MANPOWER SURVEY, CLANDESTINE SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00423A000100020003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 6, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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C 0 F Y DD/P 1-3691
6 December 1954
1I,MORANDUi-1 FOR: Director, Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Manpower Survey, Clandestine Services
ILL F :ILPJI,CE (a) Far Eastern Division Manpower Report
l8 August 1954
(b) Eastern Europe Division Manpower Report,
September 1954.
(c) Western Europe Division t?Ianpower Report
9 November 1954.
(d) Near East and AfricaDivision Manpower
Report, 6 December 1954
1. With the conclusion of the Manpower Report for the Near East
and Africa Division, the ItR Staff has completed detailed analyses of
-tour (4) major Divisions of the Clandestine Services representing in ex-
cess of of the total Clandestine Services staff em-
2. As a result of the referenced surveys, the following major find-
_i_n ? s are delineated:
a. There is little change in pattern as between Divi-
sions, merely differences in degree.
b. I.Iany of the undesirable administrative practices
encountered are due not to a desire to circumvent proper
control, but are motivated by a necessity to surmount need-
less and often conflicting difficulties imposed by regulations
and/or by lack of regulations.
c. It is exceedingly difficult to process the adnii.nistra-
t_i.ve requirements inherent in obtainin ; changes in a T/O.
d. The length of time necessary to process a change
in a T/O and obtain necessary approvals is inordinately ex-
cessive,
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e. Because the official ADP personnel reports to the
Director are based only upon completed formal personnel
actions, which many times lag behind. physical change in em-
ployee status or location by many months, these reports do
not accurately reflect the quantitative aspects of personnel
in the Clandestine Services; and these reports are, not cur-
r.cnt as to assignments a.ndlocations of Clandestine Services
personnel.
f. Because of the necessarily extremely slow and
cumbersome administrative aspects of a T/O system, it
appears doubtful whether such a system is properly appli-
cable to a Clandestine Services organization which rues
flexibility and speed in assignment and reassignment of
personnel.
g. The problems of personnel rotation as between
J. I icld and headquarters have not been properly studied and
numberous problems inherent in such a rotation system
must be resolved. Two (2) major problems encountered
being: :
(1) How to rotate personnel equitably
within a component in which field personnel
outnumbers Headquarters personnel to a sub-
stantial degree; and
(2) slow to resolve the need for prompt
placement of returnees, which means forward
planning before the return of the employees,
with the (natural) insistence of operating coin-
)onents to see and talk to an individual before
accepting him for placement.
3. As a result of the four (11.) referenced Clandestine Services
lanpotiaer Surveys, the following recommendations are submitted:
That, in view of the repetitive ,~a ttern encoun-
tered in the thousands of cases already studied, permis-
sion be granted to 1&&R to discontinue further review of
additional Clandestine Services units; and
b. That, in view of the questionable value, if not
even detrimental operational aspects of the T/C system
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as presently applied to the Clandestine Cervices,'the
Management Staff, DD/A, be requested to present for
the Director's consideration a completed staff study in-
corporating its views and recommendations for more
practicable alternatives to the present system.
Chief, Inspection and Review
Original - Addressee
1 - DD/P, DD/P-Admin
1 - Inspector General
1 - X3:_7/A
1 - AD/P
1 - I&R Subject file
1 - Ic:R Chrono file
Cf NCU1MhNCES:
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C70P )MCP 6 Dec 1954
L. L D. Kirkpatrick
Inspector General 6 Dec 54
s Allen F?: Dulles
6 Dec 514
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