POLICIES GOVERNING ASSIGNMENT OF MILITARY PERSONNEL TO THE CENTAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000500040027-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: December 5, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE December 5, 1957
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUMBER S-1316.3
OSD DECLASSIFICATION/RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS ON FILE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIRECTIVE
SUBJECT: Policies Governing Assignment of Military Personnel
to the Central Intelligence Agency
Reference: (a) Department of Defense Directive 1315.3, entitled
"Policies Governing Assignment of Military
Personnel to the Central Intelligence Agency,"
dated 9 December 1952 (cancelled herein)
I. PURPOSE
The purpose of this directive is to announce to all con-
cerned policies governing the assignment of military
personnel to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
II. CANCELLATION
Reference (a) is superseded and cancelled on the effective
date of this directive.
III. GENERAL POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
A. Representation and Liaison
1. Requirements. Certain military personnel should
be assigned to the CIA to provide adequate
military participation and support at appropriate
levels of the agency. This representation will be
in conformity with Department of Defense/CIA
policies. Personnel selected should be the best
qualified and most experienced available, with a
well-founded understanding of their own Service
policies, programs and requirements.
2. Assignment Qualifications. As far as practical,
the Services should provide personnel to the CIA
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who are adequately trained for the function which
they are to perform insofar as the function is
one of common concern, to relieve CIA of a
requirement to furnish military-type training and
indoctrination.
3. Military Technical Skills and Experience. Certain
military personnel should be assigned to CIA to
fill approved billets requiring persons with
technical skills and experience peculiar to the
Military Services.
4. Specialized Qualifications. The Military Services
should not be requested to furnish military
personnel to CIA to fill billets requiring
persons with language, area or other unusual
skills, experience or qualifications, which are
not intrinsic in military personnel, if such
qualification is the primary basis for the request.
B. Labor and Services.
1. In general the Military Services should not be
requested to assign personnel to CIA to perform
housekeeping functions, communication or clerical
duties, to render medical support, or otherwise
to be a source of labor and miscellaneous
services, if such duty is the primary basis for
the request.
2. Overseas, where a CIA activity is located near or
within a U.S. military installation, the local
military commander may, when requested by CIA,
and based on a specific agreement approved by the
Military Service concerned, provide services of
common concern, such as physical security, etc.,
to CIA as to other branches of the Government,
provided that such services can be furnished within
current local personnel allocations and subject to
fiscal reimbursements where required. Such
facilities, or personnel involved, should not
normally be turned over to CIA administration.
C. Remote or Undesirable Posts.
The Military Services should not be requested to
assign personnel to CIA to staff or support CIA
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installations in undesirable locations or duties except
where the assignment of military personnel is agreed
to be the most practical solution. In such cases CIA
should exhaust every possibility to acquire the
personnel needed from the U.S. and indigenous civilian
labor pool.
D. Recall of CIA Employees
Generally, recall of CIA employees to extended active
military duty is not considered desirable.
E. Unprogrammed Requests.
Unprogrammed CIA requirements not anticipated and pro-
cessed as part of annual personnel estimates, should
nevertheless be handled in the same manner as the
annual estimates, with such advance informal counsul-
tation as may be required to expedite the process.
F. Training Agreements.
The provisions of this policy will not affect present
or future agreements which CIA may make with the
Services to provide military training for Junior
Officer Trainees of the Agency.
IV. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FUNCTIONS.
A. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) should
continue to promulgate policies and procedures
governing military personnel support of the CIA,
and should receive CIA annual estimates of military
personnel requirements along with general justifica-
tion for all new positions. The OSD should then review
and process them to the Services for detailed consid-
eration. After receipt of comments from the Services,
the OSD should review them and make a consolidated
reply to the CIA.
B Exceptions to any of the policies promulgated herein,
on a unique and emergency basis, may be negotiated by
CIA through the OSD.
V. DEPARTMENTAL PROCESSING.
A. Each Service will examine the CIA request for personnel,
indicating recommended approval or disapproval to the OSD.
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B. The Military Services should take full advantage of
such information on acquired skills and experiences as
can be made available, by mutual arrangements betwee_
CIA and the Services, on military personnel returning
from assignment with CIA.
VI. IMPLEMENTATION.
This directive is effective immediately and the foregoing
policies regarding military personnel assignment to CIA
should be put into effect by each Military Service on a
continuing basis at the earliest possible date.
/5/ NEIL McELROY
Secretary of Defense
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