STATUS OF CIVILIAN RESERVE PROGRAMS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000800100010-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 18, 1959
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18 March 1959
Status of Civilian Reserve Programs
BACKGROUND: The Council has approved three civilian reserve programs.
This memorandum summarizes their current status and
requests approval for the activation of the Civilian
Standby Reserve.
1. National Defense Executive Reserve
This Government-wide "executive reserve," established by
Executive Order 10660, dated 15 February 1956, and administered by
the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, is designed to provide
a ready and available force to supplement the top staff of the Agency
in the event of an emergency. CIA participates on an overt basis and
twenty-two reservists, all of whom are either consultants or former
employees at the supergrade level have been appointed. They are
registered with the Civil Service Commission and their assignment to
the Agency in the event of an emergency is assured. They have been
supplied with Civil Defense identification cards to perform
necessary travel in an emergency.' Where the individual is not
ordinarily in consultation with the Agency, occasional contact is
maintained by the sponsoring office of the Agency on N.D.E.R.
affairs. A directory of these individuals is attached. (See Tab I)
2. Civilian Specialist Reserve
This CIA "ready" reserve was approved in principle by the Career
Council in 1956 with the request that it be referred to the Project
Review Committee. The PRC recommended the project on a pilot basis
to the Director who approved it on 26 January 1958. The Specialist
Reserve is designed to provide a small corps of highly trained
specialists who will be needed immediately in the event of an
emergency and who can make themselves effective at once when called
upon by the Agency. :'heir inclusion in CIA's "ready" reserve is
predicated on their bcin ; able to enter on duty without delay for
administrative processing with less than 1+8-hours notice. Fifty
spaces were approved "confined largely to the Office of Communications."
Thirty-five of the fifty spaces were alloted to the Office of
Communications in order that a cryptographic reserve could be estab-
lished; five to the Office of Security; five to the Office of
Training and five to the 25X1A7b
Recruitment against thes
25X A7b uneven. (See Table II) The Offices of Training and Security have
filled their quota, has filled one of its five spaces and the
Office of Communications two of its thirty-five spaces. The reservists
are appointed and paid the daily rate of the GS grade for which they
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on training duty. They would be entered on duty in the event of
an emergency at that grade.
3. Civilian Standby Reserve
This CIA "standby" reserve was approved in principle by the
Career Council on 20 February 1958 with the condition that the three
Deputy Directors would determine the need for and composition of
such a reserve. The purpose of the reserve is to establish and
maintain a current roster of skilled,available and interested former
employees who can be contacted by the Agency in the event that the
need for their services arises.. The Standby Reserve will receive
no Agency-sponsored training and will be assigned to the GS grade
for which qualified at the time he is entered on duty. The Director
25X9A2 of Personnel sent lists of forr.:er employees (GS-7 and above)
to the Deputy Directors (In a gence), (Plans) and (Support) in
25X9A2 May 1958 with a request for nominations. After screening by the
Offices and Career Services concerned, were nominated, of whom
349 were subsequently declared ineligibiee by the Office of Security,
the Medical Staff, the Office of Personnel and the Cent al ver
25X9A2 Division (see Table III). The remainder- ;25X9A2
end= DD/S)--are cleared and ready to be contacted subject to
the oval of the Career Council.that this reserve be activated.
It is planned that the Directo- of Personnel will establish initial
contact, (b) reactivate the personnel folders, (c) analyze and tabu-
late the qualifications and (d) subsequently, at six-month intervals
correspond with the individuals. It is also planned to establish a
standard procedure so that in the future, when employees separate
from the Agency it will be determined which persons who are separat-
ing should be offered Standby Reserve status.
?4. It is recommended that the CIA Career Council (a) approve the activation
of the CIA Standby Reserve and. (b) that the Director of Personnel be
responsible for its administration.
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