(U) MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: ZERO TOLERANCE FOR HARASSMENT AND DISCRIMINATION

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06865848
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• Document Creation Date: January 30, 2024
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2023
• Case Number: F-2018-00585
• Publication Date: June 6, 2017

Message from the Director: Zero Tolerance for Harassment and Discrimination
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(U) Message from the Director: Zero Tolerance
for Harassment and Discrimination
UNCLASSIFIED
Team,
(U) Each of us has a responsibility to promote a workplace free of harassment and discrimination one where all of our
officers are given the opportunity to reach their full potential, while advancing CIA's critical intelligence mission. We
must not deviate from this important mandate, and that is why we enforce a zero-tolerance policy on harassment and
discrimination at CIA.
(U) Harassment is not just unprofessional, painful, and wrong it is a form of discrimination prohibited by law when
based on membership in a protected category. This type of behavior has a negative impact on all of us. Victims of
harassment and discrimination are distracted from our Agency's crucial work, depriving CIA of the full benefit of our
officers' talents, knowledge, and experience.
(U) Gina, Brian, and I are personally committed to enforcing a zero-tolerance policy of harassment and discrimination
at CIA, and we expect the same from each of you. If you feel you are being harassed or discriminated against, you
should immediately report the behavior to any supervisor or manager, or to our Office of Equal Employment
Opportunity (OEE0), which works closely with CIA's Anti-harassment Program Manager to oversee internal
harassment inquiries, and implements the federal EEO complaint process. If you witness harassment or discrimination,
you must act by stopping the behavior or reporting it immediately to your supervisor or to OEEO. And you can do so
with complete confidence that the senior leadership team and I will protect you from acts of reprisal. We will hold all
managers accountable for living by and promoting our zero-tolerance policy.
(U) As we perfomi our critical work, we must always keep faith with our Agency's core values: service, integrity,
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excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Harassment and discrimination are incompatible with our Agency's
mission and simply have no place here at CIA.
UNCLASSIFIED
FILED UNDER: 2017, JUNE - 2017, OPA NOTICES
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