MINUTES OF THE CIA CAREER COUNCIL 9TH MEETING, THURSDAY, 12 MAY 1955 AT 4:00 P. M. DCI CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

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• Publication Date: May 12, 1955
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MINUTES
OF THE
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9th Meeting, Thursday, 12 May 1955 at 4:00 P. M.
DCI Conference Room, Administration Building
Present: Harrison G. Reynolds, D/Pers, Chairman
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Leman B. Kirkpatrick, IG, Member
D/CO, Member
25X1A9a /PR, Alt. for D/TR, Member
Lawrence K. White, DD/S, Member
25X1A9a Asst./DDI (Admen). Alt. DD/I, MeMber
SSA-DD/S, Guest
ecutive Secretary
Reporter
1. The minutes of the 8th meeting of the CIA Career Council
were approved as distributed,
2. The Chairman informed the Council of the present status ,
of the two staff studies concerning Honor Awards which were An the
hands of the DDCIe of the status of the proposals on classification
and grade structure which were being jointly considered by the
LOffice of Personnel and the 1.1enagement Staff and of the approval ,
of Mr.t I by the Director AS an additional repreeene
tative of CIA to the AikeIemeColleee.
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3. The Council considered the two candidates for the Harvard
Advanced Management Program and decided to recommend to the' irector
that-) 1.0 Office of the Comptroller. and Me.l
Office of Operations, , in the
order namedebe nominated tHrga_eveor attendance at the next session
,which would begin in September.
Harvard University having advanced its date for selection tq
15 May, had left CIA little opportunity to consider candidates in
the manner in which the Council had agreed to in December. The
Council agreed that the procedure and method of selection of candle
dates-hr the Advanced Management Course at Harvard and for thei
senior Service Colleges Would be revised before it was necessary to make
selection .foe future sessions so that moed-ordeelk and less hurried
deliberation could be given to the matter.
25X1A 4e The Council considered Item 2 of the Agenda, revision Of
Regulatior ,1?The CIA Career Council and the Career Services'
and approvedetrevision as proposed.: It Agreed that the effective
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date of change.over from the present vstem of Service Designations, to
the new syself7ThkeTleft to the Office of Personnel to fix at 4 time
when the least dislocation to continuing reporting systems and statistical
summaries would be incurred.
50 The Chairman reported on the reorganization of the CIA Welfare_
Assistance Board and briefly described its by-laws and first meeting
A total of four loans in hardship cases had been approved. The Inspector
General reported, that the General Counselwas redrawing the Charter
of the other Welfare Group and until that had been done, it would not
be possible to make any further progress towards its, reorganizatiOn.
6. The procedures and methods used by the gik Selection Board
and the Examining Panels in processing applications for membership
in vie uareer Staff were aiscussed in detail, and _questions of poi CY
regarding the disseminatiOn and uses of certain kinds of information
were raised. The Council agreed to meet a week later to consider
these quettiOns.
7. The Council discussed the Inspector General's z:eport to the
pirector 'Report On the CIA Career Pro:ram which had been made
available to it for information. The chairman announced that the
reports of.: the 12: Career Services for the period 1 January to 31
March 1955 Were available to the members of the Council and that Some
of the questions raised by the Inspector General could possibly be
answered from these reports.
8. The meeting adjourned at 5:10 P. M.
Exeoutlive Secretary
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