NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR NO. 10

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• Publication Date: August 23, 1977
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Notes from the Director No. ,o
23 August 1977
REORGANIZATION
As I mentioned to the two groups I addressed in the auditorium on 8 and 9
August, I am very happy with the President's decision on reorganization of the
Intelligence Community. (The actual decision was published in Director's
Notes #9 of 5 August.) The principal points in the President's decision were:
(1), To create a high level committee chaired by the DCI to set
priorities for collecting and producing intelligence so as to
meet the needs of our consumers.
(2) To give the DCI full control of the budget for the National
Foreign Intelligence Program.
(3) To give the DCI full control of the operational tasking of all
intelligence collection by elements of the National Foreign
Intelligence Program.
These actions will strengthen the role of the DCI and with it the
importance of the CIA. They will not require any substantial changes within
the Agency. I have decided, however, to effect one reorganization within the
Agency which we have been contemplating for some time. This is the merger
of DDI and NIO.
Dr. Bowie, Dr. Stevens and I all believe that a closer association between
these two production elements will strengthen them both. Details of how this
merger will be accomplished are being published separately.
Beyond this internal matter, there will be some rearrangements within the
Community, such as creation of a National Intelligence Tasking Center to
fulfill the role of centralizing the control of collecting intelligence. The details
of how this and related changes are made will require approval of Congress
and others and hence are not firm at this time.
I am pleased that the principal uncertainties involved in the reorganiza-
tion question are behind us and that we can concentrate even more on our task
of providing good intelligence.
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MKULTRA DOCUMENTS
The reception on the Hill on our testimony about the newly discovered
documents on MKULTRA drug and other testing activities and press
coverage of the story to date are encouraging. Our decision to come forward
promptly and openly on the new discovery, 'I believe, was correct. Had we
delayed for further study and analysis, I am convinced the documents would
have found their way into the public domain and would have been treated in a
far more sensational manner.
We have now sanitized and released to 28 requestors more than 3,300 of
the estimated 5,000 pages discovered. This has taken untold hours of difficult
work. I commend highly and extend my personal thanks to those dedicated
employees who are working so very hard on this project.
As I indicated in my testimony, virtually all the activities discussed in the
new documents had been -reported previously to the appropriate Congressional
Committees, including the Church Committee. However, the new documents
provided additional information about those activities in the form of the
names of universities and institutions which had been involved, unwittingly or
wittingly.. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence now has the
unsanitized version of all the documents. Moreover, we have in the past few
days sent letters to each of the universities and institutions informing them of
the fact that the Agency has uncovered new information which names them as
having participated in some way.
OUTREACH
I hope you are as pleased as I am with the positive reaction we have
received from the "60 Minutes" program on the Agency. I am convinced that
such activities further our objectives of seeking better public understanding of
what the Agency does and why, and getting our explanation of Agency
activities promptly before the public.
You might be interested in some of the proposals that are in the "talking"
stage. I have agreed in principle to appear on the ABC-TV program "Issues
and Answers" in the fall. We will also permit ABC's "Good Morning
America" to film within the Agency for an hour program they are planning in
connection with our 30th Anniversary. ABC has agreed to confine all filming
to a single Saturday to simplify security.
Contrary to recent news reports, we still have not made a decision on
public tours. We are awaiting completion of the exhibits, after which we will
run the tours for families of employees, probably near the end of September.
Only then, with your help, will we decide whether to permit tours of any type
of the Agency.
SECURITY
In a speech in Los Angeles on 12 August, I expressed my deep concern
with several evidences we have had of laxness in industrial security, e.g., the
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Boyce-Lee espionage case. I described my firm intent to tighten up through
more frequent surprise inspections, withdrawal of security clearances where
warranted, and more emphasis on security in the awarding of contracts.
Industrial security, however, is not solely the concern of industry. We, too, at
the Agency play an important role from many of our offices. Some are
concerned with supporting industry's efforts, some with inspecting, and many
of us deal with representatives of industry daily and must set a good;example
of security consciousness. Please give this serious problem your immediate
attention.
ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF THE DEAF
1, would like you all to know of the excellent work of the Deaf Sign
Language Study Group which supports and assists those who are deaf and
those who work in offices where the deaf are employed. I was most impressed
to learn that we already have two groups studying sign language. I am also
delighted to find we have a Self Study Center through which videocassettes of
interest to the deaf are available. This is a program which I strongly support
and will be following with great interest.
NOTES
I consider the "Notes" one of my principal means of communicating
directly with each of you. Meeting with small groups, appearances in the
auditorium, informal lunches and special memorandum are other principal
ways I try to keep you abreast of my thinking on matters of concern to all of
I continue to hear complaints that the "Notes" are not finding their way
to all employees. I believe sufficient copies are printed. So I urge that all
supervisors circulate them as expeditiously as possible and urge employees to
share them with each other.
Copies are placed on many office bulletin boards and on the main bulletin
board near the Credit Union in the Headquarters building.
NEXT ISSUE
In the next issue of the "Notes" I will discuss the status of the Agency's
relations with the Academic Community, a matter that is of considerable
concern to all of us.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Director
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