[OPENING ADDRESS TO MIDCAREER COURSE NO. 33]

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OPENING ADDRESS
TO
MIDCAREER COURSE NO. 33
23 AUGUST 1972
'COME, ladies and gentlemen -- particularly as you head into
s the most important part of your career. You are now entering -- from
the Agency viewpoint -- the most productive years of your career; you
have spent a decade or so gaining experience and now have reached the
so-called middle management level where you will be the decision-
makers, using your experience and your training to guide you. Like
the majors in the Army, it is you who make the organization run.
Your selection to attend this course is a mark of confidence from
your supervisors - we think you have the potential for greater things,
greater duties, greater responsibilities. You have become specialists
in your own area; now the Agency wants you to broaden your outlook,
learn about other areas, so you will be more effective managers for the
future. I urge you to take advantage of this opportunity. Broaden your
horizons in this course and keep an open mind to the changes around
you.
The world is changing, the nation is changing, the intelligence
community is changing, the Agency is changing. But change for
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change's sake is not necessarily helpful. Where it is change for
the better, we must welcome and adapt to it. The change of progress
is welcome-,the change of fickleness is a millstone on the path to
progress. In your time you will have to select those changes which
truly represent a forward movement.
The Agency is investing a lot in this course, not only your
time and talents but those of 60 or 70 speakers from within and
without our organization. Your course chairmen have arranged
for an intensive and, we hope, effective array of top Agency talent
to speak to you. I hope you will derive benefit and knowledge from
these speakers as they share their experience with you and as you
share your experience with one another. You are the future of
this Agency and perhaps will in some measure secure the future of
our country.
Much is changing around us, but the permanent values that
give meaning to life for most of us do not change. We must strive
for better and greater results in handling people, money and things.
In the future it is highly probable that we shall be asked to do more
with less resources. This will demand more from each of us.
The Director and all of us need your help, your enthusiasm
and your contribution to a better and more effective Agency.
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For example, economic intelligence is assuming a new
importance. The great problem of the international narcotics
trade is before us in all it's aspects, including the slanderous
and false charges of Agency involvement. As the Director has
said, such charges are "arrant nonsense".
Imagination and flexibility will be required along with professional
competence and courage -- that quality which is the guarantee of all
the others. Priority requirements will grow rather than diminish.
We will be challenged in the years ahead. Let us be worthy of that
challenge, for our future depends on our answer.
I have been with the Agency for six months now, after thirty
years in Army and Defense Intelligence, and If I were to sum up my
impressions of the Agency after six months, I could) do so in one
word -- REASSURANCE -- because of the professional=-and technical
competence, dedication, continuity and enthusiasm I have found here.
You are the grounds for that reassurance.
So I congratulate you on having been chosen to attend this
course. I know you will achieve its objectives, that you will broaden
your horizons and will be worthy of the future you will help to shape.
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