REVIEW OF EXTERNAL EXPRESSION (TALKS AND PUBLICATION) BY AGENCY EMPLOYEES, 1965 TO PRESENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68B00432R000500010036-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: March 24, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

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24 March 1966
MEMORANDUM J;J`,,
SUBJECT: Review of External Expression (talks and
publication) by Agency employees, 1965
to present
1. The following breakdown is intended to give a rough
idea of activity in two categories: a) related to work in CIA
and b) not related. The former is called professional, the
latter amateur.
Professional Amateur Directorate Totals
DDS DDS&T DDp DDI
E >/I 17 3
DD/p 4 0
DDS&T 4 4
;:D/S 6 2 s
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Titles
D:D/I 55 22
D:D/p 6 27 33
D DS&T 20 2 22
DD/S 3 9 12
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Boooks*
D:D/I 3 1
0 1
DS&T 1 0
D~/S 0 0 0
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'.- ta1 11 71, ZO 31 3$ 10~
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2. Expressed in percentages the distribution
of this external activity by category and Directorate
is about what one would expect: 60% of it is
professional, and of the professional 62% is that of
DD/I officers. Again, articles or short pieces
constitute the bulk of what is offered for publica-
tion. The number of books is quite low.
3. The figures are very misleading in one
respect. Fewer employees are involved than the
figures might suggest. For example, 44% of all
the professional articles attributed to DD/I are
the work of two officers in NPIC. An even greater
disproportion is true of DDS&T. The number who
write for publication in their special fields is so
small in relation to the number of professional
employees as to be negligible. For the DDI, when
one combines serious professional lectures and
participation in seminars with potentially authorita-
tive articles on foreign affairs (political and
economic) one finds no more than 38 - and these are
the work of only 25 people. The repeaters include
those who have reputations on the outside, who are
in the process of getting them, or are trying to
get them. All told, the number of DD/I employees
who are active on the outside in a given year and who
have any reputation for authoritative scholarship
based on professional publication is probably less
than 1% of the DD/I analysts employed. How many
could deserve reputations given the energy, time
and opportunity should be several times this low
percentage - but how many times we really do not
know.
a) Present Agency policy leaves too much
to individual initiative. The present system
tends to encourage an ambitious entrepreneur -
analyst who is aware of the advantages of
access to the Agency's information. He can
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get a leg up on his academic competitors
and then shove off into the sea of fame and
fortune. There is no way of closing the door
to this opportunity, nor would it be desirable,
if feasible, to try negative or
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measures to this end. (We had a celebrated
case and gave an unconscionable amount of time
and effort to the end of prosecuting him for
violation of security. There was no prosecution.
The individual is now a famous author and pundit
who instructs the U.S. Government in Congressional
hearings).
b) If the Agency is to command and hold
respect in the learned world it must concern
itself more than it has with its employees'
potential for scholarly endeavors and must
devise ways of making it possible to actualize
more of this potential than is presently the
case. There is a shortage of qualified and
experienced scholar-analysts in the Agency.
who can be spared from the tactical fronts in
intelligence, and we know that we have stiffer
competition. than ever before in attracting the
promising students to our work. Our counsel
then should be to provide a better place for
scholar-analysts in CIA, one in which they
will feel at home in contributing directly
to the national intelligence effort without
loss of opportunity to gain and maintain the
respect and comradeship of their academic
colleagues.
c) Agency policy should be such as
quietly to assist and encourage those who
have developed and who can develop scholarly
reputations by publication. The policy would
aim to keep those we have and to attract more
by a demonstration of quality which commands
the respect of teachers and scholars in the
universities. 25X1A
Chief, DDI/Research Staff
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