A PROGRAM TO IMPROVE CIA S INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT

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• Publication Date: February 22, 1982
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MEMORANDUM FOR: O/DCI
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could be beneficial. Once a week, however,
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administrative effort required. He suggests
that quarterly or semiannual sessions might
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A Program to Improve CIA's Intelligence Product
1. The State Department has a dynamic speakers' program
the CIA might emulate as a means of improving the focus, quality,
and timeliness of the Agency's intelligence product. A systematic
program to expose Agency analysts and managers to outside expetts
would help overcome our intellectual isolation, improve ouz
undo. standing of administration needs and the policy-making
process, and establish useful contacts in and 'outside the government
2. In 1967 the Department, under the auspices of the
SecrZ,Xtar_y of State, created an ambitious, off-the-record speakers'
program and channel for dissent .which it called "Open Forum." The
purpose is to encourage creative thinking and to offer all State
employees an opportunity to participate more directly in the foreign
policy process by promoting a free exchange of views and minimizing
politicl and-bureaucratic constraints on debate and dissent.
3. To an outsider, the most notable feature of Open
Forum is its weekly lecture schedule which includes some of the
country's more prominent authors, scholars, diplomats, scientists,
economists, journalists, congressmen, and administraton officials.
The attached list reveals an impressive roster of participants in
1981. These noontime programs, held in the 1000-seat auditorium,
are widely publicized in the Department and .sually draw heavy
attendance from all ranks.
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4. Open Forum is run by Chairman Eileen Heaphy with
the advise of a steering committee. The attached article from the
Department's "Newsletter" reports Secretary Haig's personal
interest in Open Forum and the broad professional spectrum represented
6n-the steering committee. Last year they initiatednew programs
and formats, including a series on the 21st century co-sponsored
with the Policy Planning Staff, Smaller programs are aimed at
pro ems in specif=ic ar- east :. For exaznp7 e.;:._a- 5rown- oar ~` -gem t a
.jointed sponsored with the Bureau of European AffarJis dealt
with European attitudes toward the. military, balance in Europe.
5. CIA has no comparable vehicle to stimulate and
guide its &mployees. The-Agency's compartmentalized structure,
its strict security considerations, the physical location of
headquarters, and the lack of direct role in the policy-making
process have fostered intellectual isolation and parochialism.
Rarely are we exposed first-hand to the major players and special
concerns of the administr ion. Moreover, fe- of us have any
realistic sense of the day-to-day operations or needs of the
White House and the NSC or the procedures on Capital Hill.
6. A first-rate, institutionalized program of spp:akers
and seminars could help overcome our handicaps. We could follow
the successful Open Forum model and add a new dimension by
capitalizing on the unique experiences and insights of DDO officers.
and other specialists in the Agency. Additionally, seminars on
congressional relations could familiarize analysts with the
legislative process and introduce key Congressmen and committee
staffers who seek our analysis. CIA is out of the mainstream, but
a sustained pnd ambitious program such as this cvi&l help make our
work more relevant and sh-1-isfying.
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Open Forum Speakers in 1981
Barbara Marx Hubbard, an American futurologist, on long-term
issues facing the US.
Julian Simon, author of "The Ultimate Resource"
Colman McCarthy, Washington Post columnist
Ben itiattenberl; editor and TV commentator
Arthur Laffer, supply-side economist
Amb. Robert B: White (El Salvador) and Amb. Thomas Bayatt (Colombia)
on "Dissent in. the Foreign Service: Channels and Ethics"
Charles DiBona, president of the American Petroleum Institute,
on "America's Energy Policy for the 80s"
Eliot Berg, consultant to the World Bank and principal author of
the Banks's review of African development. efforts in the past decade
Arthur Flemming, chairman US Civil Rights Commission on hiring
practices in the Foreign Service
Frank Carlucci, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Walter Conkite, newcaster
Richard T. Kennedy, :Undersecretary for i,lanagement, on managment
issues
L. urence S. Eagleber, ger, Assistant Secretary for European Affairs,
on US-European relations
John H. Hoidridge, Assistant Secretary for East ASian and Pacific
Affairs, on US relations with Southeast Asia
Congressman Toby Roth (R-Wisc) on ICA's public diplomacy
John Kenneth Galbraith on politics of underdevelopment
Joan Baez on human rights in Latin America
Three correspondents who cover the Department--Barrie Dunsmore ABC,
.Bernard Gwertzman, New York Times, and Bernard 'Kalb, NBC--discuss n
Soviet "disinformat ion.
Richard Fnirbnnks, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations
Robert Weinland, Center for Naval Analyses on "Peace; 'Progress
and gunboat f).iolomnc3" The Naval Instrument in Soviet Foreign
policy. "
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Robert Mahoney, principal investigator for ACA study on attitudes
in Europe toward the military blanace
=)=ilton Friedman, monetarist economist (cocktails and dinner)
Rita Hauser, former UN delegate, human rights (luncheon)
amb. to F.1 Salvador ?'eane Hinton on that country's problems
and prospects
Frnak Conahan, director International Division GAO on "A Critics
View of the Management of Foreign Affairs"
Amb. Max Kampleman, chairman of the US delegation to the follow-up
meet ing-of--t_he._ :Con,,erence..: on.: S.ecru it y .an d-Eooperation- i'i _ Europe_
on the recent session in Madrid
David S. Patterson, Office of the Historian, "The Department of
State and Arms Control: An Historical Perspective"
Richard T. Davies, former ambassador to Poland, "The Polish
Revolution: The First Year.".
Roderick MacFarquhar, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars,
"Why Are Moscow and Peking Still at Odds?"
Ambassadors Nobuhiko Ushiba and Bobert Tngersoll and other members
of the Japan-US Economic ;Relations Group
Arnaud de Brochgrave, Georgetown University Center for Strategic
and International Studies, "KGB Disinformation; How Effective?"
Captain Jacques Cousteau on global ocean issues
I. Peter McPherson, AID administrator
Edward Korry, former ambassador to Chile, "Morality and. the Foreign
Service: Loyalty to State, Service or Self?"
Sir Max Beloff, Oxford University, "Two Years of the Thatcher
Government "
Panel discussion on the Export Trading Company Act of 1981 by
congressmen, general counsel of the US Special Trade Representative,
vice-president of Citibank
Amb. Jean Kirkpatrick, US relations with the UN
Andrew Pierce of the -Council on Foreign Relations, "The Wester n
Alliance in the Wider World"
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W'Willian Van Cleave, board member of the Committee on Present
Danger and Strategic Issues
Percy Qoboza, on South Africa
Alvin Toffler on his new book, "The Third War"
Sen, John Glenn on "Putting the Military Cart before the Foreign
Policy Horse."
Michael S. Teitelbaum, Ford Foundation on population problems
Admiral Gene La Rocque, director of Center for Defense Information
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Richard N. Gardner
Alejandro Oi f ila, Secrejytrry OAS
Amb. Lucius Battle, chairman di Foreign Policy Institute at Johns
Hopkins
Anna Chennault
Joseph aisco, "American Foreign Policy Priorities in the 1980s"
John K. Cooley, journalist, "The Libyan Whirlpool?4 Oadhafi's
Arab and African Advdntures"
Robert Conquest, British Sovietologist on "what Makes Soviet
Leaders Tick?"
_1mb. Marshall Green on ''The World Population explosion':
Allan Ryan,?Justice Dept. on hunting down Nazis
Amb. Robert Neumann on the Reagan transition
Jan Nowak, Radio Free Europe on "The US and Poland"
Amb. Harriman on "Looking Ahead to the 1980s"
J.B. Kelly, British scholar on the Middle East
Jack Anderson
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Haig speaks, takes
questions at Open .
Forum session
In another move emphasizing that
he assigns high value to the work of the
Secretary's Open Forum, Secretary
Haig stepped to the podium himself
when the forum met at noon October 14
in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. It
was the first time since its foundiii* ri _.
1967 that an incumbent Secretary had
addressed the forum, whose member-
SF.CRFTARI"S OPEN FORUM-
Members of the steering committee with
Secretary ilaig. prior to the luncheon with
him. From left. first row: Elizabeth
Cummings, international relations- officer,
Office for (ornhatting Terrorism; Eileen
Ileaphy, chairman, Open Forum; Mr. Haig;
Sa'rford fiat:man, site chairman, Open
Forum, and editor. SLATE magarine; Philip
Tay/or, management analyst. Office of
Management and Administration. Bureau of
Consular Affairs; Vicki Iluddleston,
ship is open to employees of all ranks at
State and the other foreign affairs
agencies. Some weeks earlier (STATE,
August/September), Mr. Haig said in a
message distributed to all employees:
"The Secretary's Open Forum offers
each of you an opportunity to partic-
ipate more directly in our foreign policy
process-to suggest new policies or to
offer a responsible alternative when dis- hers of the audience, answering at
senting from an- existing one:" lengtfi. 'I Ails` .`va"s fiili0wed bv'a lunch-
Introduced by Open Forum chair- eon with members of Open Forum
nian Eileen 1lcaphy, the Secretary steering committee in the Jaynes t ladi-
international economist. Orrice for Economic
and Development Policy. Bureau of
International Organirntion Affairs; Joseph
AlcBride, congression9t liaison officer. Bureau
of Congressional Relations. Second row:
Stuart Srhwart:.rtein. Political officer. Office
or Regional Affairs. Bureau of Fast Asian and
Pacific Affairs; Eileen //inns, program analyst
for associate director for management. ICA;
Larry Roeder, desk officer, Office of Fast-
west Trade, Bureau of Economic and
Business Affairs; Frank Stewart, assistant
spoke for some 30 minutes, expounding
on the foreign policy of the admin-
istration. His remarks, in keeping with
the forum rule for all speakers, were off
the record. :Llr. Haig spoke extem-
poraneously, with only a glance now
and then at notes he had brought with
him. After completing his presentation,
he took random questions from mem-
director for market development. Trade and
Development Program, International De-
yelopment Cooperation Agency; iVilliam
reale, management analyst, office of
Management Operations; Galen Fox, chief,
Northeast Asian Division, Office of Analysis
for, Fast Asia and the Pacific. Bureau of
Intelligence and Research; Atontcrieff Spear,
retired senior Foreign Service officer; l annoy.
Walker, deputy assistant secretary. Bureau of
African Affairs.
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son Dining Room, where the discussion
continued for nearly an hour.
In other October events of the forum,
Charles Diaona, president of the Amer-
icas; Petroleum Institute, spoke October
l6 on "America's Energy Policy for the
'80s." and Eliot Berg, consultant to the
World Bank and principal author of the
bank's :eview'Ci' African- dev-eh prrnent- _ = .
efforis in tht past decade, met with a dis-
cession group from the Bureau. of
African Affairs, with Bob Pringle,
director of the bureau's Economic
Policy Staff. presiding.
Speakers scheduled for this month
included Arthur Flemming, chairman,
U.S. Civil Rights Commission, who was
to discuss the conlnlissicn's recent study
of hiring ptacticcs in the Foreign Serv-
ice, Novei-lher 4 Frank Carlucci,
dcp uty secretary of defense, November
10, and newscaster Waher Cronkite,
November 12. 0
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