THE SECOND SEMINAR ON CREATIVITY AND ETHICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A000300050019-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: February 4, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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Mnz4OR I FOR: Acting Director of Central intelligence
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The Second Seminar on Creativity and Ethics
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Creativity and Ethics in CIA sponsored by the Office of
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18 January. This document has been coordinated with the
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t of the first seminar was sent to the
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participants, the members of the second seminar group, the
members of the Management Advisory Group (MAG--which meets
on it on 4 February), and to the top SQ officers of the
Agency. With your approval, the Center would like to
provide a wider distribution of the original seminar report
with this report appended and a new summary covering both
mars.
r now proposes that you name an officer
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to be detailed to the Center full-time as a coordinating
officer who would:
further identify and articulate the basic issues
with which the Agency should deal;
begin an implementation of the recommendations of
the two seminars held so far to: work on a canon
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of ethics and hold forums to discuss et
topics;
elevant materials on ethics, including
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the ethical standards adopted in other governmental
agencies--national, state, and local--and the
experiences of private industry and professional
associations with such canons of ethics;
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guide a core group of officers widely representative
of the Agency to discuss., on a regular but part-time
basis, the basic issues identified under ",a" above
(selection of the core group could be done by the
participants of the first two seminars):
write articles on aspects of ethics that could
emerge from the core groups to be used in various
existing training courses and circulated within
the Agency.
4. The core group should probably be large enough to
be representative and small enough to permit active paxtici-
pation of all, probably a number close to 12. It possibly
should have staggered rotation as does the NAG. After the
initial coordinating officer has served for a period of
tine, one of the core group should probably be rotated into
the coordinator position at the Center (possibly by election
from within) for as long as the effort was deemed worthwhile.
As suggested by the first group, care should be exercised
not to set any deadline for the achievement of a formal
canon of ethics.
5. The Center has asked me to express its appreciation
for your continued interest in this subject and will welcome
your views on the recommendations contained in the two
seminar reports, especially as to further actions the Center
might pursue.
js/ " Ohm. . B1a
John F. Blake
coNFIDENTIAi.
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SUBJECT: The Second Seminar on Creativity and Ethics
APPROVE wide distribution of seminar reports:
ng .rector of-Central Intelligence
DISAPPROVE wide distribution of seminar reports:
ct ng rector o entra me genre Date
APPROVE Coordinator and Core Group on Ethics:
Cti'n- Director of centra
Suggested Coordinator:
DISAPPROVE Coordinator and Core Group on Ethics
nj rector of-Central intelligence
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