CLANDESTINE SERVICES CAREERISTS DECLARED SURPLUS (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001700170006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 30, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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Registry
Executive
30 April 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Clandestine Services Careerists Declared
Surplus Under HR
II
1. This staff has reviewed the biographic profiles of 145
Clandestine Services careerists declared surplus under HR
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checked fitness reports or personnel files on about 100 of these,
and personally interviewed about 30. Although this is not a complete
survey, our sampling has led us to the following tentative opinions:
a. Of the 145 CS careerists declared surplus, eleven were
actually serving in Office of Training rotational slots and
seven others had previously served tours in OTR. Although OTR
had a right to assume that only topnotch CS personnel would be
detailed to it as instructors, a comparison of surplus against
total T/O indicates that CS careerists assigned to OTR were
roughly ten times as likely to be declared surplus as those who
remained in DD/P assignments. It would be unfortunate if, as
a result of the surplus program, OTR gained a reputation as a
dumping ground.
b. Nearly all employees interviewed said the notice declaring
them surplus came as a complete surprise, and in few of the fitness
reports was there any clear indication of unsatisfactory work.
Unless the employees were singularly unperceptive, it would seem
that the fitness :report system heretofore used has not adequately
warned employees of their weaknesses. This may be corrected by
new fitness report forms under consideration.
c. Probably some employees classified as surplus should long
ago have been discharged for cause. Others whose work was good
but whose personal problems precluded duty abroad might have been
given an earlier warning to seek jobs outside the CS career service.
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2. In general, it is our impression that the CS conducted the
surplus selection program in a fair and objective manner. The attached
statistical summary shows that surplus CS careerists had an average of
over 11 years' service, and it is hoped that any future surplus programs
will screen out unneeded personnel before they have devoted so large
a part of their working lives to the Agency.
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Acting Inspector General
DDCI _
DD/P
D/Personnel
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STATISTICAL AVERAGE OF 145 DD/P SURPLUS PERSONNEL
Profiles
Reviewed
Age
Years with CIA
Years overseas
Promotions
Last Fitness Report
Military Service
Officer
Enlisted
Number with
Other Govt. Exper.
GO-9 GS-11 GS-12 GS-13 GS-l4 GS-15
44
41.8
43.5
49
50.6
57.6
10.9
11
11.2
11.2
11.8
11.6
3.7
3.6
4.4
3.3
3
3.1
2.6
2
2.5
2.6
1.8
1.5
3+
3
3+
3+
4
4
0
8
16
9
16
9
7
13
17
6
0
1
14
7
7
13
11
4
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DDCI
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