AGENCY MANPOWER STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00213A000100030064-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: November 28, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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28 November 1955
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Support)
ATTENTION : Director of Communications
Deputy Director of Personnel
SUBJECT : Agency Manpower Study
REFERENCE : Memorandum, subject as above, dated 17 November 1955
1. As directed in referenced memorandum the following report
is submitted for the Medical Staff:
a. Manpower Reduction:
No reduction of Medical Staff manpower from its
current under-strength status is possible without radically
revising its basic function. The Medical Staff is considered
(e.g., in budget presentations) to have one function or
activity: that of the provision of medical service to the
Agency. A division of this one function into sub-functions
such as physical examinations, referrals, and consultations
is neither logical nor realistic; all these "sub-activities"
form one closely integrated whole. As recently as 2 August
1955 a lengthy Management-Personnel study was completed
that set the appropriate strength of the Medical Staff for
the proper provision of medical service to the Agency at
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b. Duplication:
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There are no known areas wherein the Medical Staff
performs any activity which is also being performed in whole
or in part by another component of the Agency or by another
Government agency. There are areas, to be sure, wherein
the efforts of the Medical Staff are closely integrated
with the activities of other components but this should not
be mistaken for duplication. Examples of this are the activi-
ties of the Medical Staff in coordination with the Office of
Training, and with the Office of Personnel in professional
procurement, each of which require the participation of pro-
fessionally trained personnel.
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c. Present manpower capability:
It is the opinion of this staff that its present
manpower capability is not consonant with the requirements
considered to be proper to the Medical Staff. An example
may be cited: as a result of the Management-Personnel
survey mentioned above, it was determined that there is
a bona fide need for a position of Registrar, which in-
dividual would work closely with the staff physicians and
psychiatrists in the medico-administrative aspects of
clinical medicine; such individuals have been determined
by military and civilian medicine to contribute greatly
to the efficiency of medical service as well as to in-
crease the number of patients that physicians can see.
By reason of the imposition of the personnel ceiling
as of 31 July 1955, however, this position has not been
filled. In order to fulfill its obligation to the Agency,
the Medical Staff should be authorized additional manpower
to staff this Registrar function as well as the remainder
of the positions provided for in the Table of Organization
of 2 August 1955.
ci. Desirable tasks deferred:
The deferral of the development of the Registrar
function has meant that certain physicians of the Medical
Staff must continue to carry much of the administrative
burden appropriate to the Registrar. This in turn has
deferred the further development of such desirable activi-
ties as the annual physical examination program.
The present personnel ceiling has also deferred
the strengthening of the Administrative Support Division
of the Medical Staff. Such strengthening was recommended
by the Inspector General as a result of his survey last
Spring, and was provided for by the Management Staff and
office of Personnel in the Table of Organization of 2 August
1955. This Medical Staff division is responsible for all
Agency medical personnel, supply, and fiscal matters. Current
authorization of the two positions originally approved would
seem to be clearly in the Agency's interest.
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