SEARCH FOR EXCELLENCE PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001604200030-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: July 26, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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26 July 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
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Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Search for Excellence Program
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1. I asked Jim Taylor to tell you at last Tuesday's staff meeting that
I will want to report on progress and future plans in our Excellence Program
sometime after Labor Day. I would like each of you to give me a status
report and your ideas for further steps before the end of August. A lot of
steps have been taken. I attach a brief summary of some of them which I used
at the STS promotion ceremony last Tuesday.
2. As I reflect on what this exercise has accomplished and where it
stands, it seems to me that we have made pretty good progress on the more
obvious fronts. There is still a lot more to do and we need to get at that.
But, I think the real test is how much entrepreneurship, task force activity,
cross fertilization, fusion of talents, experience and perspective we have
succeeded and will succeed in the future in generating. In addition to
visiting a lot of offices and divisions of the Agency, I have had extended
visits with Air Force Intelligence, Army Intelligence, Navy Intelligence, and
Marine Intelligence. In those components quite recently there has been
generated task force activity dealing with terrorism, Soviet technology
acquisition and its implications for the future, weapon development and
countermeasures, lessons in strategic doctrine derived from sensitive
intelligence, weapon design and countermeasures, deception, HUMINT improvement.
In CIA there has been generated a number of new initiatives and task forces
have been created.
3. In reporting on the status of the excellency program and its future,
I would like to have you deal specifically with what has been accomplished
and demonstrated in a "bias for action", encouraging "entrepreneurship" ar~d
generating "task forces" to meet specific needs.
Attachment:
As stated
William J. Casey
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'- NEW LIGHTING HAS BEEN INSTALLED TO OUR CORRIDORS BRIGHTER-
-- ON THE GROUND FLOOR, TILES ARE BEING REPLACED, WALLS PAINTED
AND ELEVATOR FOYERS WALLPAPERED.
THE GYM HAS BEEN PAINTED, THE RUNNING TRACK UPGRADED AND NEW
LOCKERS AND NAUTILUS EQUIPMENT HAVE BEEN INSTALLED. (As
I LOOK AROUND, IT STRIKES ME THAT SOME OF YOU SENIOR
EXECUTIVES MIGHT WANT TO TAKE MORE ADVANTAGE OF THE HEALTH
ROOM-)
-- WE WILL BE IMPROVING SIGNIFICANTLY THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE
-- MOST SIGNIFICANTLY--AND MOST OBVIOUS--THE GROUND HAS BEEN
BROKEN FOR THE NEW BUILDING WHICH WILL PROVIDE MUCH NEEDED
RELIEF FOR THE OVER-CROWDING YOU ALL ENDURE-
THESE ARE IMPROVEMENTS IN WORKING CONDITIONS AND AMENITIES
WHICH SHOW THAT WE CARE. ALL OF YOU CAN FIND WAYS TO BE SIMILARLY
SENSITIVE TO THE NEEDS IN YOUR OWN WORK PLACES-
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WE HAVE TAKEN A LONG LIST OF STEPS DESIGNED TO PUSH DOWN
RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY TO LOWER LEVELS, TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATIONS
AND INCREASE RECOGNITION FOR SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE AND, IN GENERAL,
TO REVERSE A TREND TO MORE BUREAUCRACY AND MORE REGULATION.
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