TENTATIVE PROCEDURES AND POLICIES FOR THE ASSESSMENT UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP54-00252A000100030027-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: June 22, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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22 June 1949
MEMORANDUM
T0: ADSO
ADPC
FROM: Joint OSO/OPC Training Committee
SUBJECT: Tentative Procedures and Policies for the Assessment Unit
1. The Assessment Unit will act in a service and advisory
capacity only. Its purpose is to provide data of value to the organization
for personnel selection and placement.
2. Pr_ ess Retorts. The Chief of the Assessment Unit will sub-
mit monthly progress reports through the Chief, TRS, to the Joint Training
Committee.
3. Priorities. Assessment priorities will be established by
the Joint Training Committee. At the present time priorities will be given
to applicants for staff positions in TRS/OSO and TOS/OPC, and to applicants
for positions as station chiefs, and Washington Headquarters positions as
branch, staff, division, and program chiefs.
4. Personnel Action Prior to Assessment. The following personnel
actions will be taken before a person is referred for assessment:
(a) Form 57 and Personal History Statement will be completed;
(b) Report of Interview Form will be completed by a staff
member of CPB, or by an authorized "personnel" staff member of
COS/OPC;
(c) Report of Interview Form will be completed by such represent-
atives of OSO or OPC as may be designated by the Assistant Director
concerned. Applicants will not be assessed unless the personnel
representatives of the respective Offices have concluded and indi-
cated in writing that the applicants appear to be suitable for em-
ployment and will be employed upon receipt of favorable Assessment
evaluations.
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5. Rea_ uestfor Assessment. Requests for assessment may be
initiated by ADSO, ADPC, and such other individuals as they may designate.
All requests for assessment will be channeled as follows; For OSO,
through the office of the ADSO; For OPC, through COS. The Chief CPB
is authorized to request assessment directly from the Chief of the Assess-
ment Unit. However, if the person under consideration is already em-
ployed by OSO or OPC, the request for assessment must have the prior con-
currence of the Assistant Director concerned, or his designated represent-
ative for Assessment matters. Until such time as an appropriate form is
prepared, requests for assessment will be submitted in duplicate on Form
51-1 Blue Sheet, copy attached, to which will be appended all papers re-
ferred to in paragraph 4 above.
6. Assessment Findin?s. The assessment report will be classi-
fied Secret and handled as a controlled document to be entrusted to the
requesting official only. The requesting official will exercise discre-
tion in revealing the contents of the assessment report to his colleagues,
but under no circumstances will the assessment report or any part thereof
be revealed in any way whatsoever to the person assessed. Written or
oral quotations from the assessment report are prohibited, unless author-
ized by ADSO or ADPC for any particular ease. Persons who are shown the
assessment report will be required to sign the report and indicate the
date on which the report was seen. The report will be returned to the
Assessment Unit within ten days after it has been released by the Assess-
ment Unit. The Chief of the Assessment Unit will furnish the Chief CPB
a weekly list of all applicants assessed that week. Only ADSO and ADPC
are authorized access to the complete assessment file on any individual
case.
7. Case Load. The Assessment Unit will not be able to handle
more than five intensive assessment cases a week until additions have been
made to the staff.
DATE: DATE:
Asst Director for Special Asst Director for Policy Coordination
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