NAPA COMMITTEE REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00156R000600020038-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: April 4, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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4 APR
1978
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
j Director of Personnel.
Chief, Information Systems Analysis Staff
NAPA Committee Report
-S. On page 107 the NAPA committee recommended that policy issues
be clearly identified in the regulations and revised only by the DCI,
and that implementing procedures be the responsibility of the DDA or
just as some proce res are necessary in a r lation impl
i .ting
policy.
It seems to us that if`the DCI signs personnel regulations,
why not the other regulations on logistics and security, for
example? There appears to be no technical difference between
the personnel regulations and the rest. The NAPA team recommendation,
therefore, obviously raises the question of how the Agency
is administered and who does it. In most organizations internal
policy is signed by the person in charge. That the Agency
regulatory system traditionally has operated on the basis of
requiring total agreement before signature is at least an
indication of who is not in charge. If the signing function
were assumed by the DCI, even for only the personnel regulations,
it very likely would be a confirmation of an essentially caretaker
role for the DDA. All this might not immediately affect the
regulatory system itself unless the DCI assumed the processing
function as well; in which case it would strengthen coordination
controls and greatly improve efficiency, whatever it does to the
DDA.
could b signed by the DDA. Even in dbooks, however, 't is
necessa to inc de statements of policy responsibill ' s
e
whic - pu~e"~ ec~ure~; ~as a mate of rule
.*. ?In most regulations there is a paragraph titled "Policy."
Usually there are other paragraphs that separately incorporate
"Responsibilities," "Procedures," and general introductory
information. Other topic paragraphs such as definitions
and authorities are included when needed. Therefore, it is
possible to write a regulation and segregate policy from the
rest of the material. As a practical matter, however, the
paragraphs concerning responsibilities and procedures necessarily
support and expand the policy statements in such a m e at
the become extensions of he olic statements. erefore, if
e assumes t e role of approving po icy c anges in regulations,
he should sign whenever there is a revision of any kind, exce t
ossibly for cosmetic changes such as dati dbooks,
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-2 On page 11, the committee expressed concern that policy
changes have been effected through issuance of regulations without
specific DCI/DDCI approval or even awareness. This comment assumes
that significant Agency policy is made by publishing a regulation.
Generally, however, Agency regulations reflect basic policy already
established.-note--t e Bbl-e- 1-4
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difficulties do not arise over great differences concerning momentous
policy changes, but over procedures and at times over component attempts
to lessen the impact of policy decisions on their own areas. Certainly
there are many (if not most) regulations that get published without
being seen by the DCI, but because of inertia in the system there
will be few if any major policy changes made without DCI or DDCI
involvement. --(ode-dauht the DCI would.-have-gr-ea-ter-controt-i.-f-ke- saw
We have one brief comment somewhat outside the NAPA
recommendations on the regulatory system. By the tone of its report,
it appears that the committee well recognizes the nonmanagerial role
of the Office of Personnel. If the committee's recommendations were
carried out, such a recordkeeping caretaker role would be further
ingrained. Again we return to the question concerning the DDA and
his directorate's role in administering the Agency. Perhaps the
question already was answered long ago and the NAPA committee simply
is confirming it.
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