CONTRACT EMPLOYEES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AND CONSULTANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A000300020017-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 15, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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appointed (i.e., staff) employees, contract employees are
employees of the U.S. Government: an employer-employee relation-
ship exists with the Government having the right to control and
direct the individual who performs the services not only as to
the result to be accomplished by the work but also as to the de-
tails and means by which that result is accomplished. Attach-
ment A is a statistical summary of the contract employees on
board in the Agency as of 31 March 1977.
(2) Independent Contractors: Independent contractors
are not employees of the U. S. Government. In their role of pro-
viding services to the Government, they are self-employed indivi-
duals who are engaged under contract to provide specific services.
They are not supervised or directed in their work by U.S. Government
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence- Afi
FROM : F. W. M. Janney
Director of Personnel
SUBJECT . Contract Employees, Independent Contractors and
Consultants
REFERENCE : Memorandum, dated 6 April 1977, from the DCI to the
DDA, Subject: Contractors
1. 'Action Requested: None; for information only. This
memorandum is in response to your request for the number of contract
employees, independent contractors, or consultants in the Agency.
2. Background:
a. The following is a brief summation of the three types
of contract personnel:
(1) 'Contract Employees: Although they are not
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SUBJECT: Contract Employees, Independent Contractors and Consultants
personnel, and the Government has no right of direct control
over the means, manner, or details by which the agreed-upon tasks
or services are performed. Attachment B is a statistical summary of
the independent contractors.
(3) Consultants: A consultant is an individual with
unusual or special skills-, knowledge, or experience who is engaged
to serve the Agency in an advisory capacity. Attachment C is a
statistical summary of the consultants on board as of 31 Mach 1977.
b. Effective 1 July 1975, the Agency adopted the single
personnel ceiling. The single employment ceiling applies to all full-
time permanent appointed (staff) and contract employees. Employment of
other categories of personnel, such as part-time and intermittent indi-
viduals, is controlled by the availability of budgeted funds in the
appropriate subobject class. Those individuals are not charged to the
ceiling for full-time permanent personnel.
(1) Full-Time Permanent Employees are appointed or con-
tract employees who are regularly scheduled to work 40 hours per
week and whose term of employment with the Agency will be in excess
of one year.
(2) Temporary Employees are appointed or contract
employees who may be employed ona full-time or part-time basis and
whose term of employment will be. one year or less from the date of
initial employment. This category also includes those individuals
hired by contract under the Summer Intern Program. The Summer
Intern Program is a graduate student program of individuals majoring
primarily in economics, geography, foreign languages or foreign
areas studies. The purpose of the program primarily is to identify
qualified graduate students who, we hope, will join us on a full-
time basis when they have obtained their graduate degree. We an-
ticipate 65 such individuals to be on board in the summer of 1977
as compared to 50 in the summer of 1976.
(3) Part-Time Employees are appointed or contract
employees who are employed on a regular tour of duty of 30 hours
or less per week.
(4) Intermittent Employees are appointed or contract
employees whose employment is irregular or occasional with hours
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SUBJECT: Contract Employees, Independent Contractors and Consultants
or days of work not on a prearranged schedule and with compensa-
tion paid only for the time actually worked.
(S) Other Employees Not Included in Full-Time Permanent
Category are new clericals carried on the ro is of the Office of
Personnel pending their first assignment, employees liquidating
their accrued sick leave pending disability retirement, and coopera-
tive education student employees. The Agency has an informal Co-Op
arrangement with 30 colleges and universities whereby students spend
every other semester with the Agency in a work environment. Most
co-op programs are of a five-year duration. These students are
pursuing a bachelor's degree in the sciences and engineering disci-
plines. The purpose of the program is to aid us in identifying
employees in a hard-to-get category who might ultimately become
permanent employees. As of 31 March 1977, there were 103 co-ops
in the Agency, 58 of whom were in a leave without pay (LWOP) status
while attending their current college semester. =a=
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Director of Personnel
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM : Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Contractors
on the payroll whose work for us is, in essence, staff work
as opposed to what I would term project work. What I mean
I'd appreciate knowing how many contractors we have
side by side, day by day in our offices on our projects.
is contractors who are not undertaking a specific task
elaborated in their contract and in effect are working
STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S_ Navy .
Comments on Routing Slip attached to the above memo:
'Per the Admiral is not, repeat not, interested in
contractors suc 'as IBM or other vendors. He is interested in
people that the Agency employs as i-nmloy indepen-
dent contractors or consultants. I Icommented on this
in terms of "not count against ceiling").'
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