SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT'S BOARD OF CONSULTANTS ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00910A000100020108-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2002
• Sequence Number: 108
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: Semi-Annual Report to the President's Board of Consultants
on Feign Intelligence Activities.
1. This is in response to your request for a narrative statement
covering the activities of this Staff for the period of 1 November 1956
to 1-May 1957 for inclusion in the subject report.
2. Three of the Management Staff projects over-shadow all others fw.;,7,.; .. -
for this reporting period. They are:().)
1. The progress made in the r on to the Agency's regulation
on Tables of Organization STATINTL
2. The completion of the trial period of the Development Complty
went installed by Management Staff in the Office of Communications
3. A new look for regulatory issuances of the Agency which separ-
ates policy material from procedural instructions.
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j. Operating officials desiring to make even minor changes in their
organization in order to meet changes in work load have been required to
formally request permission to do so. In many cases the permission was
granted months after the fact occ ed. The paper work involved enaangered
security, was time-consuzaing and;'thre cases of minor changes almost always
resulted in approval. The Chief of management Staff presented to key
officials a proposal for revision in the procedure which was enthusiastically
received. The chief concern of the Office of PersoruielJe"the possible effect
on classification action, appears to be solved. The proposal will place the
responsibility and the authority for the utilization of work forces closer
to actual operating levels. Control of major organization changes is tt4
not diminished as management Staff contribution in such cases will be-eem-
4. The Staffingtompnt concept was reported on favorably, after
a year of operation in the Office of Communications. It is a device for
better control over the numbers and the status of personnel. Operat'
Chiefs will be enabled to know exactly what manpower they have distributed
between productive and non-productive assignments. Fnploo~es who are in
the interim between transfer to or from headquarters will4asily identified.
The Chief, management Staff and the Director of Personnel composed a report
to the Career Council asking for an extension of the most successful phases
of the concept to the remainder of the Agency.
5.1 kecor."ds i.anagemnent Staff has now succeeded in scheduling iO percent
of all of the Agency's Headquarters records for retirement to the Records
Center, destructimn or permanent retention. Filth quipruent for the number of
records retired for the six months period would have cost the A.gency#1,972,256.
6. 0 & :Methods roving particularly profitable for the Agency were
the study of wnvouchered funds' examination of the
backlog of the Analysis Pranch of the Records Integration Division (DD/P);
the space study in the Industrial Card File of the Industrial Register of OCh,
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and the study of the de-processing of` separating Agency employees;
a survey of the CIA Watch Office resulting in improved effectiveness
of the Watch Office in alerting top officials.
Economy measure e necessity for assuring that machines
are employed *rever poss b e n the conduct of the Agency administrative
activity. Two new Staff members were added to the Nacnine Staff., in order to
proviae more assistance to the organizational elements of the Agency in
mechanizing their worx and bringing about greater efficiency and economy.
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