LETTER TO MR. MORTIMER M, CAPLIN, PRESIDENT FROM W .E .COLBY

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• Publication Date: February 9, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
9 February 1974
Mr. Mortimer M. Caplin, President
National Civil Service League
1825 K Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20006
I am extremely pleased to nominate Mr. Carl E.
Duckett for the National Civil Service League's Career
Service Award.
As CIA's Deputy Director for Science and Tech-
nology, he is responsible for all phases of the Agency's
collection, processing, and analysis in an intelligence
program directed against the nation's top priority
national intelligence objective -- the capability of
major foreign powers to strike the United States with
modern, sophisticated weaponry.
Since he was nominated by Mr. Helms last year,
Mr. Duckett has been assigned increasing management
responsibilities within the Agency and the U. S. In-
telligence Community. He has not rested on his sub-
stantial achievements in the technical area of intelli-
gence; he continues to grow in the key arena where
national security demands that intelligence be man-
aged to maintain a keen focus on the most critical
targets.
Mr. Duckett has served his country for more than
30 years with unswerving devotion and integrity. He
has a brilliant record of substantive achievement and
manages with outstanding ability. All this he has ac-
complished with only a North Carolina high school formal
education.
I nominate Carl E. Duckett with full personal
conviction that he is worthy of your consideration as
measured against the high standards of previous National
Civil Service League award winners.
Sincerely,
W. E. Colby
Director
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Name, Title & Grade
Business Address.
Residence Address
Education ?, Degree
Mr. Carl E. Duckett, Deputy Director
for Science and Technology, EP-04
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
World War II Government-Sponsored
Engineering Program at Johns Hopkins
University in 1943
Length of Service 26 Years
Date & Place of Birth: 22 March 1923, Swannanoa, North Carolina
Just before midnight in Moscow on 26 May 1972,
President Nixon and General Secretary Brezhnev initialed the
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty for their two countries. The
following September Dr. Henry Kissinger, keynoting the Central
Intelligence Agency's 25th Anniversary celebration, singled
out the contribution of Carl Duckett to that Treaty as one
of the Agency's most significant achievements.
Mr. Carl E. Duckett is the Deputy Director for Science
and Technology. The eight offices and several staffs which
makeup his Directorate represent all aspects of the
"intelligence process" -- collection, processing, analysis,
production, and support. In the field of collection, two of
the United States' most revolutionary and successful programs
were conceived and brought to fruition under Mr. Duckett's
direction. In both cases the original concepts were viewed
with high skepticism by scientists and engineers. Today,
this Government's confidence that it can monitor Soviet
compliance with an arms limitation agreement depends on them.
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Deep inside the USSR a huge new missile blasts off
toward the Pacific Ocean. Is it a new ICBM, giving the
Soviets a critical strategic advantage over the U.S.? Is
it a scientific shot into deep space? Is it heading for
the moon for a manned landing? Collection of technical
intelligence, manipulation through complex computer programs
and analysis by expertly trained intelligence officers will
provide the answers. All these functions are Mr. Duckett's
responsibility. The answers can result in decisions at the
highest level of.the U.S. Government involving billions of
dollars.
Mr. Duckett's career in intelligence began in World
War II, first as a civilian radar expert and subsequently
in his military career with the U.S. Army. This led to an
early association with the development of U.S. missiles.
Apart from three productive years in the radio broadcasting
business, Mr. Duckett's interests have been concentrated in
radar, missiles, electronics and finally all aspects of
science and technology. His experience led him more and
more into the field of intelligence, particularly the analysis
of foreign strategic weapons systems. He set up and became
the Chief of the U.S. Army's first intelligence efforts in
this field. He was later personally chosen by the Director
of Central Intelligence to develop a national intelligence
capability in this area. Finally, he rose by sheer ability,
with nothing more than a high school diploma, to the CIA's
Deputy Director over all foreign scientific and technical
intelligence matters.
When Mr. Duckett joined CIA to establish and direct
the newly formed Foreign Missile and Space Analysis Center,
he was also appointed Chairman of a standing committee, the
Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee, of
the United States Intelligence Board. This group coordinates
the total U.S. intelligence effort on these matters as well
as those of members of the NATO Community. Mr. Duckett wears
two additional hats for the Director of Central Intelligence,
as his Director of Reconnaissance which involves him in high-
level discussions with the White House and the Department of
Defense; and as the coordinator for all research and develop-
ment in the CIA.
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Mr. Duckett is the Director's adviser and often his
spokesman on scientific and technical intelligence problems.
There are few people at the top levels of the Executive
Branch and in the pertinent Congressional Committees he
has not personally briefed and, indeed, he is frequently
called by them for his counsel. He maintains his knowledge
on foreign scientific and technical intelligence matters on
a sufficiently current basis to permit him to accompany the
Director on a moment's notice to either the White House or
Congress. His work, expertise and guidance during this
country's four-year efforts to reach a strategic arms
limitation agreement represent an important contribution
to continuing peace in the world.
Submitted by:
W. E. Colby ,
Director of Central Intelligence
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