THE CAREER SERVICE POLICY OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R001000170042-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 42
• Content Type: MISC

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THE CAREER SERVICE POLICY OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
The Central. Intelligence Agency provides a career for persons whose
integrity, ability and determination will help it to meet the present and
future intelligence requirements of the United States.
The Career Service Program consists of two components. While they will
be developed concurrently, it is inevitable that they will progress at
different rates. They are,
First: A program to conduct normal personnel, training and management
affairs with the greatest skill and efficiency of which CIA is
capable; to recruit young men and women of exceptional promise.
This "Personnel Program" will be equally applied to all members
of CIA without any distinction as to grade, assignment and length
of service. Inherent in this program are those elements which
are basic to any well-managed personnel program.
Second: A program to discover and use to the fullest, the talents and
potentialities of proven personnel,. This "Development Program"
is for the purpose of ensuring to the Agency the beat possible
use of its available manpower. It will also locate and produce
the future key executives and administrators of the Agency.
Persons who have demonstrated competence by meritorious performance
will be given an opportunity to develop skills and abilities through
programs for training, rotation and education. The Agency places a high
premium on intelligence, energy and potential talent in its personnel and
will provide them the opportunity of learning how and where to use and
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