EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A001100110005-6
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• Document Page Count: 44
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 10, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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I Executive Registry I
10 June 1977
NOTE FOR: The Director
SUBJECT: Equal Employment Opportunity
The attached papers in Folder A provide background
information on. the DCI EEO Advisory Panel. Folder B
contains the Panel's assessment of the Agency's FY 77
EEO Plan and a critique of the Panel's report by the
Director, EEO along with a copy of the Agency's EEO
Plan.
EEO of necessity involves affirmative action to-
make up for past deficiencies. By definition it
involves some choices that from an objective
management viewpoint may not be the best. Nevertheless,
because of its overall importance, EEO goals must be
pursued. The problems are encountered in attempting
to do so in a manner which has the least disruptive
effect on overall performance and efficiency.
I recommend you schedule an early meeting with
the Director, EEO and the DCI Panel Chairman and
the Panel to hear their views in more detail.
Attachments:
ER 77-6437/1
ER 77-6437/2
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
INFO Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Chairman, DCI EEO Advisory Panel
FROM Omego J. C. Ware, Jr.
Director, Equal Employment Opportunity
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SUBJECT DCI EEO Advisory Panel Assessment of EEOP
1. Action requested: None; for information only. The
following comments are provided only to facilitate DCI and
DDCI understanding of Advisory Panel comments with regard
to the production of the Agency's FY 78 EEOP. However, it
is recommended that,the DCI meet with the D/EEO at his
earliest convenience to discuss the Agency's Equal Employment
Opportunity Program in order to place the operations and
comments of the Advisory Panel in a more appropriate context.
2. Background:
Before commenting on the Panel's assessments, it is
necessary first of all to clarify the nature of the EEOP and
the somewhat unique process by which it is produced.
The EEOP is produced in compliance with Federal
regulations. This regulation is supplemented by written
and verbal guidance from the Civil Service Commission.
In addition, there is frequent contact between members
of the EEO Office of the Central Intelligence Agency and
responsible officers in the Civil Service Commission to
assure the effective production of an adequate EEO Plan
for this Agency, and to avoid any problems deriving from
the special nature of the Agency.
3. The DCI's EEO Advisory Panel:
The 17 May memorandum to you from the Chairman of
the Panel provides you with a copy of the Panel's charter
and also provides some insight into the kinds of issues
that the Panel has explored, either at the request of
the DCI, the DDCI or on the Panel's initiative. To
summarize the Panel's creation and its current activity
it may be noted that the Panel was created at a time
when the Agency had little or no formal EEO planning
or activity. Upon its creation in March 1975 it was
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the sole EEO advisor and "analyst" of the DCI. Subse-
quently the Office of EEO was created with a full-time
Director and staff, thereby relieving the Panel of much
of the work that it did in support of the Agency and the
DCI. Nevertheless, the Agency's management, the Director
EEO and the Panel have determined that there remains
a continuing need for the Panel both to advise the DCI
of problems in the areas of equity and affirmative action
and in support of some of the varied EEO programs operated
or monitored by the Office of EEO. A major responsibility
of the Advisory Panel in this latter regard is that of
assisting in the development of the Agency's EEO Plan.
The 17 May assessment provided the DCI by the Chairman
of the Panel constitutes the Panel's first contribution
to the FY 78 Plan. This contribution was requested by
the Office of EEO and is being considered in the early
stages of the EEO Plan's development. A copy of the
Panel's comments was forwarded to the DCI and the DDCI
since it is to these officers that the Panel is responsible.
4. The EEO Advisory Plan for FY 1978:
The Agency's EEO Plan is the most important EEO
document of this or any other Federal agency. In summary,
this Plan is intended to provide the Agency's management,
the personnel of the Agency and the Civil. Service Commission
with an assessment of the Agency's status with regard
to its efforts to provide equity for all employees and
potential employees of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Plan also assesses our efforts to fully utilize the
skills, talents and training of current Agency employees.
The Plan determines what has been accomplished in these
two general areas over the past year, identifies and
prioritizes new and continuing problems and outlines
specific Agency plans for assaults on these problems in
the coming fiscal year.
In format, the Plan has in the past tended to be somewhat
complex and repetitive simply because the format was
prescribed by the Civil Service Commission and all Federal
agencies were obliged to adhere rather rigidly to it. The
Agency's statement of its problems and presentation of
plans to resolve them is also somewhat complex due to
the decentralized nature of the Agency's personnel
management and administration. Thirdly, there is some
problem in developing and publishing the Agency's Plan
which is a public document, yet must be true to the
Agency's obligation to protect its sources and methods.
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The FY 78 EEOP will be the third such Plan produced
subsequent to the reorganization of the EEO structure
of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is the policy
of the Director, EEO to make the Agency's EEO Plans
increasingly meaningful, objective-oriented and realistic
and to involve as many elements of the Agency as possible
in its development. For that reason, in accordance with
the current schedule to produce the FY 78 EEOP, suggestions
were solicited from the EEO Advisory Panel. Simultaneously,
suggestions were also solicited from the Agency's Federal
Women's Program Board, all Agency managerial components,
other Agency advisory groups and from the Agency population
in general. The responses to this initial request for
assessments of the old Plan and suggestions for the new
will be combined in the initial efforts of the Office of
Equal Employment Opportunity to produce a new and meaning-
ful Plan. As subsequent drafts of the new Plan are
produced the Panel will provide one of its most useful
functions for the Director, EEO and for the Director
of Central Intelligence. It will serve as a key reviewer,
representing Agency employees, to monitor our developing
EEO Plan to help assure that the final document which the
DCI submits to the Civil Service Commission is one that
reflects his policy and Agency concerns.
In summary, the DCI should understand that the
subject comments of the Advisory Panel, like those from
other elements of the Agency, are being taken fully into
consideration in the development of the new Plan. Further,
the Panel, other advisory groups, the Agency's management
and, of course, the DCI himself, will have more than one
opportunity to review, revise and make recommendations
affecting subsequent drafts of the EEO Plan prior to the
time the final version is submitted to the Civil Service
Commission.
5. Attached is a copy of the current EEO Plan of the
Agency. In July the Office of EEO will prepare its quarterly
assessment for the DCI and the DDCI of Agency progress toward
the goals and objectives set in the current Plan. Obviously,
the Director EEO and the specialists of the Office of EEO
stand ready to discuss the EEO Program in its entirety
or any specific program as such information or understanding
is desired by the DCI or the
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