DEAR ADMIRAL TURNER:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000300090038-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: June 17, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

(UNCLASSIFIED 1,71THOUT ENCLOSURE) I/R--77/5-225
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June 17, 1977
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Admiral Stans:Eield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C.' 205.05
Dear Admiral Turner:
In his memorandum of March 1, 1977, to heads of Executive'
Branch departments and agencies, the President 'established
a limitation on hiring and announced his intention of estab-
lishing revised civilian employment ceilings for Executive
Branch agencies. The President has 'now established revised
employment ceilings, and the Government-wide 'limitation on
hiring is hereby lifted. This letter informs you of the
ceilings for intelligence community agencies not fully ac-
counted for in publicly available -tabulations and provides
guidance and instructions on carrying them out, consistent
with. the Prosident`s direction.
The civilian employment ceilings for the Central Intelligence
Agency, the Intelligence Community Staff, and the signals
intelligence activities of the National Security A.c;ency are
established as set forth in the enclosure. Employment- for
other intelligence community activities is included within
the revised overall ceilings for the respective agencies..
By separate letter, I am also informing- the Secretary of
Defense of the revised ceilings for the National Security
Agency, including communications security activities. 'Em--
ployment is expected to be at or below the ceilings as set
forth in the enclosure on -t-.he dates specified- Employment
throughout the remainder of the fiscal year will be maintained
at levels that take into account the ceilings at. the end of
the year and the interim ceiling noted below. The ceilings
should rot be circumvented by temporary layoffs of non-permanent
employees or other actions to attain ceiling levels applicable
only to the date ceilings ngs are effective.
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Recognition should be given to the need fox careful planning
and* sound personnel management to maintain the program pri-
orities established by the President- To accomplish. this
objective, ways must be 'found to absorb unavoidable 'increases
in: workload. Reductions may be necessary in lower priority
services or activities.-
The President has stated explicitly that contracting with
private .firms or individuals will not be used as -a'device
to circumvent the employment ceilings. Such contracting
continues to be governed by the policies stated in OMMB'
Circular No. A-76.
In distributing th6 ceilings within the agencies identified
above,. consideration should be. given to the need to assure'
that vital and basic services--especially those-essential to
human life and safety--are not i.nterrupted. Personnel re-
.allocations should be made as n?cessary to meet 'the needs of
highest priority programs. Attention should also be given
to management improvements,- more productive workload arrange
ments, and possible organizational changes
Necessary reductions should be accomplished through "attrition
and by not filling vacant positions. Reductions-in-force
should be used only if required by programmatic considerations
that could be justified apart from this employment reduction
process Where reductions in previously established ceilings
result in additional fund availability, such funds should be
used only to offset any uncontrolIable. increases that are
within the purposes for which the funds were appropriated by
the Congress.
In accordance with section 6 of OIMB Bulletin No- 77-7,.l ask
that you submit to this Office, no later than July 15, 1977, '
recoA-umendations for specific target levels for March '31, 1978.
Once these levels have been agreed upon, they will be 'treated
as -interim employment ceilings against which progress in
reaching the 1978 year-end ceilings will be measured.
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These ceilings represent the President's determination to
constrain the growth of the Federal Governivent- We are
counting on your full support in meeting his objectives.
v
Bert Lance
Director
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