CAREER CORPS IN CIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01157A000100100002-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 29, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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Directoleof Training
Assistant Director for Researce a. Reports
Career Carps in. CIA
29 AUG 1951
RaFERENCa; A Progre for the .Eetablishment of a Career Corps tEl tae Central
Intelligence ALoncy, dated 7 August 1951.
1. We realize that Agency tanking on the subject of a Career Corps
has not yet aatured and Appreciate teis oppoetueity to comment on the pro-
posal in its present stace. aefere planning proceeds we uree teat you review
the questien of weather or riot teere should be a formalized career Corps in
C/A. We would also like to sae that from the perepective of ORR we are
strongly opposed to tae creation of s.ch a corp. fle feel that it would
create the same kind of difficulties in CIA. that are encountered in the
Department -of State in. connection with the Foreign Service of the United
States. Me Hoover Comniesioi recouaended the abolition of the oreien
Service as a separate corpse) Specifically:
a, Ie would tend to create a caste Aystem within CIA tat wtrAld
damage the general morale *A create a conflict between loyalty to the
Corps and loyalty tc CIA as a whole.
b. A Career Corps is proposed as a means of findi and keeping
the people UtO are eetting &'ea. acteho are highly motivated for wurk
in GIA. We submit taat it is thoso peopie who will stay in CIA any-
my and that the creation of a formul corps will eot be an added attrac-
tion to them.
0. nforced CIA or office utilization of key personnel free the
Corps- meld limit the acquisition of new blood at thu hi.14her levels
of the Agency where, in normal situations, it is most usually needed.
We believe teat the rtint reorganization or CIA amply demonstrates
the desirability of brining in people at aigher levels who .81,11.provon
their skill oetaide of the organisation* Naturally Vier are meW
good people who have spent years in the Agency and taere enould like-
wise be no bar to moving tlea up as they prove themselves.
d. The various measures proposed for trainieg.the members of the
Career Corps aeeear to be soend, bet teey are not enougi.' =:;2co1usive
concentration ofi intelligence and foreign affairs mull eeve the effect
of isolating the aembers of the Corps froa the reality of life in the
United States, intellieence ie a part of the process by weice the
nation makes its policy decisions and meet therefore- reflect a knowledge
of the standards, ileals, and aetitudes of the American people az wull
U a knowledp of the world abroad. 'ace believe teat the best rounded
intellieence officer is one who knows his own country as thorouhly as
he knows wee other. 1Te urge, therefore, that further trainiae of CIA
personae', with or witeoiet a Career Corps, recoenize this need.
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2, The sound proposals of the referencod Program, zaany of et-iich
would materially ilprove the eAperienoe ar!d training of CIA personnel,
could be used effectively writholA, tho mechanism of a Garr Corps. We
tterefore rocomr4end that the furter traini-Ig and rotatir of promiaiRg
people along lines aisilar to those of your proposal be- put into effect
regardloss of the final decision concerning a. Career Corps+
3. We would be prepared to make detailA comments on various.
aspects of your proposal on your request, once t:lo main decisions concern-
ing a Career Corps and a trainiv, program ltrie bon made+
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