MEMORANDUM FOR CHAIRMAN, DCI MAG FROM JOHN F. BLAKE

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• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 12, 1977
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, DCI MAG
FROM: John F. Blake
Acting Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
1. 1 enjoyed my exchange with you and your colleagues on
Tuesday, 4 October 1977, and am hopeful that there may be
established a more meaningful relationship between your group
and Agency senior management.
2. Following our session I made a suggestion to the Director
which has met with his enthusiastic endorsement. We would like to
extend to you and each of your colleagues the opportunity for one
time during your tenure to sit in as an observer of the Director's
daily 9:00 a.m. senior staff meeting. To make this as meaningful
to you as possible I suggest the attendance of you and your colleagues
on a day when the Director is chairing the meeting. I explained to
the Director that I am sure you people would understand and respect
the confidentiality of the procedures.
3. 1 have made a copy of this memorandum available to Ben Evans
and I suggest you work out the individual scheduling with him.
4. 1 would be pleased if you would share a copy of this
memorandum with members of your group.
John F. Blake
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5 October 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: John F. Blake
Acting Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
1. The following comes under the "breath-of-fresh-air" rubric.
I believe there is merit of several types of allowing each member of
the DCI MAC Group to attend once during his tenure a 9:00 a.m. Director's
Staff Meeting. It should be on a day of their choice but at a session
chaired by you and not this "Acting" or any other surrogate. The
confidentiality of the procedures would be explained to and. I am sure,
understood by them. The word of this would spread over a period of
time and would be a tangible contribution to the openness of management
and, additionally, would make more prestigious and sought for membership
on the DCI MAG Group. This has never been done before.
2. If this idea meets your approval, I will proceed and lay on
arrangements through Ben Evans.
John F. Slake
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refresh you on the composition of N1G.
Annual Report should be completed in the next
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