RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND SERVICE UNITS IN THE DDI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000900030021-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: March 5, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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5 March 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDI Office Directors and Staff Chiefs
SUBJECT : Relationship Between Production
and Service Units in the DDI
1. In early January, MAGID submitted a memorandum
to me on its examination of the relationship between DDI
production and service units.
2. Discussions within MAGID and with a broad sampling
of employees from all components in the DDI confirmed the
need for improvement in the current user/ service relationship.
It was generally acknowledged that analysts made insufficient
use of the support available to them. At the same time, produc-
tion office personnel sometimes felt that the quality of the
service product and the handling of administrative or procedural
matters which are service specialities were inadequate or not
sufficiently responsive. MAGID concluded that "all offices and
staffs in the Intelligence Directorate must increasingly work
together and share responsibility for the final intelligence
product. "
3. To ensure that the best possible relationship develops
between production and service units, MAGID recommended that
I stress that everyone's contribution to the product is important
and that I remind production analysts and staff and service
personnel of their responsibility to use and support each other.
MAGID also recommended that there be more acknowledgment
of substantial contributions by service units, that service units
and staffs better advertise their wares, that supervisors attack
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the problem of stereotyped thinking about service personnel,
and that attempts be made to dispel false assumptions about
the relative standing, including grade structure, of DDI
offices.
4. We discussed this matter at a Directorate Executive
Council meeting last month. On the basis of this discussion
and my own agreement with the basic thrust of the MAGID
memorandum, I have decided that the following actions are
to be taken:
Office and Staff heads are to instruct division
and branch chiefs in both production and
service units to meet more often to discuss
and solve the problems raised by the MAGID
paper and to foster similar meetings at the
analyst level.
Production chiefs are to be more forthcoming
in recognizing significant contributions by
service units without this becoming a pro
forma and meaningless exercise.
The DDI Quarterly Schedules on Production
and Research are to be given wider dissemina-
tion within service units so that with more
awareness of the substantive concerns of the
production offices they will have a better
opportunity to offer help with scheduled projects.
5. I have resisted the tendency to adopt more bureaucratic
solutions to foster closer production/ service unit relationships.
I do expect, however, that all levels of this organization will realize
that these relationships are a vital factor in our work and that a
conscious and sustained effort on the part of all is absolutely
necessary.
EDWARD W. PROCTOR
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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Subject: Relationship Between Production and
Service Units in the DDI
ADDI/PVWalsh/tb (4 March 1974)
Distribution:
Director! OBGI
Director/ OCI
Director / OE R
Director/ OSR
Director! IAS
Director / FBIS
Director/ CRS
Director/ OPR
Chief/ DDI Management Staff
Chief/ DDI Executive Staff
Chief / IRS
Chairman/ COMIREX
Chief/ CIA Operations Center
Copy, sent to each MAGID Member:
1 - DDI (File: DDI Production)
- DDI (File: MAGID)
1 - DDI Chrono
1 - ADDI Chrono
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Copies handed out to Office Heads and Staff Chiefs at
Executive Council on Tuesday, 5 March 1974.
Copies handed out to MAGID Members at a Working Luncheon
on Wednesday, 6 March 1974 (see distribution).
The following message appeared on each buckslip:
I would like the attached memorandum, which
discusses the MAGID paper on relationships
between production and service units and my
reactions to that paper, to be given wide distribu-
tion within your components.
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