CIA CREDO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001500050067-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: March 9, 1984
• Content Type: REPORT

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9 March 1984
Our mission is to provide high quality and objective intelligence to the
President and other policymakers and to effectively carry out other missions
which the President may direct under the law and the Constitution.
Both in our performance of duty and in our personal lives we adhere
to the highest standards of ethics and integrity and conform to the spirit
and the letter of the law.
Our strength is in the quality of our people. We seek individuals whose
knowledge, skills, drive and dedication are superior. We encourage and assist
their development by training and offering challenge and opportunity. They
carry heavy responsibilities, accept unusual restrictions and forego public
recognition.
We require much of them and strive to compensate them accordingly. We
give special recognition to those who among their peers achieve and perform
outstandingly.
Our mission requires openness of mind, freedom from bias and absence of
partisanship. We search for the unexpected and are ready to challenge
conventional wisdom.
We encourage initiative, innovation, flexibility and the use of the best
in technology and practice in order to deliver results.
We are motivated by patriotism and the desire to excel now and in the
future.
We expect our leaders to manifest these qualities and to develop and
maintain mutual trust, shared responsibility and general understanding of
the importance of each individual's importance and contribution to the
success of our mission.
Our motto is: YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.
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