RESIGNATION OF STAFF EMPLOYEE(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01086A000900090019-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 12, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director
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1. You had lunch with a group of CT's on 28 August.
One of them, who was detailed to the rmentoned esigning 25X1A
that a fellow employee on the desk, was 25X1A
out of frustration after 12 years of service. You asked that we
interview and try to find out why he is leaving.
2. entered on duty in July 1960 at the
age of 22 after serving for three years in the US Air Force as a
nuclear weapons mechanic. He was a high school graduate and
All of his Agency service has been
was hired as a GS-4 clerk. over-
with the and it includes some seven years
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seas in and is now listed as an
clerk, advanced to intelligence
operations officer. He has been in Headquarters since August
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1970 assigned to the SROF ection of ~ ~ H
the His fitness reports have over to STRONG throughout his career. of has
recei1965ved
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all rating of STRONG on each 11, in November 1971. His
promoted to his present grade. GS-
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end of the interview, commented that e~sao d find ing,
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because own explanation was neither clear nor convincing.
replied that he recognized this. articularhsigniffcance when
frustrations that he cited was of any p
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taken alone, but they combined in his mind to create a situation
that he felt he could no longer tolerate. Nomination for Vietnam
was the final blow--not the nomination itself, but the way it was
handled. He regrets leaving under these circumstances, because
he realizes that he will be suspected of having resigned to avoid
service in Vietnam, which he asserts is not so.
4. After interviewing=, we reviewed pertinent records
and interviewed officers in ~ chain of command. By combining
information from all of these sources, we came up with the follow-
ing as being the most likely contributing factors tom decision
to resign.
a. Before leaving in 1970, ~
requested that he be entered in the internal CT Pro-
gram. When he returned to Headquarters, he was
told that the CT Program was inappropriate for
someone with his experience. He was instead pro-
posed for and accepted in the Clandestine Service's
Accelerated Career Development Program. He took
the training courses for which he was scheduled but
complains that the other career development aspects
of the program never materialized; e.g.. detail to
one of the senior staffs, service in another branch,
and sponsored language training.
b. While in this training, - for the first
time learned of the work of the other Directorates.
He concluded that he was miscast as a CS officer and
would be better fitted for work in OCI, ONE. or NIPE.
He could see no way r.:f accomplishing a transfer,
fearing that, if he failed, his chances in the CS would
be ruined. He feels that the DDP should be on the
lookout for officers better suited for service in one of
the other Directorates. He wished that he had insisted
upon admission to the CT Program, since that would
have given him a chance to choose the Intelligence
Directorate upon completing training.
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c. After 12 years in the
was fed up with things relating to -', but
he could see no way of escaping them within the fore-
seeable future. He says the looks
upon a request for transfer as a display of disloyalty.
d. did not really want to be an operations
officer b fait he had no choice, since experience as
an operations officer is a prerequisite to advancement
in the CS.
e. = claims that he has suffered through a
series of inept supervisors. One of the more strongly
felt of his grievances is that the system requires that
the officer become a manager in order to advance to a
reasonably good grade. Very often we wind up losing a
good operations officer and gaining a poor manager,
f. _ has been a and obviously
a good one. He much resents the low esteem in which
are held and deplores the generally
poor recor s scipline in the CS.
g. Since he has been unhappy with "the system"
for many years, he feels that the time to make a change
is now while he is still young enough to find other work.
h. The final straw was Vietnam. =reports
that he met with his branch chief, on 25
May for a discussion of his careerpeRM plan.
-pointed out that M had not yet served in
Vietnam and asked if there were any mitigating circum-
stances that would relieve him from the Vietnam obligation.
-explained that he was enrolled in graduate school
and that his GI Bill expires in 1973. He was enrolled
in a TSD course in June. He was called in on 12 June and
was told to report to the Vietnam desk for discussion of
an assignment to Vietnam. When he met with FE, he
found that he was scheduled for the Vietnam Operations
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Course beginning on 3 July, would then have a week
off, and would then go into province training. He was
expected to be in Can Tho the first week in September.
He thought the timing was impossible. He discussed
the assignment with his wife, a former Agency employee,
and decided to resign. He subsequently met with his
deputy division chief who offered to defer his nomination
for a year to allow him to complete graduate school.
chose to go ahead with his resignation.
i. Although only a high school graduate when he
joined the Agency, he had 40 hours of college credit
earned while he was in the Air Force. He continued in
night school and finally received his degree in early 1970.
He promptly enrolled in graduate school and looked
forward to eventually receiving a Ph.D. Education
seems to be little short of an obsession with him. He
resents Agency actions that impede his completing it.
J. It is believed by some th left because he
received an attractive job offer. denies that this is
so. He spent three weeks on vacation in Milwaukee
exploring job prospects and has bought a house there.
He says he is sure that he will have no difficulty in
getting a job but does not have a firm commitment yet.
He is withdrawing from graduate school and plans to
enter law school.
5. We reviewed the records on -nomination for
Vietnam to see if the action was as precipitate as reported to us by
him. It was not. His name was included on a 30 August 1971 list
of eligibles for EUR Divisions 1972 quota. He was
not selected initially, but then EUR ran into problems in filling its
1972 quota. The Personnel Management Committee met on 25 May
and decided to consider= "as another candidate for assignment
to Vietnam in 1972. " met with - on that date to
determine his availability. thought this was in the context of
planning his career development, but the meeting was actually
related directly to the Vietnam assignment. Thereafter, things
moved quite rapidly, but that is typical of the Vietnam exercise
when a late replacement must be found.
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6. - is an impressive young man who appears
to have had a promising future in the Agency. His resignation
is regrettable in some respects, but in other respects he pro-
bably made a wise decision. He is a perfectionist with little
patience for the imperfections he sees in others. He fails to
understand how another person viewing the same set of facts as
he could arrive at a different conclusion than he. Unfortunately,
he does not allow for the possibility that he might not always be
right. He has muted his disagreements with management in the
past, although he has lived In a state of almost constant unrest.
He feels that he cannot work in open dissent with "the system"
and that it is best for him to leave.
7. - expressed his regret to us that his resigna-
tion was called to your attention. He would have preferred to
leave quietly. His deputy division chief invited him to submit
his criticisms in writing. He declined to do so. He closed his
interview with us with this comment: "You may tell Mr. Helms
that, whatever else I might be, I'm not a book writers"
l(Signedl, William V V.
William V. Broe
Inspector General
cc: Executive Director-Comptroller
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