SIS PROMOTIONS AND AWARDS CEREMONY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP95-00535R000300010008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 23, 1985
• Content Type: MISC

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23 Jan 85
SIS Promotions and Awards Ceremony
23 January 1985
Good afternoon. Today we award promotions and rank stipends
to members of the Senior Intelligence Service and welcome those
newly promoted into this select group.
Individually and collectively, as SIS officers, you reflect
the finest qualities of government service. Your special
qualities are the backbone of our intelligence profession. We
are pleased to be able to recognize such an outstanding group of
men and women.
I also want to say a special word of welcome to the families
who are with us today. We understand and appreciate the
critical support that our successful officers get from their
families.
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It is fitting that we make these awards at this time when
our country and our service has new challenges to tackle and new
opportunities to grasp.
While it is true that being an SIS officer is recognition of
your performance and contribution in the past, attainment of SIS
rank is not only recognition and reward for what you have done.
It perhaps more importantly is a challenge to make your imprint
on the future promise for dealing with the challenges that lie
ahead.
In this most active and demanding of all jODS involving the
public trust, you are the ones who set the tempo, chart the
course and make things happen.
Although each of you have come into the SIS from a
particular branch, division, office and directorate, by
accepting this position you accept the responsibility to
represent the best interests of the Agency. This, in itself, is
a major challenge: not to become trapped in bureaucratic
dullness--not to fall into the "not invented or written here"
syndrome; not to become part of the problbm; but to use those
qualities that got you here to work with each other to identify
and measure what needs to De done, cut the red tape and get at
it to find and implement solutions.
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We at CIA have a special privilege in being in action
virtually all the time, while the rest of the government, for
the most part, is planning and preparing, By being in action I
include collecting and weighing pieces of evidence, arriving at
a conclusion and working out a method of accomplishing something
specific as well as recruiting, responding to terrorist attacks,
and the other more widely recognized action-type things we do.
As supervisors, its up to us to get a feeling of this
activity throughout the organization, This can do wonders to
stimulate the initiative, the creativity, the self-starting,
can-do attitude and the tempo at which things are done here, I
believe we are way ahead of everybody else in these respects,
yet I still see people sitting for a couple of weeks on tasks
that can be dusted off or moved along quickly.
In London during World War II, Churchill had a sticker which
read, "action this day," which he put on his memos to make
things move. That spirit should be the bottom line of what we
call the excellence program.
We all see, all too often: organizations that do
comounicate but with two pieces of paper where one will do; a
five page memo where one paragraph or a phone call will do; a
week to respond to something that should only take a couple of
hours.
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Of Course, it is vital that we do the thinking and staff
work necessary at each level in our organization to do quality
work. But we count on you, as leaders, to vouch for care and
quality in performance and also to keep a sharp eye pealed for
situations where we find ourselves in a sort of bureaucratic
gridlock, unable to move forward or backward.
I repose trust and confidence in my Deputies and, through
them, in you. Time and again, it has been demonstrated that our
employees consistently rise above the norm to meet the demands
placed on them and the Agency. They are willing and eager to be
led to new successes, many of which we alone can know. You are
the leaders who are in place to give them the guidance, the
example, and what it takes to get results. You have a special
trust -- and the talents to discharge it.
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We carry on a noble trademark, a dedication, a tempo, a
spirit of can do, The dedication and enthusiasm of our senior
officers have been a source of continuing inspiration to all who
have, and do, work here, The leadership and talent I see before
me make it possible for the CIA to continue to provide the high
quality intelligence that our nation needs, and on which our
President relies in making critical decisions affecting our
national security and our future,
And now, as a reminder that excellence is recognized, let us
proceed to honor those before us today.
We are recognizin gency officers with distinguished
officer awards, Agency and 1 Intelligence Community Staff
officer with meritorious officer awards.
We also recognize today the excellent efforts of
keypersons in the Consolidated Fund Campaign
which ran from 22 October through 30 November 1984, These
people worked long and hard explaining the campaign story and
soliciting donations from their fellow employees while at the
same time performing their regular duties. In this years
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campaign, $359,253 was collected, more than in any previous
campaign. It should also be noted that, through our keypersons'
fine efforts, it was a banner year for the Educational Aid Fund,
which received total donations of $49,744, an increase of 14%
over last year. The public service aid society received a total
of $30,491, an increase of 20%, I am pleased to announce that
36 major components met or exceeded their campaign goals, The
keyperson in those organizations will receive a special
certificate of appreciation from me. Representing those 36,
four keypersons, whose offices exceeded their goals by the
highest percentages, will receive certificates today,
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