REACTION TO OER REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00593R000100130004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 14, 1973
• Content Type: MFR

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14 February .1973
SUBJECT: Reaction to OER Report
1. Paul Walsh phoned to say that he had read the OER report
and was.quite pleased with it. He said that Maurice Ernst would
doubtless be pleased as well. I said that Ernst had seen the
draft report and had reservations about the recommendations. In
response to the first he had indicated the intention of assigning
LDC trade accounts to African analysts, to broaden their exposure
and give them more work, but that he still intended to reduce the
numbers assigned there. Ernst had reservations about our proposal
for experimenting with elicitation of evaluations of OER produc-
tion. We felt that we should make the effort in hopes that we
would discover something, and that if it proved unproductive drop
2. Walsh said that he noted our reference to production
quotas, and said that some analysts did work under quotas. I said
that the problem was real only in the quieter areas, where there
was not much to write about. A man could be a competent economist,
but not very inventive, which might make him look badly. We under-
stood that the weaker analysts were assigned to the less active
accounts, but this tended to place them at an extra disadvantage
in competing against other analysts for promotion. Analysts did
have something of a party line on this, but our feeling was that
the real spots of unhappiness on this were in the less active
areas.
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