ATTACHED COMMENT - #462 - FROM EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE SURVEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05703A000400080041-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: June 23, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: J"Z F Y I
John:
if I called for yo last night
abo T_ ---
for me.
He is still working the Employee
Attitude Survey. One it that is attri-
buted to an NPIC respon nt to the question-
naire dealt with inter ffice and inter-Agency
bickering, feuding politics as a cause for
pl''eventing valuable telligence from being
disseminated. He Is
puzzl what this
meant, as was I. tho has not
identified the ? ividual by name, he did ask
( to verify ,~ether or not the individual
. a crank or nether his reonse could be
DATE)
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taken seriously. OMS has stated that from the
balance of this man's questionnaire, it appears
that he is a responsible individual.
is sending you a copy of this
excerpt and would like your reaction. The
courier is picking it up first thing this morning.
I must say it didn't ring a bell with me and will
reserve comment until I see it.
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Cor nt--#462--fremr Employee Attitude
1. In my experience, counts in this vein are fairly common among
intelligence analysts dedicated to particular area or functional specialties
who have a selfless drive to see their analytical products used. From
their viewpoint, a decision not to disseminate or not to publish informa-
tion which they had a hand in developing usually is caused by an inter-
office or inter-agency "feud" -- rather than by an honest difference of
analysis or judgment.
2. I interpret the subject content to be of that ilk -- from a
person who is well motivated and dedicated but who has had such a narrow
experience in the intelligence process that he is unacquainted with the
wide variety of reasons why particular intelligence is used or not used
at any given time. I suspect that he seldom sees or hears of the uses of
intelligence that are made at "policy levels of the government."
3. Having made the above observations and guesses, I also note that
there are instances when inter-agency disagreements caused by other than
differing analyses of intelligence result at least in postponing the use
of particular intelligence. Such situations are rather obvious and frus-
trating to the kind of person I have described, and encourage the human
inclination to generalize. I also note that the "policy levels of the
government" vary in their uses of intelligence from one administration to
the next, with some administrations being more active and visible -- from
the viewpoint of intelligence officers -- than others.
4. The comment might have come from another kind of intelligence
officer. There are those who work in the R&D end of our business and who
experience their own special brand of frustration. Such persons are too
far separated from the substantive processing of intelligence and usually
hear about only the signal successes and signal failures of intelligence
usage. They are aware of the high costs of technical collection systems
to the extent that they are sensitive to any real or imagined single failure
to use the product effectively.
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SUBJECT: Attached Co ment--#462--from 1-*)loyee Attitude Survey
S. Having said all this, I think the key question about such conrrtents
is: do you or I believe it to be so? If my answer is "no," then I need
to work more on surfacing the instances causing persons such as the
author of this comment to believe it to be so.
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