GENERAL PROPOSALS CONCERNING THE PROPOSED CIA EMPLOYEE JOURNAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06365A001200040010-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 1998
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• Content Type: REPORT

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ENCLOSURE A
General Proposals concerning the Proposed CIA Employee Journal
1. Mission of the 'rgposed Journal. As an adjunct to the Training Pro-
gram, it would be the purpose of the Journal to sustain and increase em-
ployee ehthusiasm for their work, keep employees informed about intelligence
problems and especially those of CIA, increase understandin, and cooperation
among various branches of the Agency, stimulate a more active interest in in-
telligence as a career among promising employees, minimize employee turnover,
and improve the work of CIA generally.
2. Content, The Journal would specialize in such general subjects as:
a. Articles on broad aspects of intelligence and on intelligence
as a career, frequently signed by the ElLrector, one of his
deputies, or one of the Assistant Directors.
b. Articles on intelligence methods and developments, past and
present.
c. Articles on CIA organization, reorganizations, and current
problems.
d. Discussions of the inter-agency aspects of Central Intelligence.
e. Articles having to do with the work of CIA outside the US
In addition, the following are suggested as either desir-
able or at least worthy of consideration:
a. A Question and Answer column
b. Articles submitted by employees on subjects relevant to
intelligence and CIA.
c. An intelligence news-roundup
d. A page submitted by Personnel and Administration on problems
of interest to all employees, including time-leave'and attendance,
pay schedules, and the like.
3. Frequency of Publication. It is suggested that two issues a month
would serve to keep readers up to date without sacrificing their interest
through too frequent publication.
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4. Circulation. The Journal would be circulated to all employees of CIA
in Washington and to as many as possible of those in the field.
5. Classification. The Journal as a whole should be classified SECRET.
It would seem advisable, however, to include under the omnibus classifaction
Confidential, Restricted, and unclassified material.
6. Format. The Journal would be printed on good but not expensive paper,
by the offset process, prepared on electric typewriter. This process can be
made to appear almost indistinguishable from linotype but is less expensive.
Illustrations would be included on the cover and where indicated in the text.
7. Expense andPracticability. According to the Government Printing Office,
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S. Staff. It is believed that a staff consisting of an ddito:r, an ass-
istant editor, and two secretaries would be sufficient to handle the publication
of the Journal
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MINCLOSURE B
Discussion of the Proposals
1. An intelligence agency's success must depend very largely on its
ability to find, train, and keep the best possible people for the rather un-
usual jobs that must be filled. The most important incentives that can be
used to attract and hold competent people in these jobs are the relative
fascination of intelligence work and the opportunity offered for doing an un-
usually important job in the service of one's country. CIA can obviously
offer both of these incentives, but there are barriers to their continued
development. Employees in rmmtine jobs, divorced from the main currents of
intelligence, kept of necessity frog knowing very much about the workings of
the agency as a whole or about the actual intelligence it handles, may start
with high hopes and enthusiasm but soon be=,dissuaded from the notion that they
personally are making any valuable contribution to CIA, may then become bored,
and consequently either do a half-hearted job or resign. Promising young men
and women who originally planned to make intelligence a lifetime career, may
turn to something else unless they remain convinced that their own best in-
terests and those of their country are bound up in their wholehearted efforts
to further the work of CIA. Those entirely content in their jobs might gain
a broader perspective on intelligence and be stimulated to more effective
effort through a better grasp ofbroad intelligence problems if they were kept
in constant touch with them. A CIA Journal that could advance employees' in-
telligence education, make them aware of what was going on ih the Agency as a
whole and help make them feel that they were really sharing in its vital
mission, could improve their training, increase their incentive to do good work,
and inspire their ambition to advance in their chosen profession,
2. Some of the types of articles suggested in Enclosure A for inclusion
its the Journal might bear comment:
a. Explanations of OIA organization and reasons for changes in
it would clearly be in order, particularly discussion of proposed changes that
would affect the immediate status of individual employees.
b. Discussion of the functions of 00 and SO might be banned on
security grounds. It would seem, however, that, in a general way at least, some
discussion of the work of these offices could be allowed in a paper classified
SECRET and circulated only to persons cleared for the classification. Mutual
understanding might promote cooperation where cooperation in the past is said
to have been less thah satisfactory,
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o. Encouragement of employee contributions to the Journal might,
among other things, elicit valuable employee suggestions which CIA would other-
wise not have received.
A page on personnel and administration problems is suggested
chiefly because it would be more economical to include it in a single employee
publication than to publish two separate bulletins.
e. A news-roundup (which would, of course, contain no sensitive
material and nothing of high classification) might give a greater sense of par-
ticipation to hundreds of employees whose jobs were not related to intelligence
information as such. A more intelligent understanding of world events might
also increase their usefulness to the Agency.
3. It would seem desirable, in so far as it would be practicable and
secure, to circulate the Journal outside Washington. The main purpose would be
to keep employees in the field in touch with developments in the home office to
the end that they might render more intelligent service to the Agency as a whole.
4. The proposed Journal staff is probably the minimum that could do the
job. The editor would require an assistant, not only in order that the office could
function in his absence, but because the work would probably require frequent
conferences in many parts of CIA and elsewhere which would keep one or the other
editor out of the office a good deal of the time. One of the secretaries would
have to be capable of reading proof, preparing copy for the printer, and other
sub-editorial functions, and hence would have to be of a fairly high grade. The
other would not have to be more than a good typist.
5. T'e object of the suggested format is to produce a product which would
be neither so drab that it would repel readers not so gaudy as to cost un-
necessary money.
6. The expense of the operation would seem small in relation to the
potential value of the Journal to CIA. According to the GPO, the printing costs
would be considered low in relation to many printing jobs undertaken for the
government. It is believed that the suggested staff could be acquired from
within CIA. The salaries of the staff would not necessarily result in any change
in the CIA budget.
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