Proposed Reorganization of the Signal Center

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00538A000100020004-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 19, 1956
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FUR THE RECORD:
19 Dec 1956
SUBJECT:. Proposed Reorganization of the Signal Center
25X1 Aga 1. In response to a statement by upport,
Office of Communications to the a ec at Chief 25X1A9a
of the Signal Center had a problem up ou - use some
management assistance I conferred wit this morning 25X1A9a
to determine the nature of his proble
25X1A9a 2. stated as follows:
a. That the increase in traffic in the Signal Center makes it
imperative that some reorganization be made in the. structure
of the Signal Center without a change in the overall ceiling.
There has been a substantial increase in traffic from
10,500,000 groups for 1950 to 62,000,000 in 1955 and an
estimated 72,000,000 groups for this calendar year.
b. At present he has two(2) GS-13's on the day shift covering
the Signal Center Officer Staff which does not give him
sufficient remaining personnel to cover the other shifts
throughout a seven day schedule on a 24-hour basis. kED
noted that his force was working this way an~7 nnin+o~i ut
that it was not in compliance with his T/O.
stated that it has been necessary for him to
j order to provide adequate coverage for the critical day
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-. shift. He stated it is also necessary to have two Signal
t- z,, Officers on the 4 to 12 shift because of the traffic volume
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that this action represented a proposed change in his structure
present time was somewhat extensive. PhD' then advised 25X1A9a
and asked him to take the matter up with the Management Staff.
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4 Because of the need for more than one Suter Officer to
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is advisable to establish four to five positions as Deputy 25X1A9
`:Signal Officers at the GS-12 level in order to handle the
increased traffic and particularly the supervisory work
required. In order to acommodate these positions he stated
he would take the slots, if permissible, from the Manual
Cipher Section.
d. He would also like to reorganize the Manual Branch and the
Machine Branch to reflect five GS-11's in each Branch so
as to ensure the necessary type of supervision required on
a shift basis.
25X1A9a 3. I asked again about his ceil
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had requ onal 20 slots from the Support Staff
of Coffino for lower level po in order to
25X1 A9a handle t rld-wide traffic. was under
the impression that the ceiling increase for such positions 25X1 A9a
was not related to the internal reorganization of Signal
Center supervisory positions but I pointed out that it was most
advisable to consider the entire Signal Center organization for
purposes of our study so that we could come up with a proposed
study that would carry the organization as far ahead as possible.
25X1A9a 4. ~ deputy made a remark during effect that at least 60% of the traffic passing passing thru to
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Signal Center constitutes traffic for this organization t
that there was some discussion from the Pentagon iasto whether
or not we should have our own facility.
25X1A9a 5. I mentioned to _ that our oal
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study was o make as complete a
y as possible so that it would best serve the interests
of the Communications Office and for future planning 25X1A9a
and reference purposes. I asked to compile the
following data in rough form as soon as convenient:
a. Record of Overtime worked in the Signal Center.
b. Proposed T/O in rough form.
c. Data . as to how much traffic a Signal Center Officer
would be expected to handle on any one shift and justification
as to why the reorganization was necessary.
indicated that he would not be out of town during the
o ays and that he would try to have the data ready next week
for discussion. Since P~ made a complete classification survey
of the ignal Center recently, including personnel working on
the night and week-end shifts, I shall talk to them in detail
converning their ideas relative to workload and solicit any
remarks they may wish to offer.
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