AN OVERSEAS CAREER CORPS FOR THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 13, 1958
• Content Type: STUDY

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INTRODUCTION
13 May 1958
The criteriapprocedures and administrative policies discussed below show
how a career corps based on overseas service could be created for CIA. Many
of the proposed features have been firmly established in the pattern of the
Foreign Service of the Department of State. Legislative precedent existsfor
such a system and for the benefits and reqpirements thereof.
Tb the extent that it is practical, some of the most desiraole features
of the Foreign Service have been incorporated in this plan while those which
are more restrictive and limiting have been discarded in order to provide a
system more flexible than the Foreign Service. It would more cloeely meet our
more unpredictable regairements than the Foreign Service System.
It must be recognized, however, that high standards of selectionein and
selection-out and definable procedures must be assured before it is reason-
able to expect the Congress to grant broad authority to the DCI for the
?1;stablishment of the Corps
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a %he Overseas Career Corps will be composed of persons selected from
duty overseas.
2. Eligibility for Selection
Members of the Career Staff vho have served overseas fox CIA or who
have firm assignments for their first overseaa tour of duty may be
selected for nemberahip in the Overseas Career Corps.
3. Selection Procedure
Selection will be by nomination to the Selection Beard by the Head
of the major operating component (the DDCI for DCI), the DD/C, the pi',
the mop and the Ws.
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criteria for selection will be established by the Cureer
Council for members of the Overseas Career Corps, vhich will consist of
the following categories of personnel:
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? Overseas Career Intelligence Officers
Overseas Career Support Officers
Overseas Career Technicians
Overseas Career Employees (Secretaries and Clerks)
A high level of language proficiency in at least one foreign language
will be required of intelligence officers. Language proficiency will
also be considered in the selection of support officers, technicians and
employees but will not be a determining factor. Similarly, intelligence
and assessment test scores vill be considered, as appropriate, in the
selection especially of junior members of the Corps. Recommendation by
the Selection Beard to the DCI of an individual for membership in the
Overseas Career Corps will take place only after a personal interview
of the individual concerned before the Selection Board or before a Panel
working under the direct supervision of the Selection Beard. Such a
Panel will consist of not less than three senior officials, representing
the DO/I, the DD/P and the DD/S.
5. wasatm_eat
Members of the Overseas Career Corps will be appointed by the DCI
upon the recommendation of the Selection Board.
6. Tenure in and Removal from Overseas Career Core.
a. An individual retains his membership in the Overseas Career Corps
at the discretion of the DCI and may be transferred out of the Over-
seas Career Corps at any time by the pa.
b. Individuals may appeal such action orally or in writing to the
Selection Board which Will forward its recommendation to the DCI.
The decision of the DC/ shall be -final.
7. gementof the Overseas Career Corps with Respect to Overseas But
The Selection Board will annually recommend to the DCI the names of
those persons who will be transferred out of the Overseas Cr rear Corps,
based on the amount of their actual overseas service or on their potential
for further overseas service. The composition of the Overseas Career
Corps will be so managed that:
FIRST ALIERNATINE:
At the beginning of each Fiscal ?ear the total overseas Government duty,
both TUX and PCS, civilian and Military of all members of the Overseas
Career Corps will exceed 40% of the total of their total creditable
Government service.
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SMONDALTERNATIVE:
At no time will more than 60 percent of the Overseas Career Corps
be permitted to serve within the continental limits of the Uaited States.
In order to hold to this figure, persons may be removed fron the Corpe
because their overseas service falls below the average or because the
likelihood of their serving usefully overseas in the future has d4sInisbed.
8. Size of the Overseas Career Corps
The Career Council will recommend anTnualy to the BCI for his
approval the overall size of the Overseas Career Carpi and the size
of the respective classes within the Corps. The DC I will, on the basis
of these recommendations, determine the overall ceiling and the class
ceilings for the Overseas Career Corps for the ensuing Fiscal Year.
9. Method of Payment
All members of the Overseas Career Corps will be paid from con-
fidential funds whether serving in headquarters or oterStas.
10. W_Steaks
a. All mothers of the Overseas Career Corps Whb are classified as
Inte31igence Officers or as Support Officers will be paid according
to the pey scale for Foreign Ser Vice Officers. (See Appendix A)
b. All members of the Overseas CSreer Corps vho are classified as
clerical and secretarial employees or as technician's will be paid
according to the pay scale for Fbreign Service Staff Officers and
Beployees. (See Appendix B)
U. Conversion
Upon entering the Overseas Career Corps the individuel will enter
the class and step of the F80 scale or the 738 scale for which the
salary is equal to or only just higher than his current GS grade and
step. Be will henceforth be classed as:
An Overseas Career Intelligence Officer, or
Overseas Career Support Officer, or
Overseas Career Techvielan, or
Overseas Career Eepaoyee (Secretary or Clerk)
of Class 24 or Class 4, or Class 8, as the case may be.
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12. Effective dates
. Entry of individuals into the Overseas Career Corps willleeffective
on 1 'Yeomanry and 1 July ana on those dates only.
13. lisx_Adostraion
Wage administration in the Overseas Career Corps will conform to that
in the Pareign Service, e.g.
a. Step increases will be autaaatically granted on 1 July of each year.
b. After reaching the highest step of the class, an individual =AY
receive up to four longevity step increases, each equal to a regular
step increase when granted by the Promotion Board, but be may not
receive more than one in any one fiscal year.
c. Legislation will be sought so that meritorious step increases,
in addition to step increases in a and b above, may be granted by
the Honors Board.
14. Promotions
Promotions of members of the Overseas Career Corps within the overall
annual promotion vote set by the Career Council will be approved by the
Promotion Board upon the recommendations of the Career Ihmeas, through
the Reads of the Career Services. Promotions to any one class in any
one year will be simultaneous.
15. Retirement
A member of the Overseas Career Corps will earn an annuity computed
at 2% times total years of creditable Government service times 5 year
highest average salary. On 30 Jane following the fulfillment of two
condition, age 50 and 20 years of creditable Government service a member
of the Overseas Career Corps will retire unless the RetireMent service,
has
recommended his continued employment to the DCI. Retirement at age 60
shall be at the discretion of the DCI 'whether the member of the Overseas
Career Corps has 20 years of creditable Government service or not. The
Mrs decision shall be final.
16 Selectiol-Out and Severance -Pay
A member of the Overseas Career Corps may if selected-out by the
Promotion Board and if he is between the ages of 40 and 50 and has 15 or
more years of creditable service receive severance pay, at the discretion
of the XI, equal to a maxissza of his annual salary at termination computed
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aq::,IVCTY, An Overseas Career Corea the Central Intelligence Menty
.tit the rate of one twelfth of hio terminal salary for each year of
exeditehle Oovvr=ent service. He will withdraw his contributions to
*he Retd.rement *Uril with interest compounded. annually at 3%. Severance
pay shall be mid from the Retirement Panda A. member of tbe Overseas
_Areer Corpc who has been eelectedrout and. who has less than 15 years
credlte.ble servite 743,1 receive no severance pay but he will
.7.1VIdrom his contributions to he Retirement Fund with interest compouade,
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9 itypeal tem Selection.out
a. Mot414'iT nt the Ckreer Corpa or of the Overseas Career Corps who has
entirta erki,,cte7J-gek. by the Yromotion abard may, if he makes the request in
4-016iMp. wv4hin 10. working des of eornalnotification of each action,
rs.7A-4,1m a nring before the Selection Board or one of its Panels. The
electAon Board v111 forwer4 Its recommendation to the DXI whose decision
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A member of the OVersivan nnreer Corps who has retired at age 50 or
moire mmy. tf ne is employed by another Government agency or :t..f he is
a contract agent overseas by CU, receive that pertion of
;40 earned annuiti?... whioh eire'ts the difference between hia terminal salary
4tth MN end his new earnei salary with another Government ecency or hia
new contract fee vitt? CIA orovided his termlna1 salary with CIA was the
entification of Poeition
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of the DCI, the Career Council will aplenity which
onnitiona In the continents3 liTTAts of the VLS. may be ensumbtred by
:_lwbera ehe? Oversews Cs iver Corps!, anti stey specify the dArAtlon for
,rhith a partiular pow;tion txpikv be gm encumbered by any one Idt-ridne.1.,
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