MONITORING OVERSEAS DIRECT EMPLOYMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01082A000700050025-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 25
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHAIRMAN, UNDER SECRETARIES COMMITTEE
Subject: Monitoring Overseas Direct Employment
The President has directed that the reporting and controls on
overseas employment established in 1970 should be modified and
continued indefinitely by the Under Secretaries Committee. The
President wishes to maintain the number of USG employees abroad
at a minimum level consistent with overall US national objectives.
He desires that the system of position controls aid the chiefs of
diplomatic missions in supervising personnel under their authority.
The Committee should revise the system to perform the following
functions:
Monitor,
adjust and control the overseas direct, US
and foreign, civilian and military employment of all
agencies which are components of U.S. Diplomatic
Missions, such as'AID units, offices of Agricultural
Attaches, Defense Attaches, Legal Attaches, Treasury
Attaches, Customs, Drug Enforcement, Agricultural
Research Service and USIA units, MAAGs, missions and
military groups, trade centers, and all other inter-
departmental activities overseas as defined in NSDM
No. 3, January 20, 1969.
-- Review ongoing programs overseas to indentify the need
to expand or reprogram existing staffs within existing
ceilings, to establish new positions and to eliminate
,positions engaged in marginally productive and obsolete
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activities. In this respect, the Committee shall
consult as appropriate with those officials and
bodies exercising other Presidential coordination
responsibilities.
-- Develop and maintain an economical and efficient
reporting system to ensure that up-to-date informa-
tion is available to the President, the Executive
agencies and the Congress on the overseas employ-
ment of U.S. agencies, and to provide such data
required by the President or the Congress regarding
other elements of U.S. Government presence abroad.
This monitoring and reporting system shall hereafter be
designated as the Monitoring of Overseas Direct Employment
System (MODE). When questions about staffing levels or func-
tional jurisdiction give rise to disputes either among agencies
or between Ambassadors and agencies, the Committee shall assure
a prompt and objective adjudication of such disputes.
This directive replaces preceding directives on this subject.
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