LETTER TO HONORABLE RICHARD HELMS FROM JOHN W. MACY, JR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00818R000100010033-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: January 25, 1967
• Content Type: LETTER

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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20415
Honorable Richard Helms
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.- C. 20505
Dear Mr. Helms:
JAN 2.,.a 39 +a
Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Chairman of the Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, has asked
me to provide further information as to the use of personality
tests by Federal agencies.
The policy of the Civil Service Commission which generally prohibits
the use of personality tests does not apply to their proper use by
a qualified psychiatrist or psychologist when, in his professional
judgment, they would assist in his total study of an individual in
connection with medical determinations for employment or fitness
for duty.
Senator Ervin is interested in the extent to which personality
tests are used in medical programs, and in the guidelines which
agencies provide to their medical staffs for use of such tests.
Accordingly, I will appreciate your response to the following
questions:
1. In connection with medical examinations of new
appointees, under what circumstances are
personality tests used?
2. What written policies or guidelines have been issued
relating to the selection, use and interpretation
and to the maintenance, access to and disposal of
records of personality tests? (Please supply a copy.)
3. Has there been a change in your policies or guidelines
in the past 18 months?
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Please provide the same information for medical examinations of
employees for fitness for duty.
7 will appreciate your replying by February 15, 1967. If there are
questions concerning this report, your staff may call Dr. Albert P.
Maslow (Code 183, Extension 7453).
Sincerely yours,
`/ John W. Macy,(L1.
Chairman