CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. COLBY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000900030025-6
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: February 14, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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14 February 1974
To MAGID Members
SUBJECT: Conversations with Mr. Colby
Mr. Colby's office informed me this week that the
Director would be most happy to meet with us. He asks that
it not be at dinner, however, since that is about the only
.time 1e gets to see his family. While there are several
options, the most viable seems to be. to meet with him in
the DCI conference room some evening starting about 5 PM.
The Director will not be available during the middle weeks
of March.
talk aboutoursmeomeeting on
convenient Tuesday, datest forl the ' I propose that we
the Director. Also, his appointments secrretaryshasslsuggested some sort of agenda of discussion topics or a lisofquestions would be helpful. Attached is a starter list that STAT
I have drafted; please be prepared to-talk about it at our
Tuesday meeting.
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Conversation with Mr. Colby
Attached are some areas of interest and concern that
we on the Intelligence Directorate Management Advisory
Group would like to discuss with Mr. Colby. Naturally,
we would be happy to have Mr. Colby talk with us in any
setting, using any format with which he feels comfortable.
We would prefer that he would address at least some of the
issues cited below and that he allow us to ask related
questions.
KK_'
1. How received by Mr. Kissin er NSC St ff
g , a , NSCIC,
others? Have other Intelligence Community agencies fully
accepted? How does this affect the utility of the KIQ's?
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. What is the relationship of theJIQ's to DCI
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objectives, Directorate objectives,NTDiO;DCID 1/2, etc?
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3. Not all information is of e importance or is
equally needed for each KIQ. How do you envision that the
KIQ's will be translated into specific taskings for collec-
tors? For producers of finished intelligence?
4. What is th 1
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e ro e of the NIO s in the development
and use of the KIQ's? Role of the IC Staff? Role of USIB
committees? Role of DDI?
NIO's
1. The NIO's are your staff people; is the system
working well for you? How is the staffing handled where
there is no NIO yet appointed (e.g., economics) or where
no NIO is to be assigned (e.g., Africa)?
2. MAGID has talked with Mr. Proctor, TAT
and several NIO's regarding how the system is expected to a-- ,~
operate. How do you envision the NIO's working with DDI I
components (e.g., with OPR)?
3. Have the NIO's been accepted as
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representatives" by other IC agencies?
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4. Regarding the KEP process: what part of this is
to be done by the NIO's? By the IC Staff? Where do DDI
analysts fit in?. DDI collectors? DDT staff eople?
NSC/State/Etc.
1. How is, the Agency's finished intelligence product
received by the new Secretary of State? By the new
Director of INR? By the NSC Staff? By the PFIAB? By the
Congress?
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2. Are there currently more than the usual tensions
between CIA and the Department of State?
3. New intelligence emphases (e.g., international
economics, terrorism) require new modes of operation. Is
this a painful transition for CIA? For the Intelligence
Community?
4. How are the proposed national intelligence products
being received by other agencies? By the DDI and DDS&T?
Intraagency
1. Has the CIA Management Committee fostered a sense
of "one Agency"--at least at the level of senior officials?
Do the DD's really offer advice to you that transcends
their organizational responsibilities?
2. Do you detect any significant lowering of the
"barriers" between the working level people in the DDO
and the DDI? We don't. As during previous years, relation-
ships do vary considerably from DDO division to division.
3. Has anything been done to promote hiring between
Directorates?
Miscellaneous
1. The "Nominations for DD/ Vacancy" notices used
C) in this Agency do not allow the applicant to explain why
he wants the job or why he thinks he is particularly well
qualified. Why? Wouldn't it improve the selection process
as well as better employee morale if candidates for jobs
were allowed to plead their case? -- Nay -4 `
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2. The Agency has taken a number of measures related
to the energy crisis. Could not more be done to encourage
car pools (e.g., information provided on request regarding
other employees living in the vicinity)? Couldn't the
Agency soften rules about working shifts (e.g., allowing
people on various shifts to car poogether and to modify
,th_e_ir working ..time appropriately)-?- Sh uldn't Agency
r managers be actively discouraged from staying around in
I the evening "in order to be on-call?" 7
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1 -1 brought this by, asking for
any views or guidance you may have prior to
MAGID's Tuesday meeting.
His questions to Mr. Colby seem good ones
(I would like to know some of the answers my-
self).
STAT
D NO. IQI REPLACES FORM 10-101
WHICH MAY BE USED.
14 Feb 74
(DATE)
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