STATEMENT OF OTE VALUES AND GOALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-00955R000100080028-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: November 6, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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VIA:
FROM:
Director of Training and Education
SUBJECT: Statement of OTE Values and Goals
1. I have written an Executive Statement of Values and
Goals which requires Executive Committee approval (attached).
2. The Statement arose out of the Inspector General's (IG)
Report of July 1985. Recommendation Number One, approved by the
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, stated "that the
Executive Committee draw up a clear statement of Agency support
for training, identifying the broad values and goals that it
wants the Agency training effort to espouse and achieve."
3. Request approval of the Executive Statement of Values
and Goals.
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SUBJECT: Statement of OTE Values and Goals
Deputy Director for Administration Date
OTE/ADC I(220ct85)
Distribution:
Orig - Addressee (Rtn to D/OTE), w/att
1 - Executive Director, w/att
1 - Executive Registry, w/att
2 - DDA, w/att
2 - D/OTE, w/att
1 - ADC/OTE, w/att
1 - OTE Registry, w/att
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The Central Intelligence Agency is committed to achieving
excellence. We recognize that our employees are our most
valuable resource. The development of their capabilities is key
to achieving our mission, and training is central to that
process. We strongly believe that training is an investment not
an expense.
We establish the following goals for the Office of Training
and Education:
o The importance of CIA's mission and the training
needs of its officers mandates that CIA have the best
training organization in the U.S. Government.
o Training must play a crucial role in inculcating
the Agency's values, philosophy, and its unique role in
American society. It should help instill CIA's commitment
to excellence, integrity, professionalism, and equal
employment.
o OTE must establish and maintain close working
relationships with consumers of its training product.
o Training courses must be systematically reviewed
to ensure relevancy and effectiveness.
o OTE must provide future Agency leaders with both
the opportunity to examine the challenges implicit in CIA's
mission and the competencies to deal with them.
o OTE must provide a curriculum which trains
officers in the basic, intermediate, and advanced skills
essential for their intelligence assignments and related
responsibilities.
o OTE training programs must act as a catalyst to
intra-Agency understanding and collaboration.
o Through training programs, OTE must facilitate
communication among Agency leaders and officers as well as
across directorate lines.
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o We look to OTE to help keep CIA officers apprised
of the changes in the international and domestic
environment that impacts on the Agency's mission.
o Because it is our policy to take all reasonable
and appropriate steps to reduce the risks to employees
security abroad, we look to OTE to provide training which
will moderate the risks arising from terrorism and high
levels of criminal activity.
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