MAGID UPDATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000900020012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 28, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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DATE: 8.;.28.73 ,
TO: Messrs. and W'sh/i9;
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SUBJECT: MAGID Update
I called today to
get a fill-in on M G D developments to
date. 0 tells me that the group met
for an entire afternoon last week and
will meet again tomorrow to draw up a
list of proposals for you to consider.
Obviously, there has been a good deal
of lively discussion which is all to
the good. 0 says we should have the
list of topics they would like to pursue
by Friday or early next week.
ue s and bounce ideas offiI
They would like to do so in
says that the grow would
ver much like to meet with and
before everything is nai a own
regarding OPR. They would see this
basically as an education process for
themselves and would like just to raise
an evening get-together (in the Dining
Room at their own expense) sometime in
mid-September. Of course, the group
would not want to do this if you think
it would be premature. They, for one,
believe that there would be something
to be gained by having such a session
before, rather than after everything is
et in concrete. What is your reaction
this proposal?
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FYI, Osays that all those
who have been to your Friday luncheons
have found them to be very rewarding
and all agree that this is an excellent
way to establish a needed dialogue
between you and the analysts.
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A few words of guidance--
Purpose stated in DDI Notice:
1. To assist me and other managers in the
Directorate in improving the operation of the
Directorate.
Title :
-Management--primarily focus in the way
we operate and manage.
.Not on substantive judgments per se.
-.Advisory--means you raise questions and
provide advice.
.Advice is something that may or may not
be followed.
. Group should not go into this with concept
that if advice is not taken, it has failed in
some way.
. I will try to explain why advice may not
have been taken.
2. MAGID will not supplant authority of existing
line and staff. (The people in charge of Offices,
Divisions, and Staffs have the responsibility;
MAGID does not.)
-If you want to look into something, I can pave
way for group to get info you may need to do
your task. Don't go asking for data without
checking with
3. Don't get involved in individual personal.
grievance cases--unless it is symptomatic of
management problem.
4. Topics: You were selected as a representative
group of various parts and levels of people in the
Directorate. It is your job to know what is
bothering people, to generate or solicit useful
suggestions, and to serve as an informal conduit
for your fellow employees.
This will generate your agenda. Weekly lunch.
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21 June 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Basic and Geographic Intelligence
Director of Current Intelligence
Director of Economic Research
Director of Strategic Research
Director, Imagery Analysis Service
Director, Central Reference Service
Director, Foreign Broadcast Information
Service
SUBJECT : Management Advisory Group for the
Intelligence Directorate (MAGID)
1. The Executive Secretary, CIA, Management Committee,
during the CIA Management Committee meeting on 1 June 1973,
asked that each Directorate establish a management advisory group.
2. There will be established, effective 1 July 1973, a
Management Advisory Group for the Intelligence Directorate (MAGID
3. The basic purpose of MAGID is to assist me and other
managers? in the Directorate in improving the operation of the
Intelligence Directorate by supplementing the established channels
of communication. It will identify problems worthy of management
attention and will suggest solutions for these and other problems
already identified by management. Obviously, it will not supplant
the authority of existing line and staff components nor will it have
any production responsibilities.
4. MAGID will be composed of eight officers, one from
each of the offices and services of the Directorate and one from
the Directorate's staffs. Service on MAGID will be for one-year
tours and in addition to assigned duties. Although I plan to meet
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regularly with MAGID, it will normally, report to me through the
Chief, Executive Staff, DDI, who will provide general guidance and
assistance in. its operation.
5. The immediate task is for you to nominate participants.
I would like to receive your nominations no later than 29 June.
Each office will provide- candidates for the following age brackets:
25-30; 31-35; 36-40; 41-45. Each office will provide a. total of
four nominations. Your nominees should have at least one year's
service and should be in the GS-09 to GS-15 category. Each should
possess a pattern of fitness report evaluations of at least "Strong".
You should nominate only officers who could serve at least a one-
year tour and with the understanding that effective participation in
MAGID may occasionally require substantial amounts of their on-
duty time. Obviously, MAGID will provide its participants with a
unique opportunity to gain: insights into the problems, plans and
dynamics of the Directorate. For this reason, I urge you to nominate
people who have the potential for advancement and whose experience
on MAGID will benefit the operation and management of the Directorate
in the future.
6. To get MAGID off to a good start, I propose that during
its. first six months there will be two representatives who have
seved on the Agency Management Advisory Group. One of these
persons will serve as chairman for the first six months. A rotational
pattern will be established from the officers chosen from your nomi-
nations so that some initial appointments will be for less than a year
and others will be somewhat longer.
EDWARD W. PROCTOR
Deputy Director for Intelligence
cc: C/Special Research Staff
C /Information Requirements Staff
C/COMIREX Staff
C /DDI Planning Staff
C /DDI Administrative Staff
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MANAGEMENT ADVISORY GROUP
FOR THE
INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE (MAGID)
STAT
I. A Management Advisory Group for the Intelligence Directorate
(MAGID) has been established. Its purpose is to assist me and other
managers in the Directorate in improving the operation of the Intelligence
Directorate by supplementing the established channels of communication.
MAGID will identify problems worthy of management attention and will
suggest solutions for these and other matters already identified by
management. Obviously, MAGID will not supplant the authority of existing
line and staff components nor will it have any production responsibilities.
2. Service on MAGID will be for one-year tours except for the
initial group, half of which will have appointments for nine months and
the other half for fifteen months. The following have been appointed to
MAGID for the term indicated:
In addition, I have asked I OCI, who has served on the
Agency Management Advisor (3-oulp, to it MAGID for the first six months,
She will be assisted by CRS, also.an alumnus of the
Agency's MAG,
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SWARD W. PROCTOR
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Messrs,.Pr ,tver and
As you, can see, 1 s getting things
organized.-'. -:Attachedis her tentative agenda
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for the 11get-acquainted? MAGID session (this
Thursday) I 'w111 have lunch with
Friday to get her fill-in on that'and her
initial impressions of the group.
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16 July 1973
Note to MAGID Representatives:
Before we meet for the first time next Thursday, you
might spend some time thinking about the various items
listed below. I think we should look on this session as
a free-for-all in which we exchange views and attempt to
get our bearings before our first meeting with Proctor and
Walsh. This tentative. agenda is not meant to be all-
inclusive but does give you some idea of what we should
be focussing on initially. I'll welcome all thoughts and
suggestions for additional items and hope you'll feel free
to raise whatever is on your mind.
Tentative Agenda
A. Background on Agency MAG
how and why established
projects
working procedures
success?
B. 'Philosophy of MAGID
management tool?
employee representatives?
what do we think MAGID should do?
are we only an alerting group or should we
provide answers to problems we uncover?
C. Possible projects
kinds
how generated - from below, from above or
from within group?
substantive problems as well as managerial ones?
D. Procedures
when meet - working hours, after, or both?
how often?
speakers?
E. Relations with others
with DDI front office
with DDI office chiefs
with other directorate MAGs
with Agency MAG
with DDI personnel
REMEMBER: Meeting is on Thursday, 19 July at 1:30 in 6G-21
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