FOLLOW-UP ON DCI'S SPEECH ON EXCELLENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00885R000100070026-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 26
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: John H. Stein
Deputy Director for Operations
SUPJECT: Follow-up on DCI's Speech on Excellence
The following is in response to the Director's 16 March speech
and your memorandum of the same date concerning follow-up items
suggested by the inter-Directorate Task Force. This is a status
report of those items which have particular applicability to the
Operations Directorate.
1. Delegating Assignments of SIS-1s and 2s to the Deputy
Directors. The Operations Directorate will implement this
immediately as soon as the delegation authority is received
from the DCI.
2. Delegate Authority to Approve Awards up to the Career
Intelligence Medal to the Heads of the Career Services. The
Operations Directorate will implement this immediately upon
receipt of authority from the Office of Personnel.
3. Delegate Approval of Cash Awards up to $1,000 to the
Career Service Heads. The Operations Directorate will
implement this immediately upon receipt of authority from the
Office of Personnel.
4. Delegate Control of FTE, Full-Time Employment, to
Office Heads. Control of FTE is routinely delegated to
component chiefs in the Operations Directorate.
5. Make Annual Work Plans Optional. Annual work plans
are currently optional in the Operations Directorate.
6. Eliminate the Requirement for Separate Documentation
for Promotion Recommendations. Documentation for promotion
recommendations was discontinued several years ago in the
Operations Directorate.
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7. Develop "Trends and Highlights" Program. We-are in
the process of investigating the problems inherent in
developing such a program for the Operations Directorate. We
believe the subject has considerable merit, particularly if
the employees have an opportunity to get away from
Headquarters and discuss mutual problems in an environment
which gets them away from their desks. However, because of
the size of the Directorate it will be difficult to implement
such a program so that all employees will have an opportunity
to participate on a fairly regular basis. We will comment
further after our preliminary investigation is completed.
8. Time-in-Grade Guidelines for Promotions. The
Operations Directorate encourages the promotion of employees
whose performance is exceptional without regard to
time-in-grade.
9. Temporary Clearances to Spouses. The Operations
Directorate initiated a program of this kind in 1975 in SE
Division. It has recently been expanded to provide not only
clearances but pay for spouses who participate in the program.
10. Directorate Level Task Forces on Special Problems.
Whenever a task force is required (such as was the case
recently in IMS and as has occurred on several recent
occasions in LA Division) the DDO in concert with the
appropriate component Chief and Chief, CMS assigns personnel
resources from wherever necessary (including on occasions
other Directorate's) for the duration of the task forces'
existance. It is an ongoing program which is frequently
utilized because of world crisis situations. In addition to
personnel, budgets, when permitted by law or policy, are
quickly adjusted to respond to such requirements.
11. Abolish Shorthand as a Requirement for Promotion.
The Operations Directorate will rewrite the qualifications for
promotion from GS-07 to GS-08 and GS-08 to GS-09 to indicate
that shorthand is not a requirement for promotion. This,
along with other secretarial skills, however, will continue to
be required for certain positions in Headquarters and the
field in the Operations Directorate.
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12. Criteria for Rating Managers. The Operations
Directorate is in the process of amending promotion precepts
for managers to make promotion and consequently ratings more
specific.
13. Checklist for Orienting New Employees. The
Operations Directorate currently utilizes a checklist for
orienting new employees. Perhaps more important we began in
1982 a special two-day orientation for secretaries,
clerk/typists, etc. as a follow-on to the Office of Personnel
two-week orientation. CTs, who represent the other large
in-take group in the Operations Directorate, are exposed to
detailed orientation throughout the CT program.
14. WAE Contracts for Non-Staff Spouses. WAE contracts
are routinely provided for non-staff spouses who perform ops
support work overseas whenever the requirement exists.
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