MEMO TO DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE FROM(Sanitized)

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2001
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• Publication Date: November 7, 1977
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM: Director of Central Intelligence
1. Employee Bulletin #598 dated 18 May 1977 contains
the text of Harlan Cleveland's talk on Ethics In Public
Service. Preceding this is a transcript of your introductory
comments. A copy of these is annexed. It is obvious that
this was taken verbatim from your presentation without
editing.
2. While this introduction no doubt sounded casual and
off hand, when voice inflection and other aspects of the
spoken presentation are eliminated it loses much of its
effectiveness.
3.. In the future, we should ensure that any transcriptions
of your spoken comments are edited prior to publication.
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..Address
by Ambassador Harlan Cleveland:'
in the CIA Auditorium ;
Tuesday, 10. May 1977.
Director .of 'Central -Iiite'liigence Good afternoon. We
are.very pleased this afternoon to have Ambassador Harlan
Cleveland with.. us to, talk on;the;topic of .."Ethics--In Public
everyone of us in the intelligence business
. As.someiof
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may know,. I; have been taking. my own hand at..:.trying to write
asked outsiders to help me.. I have asked. other mbers'of
the Community .: to help me . I. am- not:. doing very, ?we 1. It . is
not easy. .Inaddition; Lam not sure whether we-..should have
nterestiiig.,and .help?ul to,_~explore and -to??think,Tthe problems
have?Ambas;sador Cleveland to stimulate our thinkin
:in
this:
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direction, because-the topic...of the ethics'ofwhat we do is
ever da - r - -
y.. y in everythiiig.we.undertake.with the extraordinary
members of. the nation's-.Intelligence Community..:--Ambassador
Cleveland comes with tremendous-credentials to explore-this
operations, in having been'an Ambassador,: and.havin.g..been
perh
aps a :'1ot of.,.-c~rien:tation towards, foreign affairs
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, think the .President ,.of a ,major universitthe-University of
Hawai an d. neat ;foreign affairs connections .to i t
willicontx.ibute-to:his vision of our problem -and. the problem
.of` ail:"government.people .in the field of ethics:. in making:,,._-,
'that?-,compatible with their:.public --service. Mr:.-Ambassador.,
please, we are-very. grateful=tol_:have.you here.
`Ambassador Cleveland: Thank you very much::Admiral.-
I don't promise to solve the problem that you are struggling
with, but I'm certainly going to talk about it. The sponsors
of this extraordinary lecture series asked me only two
questions. One was whether they should address mail to my
home in case I did not want my colleagues in the office to
know that I was doing business with you. For reasons that
will be clear from what I am about to say to you, I replied
with some version of Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum, "If you
would not one known to do anything, never do it."
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