MECHANISM FOR CONTROLLING CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND CAREER AGENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00314R000600110018-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 23, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT : Mechanism for Controlling Contract Employees
and Career Agents
REFERENCES : A. Memorandum dated 8 May 1968 to D/PPB
from ExDir, Subject: Manpower Controls
B. M~:moranda dated 14 May 1968 to DD's from
D/PPB, Subject: Manpower Control System
Task Force
C. Memorandum dated 14 Aug 1968 to DD/S
from D/P B, Subject: Manpower Control -
Documentation of Contract Employees and
Career Agents
1. I believe our discussion of the other day helped to bracket the
immediate steps required to get on with providing Colonel White with a
manpower control over Contract Employees and Career Agents, hopefully
by the end of 1968. The manpower control study group has develope-d what
they believe to be an effective format for machine input, appointment and
separation control of the Contract Employee and Career Agent. This form
goes beyond the detail w'e need as outlined in my memo to you of 14 August,
but the group feels it is responsive to the requirements of the Directorates
2. As indicated, we are concerned with something around -
employees on this go round and we wish to control this group through ceiling
allocations to Directorates, by country. Hopefully we can make the info~m_a-
tion input document the appointment vehicle and the payroll authorization.
3. I do not need a machine system for this purpose, but I believe the
view of the task force and the computer people deserve careful thought on
this point. I believe when you examine the system proposed (Vince is
spelling it out in step-by-step detail), you'll agree that it can work and that
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it will b~ compatible with
~'undaxxienta,lly, the
proposal and, systvzxz the task teaxxx ha so:leveloped is a szxna
m.a.naneinent information syste,n~ ?'or control 11 l~art of a
intez:ded to be all inclusive but intended to ~~ reposes _.
task. SIFS ie no = st is not
t a xnanagexnent infor ponsive to the zxn~~ectiate
inclusive. SIFS deveZo oration system lxez~ se and is a,ll
caxe as pment, therefore, xECluires conaiclerable time a na
a tota3 entity and I have the c:istir~ct impression that
prioritised so as to provide the most essential nzanat7.
data first. _t is not
bexracrit information
`~? Ncvcrth~less, whether we incoxporate the
paxt of SIFS now or handle it z-x~a present proposal as
with the SIDS is a nza.tt~r ~~>hich you should. decide
let e an
I would appreciate it if you would
nOti`' ecision on th;.c
cc:~'Fersannel
I3/OCS/D.DJS&T
(si~re~t}: t7'olr~ lfa, Is,x~~~.'
John, .(~. Clarke
:Di.rector of Planninf:;,
I'ro~;raminin~, and }3ud~Yetin,~
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