BY COB 1 SEPT MR. BLAKE NEEDS THESE PAPERS:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000300040004-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2002
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By COB 1 Sept Mr. Blake needs these papers:
We 4w@@ at OMB request~,to alter somewhat the EP structure and also the
STATINTL request for ^ additional O SG slots for ICS.Sitrin from 0MB
came over and saw Knoche yesterday. Knoche believes he can handle okay
the EP requests; so we will forget that, but he was pushed pretty hard
on the SG's. C - n said, "You know we have some difficulty understand-
ing this and we if the time isn't now that you people ought
to review one,of your policies about your emptions and maybe on SG
jobs let the CSC come in and classify them. I think the best way
to counter that is as follows. PMCD had a chat with somebody in the
IC Staff on these new grades and as I understand it, they took a
reasonable approach and said in effect -- all right, we understand your
concept, we will go along with this at this time and in some period of
time -- 6 or 12 months, I don't recall -- we will come back and take aIL L E GIB
look -- we will revalidate or
we have here the equivalent of the CSC classification division, that
these people had their decussions with the IC Staff people, what wasSTATINTL
involved was explained and the position was as follows: We will go
along tentatively with you and at a given point in time we will see them
in operation and then come back with a final judgment. That is the first
pice I would like: About PMCD and what their position was. The second
pice is simplicity itself and that is a paper that shows reasons why we
should never walk away from our exemptions and allow the CSC to come in
I told Knoche to point out to
this guy.,i =__, , who he will see on Thursday after he talks to
if only on the supergrade jobs--a pice of paper that shows why we should
never voluntarily, with our legislation, allow the CSC to come in here
and do a classification job.
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PMCD Participation . in the Structuring the ICS Staffing Complement
1. In the process of developing an expanded and restructured Table of
Organization, the Intelligence Community Staff consulted with the Position
Management and Compensation Division of the Office of Personnel to seek advice
and guidance concerning the appropriateness of the position grade levels being
included in the proposed ICS structure. However, the expansion and restruc-
turing of the Intelligence Community Staff was largely accomplished in con-
formance with ICS projected requirements and proposed grades. The following
chronology briefly outlines subsequent PMCD efforts regarding the ICS Staffing
Compl ement.
2. On 23 April 1976, representatives of PMCD met with the three senior
ICS Officers who were functioning as heads of the three major Offices within
ICS. These meetings were arranged by ICS to provide an overview of the functions
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positions. (Included in the expansion were a significant number
of proposed upgraclings, new positions to be established at senior grade levels,
and a completely changed organizational structure.) NICD representatives spoke
with each of the three ICS Office Heads for approximately two hours and
explained that it would be impossible to cover each position in detail, but
that PMCD hoped to obtain a general explanation of the functional respon 1-
bilities of the ICS organizations and discuss general aspects of several of
the positions where the functions appeared unclear.
STATINTL 3. As a result of the above meetings, PI XCD on 30 April 1976, identified
F positions where PMCD had significant disagreements with the ICS-pro cos ad
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reflected an effort by PMCD to provide a realistic reaction to the ICS
expansion proposal on very short notice without the benefit of complete substantive
position data necessary for precise allocations. Because of this, the PMCD
proposed allocations were to be regarded as tentative and subject to further
review and possible adjustment.
4. As a result of the PMCD recommendations, a representative from P11'1CD
met with the ICS Executive Officer and several other ICS senior officers to
clarify differences concerning the appropriate grade levels for the establishment
of ICS positions. In these meetings, it was emphasized that the PMCD recommendations
should in noway be considered final evaluations; and that the positions would
be subject to subsequent upward or downward adjustment when later reviewed.
Within this context, a number of the areas of disagreement were resolved to the
general satisfaction of PMCD and ICS, and position grades were adjusted accordingly-
There were also a number of positions whose grade levels could not be finally
resolved on the basis of data currently available. These positions were flagged
for audit and adjudication as full position data was developed.
5. On 18 May 1976, PMCD received a copy of a revised version of the
proposed ICS Staffing Complement which had been approved by the Director of
Central Intelligence on 7 May 1976. This revision contained the grade adjustments
previously resolved between PMCD and ICS and also those positions whose grade
levels were subject to final adjudication as full position data was available.
Based upon the DCI approval, PMCD issued a revised Agency Staffing Complement
for ICS. However, all of the positions for which there was insufficient data
to allow for final classification were footnoted as "pending grade review" and
ICS was provided with PMCD guides for preparing position descriptions to document
these positions for later PiCD review.
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6. On 2 July 1976, P[ICD received another expansion proposal from ICS
which increased their structure fromi positions. As with the STATINTL
previous ICS expansion proposal, PMCD revised the ICS Staffing Complement to
include the new positions at the requested grades subject to later review by
PMCD.
7. At a 28 July 1976 meeting with Mr. Donahue and Ms. Blandin of OM`,MB,
the Associate Deputy Director for ICS, Mr. McMahon, verified that PMCD would
review the positions in ICS within a year, and that ICS would accept the
results of these audits. As a result of this continuing understanding that
it would be necessary for PNCD to review the ICS positions in some detail to
properly classify them, ICS is now in the process of preparing detailed position
descriptions. PMCD is continuing to work with ICS in providing them guidance
in the preparation of the position data needed.
8. At present, PiiCD is planning to survey the largest Office in ICS,
Office of Performance Evaluation and Improvement (OPEI), later this fall in.
response to a request from ICS. Further survey audits of the other ICS Offices,
tentatively planned for some time in 1977, will subsequently be arranged.
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