SUPERGRADE SURVEY RESULTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00171R000500240005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 15, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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15 August 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR:
irec or of Performance Evaluation
and Improvement Division
FROM
roauction Assessment and Improvement
Division
SUBJECT : Supergrade Survey Results
1. So far, I can see a few steps that the DCI might want to take
with regard to Community supergrades and their control. They are:
-- As the final stage of the reorganization of the
Community, Congress will be providing statutory charters
for many, if not all, of the intelligence agencies. The
DCI and the IC Staff should collaborate with the Senate
SCI and House SCI (and staffs) to assure that statutory
limitations on supergrade positions are more equitable
and meet Community needs and that a more uniform system
of criteria and procedures is introduced.
-- The DCI, with the support of the IC Staff, should
create and manage a pool (DCI quota) of supergrade positions
to be allocated to Community agencies as necessary to strengthen
high priority substantive and managerial deficiencies and to
assure efficient and effective operation of the Community as a
whole. For this approach to have the desired impact, the
number of supergrade positions in the DCI pool should be on
the order of positions, only a small part of
would be new allocations. The precedent and operationhich
example for the DCI pool is the - non-CSC quota positions
managed by OSD.
-- The DCI should obtain from the Civil Service
Commission and OMB the right to review and approve all
Community requests for supergrade position authorizations
and all Community supergrade personnel actions. The DCI,
with the support of the IC Staff, would conduct rigorous
external review/control to assure that the Community's
needs are met.
STATINTL
STATINTL
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-- Consonant with the Federa' Government's moves toward
the establishment of a Federal Executive Service, characterized by
greater interagency mobility and a system of performance-based
incentives, the Intelligence Community (under the direction of the
DCI) should develop and adopt its own Executive Service to develop
a Community management cadre with enhanced interagency mobility,
executive interchangability, more uniform career development and
training programs, a system of performance bonuses, and flexibility
to meet Community-wide needs and requirements.
2. In addition, there is a need to give some thought to the
following:
- the grade structure appropriate to the new four
VP configuration;
- need to reapportion CIA supergrades among deputy
directorates;
- future of IC Staff, its needs, permanent staff, and
overrepresentation of CIA in supergrade positions;
- DIA's already bad and worsening position in re
supergrades.;
- how to treat agencies such as State/INR and FBI in
any proposals that we might make;
- how to treat agencies' desire to protect "line
authority" prerogatives;
- whether the DCI should have a central staff function
for Community staffing, careering development, training, etc; and
do we want such a role?
3. I need to discuss these problems with you very soon in order to
know how to proceed. Also, since all these proposals are embryonic,
there will be a need to flesh them out, relying on whatever expertise STATINTL
can be assembled from within the Staff.
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