MANAGEMENT ADVISORY GROUP (MAG)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000600030051-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: April 17, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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17 APR 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Plans
Deputy Director for Support
Deputy Director for Science & Technology
SUBJECT Management Advisory Group (MAG)
1. I have reviewed with the Director the essence of our dis-
cussions over the past few weeks on the merits of the "Six O'Clock
Group, " which we will refer to in the future as the Management
Advisory Group (MAG). The Director asked that we take prompt
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2. The purposes of MAC will be substantially those which we
discussed, namely:
-- To provide new opportunities for a dialogue between
existing management and promising, responsible CIA officers.
-- To expose middle-grade officers to Agency capabilities,
problems, limitations, and dynamics.
-- To render an advisory service to management by identi-
fying issues and problems, or commenting upon those already
identified by management, with respect to Agency long-range
planning and short-range plans, programs, and actions.
To provide vertical communication outside (but not in
violation of) formal channels.
3. The immediate task is for you to nominate participants. I
would like to receive your nominations no later than 5 May since I
would hope that we could have our first session sometime in early
June. In forwarding the names of your nominees, please indicate
their grade, age, and current position. Also indicate whether you
have chosen them to serve an initial period of six months or a full-
year. tour. In selecting your three (3) participants, please conform
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with the following criteria:
a. One participant will be selected from each of the fol-
lowing age brackets: 30-35; 36-40; 41-45.
b. Participants should be selected from officers in Grades
12-16, preferably with none from your Directorate having the
same grade.
c. Each should possess a recent pattern of Fitness Report
evaluations of at least Strong and preferably Outstanding. It
would be advantageous for participants to have attended the
Midcareer Course or to have had some comparable experience
of Agency orientation.
d. No participant will be an Executive Assistant of the
DCI, DDCI, Executive Director, or a Deputy Director in that
these individuals have adequate opportunities to convey views
to management.
e. Officers should be selected who can serve a one-year
tour. However, in order to provide continuity one officer
from each Directorate and the DCI area will be designated to
initially serve only a six-month tour.
4. I have alerted the Director of Security to process promptly
the appropriate Codeword clearances for each participant. In for-
warding the data on each nominee, please indicate active security
clearance held by each.
5. Our current. thinking is that at the outset MAG will meet
bi-weekly. After an initial shakedown and get-acquainted period,
the MAG participants may elect to meet on a monthly basis.
6. I think we are all in agreement that the effectiveness of
MAG will be a direct function of the interest and dedication of the
participants. I urge you to select those. who not only can make a
substantial contribution and have a genuine concern for improving
the continued good health of the Agency, but who are also willing to
devote a substantial number of extra hours to this 'endeavor.
L. Z{. White
Executive Director- Comptroller
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Remarks :
Colonel White has asked that you give me a
call in order that I may brief you on his discus-
sions with the Deputies which led to the creation
of MAG.
For your information, MAG will consist of
two representatives from the DCI area. In the
event you have any nominees, please forward
data on each per the attached.
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