PROCEDURE FOR HANDLING NOTIFICATION OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE CAREER STAFF

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 25, 1955
• Content Type: REGULATION

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THE CAREER STAFF
OF THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Procedure for Handling Notification of
Membership in the Career Staff
1. GENERAL
PERSONNEL
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Regulation No. provides that all persons who are selected for
membership in a eer Staff will be notified of this action. While
security considerations preclude the presentation of evidence of member-
ship in the form of a commission or certificate, it is the desire of
the CIA Career Council that the actual notification to each individual
employee be in a manner commensurate with the importance of the event..
2. PERSONS WITHIN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES
a. Persons within the continental United States will be notified by
classified memoranda personally addressed to them by the Chairman
of the CIA Selection Board. The memoranda will contain provision
for acknowledgement of the notification. These memoranda will be
forwarded through command channels for presentation to the member
concerned. It is the intent of the CIA Career Council that these
notifications be presented formally by a supervisory officer at
the highest practical echelon in the command channel. Group pre-
sentation is desirable where appropriate*
be The memorandum of notification will be acknowledged by the person
concerned and will be returned through channels to the Executive
Director of the CIA Selection Board within 30 days of the date of
the memorandum. When delivery to the person concerned is impossible
within this time because of his unavailability, the memorandum will
be returned unacknowledged with the reason for nondelivery noted.
3. PERSONS AT OVERSEAS STATIONS
a. Lists of persons at overseas stations will be prepared, in pseudonym
when appropriate, by the DD/P Area Division concerned or by the
proper headquarters element having communication with the overseas
stations, and forwarded by dispatch. These persons will be notified
orally of their selection for membership in the Career Staff by the
Chief of Station or other responsible official in the chain of
command.
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b. The memorandum of notification referred to in paragraph 2 will not
be sent overseas for reasons of security. Those memoranda -which
have been prepared for personnel who are overseas will be returned
promptly by the DD/P Area Division concerned or other appropriate
headquarters element, to the Executive Director of the CIA Selection
Board and will be kept on file in the Central Processing Branch,
Office of Personnel. When the overseas returnee, who has already
been notified orally, completes his "in-processing," he will have
an opportunity to formally acknowledge receipt of the notification.
The acknowledged memorandum of notification will then be returned
to the Executive Director of the CIA Selection Board.
FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE:
L. K. WRITE
Deputy Director
(support)
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PERSONNEL
25 April 1955
THE CAREER STAFF
OF THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS FOR THE CAREER STAFF
1. The purpose of this notice is to advise those employees who
have applied for membership in the-Career Staff of the present status
of their applications, and to outline some of the procedure involved
in processing them.
2. The Career Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency was
established by Regulation effective 1 July 1954. On that
date all employees who had completed the required 3-year provisional
period became eligible for consideration for membership. In September,
notices of eligibility and applications for membership were forwarded
by the Director of Personnel to those eligible for consideration.
Subsequent transmittals are being made on a monthly basis as persons
become eligible. Approximately two-thirds of these applications have
been returned to the Executive Director of the CIA Selection Board by
the Career Service responsible for the individual concerned. They
are now being processed by the Secretariat of the Board, by the Panel
of Examiners, and, by the CIA Selection Board. While it is impossible
to estimate accurately, it may be assumed that the remaining one-third
are still being processed by the applicants' Career Services.
3. Because of the large number of employees who became eligible
for consideration on 1 July 1954, the date of the establishment of
the Career Staff, the complete processing of this initial group of
applications will inevitably require a number of months regardless
of the fact that every effort is being made to expedite action on the
applications of those persons who meet the criteria of suitability
for membership in the Career Staff. The three principle criteria are
job performance, personal conduct, and intent to make a career of CIA.
It is important to recall that there is no "blanketing-in" process.
Each case is carefully and individually analyzed, and all are
subject to the "abbreviated review" called for in Regulation equa 25X1A
4. It is expected that all of those who became eligible for
consideration on 1 July 1954 can be notified of action by the CIA
Selection Board during the calendar year 1955. All applicants are
assured that this delay is solely the result of the work load, and is
in no sense a reflection upon their suitability for admission to the
Career Staff. Applicants are further assured that any delay in proc-
essing will not affect the date of their admission to membership which
normally is effective on the third annive
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5. The CIA Selection Board is acting on applications as rapidly
as they can be processed and submitted to it. Notifications of
acceptance are now being processed for transmittal through command
channels.
FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE:
L. K. WRITE
Deputy Director
(Support)
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