CREATIVITY, CONTROLS, AND ETHICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 3, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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OTR 77-7175
3 March 1977
Executive Rogitatrp
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM Harry E. Fitzwater
Director of Training
SUBJECT Creativity, Controls, and Ethics
1. This memorandum is to advise you of actions being
taken as a result of the meeting with the ADCI on "creativity"
held on 7 February 1977. At that meeting the Office of
Training (OTR) was charged with introducing special seminars
into the curricula of the Senior Seminar and Midcareer Course
to discuss creativity, controls, and ethics. Accordingly,
subtopics related to these areas of interest are being
compiled by working groups within OTR. The curricula of the
two courses are being adjusted to provide a period for discus-
sion of a particular subtopic.to be selected by each class..
The classes may select subtopics not provided by OTR if these
are considered by the course leaders and the Center for the
Study of Intelligence to be appropriate.
2. The results of these seminars will be written up and
reviewed to determine if any central themes.are emerging. If
central themes of interest emerge from these discussions, an
Agency symposium will then be proposed'to'discuss the themes
and proposals for further advisable action.
3. In addition to the above, the subject of creativity
will be covered in the curriculum of the new "Program in
Creative Management." As reported to you earlier, this training
is being tailored after the program developed by the Center for
Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina. The program
is designed for mid-level managers and will devote one full
day to "creativity." This session permits the participants
to cover the mental processes related to creativity and provides
an opportunity to work with live problems from different and
unique perspectives. In addition to this coverage of how
creativity develops and functions,.the Program in Creative
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19 January 1977 ,
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
Director, Center tor the Study of Intelligence
SUBJECT Second Seminar on Ethics and Creativity in
the CIA
1.. A relatively young group of Agency officers, male and
female, black and white comprised the second seminar on ethics
and creativity I Ion 17-18 January.
2.. The group did not depart radically from the attitudes
expressed in the first seminar report, although it added some
additional perspectives:
--It was much more concerned than the seniors with
the inadequacy of present Agency-communications
across bureaucratic and other compartmented
walls.
It expressed a stronger need for better
articulation down the line by management
of Agency aims and goals, especially the
reasoning behind our choice of policies
and objectives, believing this would im-
prove initiative and creativity.
(Repeatedly, the group noted instances
of confusion in the ranks over the what
and why of Agency policy on. all types of
matters.)
--A big way to improve initiative and
creativity is to improve both our formal
and informal systems of acknowledging
and complimenting the suggestions and
contributions of employees.
--On ethics, the group admitted to the
importance of proper standards in Agency
activities, but stressed that the ethics
of administration and management of people
in the Agency was on a par in importance,
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--The best way to raise ethical horizons in
CIA, according to the group, is to encourage
much more opportunity in training formats,
deliberate discussion groups, employee con-
vocations and the like-to raise and confront
ethical issues.
3.. We plan to produce the views of the second group in
a more detailed report for submission to the DDCI along with
a proposal that he authorize a project at the Center to study
ethical issues in the Agency in detail, utilizing the services STAT
of a standing discussion group of mixed Agency officers who
could probe the subject more deeply.
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