FEDERAL CIVILIAN HIRING FREEZE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00890R000600080003-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 31, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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3 1 JAN 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy Director for Administration
Director o Security
SUBJECT: Federal Civilian Hiring Freeze
1. Reference is made to the Office of Management and Budget
Bulletin No. 81-6-dated 24. January 1981 which indicates that an
exemption to the hiring freeze may be permitted in situations
where safety or the "protection of property or persons is the
primary purpose of employment." We would like to provide ?a general
framework in support of a waiver and at the same time be as specific
as possible in citing very detailed examples of problem areas.
2. By way of background, the Office of Security feels that our
position is well grounded in our basic charter- and the responsi-
bilities listed in Headquarters Regulation which includes the
following related functions (with emphasis added):
'Establish safeguards necessary to prevent physical
.penetration of the Agency's establishments by
unauthorized individuals.
? Develop, disseminate, and monitor the implementation
of security procedures for the physical protection
of communications centers at Agency installations.
? Plan, develop, and conduct an Agency safety and fire
prevention program for domestic installations and
furnish staff guidance and assistance for the develop-
ment.of similar overseas programs.
? Coordinate and engage in security-support planning of
emergency measures.
3. In carrying out these assigned responsibilities, the Office
of Security has established a number of-Duty Offices which have a
primary and basic responsibility of supervising guard forces,
responding to emergency situations, and providing protection to our
personnel and installations in the Washington area. I make very
specific reference to the Headquarters Security Branch which has
responsibility for the protection of the Headquarters compound as well
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5. I would also like to point out that the Office of Security
maintains the DCI Protective Staff, supervised by a senior Security
Officer, and the most direct and fundamental purpose of this unit
is the physical protection of the Director and Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence in the Washington area, during travel through-
out the United States, and on visits to overseas stations. These.
officers are hand-picked, often have police backgrounds, have had
.weapons training, and function very much like Secret Service
Officers in the protection of the President. It is our considered
view that there is an extremely strong case for supporting a waiver
for all members of the DCI Protective Staff.
6. The Office of.Security has an Overseas. Security Support
Branch which has been charged with the responsibility of providing
security help and assistance in the protection of stations and
---employees--in---the--very--difficult and dangerous foreign environment.
general international situation, particularly in the
this is now a high priority Agency concern--one which
will ice y e with us for some time to come. We are working very
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closely with Department of State Security to develop suitable
countermeasures which will provide enhanced protection and a
measure of safety to officers and their families who are being
assigned to hazardous areas where there are anti-American senti-
ments, and particularly strong feelings against the Agency. The
debriefing of:, our hostages provides very concrete evidence that
the threat is real, and our recent report on the
Personnel Protection Ready Reserve I spells out in con- 25X
siderable detail our program to pro i lenental force of
fully-trained and administratively documented security officers
who can quickly respond to "extraordinary threats to the safety
of Agency families overseas" and otherwise augment the efforts of
the Overseas Security Support Branch during a crisis. Again, we
do not believe that OMB or senior Agency management.would want this
effort to be diminished because of a Government-wide hiring freeze.
7. We also have cognizance over the Safety Group, which has
responsibility for ensuring that Agency employees are able to work
in a proper environment, without endangering their health and
safety. There is the traditional concern about fire protection and
the more specialized worries in the area of industrial hygiene. The
Acting Deputy Director for Administration chairs the Safety Committee,
and is fully familiar.with the duties, functions, and activities of
the Safety Group, but we feel that a case can be made for a waiver
as it relates to this small group of specialists with a world-wide
safety mission.
8. We-would lastly like to point out that the Q escort 25X
program provides a pool of full-time and part-time employees who
closely monitor, from a security standpoint, activities of uncleared
workers in the Headquarters compound. The Chief, Headquarters
Security Branch has responsibility for this program, which was
designed to provide protection and security in support to contract
work administered by the Office of Logistics. It is our understand-
ingthat the Office of Personnel, Policy, Planning and Management
has already made some inquiries concerning theprogram, and 25X
may possibly support a waiver justification.
9. The Office of Security places great stress on flexibility
and mobility--the need to respond on.a world-wide basis to emergency
or crisis situations because of threats to our personnel and instal-
lations. We are deeply concerned about the damaging impact of a
hiring freeze which would cut off and dry up the "root" personnel
resources which are essential for the protection of Agency employees
and Agency property. Most certainly a general exemption for the
Office would be considered the most ideal solution in order to Pre-
--vent --the -overall--erosion or deterioration of our physical security
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posture. If the realities of the situation are such that this
cannot be done, then I would argue forcefully for waivers on the
specific programs identified in thiq
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