INTELLIGENCE - A TIME OF CHANGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R002900220001-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 14, 1979
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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INTELLIGENCE - A 11ML 01 CH!A;JGE
Period of rofound chafe in CIA/I(
- Affecting
? What do
? How do
? Where
0 Why
Because
- End of a working generation of 30 years since
first organized
? After 30, 1st generation workers leaving
? After 30, different world outsides America. inside
Changes manifest in many ways - want to talk about
5 today.
1) Oversight - Revelations of abuses - alleged/real -
Church, etc.
- 1st time accountable
? Not just Pres & key members of Congress
as past
0 Select Committees
0 IOB
? Covert action approval mechanism
- Means:
? Traumatic impact
? End of era - relative freedom to make
decisions on own
0 Closer management of activities and
resources
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taiioning e~ctivitie to expressed
fQ}^eican policy greeter' Cooperation
with State)
? Has disadvantage -- less flexible, more
bureaucratic than past:
? Has disadvantage - leaks inhibiting
? But advantage - less change of intel
making/disrupting foreign policy -
more under control.
2) New model - 1st time
Priorities changed - world changed around us
- Soviet military - same emphasis
- Economic & political - from little 10 years
ago to parity with military today
- Means:
',Different techni ues of collection and
analysis
0 Different expertise to do same
? Disadvantage - dilutes military effort
somewhat; strains capacity
But advantage - more c_om rehensive
intel picture. Greater breadth and
depth yields better overall quality
of intel.
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3) Public exposure
- Wanted
- Unwanted
? Leaks
? Exposures
- Sense frustration
- Sense where next in what was totally private
4) Personnel - Departure of 1st Generation
- 30+ years - generation of founders retiring
- Perception of change distressing to many of them
? Suspicious of media - yet openness policy
Confidence in own professionalism --
yet oversight
0 Importance of focus on cold war military
targets - yet shifting focus to econ
and pol as well
? Enormous respectability, even nobility
of intelligence profession through
history - yet widely questioned/
maligned today
- Disturbing times - can understand low morale
and resentment of change
- Yet -
0 Must change with times
? Vital for strength of organization
in future
0 Openness; refocus on new problems,
need to reassess what doing to ensure
IAW American values/ethics; need to
open top if want to create
-- flow through
-- reality of reward/jobs for low and
middle level performers.
- 3-
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Cauabl i i ti es (Ujro`v; illy Fast
- Technology burgeoning
? Could overwhelm us if steps not taken
Could overshadow HU!MII NT 'i i- tech not kept
in perspective
- Means:
Must develop better ways to manage
- select/discard
not overlook/nor waste assets on
what don't want - e.g., vacuum/
pearl analogy
? Must integrate tech with HUMINT
complementary
- both vital
Portends --
1) Collecting/analyzing more -
2) Direction of work - looking toward future -
not mired in past
3) Accountable to Congress & through them to
people for 1st time
4) Public more realistic understanding
- Means:
0 Difficult years been through
forced introspection and questioning
- establishing better idea of role
in democracy
- building sounder relationship with
public and other institutions
forging a model which will be a prototype
for other intelligence organizations
around the world
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? Confident of present performance
? Optimistic will be better able to serve
nation in future.
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