DCI MAG - 24 OCTOBER 1979

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003200090011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 22, 1979
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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9 2 OCT 1979
DCI MAG - 24 October 1979
Internal status
A. Good people
1989
NAPA
Use good mech more
Accomplishments
Purposes
Planning - informed employees
RPO
B. One Agency
Perspective
II External Status
A. President
Consulted
New auth
Support for A and sources
1. Politicized
SALT
B. Congress
HPSCI Bill
SSCI - $
C. $
D. Public - openness
E. Dissent channel
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DCI MAG
24 October 1979
I How view? - Healthy - attitude better ever -
team - work/cooperation great
Strength of Agency - good people
Witness performance thru period of
criticism - bad morale'
Our obligation - ensure same quality
1989
Called for diversity of expert views -
NAPA
Not mil
Not State/HEW
Not CIA bias
Confirmed basic soundness of system
recommendations where not
using system fully
Accomplishments
- Uniform promotion system
- Full use panels - impartial
-- Establishment clerical
panels
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- New performance evaluation report
- Greater stress inter and intra
directorate rotation
- More stress on recruiting
-- Reduction recruiting time
- More attention low performers
-- low 3% released last yr.
-- counselled
Objectives - as complete NAPA actions
More use OP planning functions
-- Avoid missed opportunities
due failure receive train-
ing or failure receive
appropriate changes of
assignment
-- Avoid humps/valleys that
place some employees at
disadvantage
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- Ensure Reasonable Promotion
Opportunity (RPO)
Young people
One way to ensure RPO is to
be one Agency
Encourage mobility
Adjust excesses and
shortages w/o loss of
experienced talent
Overall - teamwork, comm,
cooperation between
Directorates much improved
ExComm
IIA Externally - foremost concern - how well
serving customers?
President - NSC - White House
1. PDB clearly highest quality
product in town
Pres expressions appreci-
ation
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2. DCI regular briefings
3. Agency consulted NSC, PRC,
SCC meetings
Opening briefs
Summation: product is more visible
and utilized than ever
PRC(I) Support: semiannual priorities
drill
Pres support: expressed in 1 Oct speech
Pres support: DCI's authorities increased
in past 2 1/2 years - especially
budgets
Unified Community helps Agency
Whenever have success in one area -
like serving customers well -
someone - usually press -
complains that it means intell too
close - politicized
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e.g., give background briefing
to PRC - someone leaks it as a
position
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IJB Congress
More intell support/requests than ever
Incl requests from Congressmen
for briefings - reports
Very good relations w/oversight Comm:
HPSCI - unanimous anti-Agee legis
SSCI - pushing for $
IIC $ Lots recognition
Pres speech
SSCI
But first need is technical bulge
Agency invented some
Agency $ about level since '73 cutback
in VN
Keep trying
Must look for ways to economize
Need your ideas
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Clearly on way up - recognition how
vital we are
In part due fact public more aware
good things do - contributions make
-- In part bec press more
persevering, inquisitive
-- In part bec opened up more
--- No way avoid
--- Basic precept of US Gov't
is max visibility
--- No way claim cannot share
unclass info - or that
don't have unclass
--- Dangerous .to us to withdraw
into previous anonymity -
can't do w/degree over-
sight/interest
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IID Public
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Pos benefits of providing service
to public
--- Understand us - less concerned
--- When "failure" overbilled by
media - can place in
perspective, e.g., oil,
energy studies
Models
IIE Remind
Channels for dissent
Channels for direct comm
Take marked drop-off as good
sign
Have best intell service in world
Want to do everything to keep it
that way
Always looking for suggestions
Can do better with your
help and advice
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