LETTER TO HONORABLE ALLEN W. DULLES FROM PHILIP YOUNG

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• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 20, 1954
• Content Type: LETTER

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UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
Honorable Allen W. Dulles
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Wasldn ;ten 25, D. C.
This has reference to the reply at lfavemgwr 13, 1953,
made by your agency in respo to Departmental Circe 722-
In accordance with the request contained in such reply, the
excepted authority under section 6.116(b) of Schedule A is
being revoked -
By direction of the Ccnmissiont
Sincercalyy yours
Philip Young
Chaim n
MORI/CDF
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IN YOUR REPLY REFER TO
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241954
Ronorle Philip Ti
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U. S. Civil Service Comalssion
Wazh1n&ton 25., Do C*
Dear Mr. Young
I refer to the letters to you from Assistant Secretary of
Defense Hannah,, and General Canine, 4aCt "d IS and 23 February,
respectively.. requesting that five smpargrade positions out of
a total of sixty-nine possibly available, be allocated to the
National ucity Agency.
I understand the the National Security p c%y, despite its
gmve responsibility for the n tionm1 defense,, has only received
one supergrade position so for.
I wish to stress the desirability of bu?3 ig up the strength
{proficiency of the National Security Agency in order that it
Lttract and retain on its rolls men of the highest calibre. You
of core, aware that pay scales for men of this calibre have
i si ng stescUly over the past few years, thus adding materially
to the difficulties being encountered by the National Security Agency
in this regard. There is a real dater that co tent persona ncmr
on the rolls of this Agency may be tempted to seek emi loyment elsfe-
where.
success in the vork of the National " ty Agency
ary measure , in my opinion, should have high
in the Intelligence field.
With these considerations in mid, I wish to suppxt the request
.e to you by the Assistant Secretary Hannah, and General Canine.
sincerely,
Allen W. Dulles
Director
Y' i r? 6. I -. Arl-ircssee
T1
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DEPT. OF DEFENSE
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
Washington 25, D. C.
23 Feb 195ib
honorable Philip Young
Chairman
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Washington 25, D. C.
Dr. John A. Hannah, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, has
given me a copy of his letter to you dated 18 February 1954, in which
69 classification act supergrade positions previously authorized to
the Department of Defense have been made available for use by other
Departments of the Government. I am pleased to note that Dr. Hannah
has called your attention to the requirements of this Agency for super-
grade positions. Continuing efforts in the past to secure supergrades
for this Agency have been unsuccessful to date with the exception of a
single GS-18 position which was established in compliance with National
Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 9 and approved by the Presi-
dent. The purpose of this letter is to establish with you the number
of supergrade positions which are critically required by this Agency.
Specifically, the Agency has an immediate and critical requirement for
five super grade positions. Members of my staff are available at any time
to supply your Commission with the job descriptions and grade levels of
these five positions.
Supergrades for NSA are based on the requirement to accomplish the
high-level scientific and technical work for which the Agency is responsi-
ble. As you know, the Agency employs several thousand civilians, many
of whom are engaged in analytical and scientific work of extreme impor-
tance to the security of the United States. Because at present there
is a compression at the GS-15 level, the Agency is denied the opportunity
of attracting individuals of the highest calibre and of competing success-
fully with other Government a,,encies in the provision of adequate recogni-
tion, incentive and compensation.
Your support and assistance in providing a minimum of five supergrade
positions will be greatly appreciated and will go a long way toward
improving the ability of this Agency to discharge its vital mission.
Sincerely,
RALPH J. CANINE
Lieutenant General, US Army
Director
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18 February 1954
Dear Mr. Young :
The Secretary of Defense has asked me to reply to your letter
of 25 January 1954 requesting that the Department of Defense substitute
the authority of Section 806 of Public Law 207 for that of the Classifi-
cation Act with respect to 69 positions in grades l", 11' and 13
previously authorized under such Act, so as to make these 69 positions
available for use by other Departments of the Government.
As your letter indicates, the language of Section 806 of Public.
Law 207 has been recommended by the President for enactment as a
provision of the l955 Appropriation Act of the Department of Defense,
to increase the number of super grade positions available to the Depart-
ment. In view of this fact we consider that your request that the
Department of Defense use the authority of Section 806 for the super
grade positions now established under authority of the Classification
Act in a reasonable one.
We should like to call to your attention, however, the requirements
of the National Security Agency and the Court of'~:ilitary Appeals for
super grade positions. Neither of these agencies is organically a pert
of the Department of Defense, although the Secretary of Defense has
been assigned administrative responsibility for them. It would be most
helpful if the small number of super grade positions critically required
by these two agencies could be met by the Commission out of the 69 lobs
which we are agreeing to relinquish to you.
We appreciate the support which you have given to the recomrmen-
dation for increasing the number of positions authorized by Section 806
of Public Law 207. I am confident that we may expect continued support
from the Commission, to the extent necessary, in assuring that this
increased authorization for super grades in the Department of Defense
is enacted in our 1955 Appropriation Act.
Sincerely yours,
s ;d
Honorable Philip Young
Chairman
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Washington 25, D. C.
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The Honorable John r~. acy'a Jr.
ecuti-,e Director
U. Civil. Service Co is>s ion
? a.zhingt0n 25, D. C.
. 4acy:
Your letter of 17 August 1953 inquired whether this Agency
would furnish the Civil. Service Ceisa ion the infot i vn needed
to maintain the security investigations index in accordance with
,nc 9(a) and (b) of Executive Order 10450. The probie n was
disc sed in detail with your Office on 17 September 1953
the complexities of security and cover problem encountered by
this Agency were described. I believe it is evident that the
recording of the nerves of et 1oyees and personnel of interest
this Agency would be detrimental to the Agency and its operations.
The security aspects of releasing information on Agency
employe et; have been carefully considered from t im to time, pertic -
ularly with regard to wy responsibility for ;tecting intelligence
sources and method , which is set forth in the National eeurity
Act of 1949. In order to assure that I could cvxry out this
re ponsibility, the Congress, in Section 7 of the Central
Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, exempted the Agency free all
provisions of law requiring publication or disclosure of personnel
data. I deem it necessary and proper, therefore, for this Agency
to refrain from furnishing the information described in sections
he Civil Service Coi ssion. We wish, howmer, to comply with
Coission's desires insofar as we can vitkdt Impairing legit-
and (b) of Executive Order 10450 for the investigations index
irate security requirements. A was agreed Upon at the meeting, wM
will furnish the Camaission with the nemeu of e11 persons who are
dismissed from this Agency under the provision?: of Section 102 of
the National. see rr#ty Act of 1947 or Executive Order 10450.
I greatly appreciate the c erstanding shcrwn by you and ;Four
.der- of the unique problem faced by this Agency in the
conduct of its activities. STAT
OGC () '319RED
Admin Iles
S TAT
17D1+9 & w [.Allen ~~# . Dales . ?
Oriai/atin? Off ry, bisector Acting Deputy Director
a J Lawrence R . Hous i ~,e~~.
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Sincerely yours
Director of Security w/basic eleas-ina rig'
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MEMORANDUM FOR: THE DIRECTOR
Paragraphs 9(a) and (b) of Executive Order No.
10450 would require us to furnish to the Civil Ser-
vice Commission, for its Security Investigations
Index, the results of all investigations conducted;
obviously, we cannot do this under our security re-
quirements.
The General Counsel and the Deputy Director of
Security met with Mr. Macy, Executive Director,
Civil Service Commission, and others on 17 Septem-
ber 1953 at which time they explained our problem.
The Civil Service Commission representatives indi-
cated that they understood and would not pursue the
matter further if we would forward a letter stating
that we could not comply, etc.
MEMORANDUM FOR:
The attached letter sets forth the 'basis upon
which we decline to supply the information and
should settle the matter.
Recommend signature.
L* K, MUM
Acting Deputy :Director
(Administration)
6Oct 533
DATE: )
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UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSCON
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
ADDIESS ONLY
"CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION"
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Honorable .11en W. Dulles
iJir?eetor
c entral Imella;,encc+ A ;ency
:~' rvice,
crb F nit tee federal Jt artpciwer i'oli.ci with specific reference to
valu OS.' the ,,y inve Wit:ak.iors index ia stron
l r
g
, I o.inted up by the fact h t durirx a recent r} ri.tn your a: envy r
~Fcxc ied us ,.,o check 1,268 ri&:ies of persons in I 'SDI you had an
o .ipi.oyt: en't or inves ui; "ative innterezt, uo ).eirm if .rli ::re were pre-
vious inves,i;x,atine files on these perti cars . These regi .; is were
surD dittec in t ,;e for., of bi.a_,ra hic;al data st ets w icr . as we
reed a card f or;, (Standard Fare 79) for inseri yois in the index,
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nave --een xeturtii_nn the sheets to -vrou after our search for
;'rev,?ous file s ht:s been cornn1-:::ted. Therefore the security invest!-
:ton s Index is i_ncorn lete to the extent of a considerable nurr-l-)rer
of secur'a_ty investigations which your agency is conducting. Thus
the cost of investigations to the ~?overnment as a whole is hi7her
-than it, would be if the index were complete.
1`e no i n that Section 7 of the Central Tntelligence A?encyr Act
19h9 nrovjdes that CIA shall be exermited from the nravisions of
any law w .ich reeuires the publication or disclosure of ETA
or rnnization, functions, names, official titles, salaries, or
number,, of ncrsonrel em lo'red by the As*ency. 'bthinr in Section
9 (a) of FIXccutive order 10x5 receuives didclosur of this inf'or-
ti.on. in eomole:tin : Standard Forau 79 to notify the Cora aiseion
that 4..ta haw Initiated a security investirsat on, you could omit
any orohibited information such as position and grade. Tt would
not be cif cessar-v to vi-re the name and address of the office to
id--h the r port of i_nvesti_rntion will be avail lble., If this would
violate -,rour security restrictions. There is no recuirement that
iso r t'urnish us with inform lion on CIA orRanizntion, flzncti. ~n;a, oY
?umbers of r(--rsonnel employed by the Ape icy.
.As v re intereret the o der, it would not be necessary for von
to i'tirni.?;h a comnl-te roster of the nacres of CIA m aloveE s. )nl,r
the f)ersons on whom investigations have been conducted under the
order would be :included. names of o...rsons i,r:; ousl~, _nvestated
b rcu would be hinhlvr desirable in the :interest of economy of
=.:: scat)Pt-i caIs but could be omitted because of vour
t'?a stt'tri_ctions. 7;e sua?; ;est, however, that these na es could he sub-
i-':ted in installments and i_nter?ra red into the index in mach a war
iot it would be imr>ossibie to reconstruct a roster ,f r iir erinlovca
fnce the cards were int.erf'il~-d in the index, which now has close to
five m lli on names i n it, corroi.l_in , a list of -our e3 tr~lo ,res.