SIS PROMOTION TALK ON MONDAY, 14 JULY 1980

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP95-00535R000300020007-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 14, 1980
• Content Type: MISC

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SIS Promotion Talk on Monday, 14 July 1980
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Harry E. Fitzwater
Director of Personnel Policy,
Planning, and Management
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DRAFT--SIS Pormotion Talk for Monday, 14 July 1980
Recognize: Advancement into SIS largest ever--almost
five times what it was in 1977.
Particular emphasis on offering reasonable promotion
opportunities in all areas of the Agency as far as reasonably
possible.
Second group of entrants into SIS. Used special authority
Last October to establish an SIS.
Wanted to offer senior officers benefits and incentives
comparable to those granted elsewhere Civil Service. Twenty-
five-to fifty percent will be eligible for bonuses next
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November based on promotions measured against more specific
goals/standards than ever before.
Entering a period of greater competition, greater oppor-
tunity and reward than the Agency and the U. S. Government have
known.
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In facing facing opportunity and challenge the Agency always
needed and had superior leadership. We are going to need as
much or more in the '80's.
We have turned the dorner on public and governmental
attitudes regarding the Agency and the profession. With
that comes responsibilities. More freedom has made it hard
to judge for ourselves what risks to take in the national
interest. The more support we receive, the more will be
expected of us--better collection, better analysis. The
last thing we can do is rest on our laurels. Nice as it is
to have them recognized somewhat more than in the past five
or six years, the Agency and the intelligence profession
are facing demanding new challenges, challenges of ever-
increasing sophisticated new technologies.
Questions: How to afford, how to utilize anticipated
countermeasures. New analytical techniques, computer-aided
analysis, quantitative measures of political and social
uses. (Others?) Challenge of anticipating needs of the
future: Arms control going to continue strong. Energy and
food analysis expand. Will Indonesia and Brazil be the
Irans, Saudi Arabias, and Zimbabwes that leaped out of the
Third World to demand our attention--or who?
Also, the challenge of inspiring and leading the youth
coming into the Agency--can we meet their different but
equally valid idealism? Can we fit their large expectations
for advancement, responsibilit 4.and sense of contribution?
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Whether we meet these challenges of the decade of the '80's
will in large measure be in your hands. As of today you
must act and think in terms of what is good for the Agency,
not DDO, DDA, OLC, or whatever. You will set the tone and
standards that will determine the direction in which we g
Directors, Presidents, and Congressional committees will
push .or pull in one direction or another. You are the con-
tinuity. You are the inspiration for those below you and
coming forward to replace you. You should be the source of
change, innovation, adaptation that will be more necessary
in this coming decade than in any of the past three that
CIA has served our nation. You are to be congratulated
warmly and should feel proud. You are also to be impressed
by the responsibility that lies ahead and should feel humble.
Most of all, you should feel exhilarated and challenged by
the prospect that lies ahead, the prospect full of optimism
and of opportunity.
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