ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EXECUTIVE ADVISORY GROUP

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 3, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EXECUTIVE ADVISORY GROUP
1. The Executive Advisory Group (EAG) was established on 22 June
1976. Th : Management Committee was abolished the same date. Membership
of the FAG is as follows :
Chairman : . Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Vice Chairman/
Secretary : Comptroller
Members : Deputy Director for Administration
Deputy.Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
General Counsel
2. The Executive Advisory Group will function under the personal
direction of the DDCI. The EAG is advisory to the DDCI. The purposes
of the Group are to:
Help the DDCI and others identify important Agencywide issues.
Help create a shared understanding of basic problems-and
encourage creative thinking about their solution.
Encourage cross-Agency planning in selected areas.
Support decision-making by the DDCI and ethers on fundamental
policy and planning problems:
Under the personal direction of the DDCI, participate in the
making of major decisions affecting the Agency and its
relationship to the Intelligence Community.
In pursuing these purposes, the Group will consider topics that:
Affect the mission of CIA, or affect CIA's ability to meet
its responsibilities.
Are cross-directorate in nature, or otherwise affect CIA
as a whole.
Have long-term implications.
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3. The Comptroller will serve as Secretary to the EAG and will
chair the Group in the absence of the DDCI. The Secretary is responsible
for preparing the agenda and minutes and for developing and circulating
appropriate preparatory material to members.
4. The EAG will assign responsibility for a specific topic to an
individual member of the Group. That member is then responsible for
establishing and guiding any mechanism required to pursue the topic,
informing the EAG of progress, and developing specific proposals for BAG
action.
S. Topics already considered by the BAG include the organization
of the Agency's Exploratory Research program in ORD; a review of the
short-term plans of the Inspector General; CIA Goals; the Agency's
overall R&D Program; DDt) Plans; DDI Plans; and reports from the Chairman,
SIGINT Task Force, and the Special Assistant to the Comptroller for
Strategic Intelligence. Additional topics presently scheduled for review
include Agency physical space problems, an examination of issues regarding
the adequacy of guidance to employees on questions of legality and pro-
priety, technical support for the Operations Directorate, and an examina-
tion of Agency personnel management arrangements.
6,. Each Deputy Director, as a member of the Executive Advisory
Group, will draw upon Agency components as appropriate for help in
staffing assigned items in order to develop cross-Agency solutions.
Employee suggestions on agenda items are welcome and may be brought to
the attention of the members for possible EAG consideration.
E. H. oche
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
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