MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR OF SECURITY FROM JOHN F. BLAKE

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 127
• Publication Date: May 14, 1974
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MEMORANDUM ? Director of Security
Charlie:
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DD/M4S 74-1692
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1. The purpose of this note is to pass on information concern
ing personnel cuts in FY-75. A few words describing the general
situation are first in order. On 9 May the Director approved the
FY-75 staff personnel level. Action is now underway based on the
specifics of the positions elimination for FY-7S recommended to
the Director by the ADD Working Group. It is not, however, until
30 June 1975 that we gust arrive at the level reduced from the
FY-74 authorizations. While this, admittedly, will be less than
the most neat and tidy manner of accounting for on-duty people,
any other approach would have forced the Agency into an immediate
surplus personnel exercise.
2. Selection of the staff positions recommended for deletion
in FY-75 came about through the following methodology. We first
thoroughly acquainted ourselves with the "mini-resource packages"
produced by the Offices for the ADD Working Group. There then was
added two judgmental factors. The first was a realization in this
day of personnel austerity certain niceties of service, as opposed
to essential responsibilities, should be identified. Secondly,
other judgments were made based on a general level of knowledge
or understanding, a realization that either the standard contract
or the independent contractor route could be utilized, or, lastly,
a determination that a conventional "belt tightening" approach
could be utilized.
3. In only a relatively few cases throughout the Directorate
are the recommended position deletions such that substitutions,
reconmanded by you, cannot be considered. Such cases, if any are
present for your Office, are noted below. In all other cases we
ask that you do the following. Review those recoznendations
listed and if, in your opinion, you would like to suggest alterna-
tives, please feel free to do so. While the recommended deletions
as listed in this paper are basically those that will be carried
in the FY-75 Agency budget being submitted to OMB, this does not
preclude us from taking action, based on your recommended substitutes,
to effect such changes after 1 July. You will note that in most cases
grades have not been associated with position reduction. To have done
so would have over-complicated what was already a very complex under-
taking. Accordingly, you may well wish to consider the average grade
factor if you choose to make other substitute recommendations.
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4. The following positions were listed for reduction,
your option:
and there are none which cannot be replaced
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/s/ John F. Blaka
John F. Blake
Associate Deputy Director
for
Management and Services
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