MEETING WITH DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00593R000100130009-7
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 17, 1973
• Content Type: MFR

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17 January 1973
SUBJECT: Meeting with Deputy Director, ONE
1. and I met with for about
an hour and a half yesterday afternoon, to discuss OER/ONE relations,
and to seek an evaluation of OE:R production. We talked about eval-
uation procedures in general.
2. I Isaid that ONE had tried to work up a "score card"
on its work and predictions for the Director and Mr. Colby, waiting
for five years after the fact in order to strengthen objectivity.
ONE had a good record, with the Cuban missile paper being the
"atrocious" exception. He was not sure that a similar approach
would reveal much about OER.
3. II said that relations with OER are good. He knows
both the Director of OER and his Deputy over the years, and was
formerly an economist himself, so feels he knows the office well.
OER has "continued to improve, while he characterized State as con-
tinuing to go "down." He reviewed the history of State's reduction
of economic work, which had reached the point now where an AID man
(with all the biases of being committed to achieve a certain result
in a given country when it is clear that they are not susceptible:
to realization) appear together for discussions of economic ques-
tions.
4. OER and ONE work on joint economic papers, mixing the
economics and politics of a situation. I Isaid that he had
pushed for papers that reflected how things really are, politics,
economics and other factors being mixed, rather than there being
a political section and an economic section, etc. OER has worked
well on this approach. New relationships are developing, with
studies on economic trends on Latin America, and there will be
similar studies on the Near East. Substantively the Agency has
become stronger than the other intelligence organizations around
town, and OER is very much a part of this.
5. Noting that ONE used consultants in its reviews and post
mortems we asked what steps were feasible for OER. He felt that
having them in every two or three years would suffice, repeating,
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his earlier opinion about letting time pass to ensure objectivity.
He commented on OCI's recent attempt to solicit comments from the
community, which he termed "disastrous." We repeated Dick Lehman's
description of the results.
6. I Istated that some of ONE's best men, past and pres-
ent, had come from OER, which he viewed as a reflection of the high
standards of the office. He couldn't think of any real problems
that resulted from basic deficiencies, observing that there will
always be issues of balance in analysis, etc., which is an important
part of the job.
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