AGENCY BOARD AND PANEL SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00156R000600020011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 4, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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MHKORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH : Deputy Director for Administration
FROM : Harry E. Fitzwater
Director of Personnel
SUBJECT : Agency Boards and Panel System
1. This memorandum is for your information and responds to the
informal request of 3 December 1979 for the following data.
2. Agency Career Services use panels and boards to evaluate
employees for many purposes, e.g., promotion, value to the service,
key assignments, special training, etc.
3. Career Service Boards exist in NFAC, DDA, S$T and the E
Services. Generally, these boards provide career management guidance
for the Career Services as a whole and perform panel functions for
senior personnel. However, in the DDO the term "board" is used to
designate the group of evaluators dealing with a specific grade. They
do not establish career management policy. A senior Personnel Manage-
ment Committee (PMC) handles senior level assignments.
4. The following summarizes the number and kind of evaluation
groups currently in operation in the Agency.
Career Service
Promotion
(Ranking) Panels
Assignment
(Selection) Panels*
E
8
0
DDO
29
11
DDA
99**
28
NFAC
17
5
DDSF,T
38
1
*These panels do not evaluate employees for promotion. On occasion,
Career Services or their components convene ad hoc panels for various
purposes.
**46 are Conaao panels.
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5. The data used for evaluating employees differs both within and
among the Career Services. Official files and "soft" files are most
commonly used as the major source of input data to the panels, although
other information may also be used. Some panels interview or solicit
specific information from supervisors; others use "ranking" books which
control the data used by panel members ; and some use "spread sheets"
which again delineates the kind of data to be used by the evaluators.
7. Attached is a chart depicting the characteristics of the
various evaluation panels and boards. This chart lists only those
groups having responsibility for ranking employees for promotion or
establishing their value to the Career Service. As noted in paragraph
4 above, DDO, DDA, and NFAC have selection panels with specific duties,
such as selection for training, assignment, etc. In other Career
Services the function is normally handled by the evaluation panels.
Attachment
Distribution:
Orig - DCI
1 - DDCI
1 - ER
2 - DDA
2 - D/Pers
1 - OP/PMES
OP/P&C/PMESj
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CAREER SERVICE PROMOTION BOARDS AND PANELS
Career EMPLOYEES GROUPED PANEL MEMBERSHIP DATA USED
Service Function Grade Position ointment Official File "Soft" Other*
E Service
B
E
E
E
E
DDO
D
D
D
D
D
D
DDA
0 DDA
M
M
M
0/DDA
MG
MG
MG
MG
MG
OMS
MM
IN
MM
MM
MM
OF
MF
NF
MF
OL
ML
ML
ML
ML
PERS
MP
MP
MP
MP
MP
OS
MS
MS
MS
MS
OTR
Mr
Mr
MT
MT
Mr
MT
OONMO
MC
MC
MC
MC
MC
ODP
MZ
MZ
MZ
ISS
MI
MI
MI
NFAC
0 NFAC
I I
I
I
I
I
OIA
IA IA
IA
OGCR
IB IB
IB
OCR
ID ID
ID
ID
ID
OPLA
IH IH
IH
IH
OER
IR IR
IR
OSI
IS IS
IS
IS
OCI
IV IV
IV
OWI
IW IW
IW
OSR
IX IX
IX
IX
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CAREER SERVICE PROI DTION BOARDS AND PANELS
Career EMPLOYEES GROUPED PANEL MMERSHIP DATA USED
Service Function Grade Position ointment Official File Soft" Other*
DDS$T
DD&T
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R.
R
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RG
RG
RG
NPIC
RN
RN
RN
ODE
RD
RD
RD
RD
RD
OTS
RT
RT
RT
RT
RT
ORD
RR
RR
RR
RR
OSO
RS
RS
RS
RS
RS
FBIS
RF
RF
RF
RF
RF
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