NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR NO. 12

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: September 12, 1977
• Content Type: MISC

STATUS ~F RE013GANI~AT~OIo1~
12 September 1977.
Work orb implementing the reorganization, discussed in "Notes" X10, 23
August, is continuing. As you know, President Carter charged me and
Secretary of Defense Brown with drafting and coordinating an Executive
Order that would implement the Presidential Directive of 4 August and update
Executive Order 11905. Preparation of the new Executive Order has been
under the leadership of John McMahon, Acting D/DCI/IC, representing the.
Community,. and Admiral Daniel Murphy, representing the Defense
Department. We have reviewed carefully their early draft, and, following
several revisions, we are now circulating a revised version to the Community
members for coordination.
The details of the NIO/DDI merger have been completed. Official
announcement only awaits my briefing of the appropriate Committees of .
Congress on the reasons for, and objectives of, the merger. As 1 have
emphasized before, neither this merger nor the reorganization as a whole will
change either of these components' relationship to the Agency.
Now that Congress is in session, we will proceed as quickly as possible to
clear other aspects of the reorganization through the appropriate Congressional
channels. We will also take up such other issues as the location and makeup of
the National Intelligence Tasking Center, and consideration of potential
nominees to head the Center and other new leadership posts.
UNCILASSIFIE7D P~iODUC'T~Q1~I
I think it is noteworthy that the reports the DDI's Office of Economic
Research has published in the past five months on the world energy situation
and the Soviet economic situation have been rzceiving a great deal of public
and governmental attention. It is clear to me that they are playing a very
useful role, inside the government and out, in both their classified and
unclassified versions. This is exactly the kind of stimulus good intelligence
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processes. While these examples have received more attention because we were
able to produce them in an unclassified version, they are only typical of the
good work we are producing today in many areas.
EEO ACTIVITIES
I would like to commend the work of those Agency employees responsible
for our EEO activities at the 34th 1Vational Biennial Convention of Delta
Sigma Theta, Inc. in Denver, Colorado last month. Delta is a minority public
service sorority committed to academic excellence and community service. In
this first year, of Agency participation, our representatives discussed Agency
career opportunities with some 1,Q00 delegates, most of whom were graduate-
level professionals, and provided information and exhibits on the work of the
Agency. I am dedicated to improving the posture of the Agency in the EEO
field, and warn to express my appreciation to all those involved in this
tremendously important work.
BLIJE;aIRD f ARTICHOKE/1~KSEARCI-I
On two previous occasions in this newsletter I have discussed the
revelations of past Agency involvement with chemical and biological testing
and experimen#ation. In my testimony before the Congress on the MKULTRA
case, I assured the American people that we would continue our efforts to
uncover the details and persons affected by these programs.
Recently, in the course of a routine review of files stored in the Agency
Archives, the Office of Security located 14 boxes of material pertaining to
BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE, which was the code name for testing programs
that preceded MKULTRA. Much of the material in this new find is open
literature or was obtained from overt sources, but it does provide additional
details on the scope of the programs. The activities conducted under
BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE were brought to the attention of both the
Rockefeller Commission and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Activities (the Church Committee) during their investigations.
VVe have also uncovered a few hundred documents pertaining to
ivIKSEARCH which was the umbrella program that replaced MKULTRA.
These documents,. found among old budget materials, verify that
MKSEARCH began in 1964 and was terminated in 1972. They do provide
some added details on this program, which eve had known very Iittle about.
However, we have no reason to believe that the basic files were not destroyed
in 1972 as previously reported.
Consistent with my belief that we must be open and forthright in this
matter, I have informed the appropriate Senate and House committees of this
new material. Sanitized versions of the documents will be released under FOIA
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~~ procedures. While this Pt ,y of disclosure may be painful and e~' arrassing to
us all, I feel it is absolutely necessary to rebuild and maintain the image and
-credibility of the Central Intelligence Agency.
TOURS
The dates for running the tours for employees and their families have now
been set for 24 September and l ,October. Based on what happens on those two
days and the reaction of our CIA families, we will make a final decision on the
future of the tour program.-
STANS~'IEL.D TURNER
Director
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