MEETING ON 15 OCTOBER 1973 TO DISCUSS METHODS OF RECOGNITION OF EMPLOYEES WHO ATTAIN A COLLEGE DEGREE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05077A000100140001-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2000
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• Publication Date: October 23, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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23 October 1973
MEMORANDUM POR: Career Management Officer, DD/M&S
SUBJECT Meeting on I5 October 1973 to Discuss
Methods of Recognition of Employees
who attain a College Degree
REFERENCE : Your memorandum, dated 16 October 1973
subject as above
As requested, views on referent morandut are
provided.
1. Your paper is, in my judgment, a faithful
recording of the essentials of the I5 October meet
As mentioned at that meeting, I as glad we did not
entirely throw out the concept of monetary awards for
obtaining degrees. Even though, as we agreed, the value
and effect of such awards are uncertain, the risks, if
any, are small. The total amount of money it eight cost
the Agency would not be great, and the Initiation of the
program would seem to be appropriate.
2. You also requested at the same meeting that we
send you example(s) of our methods for competitive
(comparative) evaluations. Attached is an example used
for evaluations of medical technicians and medical service
officers (Panel C). Evaluations of medical officers are
also conducted by another Medical Career Panel (Panel. A)
but without rigid adherence to any technical procedure as
in the attached example -- perhaps because of the very
11 numbers involved, e.g., there is only one staff
eedica
officer below GSM-I5.
It should be added that in competitive evaluations
in the Medical Career Service, the matter of potential
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SUBJECT: Meeting on IS October 1973 to Discuss Methods
of Recognition of Employees who attain a
College Degree
undoubtedly been considered as applying to or
restricted to -- potential within the Agency medical
program, and not in the broader directorate or Agency
sense that we were discussing at the 15 October meeting.
This certainly has been because of the specialist back-
grounds of our Sit people. We welcome the new thinking
that would expand the assignment/career opportunities
for our people.
Executive Officer
Office of Medical Services
Attachmer
OMS/ExO :ned
Distribution:
Orig & 1 - Addressee
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- D/MS Files
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