SUPERGRADE TALK
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP80B01554R003000030001-9
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RIPPUB
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K
Document Page Count:
7
Document Creation Date:
December 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
July 25, 2001
Sequence Number:
1
Case Number:
Publication Date:
March 21, 1979
Content Type:
LIST
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SUPERGRADE TALK
21 March 1979
I New responsibility
Weight of what say/do
Need for Agency-wide leadership
Team effort essential /.~`-?
Key to leadershi -- look after people
oy lty down
Shield
Loyalty up
Let know where problems are
Particular responsibility
See good side as well as bad
Circumstances, techniques, controls different.
Charraes not all bad -
Controls
Look at fragility of our operations
Overt/Covert ops
Overt/Covert people
Have been excesses
MKULTRA
Wiretaps, mail openings, break-ins.
Examples all self generated
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.Not condemnation of predecessors
even few who knew
Patriotism
Zeal
Different climate
But lesson --
Not well known inside
Compartmentation
Temptation exists
Degree of sense of Agency responsibility
and alertness of supergrades that will catch CIA can't afford another expose
So controls not all bad
Judiciousness
Can overdo
Are not
Reversal of criticism - support
SSCI - Monday
Demand for product
Kudos
Relations w/State
Different -- better
Collection capabilities
Greater than ever
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People
Must recruit
Must retain
Your top job
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SUPERGRADE TALK
21 March 1979
New responsibility
Fteigh.t of what say/do
Need for Agency-wide leadership
Team effort essential
Key to leadership -- look after people
Loyalty down
Shield
Loyalty up
Let know where problems are
Particular responsibility
See good side as well as bad
Circumstances, techniques, controls different
Changes not all bad
Controls
Look at fragility of our operations
Overt/Covert ops
Overt/Covert people
Have been excesses
MKULTRA
Wiretaps, mail openings, break-ins
Examples all self generated
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Not condemnation of predecessors --
even few who knew
Patriotism
Zeal
Different climate
But lesson Not well known inside
Compartmentation
Temptation exists
Degree of sense of Agency responsibility
and alertness of supergrades that will catch --
CIA can't afford another expose"
So controls not all bad
Judiciousness
Can overdo
Are not
Good side
Reversal of criticism - support
SSCI - Monday
Demand for product
Kudos
Relations w/State
Different -- better
Collection capabilities
Greater than ever
Coordination
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People
Must recruit
Must retain
Your top job
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