SUPER GRADES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000500120040-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: October 26, 1950
• Content Type: MEMO

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26 October 1950
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE EXECUTIVE
SUBJECT: Super Grades
1. The Decision of the Comptroller General, B-90432,
dated 15 November 1919, in effect gives CIA carte blanche
to establish positions in grades equivalent to General
Schedule grades 16, 17 and 1$, except for three positions
in the professional and scientific fields. There is nothing
in that Decision that clearly requires personal action by
the Director in the establishment of such grades. However,
the stringent limitation on the numbers for such positions
elsewhere in the government, which was specified by Congress,
would make it prudent to exercise careful control over the
allocation of such grades, particularly as the freedom of
action legally available to CIA was not specifically granted
by Congress but arose out of wide statutory authority given
to CIA to enable it to carry out its assigned functions.
2. The Comptroller's Decision is somewhat unclear on
what must be considered scientific and professional positions
under the numerical limitation of three. However, this
question was considerably clarified by discussion with
Mr. Fisher, the General Counsel to the Comptroller General.
He agreed with our position that this limitation applied to
those scientific and professional people who were directly
engaged in scientific intelligence functions.
3. The situation, therefore, is well covered in the
memorandum of 5 December 19!L9 from the Deputy Budget Officer,
with one exception.
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I We believe that if
he is engaged in engineering activities related solely to the
maintenance of communications, or the administration thereof,
he would not be engaged in scientific intelligence functions
relating to the national security, and consequently there is
no bar to establishing his position in the super grades.
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The interpretation of "professional personnel" was clarified
by Mr. Fisher's statement that he assumed that a lawyer
engaged in legal functions was not within the bar of Section 9
since he was not engaged in scientific intelligence functions.
Of course a lawyer or a doctor working on scientific estimates
would be within the prohibition.
LAVdREPTCE R. HOU O
General Counsel
Legal Staff
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