TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENTS FOR PROMOTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000600120011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 16, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT: Time-In-Grade Requirements for Promotion
REFERENCE: Memorandum, dated 18 April 1974, to DC=
from Director of Personnel, same subject
1. In referent memorandum, the Director of Personnel
states that the Intelligence, Management and Services, and
Science and Technology Directorates evaluate personnel for
promotion without regard for time-in-grade. The Director
of Personnel points out that the Operations Directorate .
shows willingness to treat such requirements liberally by
asking components to recommend outstanding individuals for
promotion without regard to the time-in-grade factor.
2. The Director of Personnel is essentially correct.
The Evaluation Boards do establish at each annual session
a time-in-grade period for officers to be eligible for
promotion consideration. To be sure that all Operations
Directorate careerists are reviewed annually for promotion
consideration, the components are told in the call letter
that truly unusual and exceptional cases may be forwarded
without regard to the given time-in-grade requirement. The
components in reviewing their officers at the grade level
concerned are expected to review the record of every officer
to be sure that none is overlooked.
3. In addition, the following is quoted fronn the
foreword of the new issuance "Personnel Evaluation System"
which will be distributed to every member of this career
service: "The Evaluation Boards meet annually to reie
all off ersin ar.h gradesfrom GS-08 through GS-16. Official
personnel and home base files are carefully reviewed to
determine relative ranking in the highest percentile for
promotion, the middle percentile, and the lowest percentile
for possible administrative action. Every officer's record
frill also be reviewed for appropriate recommend`a" ions cof-
darning career development, additional training, rotation
assignments to broaden and challenge the officer's capabilities
and, where considered necessary, counseling."
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4. The time-in-grade requirements for Evaluation Board
promotional consideration have been established because of
the hundreds of files and records the Boards must review in
the ranking process. By having the Directorate components
act as career sub-groups in the initial reviews for promotion
consideration we are, we believe, making doubly sure that no
worthy individual is passed by because of time-in-grade
requirements and at the same time permitting the Boards to.,
give full and careful attention to the additional annual
reviews concerning career development, training, rotational
reviews
assignments, and the identification of those careerists with
the potential for executive development under the Personnel
Development Program.
or Operation
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