NOTE TO DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR ADMINISTRATION FROM(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00300R000100010015-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: July 24, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Acting Director of Personnel
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Deputy Director for While we do not believe that
Administration the attached items are cases of
questionable activities, they
might be misconstrued by some
persons outside the Agency.
STATINT
Acting Director o ersonnel
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SUMMER ONLY PROGRAM ,
The Central Intelligence Agency's Summer Only Program
is a restricted program utilizing the dependents of Agency
employees in clerical-type tasks during the summer months.
Non-Agency dependents are excluded from consideration.
There could be comments by some that such a program is
characteristic of nepotism.
We have always justified our use of Agency dependents
only for our Summer Only Program on the basis of security
factors. It is apparently easier to conduct a security
investigation on a dependent, as we have information on the
parents already on file. Also, we admit for consideration
for this program only dependents who are living with the
Agency sponsor -- the reason being that we believe there
will be suitable controls as regards conduct, protection
of security information, etc.
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SPECIAL SELECTIVE SERVICE DEFERMENTS
FOR AGENCY EMPLOYEES
In the early days of the Agency it was determined that
it would be necessary to establish special procedures for
certain employees selected for assignment overseas. The
Agency never sought exemption from the service for its
personnel, only control over the timing of the military
service so that cover of its assigned missions would not
be adversely affected. The official History of the Mobili-
zation and Military Personnel Division reflects a meeting on
25 June 1950 between Major General Hershey, Director of
Selective Service, and the Director of Personnel of CIA,
Mr. William J. Kelly. Mr. Kelly recorded this meeting on
28 July 1950 in a memorandum for the record, in which he
sets forth the basic policies and procedures concurred in
by General Hershey as follows:
"(1) There would be no formal inter-office
correspondence on the subject of special defer-
ment agreements for CIA personnel. General
Hershey was concerned over the resultant criti-
cism if these agreements were to become public
knowledge.
"(2) The Agency would designate one officer who
would be.responsible for CIA approval of each
deferment and who would personally handcarry
each request directly to General Hershey. The
Agency initially designated the Director of
Personnel as the responsible officer. General
Hershey subsequently designated Colonel Daniel 0.
Omer, General Counsel, Selective Service System,
as his authorized contact in these matters; and
CIA appointed the Executive Officer/Office of
the Director of Personnel as the Agency's respon-
sible officer.
"(3) "Special" deferments would be arranged for
employees overseas on secret missions of such a
nature that their duties could not, in the
national interest, be divulged to the Selective
Service System. Requests for deferments on this
type of employee were approved only when the indi-
vidual was scheduled to depart for overseas
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assignments within six months after such deferment
was requested. General Hershey agreed to accept
all requests for deferments without question as to
where the employee was assigned or what duties he
was performing. He held CIA honor-bound to submit
deferment requests only on individuals who were
eligible under criteria agreed upon.
11(4) General Hershey stated that he would arrange
individual deferments in a manner of his own
choosing. He indicated that he would either
direct the State Directors of Selective Service
to classify the individual as a "Directed 4-F,"
or General Hershey, himself, would ask that files
be sent to National Selective Headquarters where
he would "sit on them." He would then issue a
Directed 4-F classification for the individual.*
"(5) The Agency agreed that deferments arranged
under the special agreement with General Hershey
would be canceled by CIA within 30 days after a
deferred employee returned from overseas. The
Directed 4-F 'classification card signed by General
Hershey would be returned to his office.
"(6) Upon initiation of a request for deferment
to General Hershey, the individual was prohibited
from corresponding with his local board. All
contacts with his local board had to be made
through CIA and General Hershey's office.
National. Selective Service Headquarters would
then handle local board contacts."
Subsequent to this period, there were frequent meetings
with minor changes during the years. For instance, when the
draft quotas had to be increased because of the Vietnam War,
Colonel Omer of Selective Service Headquarters asked that
Agency employees not be allowed to volunteer for overseas
service with the Agency to avoid military service. An
Office of Personnel Memorandum was issued in November 1967
which said, in. substance, we would not ask for special draft
classifications for employees who cannot complete the
scheduled overseas tour and return to the jurisdiction of
their local board.prior to age 26. There were times when
discussions between Agency officials and the Selective
Service became lengthy and involved, such as in the case of
* A Directed 4-F classification is a category whereby the
Director 'o'f Selective Service could direct deferments on
individuals involved in national security work for the US
Government.
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The history of this program reflects that General
Hershey undertook the responsibility of serving Agency
requests on the basis of an honor system -- trusting the
Agency's word that a case was completely justifiable.
Representatives of the Office of Personnel who dealt over
the years with Selective Service Headquarters made every
effort to be scrupulous in applying stringent criteria to
requests for deferment.
We estimate that 150 employees may have been granted
deferments from the period 1950 until it was decided that
the nation would not have a compulsory draft system in the
early 1970's. The reason we give you an estimated figure
is that. the recordkeeping system in MMPD in the past was
such that destruction of some of the cards was accomplished
after the individual employee returned from his overseas
tour and once again resumed his direct relationship with
his local Selective Service board.
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