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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-00428R000100090021-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: August 10, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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10 August 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Personnel
Director of Training and Education
STAT
SUBJECT:
STAT
1. Pursuant to the request ofl (Office of General Counsel, "'~'
I will attempt to detail in this memorandum the rationale and justification
for the decisions that have been made in response t STAT
requests for assignments to the Office of Training and Education OTE).
2. Early in 1982, telephoned me to discuss the possibility STAT
of an assignment to.OTE. One area he explored with me was that of becoming
a senior instructor. Earlier in his career had served a STAT
rotational tour as an instructor in the Off ce o .rain ng. I pointed out
to that the only instructor positions available at close to STAT
his grade level and for u~ahich he could be considered qualified were the
rotational assignments in the Analysis Training Branch. This Branch which
is staffed by both OTE and Directorate of Intelligence (DI) careerists
is charged with the development and the conduct of training courses designed
to deal with the process of analysis. I pointed out to that STAT
the DI careerists assigned to this Branch were nominated by the Deputy
Director for Intelligence and were officers with current involvement in
the analytical process. In view of long absence from the STAT
day-to-day analytical world of the D state at I did not believe
he would be a competitive candidate for such an assignment.
3. In the same telephone conversation, inquired regarding STAT
staff vacancies in the Center for the Study o me Bence (CSI). I
advised him that there were at that time two vacancies--one of which was for
an officer who would be responsible to organize seminars and the other for
an officer to serve as the staff advisor and manager (or "Dean")of research
fellows arho might be assigned to CSI th ositions currently are on the
books at the GS-13 level, but I told that it was our desire STAT
to have the positions upgraded to the GS-15 level and that such action was
under v~ray. I stated further that vacancy notices would be distributed for
these ositions and we would competitively evaluate candidates at that
time. indicated to me that he might well apply for one of the ~ STAT
two positions.
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in which that officer proposed that he be assigned to the CSI to do research.
He envisaged such an assignment to involve the preparation of a "series
of short papers based on our experiences during the course of the Bay of
Pigs opt'ration."
5. memorandum with its proposal was brought to the STAT
attention of the CSI Board of Advisors at its l8 June meeting. The Board
members agreed to study the proposal and the feasibility of the work
proposed by In a poll taken subsequent to the meeting, the STAT
3oard disaaprove o e proposed assignment and the DDA was so advised.
Inherent in the Board's decision was- the feeling that, whil STAT
long ongoing work on the Bay of Pigs history could be a vali a or n
terms of the Agency's History Program, the related studies proposed by
would not be of sufficient additional worth to justify his STAT
assignment to the Center nor would these studies relate sufficiently to
priority goals of the CSI.
6. I am advised that has stated that his memorandum of~~ STAT
2 June 1982 also constituted an application fora staff position in the Center.
The paper does not say so. Even if it had, I w~uid have resisted such an
assignment. The only staff vacancy still existing in the Center by that
time was for the "Dean of Fellows." Requirements for the incumbent of this
position include both skill in interpersonal relationshi s and demonstrated
research discipline and timeliness. In my opinion performance STAT
of recent years does not measure up in either regard. The success or failure
of the Fellows Program could be to a high-degree dependent on the skill with
which the "Dean" carries out his duties. I would be most hesitant to assign
an officer to these duties who in my estimation is not fully qualified in
terms of Agency experience and personal characteristics.
STAT
cc: DDA
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