LANGUAGE SPECIALISTS AND THE LANGUAGE INCENTIVE PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01332R000300330004-9
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 10, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Officer to the Deputy Director for Administration
VIA: Director of Personnel
FROM:
Deputy Director for Policy, Analysis & Evaluation
SUBJECT: Language Specialists and the Language Incentive Program
REFERENCE: A. Note for ExDir fm DDA dtd 85-0432/5, no Subject
1. In the reference A note, the Deputy Director for Administration (DDA)
advised you that the Position Management and Compensation Division (PMCD)
would review the issue of the applicability of the Language Use Award (LUA) to
language specialist positions and advise of its findings. This memorandum is
in response to that tasking.
2. As noted by the DDA, both the Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) and the Office of Training and Education (OTE) believe that their
language specialist positions qualify for the LUA because their employees are
dually qualified in a professional discipline and a foreign language. We
believe that, as currently defined, the Language Incentive Program (LIP)
excludes both the FBIS language positions and the OTE instructor positions
from coverage under the program, as well as Directorate of Operations (DO)
translator positions. In the case of the OTE instructors, they are explicitly
excluded by the referenced implementing instruction. The case for the FBIS
positions is not explicit, but taken within the context of the LIP we believe
that they were intended to be excluded. The philosophy underlying the LIP is
that the Agency requires a foreign language capability among its employees to
carry out its fundamental mission of intelligence collection, analysis and
reporting. The LIP is intended to provide a financial incentive to attain and
maintain proficiency in languages required by the Agency among employees not
hired specifically for a language skill. While we fully agree with the FBIS
position that its linguists are required to possess skills in addition to
their language, the fact remains that we are not going to hire an employee to
screen Russian or Chinese literature without a knowledge of the language.
This was the distinction intended by the Language Development Committee in
identifying those who are excluded from the LIP. Because language skills are
a firm qualification requirement for the above language specialist positions
and are a compensable factor in the evaluation of individual positions,
additional compensation through the LUA is not appropriate. The same is not
true of other types of Unit Language Requirement (ULR) Positions, such as the
case officer who is routinely hired without the requisite language skills
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SUBJECT: Language Specialists and the Language Incentive Program
5. As a result of the above, PW-D will review the classifications of both
the OTE and the FBIS positions to determine whether they are properly
classified. The OTE language instructors are scheduled to be surveyed in
April 1986, after completion of the Office of Communications survey which is
currently underway. The FBIS positions will be sandwiched into the DDS&T
survey program such that it will be concluded concurrent with the OTE survey
try June 1986.
6. We will advise you of the results of the PMCD review of the OTE and
FBIS positions as soon as it is eth .
OP/PMCD/C&CP
[8 Jan 86)
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