OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE SUPPORT OFFICERS MEETING 23 OCTOBER 1974

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2001
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• Publication Date: October 23, 1974
• Content Type: MIN

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1. Items of interest from the DDO Staff Meeting - 23 October
a. Mr. Nelson and Mr. Colby will be out of town over the holiday weekend, and will
return Tuesday afternoon. During this period Mr. Blee will be the Acting DDO.
b. The holiday on Monday will be treated as a Sunday. (Hereafter, all holidays on
Monday will be treated as a Sunday unless you are advised otherwise. )
c. The DDO has received a copy of the Annual Report of the Language Development
Committee, which was submitted to the DCI by the Director of Training. Mr. Nelson highlighted
a few of the facts contained therein and stated he would route the report to the Area Divisions for
their own purposes. We have lost some critical language capabilities through the retirement of
some of our older employees.
d. The Agency will have to accept a $5 million cut in the Fiscal Year 1975 budget as
its share of the over-all reduction which the President has directed for the Executive Department.
We do not know what the DDO's portion of the cut will be.
e. Mr. Nelson announced that he had agreed that an attitudinal survey could be
conducted in the Directorate of Operations. There are pros and cons to a survey of this sort
but he feels it is a worthwhile experiment. It will be limited to Headquarters components and
the questionnaires need not be signed by the employees who submit them. If the survey results
in significant findings, they will be distributed within the DDO.
25X1A 2. OPRED. will talk to the Staff Meeting next Wednesday, 30 October,
on OPRED and the single ceiling concept.
3. Restoration of Forfeited Annual Leave. A notice to the field regarding guidance on
restoration of forfeited annual leave will be forthcoming very shortly. Let us know if you have
inqueries from the field.
4. Locator System. The Office of Personnel has proposed that we add certain contract:
personnel to the locator system which they manage. The DDO has not yet approved this
proposal, and has not yet defined which types of contract personnel could be included. If the
proposal is approved, all the Divisions will be notified and a book cable will be sent to the
Stations. In the meantime the Divisions should not take unilateral action.
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5. Lease-Breaking Expenses. We have recently had a number of claims for reimbursement
for expenses associated with the cancellation of leases prior to overseas assignments. As you A
that we may not use our special authorities to solve administrative problems common to other
government agencies. Most employees being transferred to or from an overseas post are
confronted with expenses of some sort in closing out a residence, but these must be regarded
as personal expenses unless they are occasioned by security or cover circumstances imposed
by the Agency beyond the control of the employee.
6. Security Violations. Last month we reported to you that security violations in the
DDO were the highest total (18) in two years. This past month (September) the security violations
were down by.60%o and are the very lowest (8) in more than three years.
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