NIO CONSULTANTS TO DATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000100120028-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: February 5, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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5 February 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR: R. R. Bowie
FROM
SUBJECT
NIO Consultants to Date
1. Herewith is the status report on our NIO consultants drive
that I propose to distribute. I believe you may want to see it first.
Some comments are in order, some for you only.
a. Two of our nominees were stopped by Security.
want informed until he had had a chance to
look into it.) I do not know Security's reasons in
either case.
reported this to the DCI today and he said he did not
nominated by Turner, flunked his polygraph. (I
b. I hook bad because they still have
not acquire a sing le consultant. But both have
tried. have suffered especially from the
timidity o re Iona specialists; aimed
too high. of-
soon have one consultant, tough,
as soon as we succeed in working out an arrangement
c. has been obtaining the help he needs by
assembling specialists with 24-hour SECRET clearances.
I have suggested to him that though there is no
objection to this practice it should not be considered
a substitute for regular consultants but only as a
supplement. He agreed and will continue trying.
d. The number of prospective regional consultants who
have turned us down for career reasons (fear of
damage to their careers) seems a bit less than
expected, but is still substantial.
25X1
25X1
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2. One more general comment. With the Iran experience fresh
in our minds, I am bothered by the essentially conservative nature of
our NIO's nominees. I wouldn't suggest that they tend to look for
people they believe will agree with themselves; they do, however
seem to me to be looking for people like themselves. Not many 25X1
turn up on such lists.
3. I recommend that you again urge the NIOs to employ the
"generalists" nominated by Stan Turner -- and yourself 25X1
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