PRINCIPLES AND SOME APPLICATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: March 28, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM No. 3
SUBJECT: Principles and Some Applications
1. Principle: The Agency recognizes the
distinction between an employee as a specialist in
his own right and as an officer of CIA, and therefore
permits the employee to write for publication in
the field of his specialty as representing himself
and not the Agency.
a. Provided that his manuscript does
not contain information in violation of
Security (classified information, sources,
methods, intelligence organization and
operations, etc.);
b. Provided that the Agency finds
no reasonable cause for embarrassment or
injury in the quality or the content of
the manuscript, it being assumed that the
author may be identified as a CIA employee.
c. And provided that the employee's
activity does not interfere with or other-
wise take from satisfactory performance of
his duty in the Agency.
2. Principle: The question of public identifica-
tion as an employee of CIA is one to be answered by
the employee in consultation with his publisher or
academic sponsor.
a. Provided that the employee in
question belongs to the class of employees
for whom no assignment requiring cover is
planned or desired; and
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b. Provided that neither the employee
as author nor his publisher and sponsor
shall misrepresent the fact of employment
in CIA to make use of it and thereby abuse
it for commercial ends.
3. Applications:
a. The CIA employee does not write
as a member of the Agency - unlike a
professor who publishes as a member of
a university department or a research
analyst who publishes as a member of an
institute. Identification with CIA is
restricted to the fact of employment,
and therefore it would not appear on the
title page or as part of the employee's
professional credentials. CIA employment
as such is not an academic certification.
b. If the author needs academic or
professional credentials, he should use
membership in a professional society,
advanced degrees, "author of...", if and
as meaningful or appropriate.
c. Identification with CIA would be
treated as one among other items in the
biographical sketch of the author, which
ordinarily appears in the foreword, preface
or inside fold of the dust cover of a book,
or in "about the authors" in a professional
journal or anthology. There could be no
objection to a limited description of the
nature of employment, as, for example,
"analyst", "research analyst".
d. Attached are examples of identifica-
tion taken from past publications by Agency
employees. In brief they consist of the
following familiar stereotypes:
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'An American student of...'9
'a consultant to the U.S. Government on...',
'presently working with the federal government
in Washington',
'currently engaged in research for the U.S.
Government on...'.
These identifications bring smiles of recognition
that anyone who works for the "U.S. Government"
but for no department of it works for the unnamed
or clandestine department,.namely CIA. (We are
probably more sensitive to this old saw than people
outside of CIA, but even so it is time we break the
saw. The Agency does not really think overt employees
need cover - otherwise it would have found cover for
them by this time).
4. Breaking non-existent cover will probably
raise a bump or two. There should be no illusion
that all can be pleased in everything we do. There
are those both in and out of government who like
secrecy and mystery and who therefore can be pleased
or titillated when a well-known reporter identifies
the author of a celebrated article as an officer of
CIA. Lovers of cloak and dagger fiction may feel
deprived of fun when identifications are permanent,
i.e. bound in print along with the publication. But
as long as identification has been authorized by the
Agency to and for the employee, the option then is
his and there should be little reason to borrow
trouble from imagination on futures. The above
principles are defensible and sensible and further-
more essential in the long run to the Agency's
attraction for and retention of superior analysts.
The ability to attract superior analysts from the
universities depends on the Agency's image, and
this can only be improved when authoritative and
scholarly published work is known as the work of
CIA employees. The ability to retain scholarly
analysts as career employees is likewise enhanced by
an Agency policy which understands the benefit to
the Agency of professional publication by its
employees.
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