REPLY TO QUERY RE PERSONNEL OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R001100010003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 2, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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2 July 1953
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Insl e,ctcr General
SUBJECT: Reply to Query re Personnel Office
1. My overall evaluation of the services performed for this office
by the Personnel Office is highly satisfactory. I feel that Personnel
have for a long period exhibited a commendable spirit of cooperation in
assisting us in our personnel problems. This was highly important not
only to us but to the Agency at the time we were faced with almost a ten-
fold increase in investigative personnel. In addition, for seven years
this office has worked intimately with Personnel in the matter of clearance
procedures, including various categories of clearance and also including
the "vetting" of applicants through the polygraph. In this, it is my fixed
opinion that Personnel have made a material contribution to the security
program of the Agency. It is also important to point out that, even under
the stress of the rapid expansion of the Agency which might have occasioned
mutual recriminations between the two offices, I know of no single instance
where there have been other than the most friendly working relations at
both senior and junior levels.
2. To be objective, I must state that the procurement of clerical
personnel has never been wholly adequate or timely but I believe that is
a common complaint in government as a whole. Further, like other
components of the Agency, the rapid expansion caused for a time the use
of persons not adequate to their assigned positions. I believe this was
especially true in some of the positions in Personnel Procurement Division.
I believe most of this has been rectified at the present time. Again, I
believe that the procurement of personnel to later adopt. official cover
abroad has not been wholly satisfactory from a security viewpoint. How-
ever, I blame this situation on a lack of sound cover policy for the Agency
as a whole.
3. Complying with your expressed desire for frankness and to aid you
in determining the effectiveness of personnel management, I believe that
Personnel has suffered by the continual change in Assistant Directors (four
in two years). I also feel that at the proper time, the Assistant Director/
Personnel or the Director of Personnel must be delegated real personnel
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management authority. It appears to me that personnel management functions
are now divided between the Career Service Program and the Office of
Personnel, this to the detriment of the objectives desired. I believe that the
Assistant Director /Personnel must be made closer to all Deputy Directors
and to the DCI himself and within the command channel through the Deputy
Director /Administration he must be given more functional authority, both to
hire and to disapprove, and further set and implement sound personnel
policies.
4. In reply to your paragraph 2, the following names are submitted:
5-14 - Administrative Officer
Administrative Officer
GS-12 - Administrative Officer
GS-13 - Training Officer
- Administrative Officer
L - Personnel Officer
'~ - GS-9 - Administrative Assistant
?7 - Administrative Assistant
- GS-4 - Clerk-Stenographer
6 - Secretary-Stenographer
S-6 - Secretary-Stenographer
3-5 - Secretary- Stenographer
GS-4 - Clerk-Stenographer.
* Are those individuals whose primary responsibilities concern
property, finance, budget, cables and training, and only perform personnel
duties on a part-time basis.
_Colonel, GSC
Director of Security
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