DCI GOALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00467A000400050019-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 15, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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15 July 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM William W. Wells
Deputy Director for Operations
VIA Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : DCI Goals
1. You asked for one-year goals. Here are some
suggestions:
You might try to secure legislation to support
the U.S. intelligence program. This would include, among
others, a law authorizing the CIA to collect information and
undertake covert action. Laws should be sought to administer
punishment by administrative action or, possibly, under the
criminal code, to those employees or ex-employees revealing
classified information to unauthorized persons.
-You might consider establishing a standard
evaluating U.S. public acceptance of intelligence responsi-
bilities and the public perspective of the CIA and then .
measure against this standard - one year hence - the success
of your efforts to persuade the press, the Congress, the
government as a whole and the public of the worth of CIA's
intelligence mission. If no appreciable progress has been
made in a year (or even before then) you might wish to
reconsider gaining more public acceptance through the media;
we might, for example, reconsider using the motion picture
or the television to dramatize CIA's mission. Everyone around
here has always been against media exploitation of "your CIA
in action" but I have never understood quite why.
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-One obvious goal is to reduce the number of
Congressional committees overseeing the Agency's activities.
If this can be done in one year, and we wind up with only
one oversight committee per house, it would be a job
exceedingly well done in such a short time.
-As you get more accomplished political action
experience behind you, you might wish to make suggestions
for changes in the OAG procedures so that future Presidents
and Secretaries of State can more readily understand the uses
of covert political action. Every administration, particularly
in its beginning phases must literally grope its way through
the unlighted caverns of political action. Many missteps
come in the first stages of understanding; perhaps these
missteps could be avoided if covert political action were
better conceptualized and administered. This would be
something to do which might be particularly helpful in 1977.
25X1A
William wells
cc: ADDO
EA/DDO
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