REPORT OF EFFICIENCY TASK FORCE, 30 APRIL 1959

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• Publication Date: May 29, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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29 May 1959
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Report of Efficiency Task Force, 30 April 1959
1. This memorandum contains recommendations for your
approval in paragraph 16. ?
2. This volume contains reports by each of the Deputy Directors
on their own areas. You will recall that your memorandum of 28 Janu-
ary 1959 requested that each Deputy Director examine his own component
to ascertain any inadequately or inefficiently employed personnel,
evidences of duplication or overlapping, or other areas where economies
in manpower could be effected. These reports have now been received
and, after review, it will be necessary to indicate the next action to be
taken-.
3. It should be stressed that there is a unanimity of view on the
part of the Efficiency Task Force, reflecting the views of the individual
Deputy Directors, that guidance is needed as to the extent of the reduc-
tions which you wish to achieve. This is particularly reflected by the
s statement that he believes the Agency can and should be reduced
substantially in size. It is further accentuated by the trend in personnel
strength which indicates that the number of personnel in headquarters
has been increasing over the years, with the most pronounced increase
in the last year, while strength in the field has been declining. Strength
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Finally, an additional and important factor that must be considered is
Departmental
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4. In making this initial report each of the Deputies has undoubtedly
been influenced by the fact that there is a commitment to the Bureau of
the Budget to reduce one per cent in strength during fiscal year 1959 and
two per cent during fiscal year 1960. Over and above this is the state-
ment of the DD/I that he believes the Agency can and should be reduced,
and the present efforts of the DD/P to realign and reduce headquarters
strength.
DD/Intelligence
5. In presenting his report the DD/I points out that since 1953
he has reduced the size of his area by
requiring
slots, added responsibilities
lots, thus effecting a net manpower savings of
15 per cent. The DD/I, whose present strength is
cent over his ceiling of
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or two per
states that he can cut slots:
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a possibility of saving
functions.
additional slots by eliminating questionable
7. Finally, the DD/I lists a third category in which he could
effect an additional savings of
by centralizing the administrative and
requirements staffs from the individual offices to the DD/I office, by
rnergin ONE and OCI, by merging the economic sections of ORR and OSI,
and by merging the geographic section of ORR with OBI. Thus the DD/I
has offered the possibility of manpower savings extending over the next
several years amounting to
out of a present strength of
although he stresses that some of these studies require more considera-
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c. that the DD/P be advised that his report is accepted as
a preliminary report of immediate economies that can be effected,
but that he is urged to work toward a goal of a minimum reduction
of not less than
in departmental strength to be achieved by 50X1
the time of the move into the new building;
d? that the Efficiency Task Force be instructed that it
should now work as a body with the DD/I and the DD/P in achieving
the above objectives, together with those in paragraph 15, and
should work as a body with the DD/S in reducing the size of the
Support element of the Agency proportionately.
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"Lyman B. Kirkpatfick
Inspector General
The recommendations contained in paragraph 16 are approved:
Director of Central Intelligence (date)
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