HARVARD PROGRAM ON INTELLIGENCE AND POLICY: EXPECTED BENEFITS FOR THE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-00955R000200320006-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 25, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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2 5 NOV 1987
OTE 87-6719
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM:
Director of Training and Esucation
SUBJECT: Harvard Program on Intelligence and Policy:
Expected Benefits for the Agency
1. The establishment of the Program on Intelligence Assessment and
Policy by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government represents a
major success for your efforts, as DDI, to improve relations between the
intelligence and academic communities.
2. Harvard University has been a prominent source of criticism of
CIA relations with academics. Thus, public acknowledgement of CIA
funding of Harvard's new program will be seen as evidence that
intelligence agencies and universities can work together in the national
interest.
3. The Program--essentially case studies and a seminar for
intelligence managers--will focus on an area of continuing challenge to
the Agency: Increasing the impact of analysis on the policymaking
process.
4. The Program will demonstrate to Congress the seriousness of our
interest in improving the professional quality and utility for
policymaking of our analysis.
5. The Seminar on Assessment and Policymaking, which has already
been held twice, brings to bear (1) the Kennedy School faculty's
understanding of relations between governmental experts and decisionmakers
generally, and (2) the hands-on experience (and frustrations) of
intelligence managers with the challenge in the national security arena.
6. The case studies funded under the Program will increase
understanding of what works, what does not, and why--ultimately to the
benefit of both parties to the intelligence-policy relationship.
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Expected Benefits for the Agency
7. The Council sponsored under the Program will enable us to use
the good offices .of Kennedy School to raise questions (and table
suggestions) regarding the practices of our policy colleagues that affect
the relationship.
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