COMMUNICATIONS PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00764R000300060007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 20, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO : AD/SO
FhOM : Chief, Communications Division
SUBJECT: Communications Personnel
20 June 1951
1. This is in further reference to my previous memoranda relative
to the critical personnel situation facing the Communications Division.
I have emphatically pointed out on numerous occasions during the past
year, particularly on 13 September and 6 December, 1950, that the
Communications Division could not meet its obligations unless drastic
steps were taken to provide the needed personnel. I advised the Communi-
cations Board in January of this year of this situation. However,
personnel in sufficient quantity have not been forthcoming up to this
time.
2. I wish to advise you at this time that the Division cannot
fulfill its commitments to provide coniiunications support to the various
activities of the Agency, especially to those covert OPC projects re-
quiring immediate implementation. A review of the increase in net
personnel strength of the Division during the past six months loads to
no other conclusion but that personnel gain. has boon insufficient to
keep pace with the increasing demands. The gap is rapidly increasing
daily.
25X1 A 3. The situation will be allevi.abbd to only a small degree should
the appro.,dmatoly Q personnel now in process enter on duty within the
next few weeks. Those individuals will need a considorable period of
training and cannot be considered immediately usable upon their entrance
on duty.
4. As an emergency tomporary measure, it is strongly recommended
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I. The present military T /O is not sufficient to provide for
those additional personnel. It is therefore requested that action be
taken to increase the T/0 and to procure 0 qualified hip
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operators and tochnicians from the military service to unable this
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