CLANDESTINE SERVICE SUPPORT OFFICERS' MEETING DDS CONFERENCE ROOM 28 JULY 1971

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04722A000200030069-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: July 28, 1971
• Content Type: MIN

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CLANDESTINE SERVICE SUPPORT OFFICERS' MEETING
DDS Conference Room
28 July 1971
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2. No regular DDP Staff Meeting this week.
3. Items of interest from the DDS Staff Meeting:
a. Mr. Wattles said that he had heard from
was released from the hospital on
Friday, 23 July and is looking forward to visits from all who wish to
come. He expects to return to duty after Labor Day.
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c. Budgetary Constraints and Personnel Ceilings
On 23 July 1971 the Director has advised each Deputy Director
and the Heads of Independent Offices it is his belief that the President has
no alternative but to look for a reduction in resource allocations to Defense
and other National Security agencies in order to provide additional resources
to domestic programs. In addition, the President and the Congress are
concerned about the total cost of intelligence. It is quite likely that the
intelligence community will have to find some way to conduct its business
with fewer resources and this may well impact on the Central Intelligence
Agency.
The Director believes the Administration and the Congress have
been favorably impressed with our efforts to hold our costs down, not to
ask for unwarranted increases, and to reduce the personnel strength of the
Agency. It is primarily for this reason that he is cautiously optimistic that
the Congress will appropriate something close to what we requested in FY'72.
He has no intention of advocating a change in our level of requests nor to
imply that our program should be static. It simply challenges our imagina-
tion and our ingenuity to carry out an efficient and effective program with
something approximating our current level of resources.
With regard to personnel ceilings, he has stated emphatically
that in the absence of an expansion of our responsibilities he has no intention
of requesting of the President or the Congress that the size of this Agency be
increased either in personnel or space to accommodate our personnel and
supporting facilities and would like this policy to be clearly understood at
all levels of this Agency.
The Director did not rule out changes in personnel strength
allocations among the several Directorates and Independent Offices. The
first place, however, to look for changes in personnel authorizations to
accommodate a new or expanding program is within one's own component.
Accordingly, in the future any request for increases in personnel will be
accompanied by a statement as to what reductions within the requesting
component you are prepared to make in order to accommodate the new or
expanding program.
d. Employment of Members of Minority Groups Mr. Wattles said
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papers on the subject of hiring members of minority groups for Agency pro-
fessional categories. Colonel White is not satisfied that the Agency is
exerting sufficient effort in this area. Mr. Fisher noted that considerable
efforts had been made: recruiting visits to 19 all Black colleges, attendance
at a variety of local meetings, etc. , but without good results. The
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new OP effort will include minority recruiting earlier in the school year
so as to have firm commitments by March or April, where possible the
use of Agency Blacks to accompany recruiters, beefing up our EEO
program, etc. An intensive effort will be made to achieve better results
in this area.
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25X1A e. Mr. Wattles announced that on 26 July, the
Director approved the closing of by 30 June 1972.
25X1A The paper was signed b and had the concurrence of both the
25X1A DDP and the DDS. will break the paper down for distribution
to the appropriate effected components.
f. Security Spot Checks Effective immediately, the Office of
Security will perform spot checks of packages and briefcases being taken
out of the buildings at close of business. There will be no formal written
announcement of this action - components may handle the announcement as
they wish. The checks will be performed by representatives of the Office
of Security, not by the guard force.
g. Personnel Statistics Mr. Fisher reported on the results of a
recent study on the average age of death of active duty Agency employees:
age 46-47 during 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971.
From 1968 to 1971 the Agency separated 850 more professionals
than it EOD'd, but the on duty strength of professionals went down only 124.
The most evident reason for this incongruity is the direct input to professional
categories from the ranks.
Bureau of Labor statistics show the cost of living up . 5 percent
in May and . 6 percent in June. If the index goes up at least . 4 percent per
month from October, there would be an appropriate increase in annuities
effective 1 February 1972.
h. Medical Statistics Dr. Tietjen added to Mr. Fisher's remarks:
(1) Agency death rate is about 2. 4 per 1000 as compared
to that of the general population (all ages) of about 9. 3 per 1000.
(2) We have a higher accident death rate than the general
population.
(3)
Major causes of death for Agency employees:
No. 1 Cardiovascular disease
No., 2 Malignancy
No. 3 Accidents
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4. Other items of interest:
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a. Travel on American Airlines requires that a
Deputy Director give prior approval for the use of foreign airlines for
transoceanic travel, Both the DDS and the DDP have delegated this
authority to the SSA/DDS.
b. Regularly Scheduled Overtime (Correction of Item 4. c.
21 July 1971 Minutes) On 14 July 1971 Mr. Karamessines delegated
to the Chief, OPSER the authority to approve regularly scheduled overtime
at Headquarters. (DDP retains the authority to designate officers who may
authorize irregular or occasional overtime and the authority to concur in
proposals for annual premium pay.)
c. Wall Bumpers for Motorized Carts In an attempt to reduce
scrapes and skid marks on the walls, an experiment has been conducted
by the Office of Logistics, using hard, white rubber wheels on the corners
of motorized carts as wall bumpers. Fitted on a caster, the wheels spin
along the walls when contact is made. The experiment proved very success-
ful. An inventory is underway to determine the practicality of installing
similar bumpers on other carts.
d. Transfer of Operational Supply Equipment We have distributed
property records for some expendable property held in your components.
Effective immediately, Building Services Branch of LSD (the Operational
Supply Room) will no longer be the control point for items such as Class A
carafes and pen sets, attache cases, suitcases, portable typewriters and
radios. The responsibility for controlling these items will be that of the
component Support staffs. Also, BSB will no longer receive requisitions
for the issue of attache cases, suitcases, portable typewriters or radios.
Requisitions for these items will be processed through regular supply
channels to the Office of Logistics. Carafes and pen sets may still be
ordered from BSB but BSB will maintain no records for the items after
they are issued.
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e. Directed Assignment Policy-- Since operations
in and involving _ have reached their present level, the Staff Operations
Panel has recommended, and the Deputy Director for Support has approved,
a policy of directing assignments involving -operations should that
be necessary. The DDS/CMO and the Panel will continue to negotiate
assignments of qualified and available officers and we shall announce from
time to time jobs for which we would like volunteers.
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f. DCI Suite in East Building discussed some of
his problems in managing the Director's alternate suite in East Building.
He pointed out that Divisions and Staffs desiring to use this space
temporarily for briefings or meetings with Foreign Nationals must
address a memorandum to the Administrative Officer, O/DCI. The
AO/DCI's approval for use is based on the knowledge that the Director
will have no need for the space during the time involved. CI Staff and
Office of Security coordinations address themselves to the suitability of 25X1C
the proposed temporary occupants.
g. DDS for DIA DIA's interest in receiving nominations from us
for their DDS job generated no interest on the part of a few officers who
were judged to have the necessary skills. We understand NSA had a
similar experience when asked if any of its support officers were
interested in the job.
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