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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00463A000100040024-7
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 24
• Content Type: SPEECH

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I told Colonel Wblte, our boss, that I didn't see
dick
the question Of the budget. I wasn't absolutely truth ul
because
to blame for all this cutting back, and here's my cha
ase it on to
somebody else. Colonel White, at a recent meeting of an activity of the
Office of Wining,, had this to say about that activity. Better put my
glasses on. I don't want to misquote him. "I'm willing to go to most
any extreme to make it a successful program. '? Colonel bite, Just give
us another five dollars.
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COLONEL WHITE
st of all, matt, I think I've get two
. As you see, I have some notes
whether you call it a script or not, and rave reason I prepared these
notes is because I remembered very well last year that the hit of the
day was Matt up here tearing up his script. So I thought that ought to
a year again, so I came down with a Script. A second
complaint is that c antrary to the instructions he ga
Genmal Cabell, he told me what to say. Furthermore, I was way ahead
of him on why he wanted me to talk about the budget. When I tried to
get out of this.. I said, "Look. Mr. Dulles is going to speak and
General Cabeli is going to speak. Why don't I just say Merry Christmas
and let it go at that? " He said, ,No. You have to say something. "
And I said, >aVv, ell, what do you want me to say? " "Well, " he said, you
ought to talk about the personnel ceiling and the budget, it nothing else. "
Well, I didn't go for that very much because I really felt that Christmas
is a time to say something nice to everybody and not talk about the budget
and personnel ceiling. But I had a personal experience that same ervening.
I went hone and my two young sons wft* home school, and they sing
in a school chorus. Almost every day during the Christmas holidays they've
been arced singing at churches, women's clubs, and whatnot. As I walked
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A the back door I saw a" of my eo I acid, 'a `ell. how'd the
Old
He "~ W,45 iit PO POI We had two
!'r? sa ~ ~t this is the
singing go
.a So maybe 11 YOU look at it in that
ladi$ts ~ ~, e
'~ t and
to do. I'll do one other thff which Matt asked
this
a srnna a Y anization fwa years on the
Will have b a Part of the Support
suppoet that
,t?sbek%'W?
m 0.
ggaw I" 44A
me and the I4euecy this try Y"rsf and I have
YOU have given
uch better each year. I belie ya that the j
CCOAS to know any sumxgt
the most iat stlw
You hav
pause it cuts asaoas all the lines and gets into every
? I think tha-.t I've csvana to kamw it better this
argea sa
p,,,t of the
than ever before t ,nks in part to
aiseandlt~~.?
a-tt asked sae to criticise as I~relt as ~
* ~ ? ~o~r+evear.
s and QaneAl C*btll have taken ~e of that quift
a at t* t~ up on 'fit they have said about
I do .,~,, to 8" a walc
Person"I ceilinla' ,,pities, etc.
get,
,,,~ about cc cSfl be of anyhelpto
e ec
th. an in the Office of raiartit~4 that they think I ought to
an What s going
TWAK"
to of the Puns Stan who "a up and fill me in
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to do is c+e inlY me
e
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I'm sutra the people In the
t goes an in the It teUI ence School, because most o yaw
sic Wises are there and mouse buried In the Intelligence Sahool
are all the administrative corms of s upper t c cses,
Budget and Fit ance, Clerical Refresher, and a lot of others. As we
look forward to 1960, I think we have to take a good hard careful
at the Int+~q ce School to see whether we have our j*I rttieas right.
ve some question along this line about every school, and I'= not
saying that we don't, but I think we may have some courses that might
be a little more luxurious than we can afford in r
our-mil Priorit s. I have been extremely well impressed
flexibrtilty Of this school, the ease with which you set up new coursees,
and the efficiency with which you carry them on, ate. brit it may well
need to take a good hard look at some of the crseas to see
e need to tarry them on at the same level which we are
aerrying them on.
I spent an afternoon Just last week with
Communism and I was extremely well pleased with what I heard kern
that esShd W thh a ou t 01 a vtty which they have carried
the past year. I was disappointed to learn that the Agency
interest in the School of International Communism is apparently dropping
off. It would seem to me that the Introduction to Ce ar a and the
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a "must" R' almost LIMY vi el
of tit work he d ess if he be
spared to take the ores . Much to My Sse, W Agesoy int4n
In those basic cow "s has apparently dropped off sme 40 per cent
within the past year and I think, as General Cab*U
that
,off areas in which we rd"d to inspire supervisors to
allow more people to a into this school.
I
The Language and Area Sc hoo14 ave also spent some time with and
think anything I could say in addition to what Mr. Dulles has said
about what we think of the fine beginning would be anti-cli ,ctic.
However, I am not awe in the language school that we are
the requirements of the Agency in accords:.
with out prriorities. I
think we have made an excellent beginning with a shotgun
to got people to study languages and we've got a lot of people studying
ea, but I'm not sum we have the right people &
the right languages. Here again I know that you are somewhat at the
cy Of people. They send the people to study certain languages.
There's not much that You can do about It. But here again I think, we
have to take the leadership in sharpening up the priorities to decide
LO we are gig to teach and to try
people who
need certain languages to take those languages. Its in nceivablle to
me, for instances that we only have two people studying Chinese. I
believe when I was there that several Russian language coma es had been
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rnc0le4 because of an inadequate Wirer of studesds. So I think here we
have a rsspc slhdltty to bring this h to people in the Agency
if we can't
aspects of the
everal times
ti
s School, and I am always extremely well Impressed
with the eat of the instruatim, as is everyone else who we take
I think in 1960, however, we have to ask ourselves
places when we can get pay
e are placing the emphasis
or whether we are still teams old
courses or pacing too much efts rt in places that no long
is Of constantly changing priorities and I think here again
to take a Very careful look at ourselves.
-tt quoted me a minute ago about a remark
JOT Pry. and I was quite sincere in that remark.
many JOT's. Some day you people we gaing to wake up and find out it
was the infantry who won the war and not the Air Farce or the Navy.
wholeh y? My one beef about it is that 1)1)/S is not getting
have
concerning the
out present
JOT's is going to be a great improy srst over what we have had in the
P$ art, and I think I can speak, not only for myself but for every Other
senior offilcial in the Agency in saying that we support the JOT F ern
J' class is remely, outstang. I think our new
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has become more and more of use, I believe, to senior st
ae bum more and more people who reall" the extimme
impartan+cet
E Suff
s security,
and infwmati
fills. Hen again, however, in looking at our priorities, we've
sand
people in that program and we may hay. to take a good hard
whether or not we can afford that many.
Support Staff this year. As you may or may not know we turned
I've even gotten acme good results from my
over to a private ractor and got
people off the rolls
to
people off the rolls. I've got more motive than is a
get: some more
the
in that because I'm certain there comes a time, I'm
t I 1 VID the is to ba mined here and that
to push along with it with your Support Staff as the years
I think all this adds up to two questions that we can ask ourselves
, and to state them vary generally, "Can we do any more than
Your A & E Staff continues to do a good job and I think this you
Just whew it is, but them is a time if you can get
people, say, off the payrolls it takes one personnel clerk or
maybe mom and one fiscal clerk and one security officer and one of
something else that you can also take off the rolls as you take off a
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tic
we are noW an the same amount Of money
money? " of Cole", we will always be an
you, ow budget for bie iW. but as Mr. Dulles has told fothe Ag
no eas* over ow
level. Priorities are w4hly
~,-vvi~de basis for the funds and for
M VVO the Agency is 4 to have to live within about this year's level and
ofth
if there
increases in one component than, then reticsaUY
to be dec t"SOS
desire to -
any less basis 00
goes, it doesn't a.PPOW that
we have had in the past,
tea holds with regard to Pees Ome'- I don'
effort to W&tning than we are now but I do think uk"
have to look very heud at the priorities Of ts~
t we want to
it's easy to
say and in the Support side of the house I hoar this ten times a day,
all. I can't control this. I mean, it depends mn what People ask me
to doi I think in 1960 not Only YOU in 'I3rai but the Supp"t organizat a
tat 3a$c'ie` saying, " 'ms`s
as a old is 4 to ~''',~` to takes
is Wba-t
mkt "'What
~y then say to the pa`s who is pJa-ci those creme:nts,
doe , And a
think You out to do. These are OW capab tiBS. We cant
ll the retuir+s that are placed ups us. This is what we
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want, titer
e other comPOUMIt. while I don!t think
they level Of our usintag IPrsn or to place
ping, as fear as money
ve any more Ms to sped than
I think the ram
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do you w us to do? We can't do it *11, so wO're go
pri dti1S. " I think You in
going to have to take th
As
During the Fiscm1YOW 1958 we issued 40,001
.,We can't cr his .
, because Pe
nothing. people wi31 take ball.
far nothing. But this also applies to
training isn't COM,
cat to do is to say "1 Want this cows
pimple are going to ask and expect things that they
have if we
So the two big Problems, I think.
supply ram
g us all.
as much, if not axle, than anyone else is, Can we
same amo of momW " or ?Can we do what we are
PPUOs to you
with the
less? " and. -where do we stand with regard to priarities ? the Old
modify the o ms we've gat? Should we cut o> t some of thma in order
scatwses stilt good, or should we hew some new ones,
to take on now
challenge for 1960
I'm
tomewack this is the big
aft.r the first of the year god all these
gi
ya to
1.
lee it they
as long
tit
ar they
a jgiarity basis.
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VOU to y to aasww am* of the"
Of I
luto
the rats# but I ht the
sta-s
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