LETTER TO JOHN F. BLAKE FROM ROBERT E. HAMPTON

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2002
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• Publication Date: October 12, 1976
• Content Type: LETTER

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UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSI
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20415
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Honorable John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
OCT 1 2 1976
Your letter of June 12, 1976, regarding the use of the polygraph in
the investigations of certain competitive service employees who
require access to your agency's facilities or information has been
reviewed.
In response to your request, the authority to use polygraph examina-
tions for competitive service employees, as detailed in my letter of
May 21, 1976, is amended as shown below.
The last two subsections of paragraph two should now allow for such
use on:
o Those Department of Defense employees detailed or assigned
to the Agency.
o Those other employees detailed to the Agency to serve on the
Intelligence Community Staff or other Agency positions, or
assigned to ad hoc study groups and task forces.
The balance of the authorizing letter of May 21, 1976 remains the
same. The first paragraph limits this authorization to those com-
petitive service employees who will be assigned to staff positions,
or who will have staff-like access to Agency facilities or information.
Robert-E. Hampton
Chairman
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
Honorable Robert E. Hampton
Chairman
U.S. Civil Service Commission
1900 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20415
Dear Mr. Hampton:
I am pleased to acknowledge your letter to me dated
21 May 1976 in which you grant. the Agency authority to use
polygraph examinations for certain competitive service
employees. I request, however, a slight adjustment in
these categories.
The Agency had requested approval to polygraph all
competitive service applicants and employees placed in
staff-like access to Ageiqcy ' ies and information.
In the Agency regulation I I which was submitted STATINTL
along with my letter, it was note that such persons
included, but are not limited to:
General Services Administration maintenance
and char force personnel and Federal Protective
Service guards assigned to work at Agency facilities.
A limited number of Defense Intelligence
Agency competitive service employees who will work in
a joint Central Intelligence Agency-Defense Intelligence
Agency production.
Those competitive career employees assigned
to ad hoc study groups and task forces.
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However, your authorizing letter limited our
authority to those three categories of personnel which
were put forward as examples as the classes of people
detailed or assigned to the Agency. Consequently, we
feel we do not have the authority which we vitally need
to polygraph competitive service personnel who are
assigned to the most sensitive posts in the Agency.
Accordingly, it is suggested that the last two sub-
sections of paragraph 2 of your 21 May 1976 letter be
amended as follows:
? Those Department of Defense employees detailed
or assigned to the Agency.
? Those other employees detailed to the Agency
to serve on the Intelligence Community Staff
or other Agency position, or assigned to ad
hoc study groups and task forces.
Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
is' John F. B) --^
John F. Blake
Deputy Director
for
Administration
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 UNITED. STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20415
May 21, 1976
Honorable John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
This is in response to your letter of April 22, 1976, requesting
that the Central Intelligence Agency be granted authority to use
polygraph examinations for certain categories of competitive serv-
ice employees who will be assigned to staff positions, or who will
have staff-like access to Agency facilities or information.
In accordance with the provisions of appendix D, chapter 736,
Federal Personnel Manual, the Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency is hereby granted authority to use polygraph examinations
for competitive-service employees in the following categories:
o Those General Services Administration maintenance and
char force personnel and Federal Protective Service
guards assigned to work at Agency facilities.
o Those Defense Intelligence Agency employees who will
work on joint Central Intelligence Agency - Defense
Intelligence Agency productions.
o Those other employees assigned.to rad hoc study groups
and task forces.
This approval is granted for a period of one year from the date of
this letter, and will terminate automatically unless, prior to that
time, a request for further approval is made in writing recertifying
that the conditions which led to this certification still exist at
the Central Intelligence Agency.
/-Sincerely yours,
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THE MERIT SYSTEM-A GOOD INVESTMENT IN GOOD GOVERNMENT
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The Honorable Robert E. Hampton
Chairman, U. S. Civil Service Commission
1900 E Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20415
Dear Mr. Hampton:
In order to fulfill our mission, the Central Intelligence
Agency depends to a large extent on the services of members of
the competitive service. Such individuals on assignment from
their parent organizations. are required to meet Agency security
standards since they are placed in staff positions or assigned
to positions requiring staff-like access to Agency facilities
and information. The standard for determining security eligi-
bility normally includes a full field investigation as well as
a polygraph interview. The polygraph examination, as adminis-
tered by this Agency, is a condition precedent to employment
and is treated as an integral part of our investigation process.
In view of the above, and pursuant to Appendix D, Chapter
736, Federal Personnel Manual, your approval is sought for the
administering of polygraph examinations by this Agency to indi-
viduals assigned from the competitive service,.
Sincerely,
John F. Blake
Deputy Director
for
Administration
Enclosures
1 - Statement of Agency Mission
2 - Regulation Governing Use of Polygraph
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