A FEW WEEKS AGO YOU SENT ME THE ATTACHED NOTE ON A LONDON TIMES PIECE ON A BRITISH SECURITY COMMISSION REPORT ON THE BETTANEY CASE.

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• Publication Date: July 17, 1985
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NOTE FOR: DCI
VIA: DDCI
FROM: Executive Director
A few weeks ago you sent me the attached note on a London Times piece on
a British Security Commission report on the Bettaney case. I sent you a short
response earlier, but I wanted to add a comment on one particular point in the
Times piece.
The report called for an "open and more self-critical style of
management" in the British security service. Certainly this is to be
encouraged everywhere if possible. One particularly useful way to advance
this goal is to encourage feedback to employees on the results of the
inspection surveys done by John Stein's people. You may recall that an
earlier excellence suggestion was that these surveys be widely distributed
within components. You endorsed this idea in your talk to the troops about
excellence on 16 March 1984. I know of two specific offices where this has
actually been done--the Office of Finance and the Office of Global Issues.
There may be others. In both cases, I would say we got positive results. In
particular, the discussion in OGI which attended the circulation of the
inspection report has had a significant (positive) affect on the way OGI
manages its people and it work.
There is an incredible amount of defensiveness about critical inspection
reports. It is easy to sympathize with the defensiveness, but I can't support
the proposition that such reports should not be circulated. If a report isn't
any good, getting it around will tell us. If it is on the money, then we all
need to know about that too.
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