AGENCY SPONORSHIP OF TRAINING AT NON-GOVERMENT FACILITIES FOR EMPLOYEES ON DUTY LESS THAN ONE YEAR

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• Publication Date: August 30, 1962
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MEMORANDUM FOR : Acting Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH : Deputy Director (Support)
SUBJECT : Agency Sponsorship of Training at Non-Government
Facilities for Employees on Duty Less than
One Year
1. This memorandum suggests action on the part of the Acting
Director of Central Intelligence. Such action is requested in
Paragraph 4.
2. The Office of Scientific Intelligence has requested
exemption from the requirement in the Government Employees Training
Act that one year of Federal civilian service is necessary before
the Agency may sponsor an employee's scientific and technical
training at non-Government facilities (Tab A). Other Offices have
also expressed need for waiver of this requirement.
3. At my request, the Office of the General Counsel reviewed
the petition made by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. It is
the General Counsel's opinion that training at non-Government faci-
lities which is determined by the Director of Central Intelligence
or his designee to be essential to intelligence activities may be
authorized for civilian employees who have less than one year of
current, continuous Federal service (Tab B).
4. To meet the Agency's critical training requirements through
the waiver procedure, I recommend that you delegate to each Deputy
Director the authority to determine whether such training of employ-
ees on duty less than a year is essential to intelligence activities.
Affirmative determination by a Deputy Director as your designee will
constitute authorization for my approval of the requested training.
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I have appended, for your signature, a memorandum to each of the
Deputy Directors which will establish the authorization and approval
mechanism (Tab C - 1, 2, 3, & 1+).
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MATTfJ BAIRD
Director of Training
'Deputy Director (Support)
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1 MCRANDTJM FOR: Director of Training
THROTXIH: Assistant to DD/I (Administration)
SUBJECT: Scientific and Technical Training for OSI Personnel
On-Duty less than One Year
1. During the past few months, it has been necessary for the
Office of Scientific Intelligence to direct junior analysts on duty
for less than one year to participate in external training at non-
government facilities. In view of our continuing requirement for
highly qualified scientific and technical personnel and the need to
prepare our junior analysts to assume important responsibilities as
soon as possible after entering-on-duty, the Office of Training is
requested to exempt tSI personnel from the requirement of a minimum
of one year of current, continuous, civilian service prior to their
participation in non-government scientific and technical training.
2. The shortage of scientists and engineers experienced in
fields related to high priority intelligence objectives has neces-
sitated recruitment during the past two years of an increasing number
of young college graduates with varying scientific and technical back-
grounds for assignment in OSI. Upon entering-on-duty, these indi-
viduals are normally assigned to a division in accordance with priority
office needs and to positions compatible with their backgrounds and
career development interests. During their first year in 05I these
people participate in selected OM courses and Office orientations
basic to their development as effective scientific intelligence officers,
and in conjunction with their specific assignment and duties, parti-
cipate in language, weapons orientation, and academic courses, on-the-
job training, orientation visits to military and industrial facilities,
and attend professional meetings and conferences.
3. The priority nature of the work projects with which our
junior analysts, with little or no work experience, become involved soon
after completion of their introductory Agency training necessitates
immediate further development of each individual's scientific or tech-
nical specialty. Training programs conducive to the development of
personnel engaged in assessment of foreign developments of particular
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St>BJECTs Scientific and Technical Training for 06I Personnel
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interest to this Office are not usually presented on a regular and
frequent basis. Approval of our request for exemption of OBI
personnel from the requirement of one year on-duty prior to parti-
cipation in non-government courses, will permit us to take advantage
of these sporadic training opportunities as they become available,
and will enable us to better plan and extend the training of selected
junior analysts by directing them to attend external courses even
though they may not have been on-duty for one year.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Support)
Scientific and Technical Training
for OSI Personnel on Duty Less
than One Year
REFERENCE: Memo to DD/S fr DTR dtd 27 July 62,
same subject
1. You have requested our comments on the referenced memorandum,
which, in referring to the request of the Office of Scientific Intelligence
that certain of its personnel be exempted from the one-year-prior-service
requirement, suggests that in view of the action taken by the Civil Service
Commission in liberalizing its rules with respect to employee training
an opinion of this Office dated 14 August 1959 might warrant reconsidera-
tion.
2. The Government Employees Training Act (5 U. S. C. A., section 2301
et se q.) provides:
"No employee having less than one year of current,
continuous civilian service in the Government shall be _
eligible for such training /at a non-Government facility-/
unless the head of his department determines, in acco rdanc e
with regulations of the Commission, that such training for
such employee is in the public interest." (section 2311(a)(2))
In our opinion of 14 August 1959 we advised the exemption granted to the
Agency by Executive Order 10805 notwithstanding, the ultimate decision
of hiring an economist to be placed directly in training at a non-Government
institution was one to be made by the Director of Central Intelligence. We
reaffirm that position here.
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3. As we understand the OSI's proposal, it seeks authority to assign
selected scientific and technical personnel engaged in the assessment of
foreign developments to non-Government training subsequent to their
having entered on duty and having completed certain OTR courses and
office orientation but prior to having fulfilled the one year of service
requirement. To the extent that such personnel will have completed
some portion of a year's service, we believe this case to be distinguishable
from the one considered in our opinion of 14 August.
4. On the subject of waiver of limitations on training at non-Government
facilities, the Commission regulation now reads:
"Subject to other provisions of the Act and the regulations
in this part, an employee having less than one year of current,
continuous civilian service in the Government shall be eligible
for training by, in, or through non-Government facilities upon
a finding by the head of his department that postponement of
the training until the employee has completed one year of
current, continuous civilian service in the Government would
be contrary to the public interest. " (Federal Personnel Manual,
Chapter T-1, section 39. 305, dated 14 February 1962)
While the explanatory note to this regulation sets forth the caveat that it is not
to be interpreted as authorizing unlimited waivers to circumvent the clearly-
expressed intent of the Congress, it does specify as one type of training whose
postponement might be contrary to the public interest: "Training essential to
intelligence . . . activities. " Thus, we believe, subject to a determination
having been made by the DCI or his designee, that the training proposed is
essential to intelligence activities, the 051 personnel selected may be assigned
for non-Government training prior to having completed one year of current,
continuous service. Of course, the Commission's issuance of 14 February
in no way affects that provision of the Act which prohibits the assignment for
training to obtain academic degrees.
5. Referenced memorandum and the OSI proposal are returned.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Support)
SUBJECT . Scientific and Technical Training for OSI Personnel
On-Duty Less than One Year
REFERENCE : Memo to DTR from AAD/SI dtd 18 July 1962, same
subject
1. This memorandum contains a recommendation for DDS action.
Such recommendation is contained in Paragraph 7.
2. The Office of Scientific Intelligence, in referenced memo-
randum,, has requested exemption for OSI personnel from the requirement
of one year service prior to participation in non-government scienti-
fic and technical training. Approval of the request is recommended
by the Assistant to the DD/I (Administration).
3. The Government Employees Training Act (PL 85-507) places
certain limitations on training of employees through non-government
facilities. Section 12(a)(2) states:
"No employee having less than one year of current, continuous
civilian service in the Government shall be eligible for such
training unless the head of his department determines, in accord-
ance with regulations of the Commission, that such training for
such employee is in the public interest."
4. The Agency is exempted from Section 12 of the Act by Executive
Order 10805. As was pointed out on 14 August 1959, however, by the
Acting General Counsel (in response to an ORR proposal for a program of
sponsored full-time graduate study for selected graduate students in
Economics):
. the basis of the exemption to the Act which was sought
by the Office of Training was for security and cover requirements
of training necessary for the Agency to attain its operational
objectives. We, therefore, feel that in order to comply with the
spirit in which our exception to the Act was sought and obtained,
the hiring of employees to be placed directly in non-governmental
training should have at least a security or cover basis with prob-
ably an operational objective. There would appear to be serious
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doubt about the existence of such a basis in connection with the
hiring for immediate training of economists as intelligence ana-
lysts. Such being the case, we feel that the ultimate decision
for the hiring proposed is one for the Director of Central Intelli-
gence."
5. The above comments of the Acting General Counsel would appear
to be applicable also to those junior analysts of the Office of Scienti-
fic Intelligence for whom a waiver of the one-year limitation is requested.
However, since the time of the Counsel's opinion, the Civil Service
Commission has exercised its discretion to waive certain restrictions and
has caused to be published in the Federal Personnel Manual further author-
izations to heads of each department to waive the limitations contained
in Section 12(a)(2) of the Act.
6. In light of the general liberalizations of Section 12(a)(2) as
now rermitted by the Civil Service Commission (for which please see pages
T-1-18 and T-1-19 of the Federal Personnel Manual as changed by Trans-
mittal Sheets 629 and 659 and by Instruction 60, dated February 14, 1962),
it is believed that reconsideration of the General Counsel's earlier
comments may be warranted.
7. It is recommended that these papers be referred to the General
Counsel for comment.
Director of Train g
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