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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2000
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• Publication Date: April 10, 1969
• Content Type: REPORT

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10 April 1969
Who knows what "U.S. national objectives and
security" consists of? In the counterinsurgency area
we are down to seven countries where there seems to
be acute U.S. security interests. Suggested reading
for this section and as excellent background: Agenda
for the Nation -- Brookings Institute but published in
paper-back by Doubleday, and I believe an Anchor book.
There is a great deal of controversy on this subject
and the Nixon Administration has yet to come up with
any clear statements of policy. Best single speaker
may be But to go back a bit--what is the
current role of the U.S. on the world scene? I believe
every student and most speakers would have a different
idea, but I question whether any person in the CS could
speak with authority on this broad, complicated subject.
Why not try to get the DCI to open for you on this one
topic?
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Part II
Polycentrism in the Communist world is of major
importance here and C/ICG might well be an excellent
scene setter. Excellent reading material might be
found in KAHN: The Year 2000. Selections from this
thought provoking book could point the way to dis-
cussion on all the things you mention--political,
military, social and especially economic and scientific
trends.
Part III
A. Among speakers would be and
Helpful reading might be CATER: Power
in Washington. On the influence of domestic phenomena-
might be helpful in point-
ing up or tying this in to the CS. On the contribution
of intelligence and especially of CS produced intelli-
gence why not try to get C/OCI to give you a few groups?
Back on domestic developments, how about John Clarke
on the great influence of budgetary limitations on CS
operations as well as resource constraints on the entire'
Executive Branch?
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B. I'm stumped here -- what is CIA today: an
overstaffed, complacent, wandering defendant of the
status quo or a vibrant, creative, forward-looking,
realistic group of professionals serving the USG?
for the CS Mission, you can get as many ideas
can people--we are or seem to be still in 1969
trying to
to ruin:
espionage
we become
be all things to all people--the sure road
Are we really on a mission of meaningful
and significant counter-intelligence or have
fat, dumb and happy? Have we so diffused
our patrimony that we have lost sight of our historic
mission? Are we a rudder-less ship as many believe or
are we so sophisticated that we are brimming with signi-
ficant accomplishments while creating the appearance of
floundering?
Re your footnote, I believe it vital for these
students to understand SfT collection--both means and
results--if they are to comprehend the direction the CS
must take if it is to survive. Only someone from DDS&T,
in my opinion, can set this scene and your students
should be cleared for anything that is being done in
this vital area. On liaison in the community,
if he is permitted to speak freely, can open a few eyes
to some realities vis-a-vis the military!
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Third Week
I won't even write the title of this week, for I
am so disgusted about the subject that I find it difficult
to be coherent. Most assignments, not many, are certainly
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arbitrary and on a who-knows-whom basis. This will
continue in the CS so long as the CS permits Division
Chiefs to have life and death authority over personnel.
The only meaning of ".ca.eer" in the CS is time on duty.
Have we ever had a professional personnel administrator
in the CS or in this Agency? No qualified such person
would undertake a job here! Our egotistic attitude toward
the use of personnel exceeded only by our abysmal
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ignorance of human being It is not the nature of our
business that precludes proper use and treatment of our
personnel; it's the nature of us ourselves. Witness, if
you will, 9 ou'of 10 fitness reports picked at random
to see that we walk on unfrozen water! I know of no one
who can speak with authority on this non-subject and the
literature on Personnel Administration is proscribed.
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trusted our officers sufficiently, to try. Where the
finance people think we are all crooks the CI and the
Security people think we are all so weak that we'll be
recruited! We don't even know what makes Russians tick,
much less what might make them susceptible to our
blandishments!
As for techniques for the course, I suggest a two
team approach with the whole class setting out a problem,
selecting alternative solutions and then taking opposite
views for best solution through debate, analysis, exami-
nation. The friction of the two teams may cause a spark
of value to scintillate.
One last thought: creativity, innovation, imagi-
nation--whatever you call it.... is the ability to form
new relationships between previously unrelated things.
With an uninterrupted month before them maybe these
people can discover some new relationships which could
further the CS mission.
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