PHASING AND TIMING OF ACTIONS PRELIMINARY TO ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE DCI OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE CIA CAREER SERVICE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
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• Publication Date: November 25, 1953
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CONFIDENTIAL'
25 November 1953
NZ4ORANDUM F(R: Chairman, CIA Career Service Board
SUBJECT: Phasing and Timing of Actions Preliminary to
Announcement by the DCI of the Effective Date
of the CIA CAREER SERVICE
L'ote: This paper is addressed primarily to the problem of setting up
the new CIA CAREER SERVICE, not to the problem of implementing
the present Career Service Program, nor to other problems of
Personn Management, Development or Administration
1. The CIA Career Service Board has agreed, among other things, to
recommend to the Director the following:
a. That there be created, by executive action of the Director
not by legislation - a CIA CAREER SERVICE,
b. That the CAREER SERVICE be-administered internally by CIA,
wholly within the framework of present authorities granted to the
Director by statute and according to other applicable statutes,
c. That the following concrete definition of the CAREER SERVICE
be adopted. (see attached)
d. That there be established the policy that "a Career Employee
accepts the obligation to serve anywhere and at ,any time and for any
kind.of duty as determined by the needs of CIA,a and that, in the
carrit of this policy, full consideration be given to each indi-
vidua's capabilities, interests and personal circumstances,
e. That prior to the end of one year after EOD each appointed
employee be thoroughly screened, centrally, to determine the desir-
ability of his continued employment.
f. That at the end of three years after EOD each staff employee
not on probation be asked to state his intentions with respect to a
career in CIA and be given an opportunity to apply for membership in
the CAREER SERVICE.
g. That each staff employee be fully informed of the basic
policies and procedures inherent in the operation of the CAREER
SERVICE, including rights and benefits, as well as obligations;
selection-in, selection-out and appeal policies; promotion, rotation
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and assignment policies; evaluation and assessment policies; training
and development policies; policies with respect to individual special-
ization and generalization; and, structure and mechanics of the CAREER
SERVICE system.
h. That there be created a CIA Selection Board composed of very
senior Career Employees supported by a Secretariat and a number of
Examiners, also in senior grades, who will thoroughly review the record
and personally interview each candidate for the CAREER SERVICE,
is That staff employees who entered on duty three or more years
prior to the effective date of the establishment of the CAREER SERVICE,
and who are not at that time on probation, be automatically approved
for membership in the CAREER SERVICE upon execution of the required
documents referred to in paragraph if above and that staff employees
who entered on duty less than three years prior to the effective date
of the establishment of the CAREER SERVICE be required to follow the
procedure referred to in paragraphs if and h above,
2. a. Of the above agreed recommendations, the following are approx-
imately ready for transmission to the Director for his approval:
paragraphs la, b, o, d, h, and i.
b. Paragraph is is not ready and requires agreement on the form
that the evaluation will take (i.e., the PER vs, the IEa).
c, Paragraph if is not reacbr and requires:
(1) Formulation of the terms of "application" or "question-
naire" triggering the selection process.
(2) Agreement on the form that the evaluation will take (i.e.,
the PER vs. the IER, as above).
d. Paragraph lg is not ready at all. The work of the Information
Task Force may serve as a base but, by and large, none of the policies
listed in paragraph ig have as yet been thoroughly considered or finally
approved by the CIA Career Service Board.
3. Should the Director approve paragraph la through i when presented
to him,, the following become matters of priority. (In my opinion, present-
ation of the details, not yet formulated, in paragraphs le, f and g, see
paragraph 2 a ove, need not be made to the Director in order for him to
consider giving preliminary approval of the basic plan. As a matter of fact,
approval by the Director of these basic elements of the plan is essential
now in order that the remaining aspects of the program may be intelligently
worked out.
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a. Agreement on the form and procedures to be followed in the
evaluation process (paragraphs le and f),
be Agreement on the form of the application (paragraph if).
co Appointment of 13 senior officials, each with three years
service, or more, to serve as the Selection Board members or alternates.
d. Nomination of approximately 130 Examiners, each with three
years service or more, and selection of one half that number by the
Selection Board; indoctrination and briefing of the Examiners.
e. Selection and activation of the full-time Secretariat to
serve the Selection Board,
f. Listing of all employees by component and grade and years of
service to serve as initial call-up lists and as workload estimates.
g. Working out the details of paragraph lg above (this is a very
large problem).
it. In addition to the steps outlined above, the following matters
which are not concerned with establishing the CAREER SERVICE require
attention:
a. Report of the Board to the Director transmitting Legislative
Program.
b, Acceptance and disposal of the Junior Officer Task Force Report,
C. Acceptance and disposal of the Woments Task Force Report,
d. Consideration of the Insurance Task Force Report (will not be
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