A PROGRAM TO IMPROVE CIA S INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002700010008-8
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 22, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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22 February 1982
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A Program to improve CIA's Intelligence Product
and timeliness of the Agency's intelligence product. A systematic
the CIA might emulate as a means of improving the focus, quality,
1. The State Department has a dynamic speakers' program
process, and establish useful contacts in and outside the government.
2. In 1967 the Department, under the auspices of the
-Secr,tary of State, created an ambitious, off-the-record speakers'
would help overcome our intellectual isolation, improve out
understanding of administration needs and the policy-making
program to expose Agency analysts and managers to outside expects
policy process by promoting a free exchange of views and minimizing
program and channel for dissent which it called "Open Forum." The
purpose is to encourage creative thinking and to eff er all State
employees an opportunity to participate more directly in the foreign
political and bureaucratic oonstraints on debate and dissent.
an?..outsider,' the most notable feature
economists, journalists, congressmen, and administraton officials.
The attached list reveals an impressive roster of participants in
1981. These noontime prbgrams, held in the 1000-seat auditorium,
are widely publicized in the Department and 'tsually draw heavy
country's more prominent authors, scholars, diplomats, scientists,
Forum is its weekl lecture schedule which includes some
attendance from all ranks.
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 and formats, including a series on the 21st century co-sponsored
with the Policy Planning Staff, Smaller programs are aimed at
problems in specific areas. For example, a "brown bag". seminar
jointed sponsored with the Bureau of European Affarfis dealt
with European attitudes toward the military balance in Europe.
5. CIA has no comparable vehicle to stimulate and
on the steering committee. Last year they initiated new programs
interest in Open Forum and the broad professional spectrum represented
Department's "Newsletter" reports Secretary Haig's personal
4. Open Forum is run by Chairman Eileen Heaphy with
the advise of a steering committee. The attached article from the
White House and the NSC or the procedures on Capital Hill.
realistic sense of the day-to-day operations or needs of the
. coneerns of the administrion. Moreover, few of us have any
guide its employees. The Agency's compartmentalized structure,
its strict security considerations, the physical location of
headquarters, and the lack of direct role in the policy-making
process have fostered intellectual isolation and parochialism.
Rarely are we exposed first-hand to the major players and special
6. A first-rate, institutionalized program of speakers
and seminars could help overcome our handicaps. We could follow
the successful Open Forum model and add a new dimension by
capitalizing on the unique experiences and insights of DDO officers.
and other specialists in the Agency. Addition ally, seminars on
congressional relations could familiarize analysts with the
legislative process and introduce key Congressmen and committee
staffers who seek our analysis. CIA is out of the mainstream, but
a sustained end ambitious program such as this could. help make our
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 Open Forum Speakers in 1981
Amb. Robert E. White (El Salvador) and Amb. Thomas Bayatt (Colombia)
on "Dissent in. the Foreign Service: Channels and Ethics"
issues facing the US.
Julian Simon, author of "The Ultimate Resource"
Colman McCarthy, Washington Post columnist
-Ben Wattenberg, editor and TV commentator
Arthur Laffer, supply-side'economist
Barbara Marx Hubbard, an American futurologist, on long-term
Charles DiBona, president of the American Petroleum Institute,
on "America's Energy Policy for the 80s"
Eliot Berg, consultant to the World Bank and principal author of
the Banks's review of African development efforts in the past decade
Arthur Flemming, chairman US Civil Rights Commission on hiring
practices in the Foreign Service.
Frank Carlucci, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Walter Conkite, newcaster
Richard T. Kennedy, :Undersecretary for Management, on managment
issues
Lawrence S. Eagleberger, Assistant Secretary for European Affairs,
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-.John- H.. Holdridge, Assistant Secretary for East ASian
Affairs, on US relations with Southeast Asia
Three correspondents who cover the Department--Barrie Dunsmore ABC,
Bernard Gwertzman, New York Times, and Bernard Kalb B_'--discuss
Soviet "disinformation.
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Richard Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations
Robert Weinland, Center for Naval Analyses on "Peace; 'Progress
and Gunboat Diolomac9" The Naval Instrument in Soviet Foreign
policy. "
Congressman Toby Roth (R-Wisc) on ICA's public diplomacy
John Kenneth Galbraith on politics of underdevelopment
Joan Baez on human rights in Latin America
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Robert Mahoney, principal investigator for ACnA. study on attitudes
in Europe toward the niilitary blanace
Milton Friedman, monetarist economist (cocktails and dinner)
Rita Hauser, former UN delegate, human rights (luncheon)
-Amb. to Rl Salvador neane Hinton on that country's problems
and prospects
Frnak Conahan, director International Division GAO on "A Critics
View of the Management. of Foreign Affairs"
Amb. Max Kampleman, chairman of the US delegation to the follow-up
meeting of the Congerence on Secruity and Cooperation in Europe
on the recent session in Madrid
David S. Patterson, Office of the Historian, "The Department of
State and Arms Control: An Historical Perspective"
Richard T. Davies, former ambassador to Poland, "The Polish
Revolution: The First Year."
Roderick MacFarquhar, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars,
"Why Are Moscow and Peking Still at Odds?"
Ambassadors Nobuhiko Ushiba and Bobert Ingersoll and other members
of the Japan-US Economic :Relations Group
Arnaud de Brochgrave, Georgetown University Center for Strategic
and International Studies, "KGB Disinformation? How Effective?"
Captain Jacques Cousteau on global ocean issues
4I.. Peter McPherson, AID administrator
Edward Korry, former ambassador to Chile, "Morality and, the Foreign
Service Loyalty to State, Service or Self?"
Sir Max Beloff, Oxford University, "Twoa'Years of the Thatcher
Government"
Panel discussion on the Export Trading Company Act of 1981 by
congressmen, general counsel of the US Special Trade Representative,
vice-president of Citibank
Amb. Jean Kirkpatrick, US relations with the UN
Andrew pierce of the Council on Foreign Relations, "The Western
Alliance in the Wider World"
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Willian Van Cleave, board member of the Committee on Present
Danger and Strategic Issues
Percy Qoboza, on South Africa
Alvin Toffler on his new book, "The Third War"
Sen, John Glenn on "Putting the Military Cart before the Foreign
Policy Horse. "
Michael S. Teitelbaum, Ford Foundation on populaticn problems
Admiral Gene La Rocque, director of Center for Defense Information
Helmet Sonnenfeldt
Amb. Richard N. Gardner
Alejandro Orfila, Secreg ry OAS
Amb. Lucius Battle, chairman of Foreign Policy Institute at Johns
Hopkins
Anna Chennault
Joseph Sisco, "American Foreign Policy Priorities in the 1980s"
John K. Cooley, journalist, "The Libyan Whirlpool" Qadhafi's
Arab and African Advdntures"
Robert Conquest, British Sovietologist on "What Makes Soviet
Leaders Tick?"
Amb. Marshall Green on "The World Population Lxplosion
Allan Ryan,'Justice Dept. on hunting down Nazis
Amb. Robert Neumann on the Reagan transition
Jan Nowak, Radio Free Europe on "The US and Poland"
Amb. Harriman on "Looking Ahead to the 1980s"
J.B. Kelly, British scholar on the Middle East
Jack Anderson
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