DDI STUDY ON PROFESSIONALISM - REQUEST FOR EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE DATA ON ALL PROFESSIONAL DDI EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00947A000100010001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 9, 1965
• Content Type: MF

' Approved For Release 2002/09/
9 September 1965
SUBJECT: DDI Study on Professionalism - Request for Education
and Language Data on All Professional DDI Employees
1. Reference is made to our oral conversations on the above
subject (11 August 1965 and earlier).
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2. The attached table and computer listings will provide some
of the data you need for your study on "Professionalism" in the DDI. As
we advised, we do not have a present capability for providing comprehensive
geographic area knowledge of employees and it will probably be several
years before we do.
3. You may encounter cases in which employees claim degrees
we have not credited. It would be well to know if you do, the criteria
underlying the statistics, a general outline of which is as follows:
A. Other than non-accredited colleges in the District
of Columbia, only regionally accredited colleges and universities
are treated as degree conferring institutions. "Degrees" from
non-accredited colleges are coded in the same manner as any
vocational school training; there is no evidence of a degree
or identity of the particular school.
B. "Lovejoy's College Guide" (Simon and Schuster, 1961-62
edition) was the source used for determining the accreditation
status of all United States colleges and universities.
C. Since most data reflected in these statistics were
compiled by computer, there is no evidence of some "degrees"
from non-accredited schools which some DDI employees may hold.
D. Since biographic profiles and Official Personnel Folders
were used to provide data for all employees not shown as holding
degrees, these data are 100 per cent complete, and by far the
most accurate ever compiled of such a nature.
E. In instances wherein the employee was recruited while
a college senior, he has been coded as having the undergraduate
degree claimed to be forthcoming; he has been coded in all cases
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wherein a graduate degree was claimed to be forthcoming as not
having the graduate degree, i.e., to be coded for graduate
degrees, the individual employee would have to supply signed
written evidence to the Office of Personnel citing the fait
accompli.
F. Some employees have, or claim to have, the "equivalent"
of a BA, MA, etc. No equivalency, alleged or demonstrable by
any rationale is recorded in the system as a degree or its
equivalent.
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4. There are three employees cited in these statistics as
having no degrees who do hold bachelor degrees from non-accredited schools.
The employees, degrees, and schools are:
information.
5. Should any additional information on this subject be required,
we will be glad to make whatever arrangements are needed to provide such
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Enclosures:
2 Machine Listings
1 Table
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