SUPERGRADE PROMOTION CEREMONY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R002800030001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 18, 1978
• Content Type: SPEECH

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16 FEB 1979
SUPERGRADE PROMOTION CEREMONY
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Heart organization -- people
All walks stations
Org truly depends on how all:
(1) perform up to best
(2) teamwork
Fact -- especial responsibility
senior -- encourage best performance and stimulate teamwork
Hierarchy continuum
some explicit
almost all -- arbitrary
prestige line
quite arbitrary
Col -- Gen
Plant Mgr -- VP
Us --
Everyone -- Supergrade
Today honored .individuals
Small -- distinguished circle
Including , entered for first time
Want congratulate all
Standards not easy
3 % available were selected
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Not fl ct e widely
Dedicated -- reasonable
opportunity to all super--
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But -- no intent lower the standards -- lessening value of this
precious coin of realm.
Each supergrade has and deserves its own unique respect --
To - 18s --
Have achieved virtually ultimate
Be pleased -- be proud --
Recognize that special responsibilities are yours
Your example means much more today -- few ahead
of you to whom others can turn to seek admiration,
guidance, hope.
To - l7s --
Most important recognition -- Proved yourselves as new
supergrades
Clearly been selected as candidates for top
No guarantee --
odds tough -- but future is yours
and responsibility --
To - GS-16s --
Particularly want to say a word --
Yes no great barrier
15/16
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You just do gehe'rate
respect today
Just do shoulder)
resp --
I know I expect --
so do other superiors
Most of all -- you have entered sphere in which you must have
new vision, new perspectives, new breadth
--
Wherever you worked yesterday, you don't work there today If you worked in (OSO) yesterday, (name
today you work in OSO and the CIA.
Yes, you always did --
but today you are that much more an essential
link in the CIA; that. much more a voice,
spokesman, example of this Agency.
You can no longer afford to think of yourself
as OSO and CIA --
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You are the CIA and incidentally OSO,
because that's just how the outside looks
at you -- how your fellow supergrades look at you --
how top Pagement ldoks at you.
Yours is allgrreat achQevement -- a great - arbitrary -
symbolic barrier crossed --
Congratulations --
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But yours is a great new responsibility too--
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Your shoulders had better be broad -- your stamina firm --
your courage resolute --
I expect a lot more of you today; the CIA expects
a lot more of you today; you would not be here if
we had any doubt that you would measure up --
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