ACTIVE-DUTY TRAINING FOR AGENCY PERSONNEL HAVING RESERVE STATUS IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00017A000200060005-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 19, 1954
• Content Type: MEMO

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REG. 77 1763
By: 0/
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70; Director of Central Intelligence
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SUBJECT; Active-duty Trairtng for Agency Personnel having Reurv.
- Statue in the Aimed Forces of the United States.
To apply the principle, for which the Armed Perces grant
active-duty training to its reservists, to the Agency.
2, FACTS FEARING ON THE FROWN:
a. Subject to the availability of funds all reservists of the
Armed Forces in the U. S. in good stapling are eligible to
receive fifteen dye of active-duty training each year. By
law all civil service personnel in the federal government
are authorised military leave for this purpose which is not
chargeable to their annual leave and for which they may receive
military pay and allowances in addition to their governmental
salary.
b. The principle of active-duty training, which guides the Armed
Forces in offering it to qualified reservists, is to prepare
them in their field of specialisation for duties appropriate
to their rank which they are expected to perform on and after
MF.Day.
c. MOst reservists of CIA are in a status which the military
ewtablishment calls "oar marked." Specifically this mane
that such reservists cannot be called to active duty with the
Armed Forces without the specific concurrence of the Director
of Central Intelligence.
During?!4. 1953-1954, fifteen days of military leave was granted
to each or 433 Agency reserve personnel. Had there been more
funds available for such training it is possible that an even
larger number would have applied for and received such tratniag.
On 7 May 1954 a staff study was prepared try three reserve
personnel of the Agency while serving on their two-week tour
of military duty. This staff study had as its objective the
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improvement of conditions relative to Agency reservists. It
sought to make recommendatione which would provide maximum
benefits to the Armed Forces and the Agency as well as to the
reserve personnel involved. This staff study is being considered
by the Assistant Director for Personnel in the light of esti.
meted Agency military manpower requirements as of 6-Day. Since
the manpower survey has still not been completed, action on the
staff study is in a state of suspension.
3. DISCUSSION*
a. no. most reservists attached to the Agency will continue to
perform their present assignments or others that they say be
given by the Agency on and after Wag, it femme appropriate
that the fifteen days of activeduty training to which they
are entitled by law, if it is in accord with the principles used
by the Armed Forces in granting such active duty, should be
devoted to trainingiehichlwill prepare them to perform Agency
tasks on MFDay.
b. It is doubtful that at the present time the Agency is prepared
to identify its reservists in terns of possible 14-Day assign-
ments. ft is also doubtful that the Agency has determined how
and in what manner its reservists on and after MI-Day would or
should have military as distinguished from civilian status.
A further factor that complicates the utilisation of reservists
as such on and after M4ay is the absence of apy firmly esta-
blished troop basis requirement within the components of the
Armed Forces for duty with CIA. Should each a requirement be
established it is conceivable that it could be met in part from
among the reservists presently on duty in the Agency, who could
serve the Agency as active-duty members of the Armed Forces
in which they were commissioned.
c. The existence of these unresolved problems, however does not
invalidate the principle that the active-duty training now
being received by Agency reservists is not contributing to the
fullest extent possible either to the Armed Forces in which
they are commissioned or to the Agency. It is quite possible
that if this ism* were raised without the prior negotiation of
an Armed Form; commitment in terms of troop beide to CIA on and
after Mi-Day? the status of reservists as such vis-a-vis the
Armed Forces may be placed in jeopardy. The Armed Forces could
very well take the position that CIA reservists would be of no
use to them on and after M-Day, and therefore should not be
eligible for expenditure of further funds and further effort
On their part.
d. Provided that the Agency can project the use of its reserve
personnel into an MmDay plan, means could be found to govern
the manner in which this time was spent in training either
within the Agency or in Department of Defense Schools. Such
training would be more meaningful in terms of their war-time
use by the Agency. In this respect the Office of Personnel
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and the Office of Training if they were authorized to exercise
controls over the assignment of active-duty tours could hecom-
pIieh this objective.
a.
Consideration of this problem should be made together with con-
sideration of the staff study dated 7 May 1954; aubj. Recommendations
to improve Agency Military Reserve Program.
4. CONCLUSIONS':
a. The active-duty training now available to Agency reservists fails
to accomplish the objective for which such training is offered in
view of the vnique status of Agency reserve personnel as being
"ear marked" for duty with the Agency on and after Mo-Day.
b. The Agency has the capability and facilities to ensure that such
active-duty training can be more meaningful in terms of the
M?Day assignments of Agency personnel particularly with respect
to &kills required for DD/P operations.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
That you approve the principle that active-duty training for
Agency reservists eghollie be designed to prepare them for effective
performance of M-Day duties with the Agency, and that this problem
be included among those to be negotiated with the Armed Forces
in connection with the overall CIA reserve system.
b. That the Aseistant Director for Personnel be required to study
the Agency 14-Day manpower requirements in terms of the effective
use of Agency reserve personnel.
c. That the Director of Training exercise staff supervision over the
temporary active-duty training of Agency reserve personnel in
order to ensure that such training, which may be provided either
within the Agency or the Armed Forces installations, contribute
more directly to Agency use of such personnel on and after
APPROVING AUTHORITY:
APPROVED
Directorof Central Intelligence
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MATTIEN BAIRD
Director of Training
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