MATERIAL FOR OFFICE DIRECTORS' CONFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00156R000300040118-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 118
• Publication Date: April 3, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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ODP 9-532
3 APR 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR:
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Chief, Management ~ Assessment Staff
Deputy Director for Administration
Bruce T. Johnson
Acting Director Ofd Data Processing
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SUBJECT
Material for Office Directors' Conference
REFERENCE ,
chi?f, Management & Aa~sessment Staff Memo
Same Subject (DDA 79-1Q54?, Dtd 18 Riaxch 1979
1. Attached is material. .pertaining to an "?rientation
to ODP" program which is about to be implemented in ODP.
The objective of this Orientation is to provide neat EOD's,
at all grade levels, an inft~rmal overview of ODP, how it is
orgsni~e~d, how it fits into the Df;rectorate, Agency and
Community, and how it functions in meeting its primary mission.
In part, this is Text to be necessary because of the geograph-
ical dispersion of t3DP in vomponenta now located in Ames
Buil.ding,~uilding and Headquarters.
2? The MZ Bgard recently ecsncluded that new EOD's
should attend OTR's orientation courses a,nd they are now
mandatory for all, new employees of ODP. tie don't believe
th?se orientation, can be erected to prey?nt Kampiles-like
problems, but we do think it should be Agency policy that all
n?w employees attend the aggropriate orientation within a few
months after entezing on duty.
3. We agrees with that more needs to be done
in terms of clerical or entation. However, we don't think a
correspondence manual. would be useful because of the lack of
$n Agency-wide correspondence standard. We think we should
concentrate on the many areaes of commonality throughout the
Agency which clericals/secretaries must now learn verse they
are a~asigned. Just a few that come immediately to mind are:
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preparation of routing slips {Form 610); prep~.ration of
fitness reports; processing financial advances and account-
ings; how and where to drew office supplies: use of black,
red, green and gray telephone lines; preparation of time
and attendance reports; how and where to get official
personnel files; preparation of training requests (Forms 73
rind l36); how to open safes; an explanation of our classifi-
cation system, including the use. of markings: a review of
the regulations, HHB's, and HN's; and escorting unbadged
v~i~sitors within the buildings. Such an Ori~-ntation could
be built around the theme of "CJffice Practices in CTA".
Should the day. come when a correspondence standard is devel-
oped and implemented Agency-wide, a correspondence manual
would be a useful addition.
/s% truce ?, Jn~~+~eN
Bruce T. Johnson
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