LETTER OF APPRECIATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00158R001000040020-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: February 16, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Intelligence Community Staff
Mr. Lee S. Cutcliff
Assistant Vice President
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
295 North Maple Avenue
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
DC I /ICS .83-4283
16 March 1983
I have sent a separate letter to Charles Brown expressing our
appreciation for the efforts of all who participated in the activites of
9 March, and would personally for a most educational and
enjoyable day. uand I came away with an enhanced
appreciation for planning techniques for both the long- and short-term.
I am enclosing a number of items that I had promised to one person or
another in the course of the day. The first item in our package is a copy of
our long-range planning design which I began to assemble before interviewing
many of the companies that we are calling upon. It has been revised in light
of some of these meetings, but we have been pleased to note that we had
already embarked on. a design that had counterparts in the private sector. By
way of clarification, the groups mentioned in the first section of paragraph
4--Intelligence Producers Council, National Intelligence Council, etc.--are
concerned with substantive analysis and as such we believe are logical bodies
to establish the planning environment. The Planning Working Group mentioned
in the second section of that paragraph consists of the planning officers of
the various elements in the Intelligence Community, and can be considered a
working level body. Finally, the Executive Steering Group for Planning and
the National Foreign Intelligence Council mentioned in the last section of
that paragraph can be equated to a corporate executive committee and board of
directors respectively.
The next item in the package is the article from Business Week on
Hewlett-Packard. I believe you will find the article to be very informative
as it discusses quite objectively one company's search for a balance between
centralization and its traditional reliance on independence and diversity.
The next item in the package is a copy of a recent study by the National
Science Foundation having to do with the supply of science, engineering and
technician personnel through 1987. This subject came up during the briefing
given to us by Gus Gustafson, and I believe you will find it interesting.
Manpower planning is an area of particular interest to me and I believe it is
an area that is all too often overlooked. In reading In Search of Excellence
no theme came across more strongly than the success of well run companies
being directly related to their concern for people.
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ally T nm enclosing the graphics that were used by
Fi
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Analysis and Framing of Emerging Issues. I believe they might be of some use
to Bob Whitefleet, although without any commentary they might be a bit
difficult to follow.
Once again I would like to thank you for the time and effort put into the
briefings given last week. Should you, Walter Blass, or any of your staff be
in town and have the time, we would be more than happy to reciprocate. I hope
that we can keep in touch and exchange ideas from time to time.
Sincerely, ,'
Enclosures:
a/s
P.S. By the way, I contacted who was surprised and pleased to
hear of our meeting. I believe he will be in touch with you soon if he
has not called already.
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