CARTER SEEKS TO BOOST CIA'S MORALE, DELIVERS PEP TALKS AT LANGLEY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: August 17, 1978
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Carter seeks to Boost
CIA's Morale, Delivers
ep Talks at Langley
Associated Press
President Carter, spending an hour yesterday at
'kentral Intelligence Agency headquarters, said the
agency's employes must be "more pure and more
clean and more decent and more honest" than al-
most any other government workers.
"You almost are in the positi?n of being like Cae-
sar's wife," Carter told employes of the troubled in-
telligence agency. - .-
The president flew by helicopter from the White
House to Langley, Va., for the pep talks. He spenbd
more than an hour in briefings on CIA operations
and speaking with several hundred staff members
outdoors and then in private with 56 undercover
agents.
Carter, addressing the several hundred agency
employes, Said: "Some who' have been here for
many, many years have had inclinations to be con-
cerned about ....the willingness of [CIA Director]
Stan Turner and myself to let the American people
know who. you are, what you do, some aspects of
your worn that don't violate the security of. our
country."
Voicing'strong praise for the employes' work, he
said, "There is a growing appreciation for what this
agency does, for what you individually do for our
nation. There Is now a stability in the CIA. There
have been. too many shocks; too many rapid changes
in the past. But the policies that have now been
established . , , will give you a much surer sense of
what the future will bring."
The president acknowledged the conflict posed by
"legitimate openness" on the one hand and "careful,
preservation of security."
"It takes Intelligence, it takes some judgment, It
takes common sense to draw that distinction" be-
tween what should be made public and what should
remain secret, he said.
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