DDO STRENGTH REDUCTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000300060033-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 7, 1977
• Content Type: MF

7 Sc er 1977
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)., r;~Itl,.~I~l)Jf FUJ::? Director of Ccntral intelliFencf-
Acting Deputy Director of Cer. teal lnt-elligencc
lfi i 11 i an W. is
? Deputy Director for Operations
DDO Strength Reductions .
1. Follo:-:ing our conversation of 24 August 7 have re- -
exa a L11ed our figures concerning the number Oi neu er-,loy-es w - -
salclulc, brim; on board in PY 78 2nd 79 to maintain our stren~;t:h ?
in the of Eicc z, . ara- roff- ssional and clerical categories. ?n 1
25X1 conjunction .,_iIh Ii?:e have -concluded that the' ~. . -i
.~zg7zre :tils~.ta ~.p ~oyces or ail ryyes, anclueing ooerztzons = -~
off ices s, ---wi11 have to be brought into the service each year. --
1 e }lave d u StC l our st.at~sti.cs ..iccn? dinS1;?. This n~*~^b-~r ht_
been arrived -`t: by an examination of the average career
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cll OUT employees, as ,-ell as a consideration "of the need to .
xa main efficient pass-thr-ough and headroom billets to ;:eei)_
.a balanced -service.
2. -.1 have attached as reference a chart which tabu?,zites
prrlnotions and staff/contract personnel sena:i- tio^~, or 3-'Y 7a-
17. That data points up that the average length of agency
se:.7 Vi e fox ors : tiaras officers who volunta-r-i"IN- retire is
1)pYclxix,~ate1}.~Iars, para-professional 22Y;vears, and
clerical _a#, (Dec tt1S) rest nat_ons 2nd involun t~ ry -_-
separa .ac;I .;ou1d reduce' the figure somewhat.) Thus we tvscd a VO-f :ing2Zerage 0 f 2pp1 oxinately 20 years z Z~n Ever-
'age CdTeer. Coraespcaci,c 3.1 .ores for Ilia-c uzy Str:nt 7017
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Y}1esd three .categori.es are respe c tiive- ';- -2&X1
ly _ }ills results in tiro Bleed Tor approximately 9D opera tior.s
officers, 70 para-professionals and. SS-clericals A-o be brow hz 1 5X1
vn board annually. This totals 215 new personnel each year, ,
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