DIA'S MANPOWER AUDIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00171R001200020007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 18, 1976
• Content Type: MFR

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IC 76-2402
18 October 1976
Production Assessment and Improvement Division
SUBJECT: DIA's Manpower Audit
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met with DIA Comptroller, for an initial
1 On 13 October,
discussion of DIA's manpower audit and ICS/PAID's role in its valida-
tion. Ishop,
and ICS/OPBD, also attended. The DIA representa-
tives outlined the mechanics of how the audit was conducted and the
status of the project. The following were the salient points:
The draft audit report has been completed but will probably
not be briefed nd V ~DM Inman until the week 25X1
of 25 October. At that time, will urge that the
draft be sanitized to exclude some of the audit team's "heady"
recommendations concerning DIA organizational restructuring,
thereby limiting the report to purely manpower considerations.
After Gener approval, a copy of the report will be
made available to us.
-- There are a number of other ongoing or recently completed
DIA management studies which may impact on the audit's final
form and conclusions. We should get a look at these studies
also, but whether we will was left up in the air.
- As it now stands, the audit recommends deletion of some 29
DIA billets. The rationale for this was not discussed nor
were any other findings addressed due to lack of time.
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2. I and his people offered full cooperation and support
for our validation effort. There is, however, little we can do until the
report is released to us. And our Feb 77 deadline is a tight one. More
disturbing, perhaps, is the uneasy feeling we had that we were being
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given a snow job by DIA and that they considered our review to be not
much more than a "rubber stamping. Also, on thrc&TATINTL
occasions mentioned how difficult it would be for us to explore the
question of service-DIA duplication of effort because of the limits
of time and manpower and inherent bureaucratic sensitivities.
3. In advance of examining the report, our next step should
probably be to discuss with the audit team leaders just what questions
they asked during their interviews, whom they talked to, and with
what (subjective) results. We should also make the decision soon
whether to seek contractor assistance for our audit validation and/or
Community-wide manpower data base efforts.
4. Finally, we should remain mindful that the IC Staff "validation"
of the DIA audit could become the basis of Congressional review. STAT
Specifically, this could mean the appearance of an IC Staff member
before the relevant Congressional committee at the time
pleads his cause. This possibility argues for prudence, as well as
measured haste, once we are privy to the audit documentation. STATINTL
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Distribution:
0- C/PEB
DC/PAID
C /PAID
D/OPEI
EO/IC
AD/DCI/IC
D/DCI/7:C
IC /PAID
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1 .-.- D/OPBD
IC/PAID Subject
1 - IC/PAID Chron
1 IC/Registry
IC/ OPEI/PAID/I
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