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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002400110036-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: January 25, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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25 January 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: John N. McMahon
Executive Director
There are several activities in your parish that I would like to
discuss with you in the near future. Some of them stem from Inspector
General surveys; others more out of my ignorance and I simply want
to have an appreciation of their status.
1. In the Office of Security, I would like to have a
better feel for the reorganization as suggested by the IG report and
whether it does make sense to spread out the functions now existing
under the Deputy Director for Personnel Security and Investigations.
I thought the report might have been too critical as to lack of inno-
vation and adherence to old-time standards, but I would like to have
your reaction to that (if nothing more than to appreciate why the IG
arrived at that conclusion).
2. In the Office of Training and Education, I do want to
pursue OTE's present ties to the outside academic world to ensure that
we are taking advantage of knowledge and training techniques which
exist in the outside world. Of course I already talked to you about
where we stand with the basic courses and whether or not their curriculum
has pertinence.
3. Under information handling I would like to know how the
architect is functioning and whether he has carved a meaningful role.
Moreover, how does ODP ensure that it remains current as to new ideas
in the information handling world and how do ODP personnel stay on top
of the latest. I would like to get some feel for the number of ODP
people attending outside training courses. While we are at it, I would
like to muse somewhat over the cost and resources devoted to supporting
national programs, and are we doing it to the detriment of CIA day-to-day
business. How does ODP determine priorities as to what organization
gets either hardware or programming support before some other. SAFE
remains an open issue for me and Bruce Johnson owes me a conversation
on the status of that program and what it will'take to fix it.
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4. A situation that has haunted me for some time and
I certainly don't see the ready solution; but I fear as time goes on
and the "old-timers" retire, the knowledge and experience gained from
overseas assignments dwindles within the DDA. With that the gung-ho,
can-do attitude which overseas assignments stimulate in our personnel
must also suffer. And in lieu of such overseas assignments, how can
the DDA protect itself from slipping into another government bureaucratic
organization.
John N. c a on
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