
The  mission  of  the  committee,  under  the  general  guidance  of  the  DCI  and 
the  USIB,  is  to  promote  and  coordinate  within  the  intelligence  community  the 
accomplishment  of  USIB  objectives  for  information  handling  and  to  assist  the 
DCI  in  the  continuous  improvement  and  integration  of  the  USIB  member  agency 
intelligence  information  handling  systems. 
3.  Functions 
The  functions  of  the  committee  are: 
(a)  To  formulate  and  recommend  to  USIB  objectives,  policies,  plans  and 
programs  relating  to  the  establishment  of  a  USIB  community  information  han- 
dling system. 
(b)  To  monitor  and  coordinate  implementation  of  plans  and  programs  ap- 
proved by  USIB. 
1  Supersedes  DCID  No.  1/4.  effective  23  April  1963. 
*  Information  handling,  for  the  pnqiose  of  this  Directive,  includes  the  functions  of  receipt 
of  information  from  collection  sources,  dissemination,  transformation,  indexing  or  categoriza- 
tion, storage  retrieval  and  presentation. 
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(c)  To  assist  the  intelligence  community  in  the  introduction  of  improved 
methods  and  facilities  for  information  handling. 
(d)  To  develop  and  promulgate  within  the  intelligence  community  rules, 
procedures  and  formats  for  the  exchange  of  information  between  agencies. 
(e)  To  monitor  efforts  in  the  scientific,  academic  and  industrial  communi- 
ties in  information  science  in  order  to  ensure  that  optimum  use  of  this  research 
is  directed  to  the  intelligence  community  information  processing  problem. 
(f)  To  promote  the  establishment  of  education  and  training  programs  in 
information  science. 
(g)  To  identify  community  R&D  needs  and  to  promote  interagency  exchange 
of  information  and  cooperation  in  research  and  development  on  information 
processing,  particularly  in  those  areas  which  involve  the  intelligence  community 
as  a  whole. 
(h)  To  promote  and  coordinate  the  development  of  community  information 
handling  capabilities  which  will  provide  on  a  timely  basis  as  required  relevant 
multi-source  information  in  response  to  authorized  queries. 
(i)  To  provide  assistance  and  encourage  the  development  of  standardized 
procedures  for  information  handling  to  include  the  development  of  compatibility 
of  files  for  ADP  storage  and  retrieval  systems. 
(j)  To  promote  arrangements  between  agencies  designed  to  eliminate  un- 
warranted duplication  of  files  and  processing. 
(k)  To  ensure  that  the  security  aspects  of  new  information  handling  systems 
under  development  are  given  appropriate  consideration. 
(1)  To  assist  as  necessary  in  the  development  of  an  automated  information 
handling  system  for  the  National  Indications  Center. 
(m)  To  monitor  for  the  DCI  and  USIB  the  intelligence  information  handling 
requirements  of  Emergency  Wcr  Plans. 
(n)  To  formulate  and  recommend  policies  and  procedures  relating  to  the 
procurement,  indexing,  flow,  storage,  exchange,  and  release  of  intelligence  docu- 
ments. 
4.  The  committee  and  subcommittees  will  reach  decisions  by  agreement. 
When  a  chairman  determines  that  a  given  position  represents  the  consensus  of 
the  committee  or  subcommittee,  the  matter  will  be  considered  agreed  unless  a 
dissenting  member  requests  its  reference  to  a  higher  level.  In  such  an  instance, 
the  chairman  will  refer  the  matter,  with  the  dissenting  opinion  or  opinions,  to 
the  higher  level. 
5.  The  committee  shall  meet  upon  the  call  of  the  chairman  or  at  the  request 
of  any  of  its  members.  Items  may  be  placed  upon  the  agenda  of  the  committee 
by  the  Board,  by  the  chairman,  or  by  any  member  of  the  committee. 
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6.  The  committee  will  have  a  full-time  support  staff  to  be  provided  by  the 
Department  of  State,  the  Central  Intelligence  Agency,  the  Defense  Intelligence 
Agency  and  the  National  Security  Agency. 
7.  The  committee  shall  share  with  other  USIB  committees  responsibility  for  the 
coordination  of  areas  of  joint  or  overlapping  concern. 
RICHARD  HELMS 
Director  of  Central  Intelligence 
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