ECONOMY MEASURES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001500130048-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2005
• Sequence Number: 48
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No. A-41 1
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simplifying proce+ +ss, stream ining,field ei ntss, setting up productivity
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the Agency's vital missions. Maintaining adequate program balance within
and between directorates will always be difficult, but especially where
retrenchments are required. We are all under the gun to assure that flexible
systems are provided in our organizations which will provide, within
established ceilings, sufficient maneuverability to meet changing priorities
and to adjust to new tasks without constantly upsetting on-going activities.
In this regard the Agency must consider programs in their entirety with each
part e-aluateet in light of the whole. Our cost consciousness and manpower
control is not a numbers game. It must reflect hard decisions and a positive,
objective and non-parochial outlook on the part of all members of our
management team. Activities which do not contribute directly to the
accomplishment of the Agency's missions must be phased out and discontinued.
At the same time we must hold other members of the Intelligence Community
responsible for their part of the intelligence task and not establish unwarranted
duplication of these efforts in CIA.
4. I have charged the DDCI and the Executive Director-Comptroller with
spearheading the Agency economy effort and providing strengthened and
improved centralized management review and control over our programs and
projects and their related manpower and budgets. I will expect from them
regular reports on the Agency's progress which I can study and report
forward to the President. My belief in active management at the top echelons
will cause some strain, but I know of no better way of producing results in
line with the President's goals. Even as I congratulate you for recent
achievements, I want to urge you on to greater progress in the knowledge
that the dollar and personnel ceilings currently in effect have behind them
my strong approval and my personal wish that no effort be spared to expedite
their attainment.
John A. McCone
Director
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