REORIENTATION IN SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 9 JUNE 1964

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• Publication Date: June 9, 1964
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REORIENTATION IN SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
9 June 1964
Opening remarks by Col. L. K. White, Deputy Director for Support
Ladies and gentlemen, the subject of the conference today--the
next several hours--is supervisory responsibility. The very heavy
responsibilities for national security which are placed on the Central
Intelligence Agency, our very unique and sometimes unorthodox procedures,
which are so essential to the successful accomplishment of our mission,
our heavy security responsibilities place upon the supervisor in CIA a
very heavy, a very unique, a very complex responsibility--a responsi-
bility which is equalled perhaps by those placed upon no other supervisor
in government and perhaps none other in industry. Our people are our
greatest asset and handling of our people is our biggest job. It creates
a tremendous challenge to us to foster initiative, encourage imagination,
develop a sense of responsibility, to criticize, and where appropriate
to discipline.
Any agency as large as ours and those much smaller will always have
some problem personnel cases and unfortunately it is by and large those
problem cases which come to the attention of top management in the Agency
and by which we as supervisors are sometimes judged. In reviewing these
problem cases it is evident to all of us who must do this that in a high
percentage of cases which become Agency problem cases they would not have
become Agency problem cases had supervisors at a much lower level measured
up to their responsibilities.
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We cannot train you and we do not propose to try to train you to
be good supervisors in one day or in a few hours. It is our purpose
today, however, to attempt to make you more keenly aware of your total
responsibilities and your special responsibilities as supervisors in
our intelligence organization and to impress upon you to the extent that
we can the assistance which the Support Offices particularly the Personnel
Office, the Medical Office, and the Security Office are prepared to render
to you in the discharge of your supervisory responsibilities, and to set
forth some standards which we believe are both challenging and reachable.
The seriousness of this problem and the importance which we attach to it
are attested to by the fact that the Director is personally here to talk
with you and to start us on our program today.
I appreciate very much indeed as I know you do his taking the time
from the very demanding schedule to talk to you a few minutes as we start
the day's program:
Mr. McCone
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