NOTE FOR: THE DDO FROM E. H. KNOCHE, DDCI

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2003
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• Publication Date: August 19, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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NOTE FOR: The DDO
FROM : E. H. Knoche, DDCI
From a number of quarters--high, medium
and low--I keep hearing about the "endless
bureaucracy" of the DDO, usually in the
context of mountains of paper.
Part of this, I am sure, stems from
efforts at all levels to improve visibility,
sharing of responsibility, and command and
control. I wonder, though, if it may not be
time to have a look at paper requirements
within, your Directorate.
If the Comptroller or any other Agency
component can be of use to you in this regard,
please feel free to ask, though I would think
it something for a DDO working group to examine.
cc: The Comptroller
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the DDO paper mill. Both
Thanks for your note on
Ted and I had thought that
one vast reporting exercise
severely, by' cutting out
we had cut back rather
in the semi-annual fie?.d
progress reports. They are
now done an an annual basis.
However, there surely is
too much paper; since I
drown in it continually..
We are sending your note
Staff Chief with a request
devil to our Evaluations
and a copy of this pink
that he solicit comments
from the Directorate's
paper-handlers to see if
we can cut back, and we will
certainly do so. Neverthe-
less, I should warn you that
this is an old sea lawyer's
game in the DDO.? Any
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request for documentation
is usually met by a sigh
and a moan of agony by
a shrewd operator.
One of our great problems
recently has been the vast
array of memoranda we have
had to prepare to respond
to the investigations and FO
This is what I hear talked
about in the elevators and t
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