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• Publication Date: February 6, 1981
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Herbert E. Hetu
Director of Public Affairs
SUBJECT: Internal Communications
1. Action Requested: .Approve printing and distribution of the
attached message to employees (TAB A).
2. Background: Admiral Turner used a form of communication to
employees called "Notes from the Director", designed to provide the DCI's
special views on matters not otherwise covered in administrative bulletins
or notices (sample at TAB B). These "Notes" were published only as needed,
were kept unclassified, and were given wide distribution among employees
both here and overseas. Public Affairs has had the coordinating responsibility.
This kind of internal communication fills a real need and it is
recommended you continue the program, starting with a reprint of your
3 February address to employees. In order to provide your own identification
to it, it is also recommended that a new title and logo be established, as
suggested on the mock-up opposite this memo or in any format you desire.
3. Recommendation: Approve TAB A for immediate printing.
Attachments: a/s
APPRQVE:
DISAPPROVE:
Herbert E. etu - .-
Director of Central Intelligence Date
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REMARKS TO EMPLOYEES
I was pleased to have the chance to talk
to some of you in the Headquarters Audi
torium on February 3rd. For the many who
were unable to attend, my remarks are re
printed below.
I am very pleased indeed to be here
as the Director of Central Intelligence
and to have the opportunity to meet so
many of you in this way.
This is my fourth day on the job
.but I have been in and out for a few
weeks. Admiral Turner and Frank Carlucci
as well as members of the senior staff,
have been very generous in helping me
learn about the Agency and its work, and
although .1 am not yet, able to find my
way around the building, I think I have
substantially found my way, around the
organization chart, which is.a very
formidable thing.
I came here with a high respect
for this Agency and for the calibre
and, professionalism of its staff. What
I have seen in the past few days has
strengthened that view. I bring to
this job a long-standing dedication to
and belief in the purpose for which
you and the Agency work.
My earliest public service in Wash-i ngton was hel ~~; -oQt i eova *NA/27
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papers to Presi nt ooseveTt aai..~ Joint Chi
efs, explaining why OSS needed
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military slots to develop paramilitary
capabilities and operational groups,
which the Pentagon liked to call "Dono-
van's Private Army" as they tried to
take it over. As I come here faced
with personnel freezes I have a sense
of deja vu.
When I went to London to set up a
secretariat for David Bruce, then Comm-
ander of the OSS Detachment in General
Eisenhower's Command, one of my duties
was to serve as secretary of the Commi-
tee charged with studying the organiza-
tion of the British and other Allied
intelligence agencies, in order to
develop recommendations on how a perma-
nent peacetime central intelligence
service might be established in the
United States. That was something we-
had never'had before. Out of that work'
I got a trip back home to help General-.
Donovan prepare a.memorandum:to Presi"'
:dent Roosevelt and the Joint:Chiefs of:-
Staff which urged the creation of ace
tral intelligence service. So in a sense
I was there at the beginning. Nobody.--
saw me, but I was there.
While in the European Threater I
worked closely and formed life-long
friendships with Bill Quinn, Director
of the Strategic Services Unit after
World War II, and Allen Dulles, Dick
Helms, and Bill Colby, the latter of
whom all came into the role I have now
IA-RQP089((Oq,Q3i to a lot
to me, and I am particularly pleased
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I was pleased to have the chance to talk to some of you in the
headquarters auditorium on February 3rd. For the many who were unable
to attend, my remarks are reprinted below.
William J. Casey
I am very pleased indeed to be here as the Director of Central
Intelligence and to have the, opportunity to meet so many of you in
this way.
This is my fourth day on the job, but I have been in and out
for a few weeks. Admiral Turner and Frank Carlucci, as well as members
of the senior staff, have been very generous in helping me learn about
the Agency and its work, and, although I am not yet able to find my
way around the building, I think I have substantially found my way
around the organization chart, which is a very formidable thing.
I came here with a high respect for this Agency and for the
caliber and professionalism of its staff. What I have seen in the
past few days has strengthened that view. I bring to this job a
longstanding dedication to and belief in the purpose-for which you
and the Agency work.
My earliest public service i,n.Washington was helping General
Donovan draft papers to President Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs,
explaining why OSS needed military slots to develop paramilitary
capabilities and operational groups, which the Pentagon liked to
call "Donovan's Private Army" as they tried to take it over. As I
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come here faced with personnel freezes, I have a sense of deja vu.
When I went to London to set up a secretariat for David Bruce,
then commander of the OSS detachment in General Eisenhower's command,
one of my duties was to serve as secretary of the committee charged with
studying the organization of the British and other Allied intelligence
agencies, in order to develop recommendations on how a permanent
peacetime central intelligence service might be established in the
United States. That was something we had never had before. Out of
that work I got a trip back home to help General Donovan prepare a
memorandum to President Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff which
urged the creation of a central intelligence service. So in a sense
I was there at the beginning. Nobody saw me, but I was there.
While in the European Theater I worked closely and formed lifelong
friendships with Bill Quinn, Director of the Strategic Services Unit
after World War II, and Allen Dulles, Dick Helms, and Bill Colby,
the latter of whom all came into the role I have now assumed. S@ That
a~orl ant{ riAriir +o~
means quite 'a lot to me, and I am
to be here to work with you into the future.
I carry a vivid recollection of Dick Helms saying on one occasion
in the late sixties,'before he became DCI, that he had remained in
the Agency for. over 20 years and had resisted offers of.more money..,.
in the private sector because his'-work in this building reminded him
daily of how "beleaguered" our country is in the world. The word
"beleaguered" made a very deep impression on me. I understand it
to mean surrounded by danger. I am always reminded of the lifetime
career and the dedication to country which Dick Helms conveyed on
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that occasion in that expression and in his 30 years of service to
intelligence. I have a comparable admiration for those of you who
are embarked on, and are living, an intelligence career.
Your work is even more important today. If Dick Helms had to
use the unusual word eleaguered" to describe the condition of the
United States in the late 1960s, how would we describe our situation
today? We face an adversary over which we no longer have military
superiority--an adversary which has demonstrated a will to use
military force outside of its borders-and is constantly using skill
and resourcefulness in providing. weapons, training, organization,
and leadership to proxy armies, to revolutionary groups, and to
terrorists throughout Africa, Southeast Asia, and on our very door-
step in Central America.
Our country depends heavily on your daily efforts if it is
adequately to develop the means to cope with these threats. Let us
together summon the will and find the resources to revive and apply
the whole range of capabilities developed in this Agency over the years.
The President and the Congress need such capabilities to cope with
threats to our security and to protect our interests.
We face such intensified threats after having been severely
.kicked around in the political process and in the organs of public-
-opinion. We must hot let that deter us from the job we-have.t
The intelligence profession is one of the most honorable pro-
fessions to which Americans can aspire. The President knows that
and the American public understands that. Let us hold our heads high
as we serve our country, as we call on young Americans to serve in
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intelligence work, and as we ask American scholars to serve by sharing
their insights and their scholarship with us as perhaps the largest
scholarly community in the world, and as we prepare the analyses to
develop foreign policy and defense strategy. Intelligence work is the
one activity in the whole government which--whatever any of us might
do, whatever service we perform--has a direct impact on our ability
to address the many concerns that may threaten the security of our
country or our way of life.
I feel that very deeply.
President Reagan has promised to strengthen intelligence where
it needs to be strengthened. He has talked frequently about his
admiration of and support for the CIA. He has given us a Deputy
DCI, Admiral Inman, who will come here with rich experience and
universal acclaim inside and outside the Intelligence Community. The
President has signaled his intention to do what he can to support our
work by affording me Cabinet rank and by giving Admiral Inman a fourth
star, making him a full admiral as he undertakes this new responsibility.
I am confident you and I and Admiral Inman are ready to do what needs
to be done.
As I stated in my confirmation hearings, this is not the time
for reorganization or bureaucratic shakeup.:. Rather, it is.a time
bui l d on what we have, .to sharpen and strengthen i t. to meet the new
-challenges we face, Much will depend on how.-we organize for that
task. I am a great believer in the delegation of responsibility and
commensurate authority. I like to give people running room and judge
them.by the results. I intend to give at least equal attention to my
roles as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Director of
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Central Intelligence.
One reason I am so pleased to have Admiral Inman here with me is
that he is so superbly equipped--by virtue of his experience as
Director of the National Security Agency, vice Director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, and Director of Naval Intelligence--to take on
some of the Community role that consumed so much of the time of my
two or three immediate predecessors. I would like, and intend, to take
a special interest in strengthening and sharpening our HUMINT capabilities,
our analytical and estimating work, and in seeing that the product--the
result of the common labor that we put forth here daily--gets in the
proper form needed, that it is understood and is acted upon. In a
broad general way, that is how I see my job and how I now plan. to
approach it.
We have to face the fact that we take on this challenge in a
period of financial stringency. We can't hide from that. There is a
personnel freeze, and budgets are and will be scrutinized very, very
carefully. It will take time to balance the objective of strengthening
our defense and intelligence capabilities and that of meshing those
factors with the financial and manpower requirements of the administration's
.economic policy.
The way for us to-do that, in my opinion, is to do our share in
tightening up.wherever we can and, on the basis of that performance
and at the appropriate time, ask for the resources needed to overcome
the deficiencies arising out of earlier budget actions as well as for
those needed to meet the needs of the future. There will be budgetary
cutbacks and there will be budgetary increases, particularly in defense
areas and other areas vital to our security. I intend to define overall
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needs with care and restraint, but I will not be bashful about asking
for what is needed to meet those needs; that'is what I would expect
you to do also. I am specifically interested in developing the resources
needed to provide both the facilities and the incentives necessary to
encourage the career-long building of analytical and other specialized
skills. People should be. able to dedicate their lifelong efforts to
building those essential talents without being pressured into doing
administrative or managerial work simply to gain promotion.
I know that all of you are as anxious to constantly improve the
Agency's capabilities and its performance as I am. All of us have heard
a variety of opinions about the quality of intelligence performance
over recent years. You can take your pick of those opinions. Nevertheless,
I do know that over its history this Agency has developed the finest
intelligence capability in the world.
There can be no doubt about the enormous creativity and ingenuity
which has been displayed in developing new sources of information and
new analytical. tools. It is without precedent anywhere. We certainly
have in.this building the finest and most highly developed staff of
political, military, and economic analysts ever assembled. Yet as I
have gone up to the Hill to testify before committees-of the Congress ,
on intelligence, on armed services, on. appropriations' for my~con-
firmation hearings, and for. worldwide intelligence, assessments in the
last two weeks, I have.heard specific criticisms which we cannot
and should not shrug off.
The most frequent criticism is that our interpretations and
assessments have shown a tendency to be overly optimistic, to place
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a benign interpretation on information which could be interpreted as
indicating danger. When you are specifically charged, as we are, with
warning of danger in time for the US to react, it's rather a good
idea to incline in the opposite direction. One of my aims will be to
inject into the intelligence process a greater degree of skepticism,
greater care in weighing evidence to bring out the range of probabilities
that a policymaker needs. It's our obligation to present conclusions which
emphasize hard reality undistorted by preconceptions or by wishful
thinking.
So I ask you,'in whatever work you do, to question your assumptions
and conclusions, to call them as you see them, whether you are weighing
evidence for an intelligence assessment or trying to improve some
procedure, no matter what range of work is involved. In return I
promise that I will make your work and judgment meaningful by.seeing that
the President and his advisers get and pay attention to the full range
of varying estimates and opinions which result from the collective
work in this building and throughout the Community.
I ask you in addition to call it as you see it, neither to trim
your sails to any political, budgetary, or bureaucratic interest, nor
to permit any philosophical or personal bias to shade or modify-the
facts. I promise you I will preserve our independence of-judgment.
and get our conclusions to the President and his advisers free of any
political or personal considerations or philosophical bias.
Most of what I have said to you is quite general. I imagine that
some of it has already been implemented as part of your daily work.
I suppose that you would now like to hear more about my plans for
the future. Well, it is too early to tell you much about that. I
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am too cautious.
I will say that I came here without any preconceptions. I have
some ideas derived from my experiences as a consumer of intelligence as a member of the. General Advisory Committee on Arms Control (known
as the SALT I negotiations), as Undersecretary of State, as a member
of the Murphy Commission, and when I was on the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board. I concluded a few things during those
times, but that doesn't mean that I won't change my mind. I found
in SALT I, for example, that some of the judgments were soft. They
leaned toward a -kind of benign interpretation rather than a harder
In my meetings and discussions here I have been greatly impressed
interpretation of assessing or viewing a situation as being more
dangerous. With the Murphy Commission I came down against breaking
up the Agency into a lot of components, as some of the bills on the
Hill now propose, and I don't expect to change my mind about that.
AF the PFIAB I supported a competitive assessment process, but I
am open as to how that can best be done. Like everybody else I am
in favor of improving our analytical capabilities--that-is something
easy to be for.
dedication and loyalty of all those..I have met...-, I intend- toproceed..
with the caliber of the people, with the_professionalism,and`with~"the
carefully to-do whatever needs to be done to get the benefit of all
the experience and judgment that has been developed here:at the
senior levels and elsewhere. My general approach is that I will be
careful to preserve what we have and to upgrade wherever we can. I
know that all of you will join me in that undertaking.
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 President Reagan has already requested that;the entire Community
make recommendations on how to improve our capability to deal with
terrorism, acquire intelligence, and deal with espionage by reducing
overregulation and by trimming restrictions which are not essential
a universal disposition to support the Identities Act and to find a
way to ease the burdens of the Freedom of Information Act. They
generally support and want to work with the Community to improve
intelligence collection and assessment. They want to stress the
concept of oversight without the preoccupation of looking for real
or fancied abuses or illegalities that allegedly existed in the past.
I think the public and the Congress are basically very supportive
of us.. I am certain the administration is.
I welcome.this opportunity to talk with you at this preliminary
stage. As we move along, and as I find out more about what is needed
here, I look forward to talking to you again: -Meanwhile, although I.
to protecting individual constitutional rights. That process is already
under way. Those Congressional committees I have spoken to have shown
have noticed that this is a very big building, I will try to wander
about and meet as many of you as I can in the places where you work.
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Again, thank you for being here and I'look forward to'workin
with you. I thank youin advance for-your support,
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