WEEKLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 23 MAY 1986

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-00063R000200170012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 23, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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DDA 86-0924
23 May 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: William F. Donnelly
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Weekly Report for Period Ending 23 May 1986
1. Retirement was the main focus of the Office of Personnel's (OP)
attention with the Congress and the Administration reaching basic agreement on
the provisions of the new supplemental retirement bill, thus clearing the way
for quick passage (anticipated this week) and signing by the President. An OP
representative was on the Hill working hand-in-hand with the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence (SSCI) staffers to ensure Agency requirements were incorporated
into the final legislation. The bill provides for an extension of the interim
retirement contribution provisions until 1 January 1987 and for refund of any
excess amounts withheld as a result of the expiration of the 30 April deadline
for finalizing this proposal. The Office of Finance (OF) did not implement
the initial deductions and none will have to be withheld if the legislation is
passed and signed by the President before the next pay period. Deductions for
employees hired prior to 1 January 1984 are not affected by this legislation.
2. Representatives from OP and the Office of Congressional Affairs (OCA)
attended the Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the Roth/Stevens
"early-out" retirement bill. In testimony before the Committee, the Director
of the Office of Personnel Management gave qualified endorsement for the bill
which would (1) permit employees to voluntarily retire earlier than normal
during a limited period from 1 July 1986 to 1 January 1987 and, (2) establish
defacto ceiling reductions by restricting the hiring of replacements for
employees who retire under the bill. The Administration still is considering
the overall implications of this bill to various agencies. While the
Administration understands the reason for proposing a way to reduce the size
of the Federal Government, the President must have greater flexibility to
determine how the bill would be implemented. It is clear from comments made
byt Committee members that some chan es are anticipated to this bill and thus
it may a some time before any final legislation is considered. In the
interim, OP and OCA will be closely following the progress.
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4. Representatives from OP, OF, and the Office of Medical Services spent
three days in Philadelphia interviewing and testing applicants for
professional OF positions. This special project is expected to result in
approximately 30 applicants being placed in process for OF. Concerted efforts
such as this are contributing toward reducing the current shortfall of OF
professional employees.
5. Special Saturday presentations by OP resulted in 65 clerk typist
applicants being tested, with 41 qualifying. Four more presentations are
scheduled during May and June. Intensified efforts also are underway to
identify and recruit qualified clerk typists and stenographers throughout the
East Coast and Southern states. OP Centers
currently are scheduling potential c-lerical applicants for special
presentations, interviews, and testing.
6. The Human Resources Seminar was held this past week to acquaint the
Human Resources Task Force and its advisory groups with the most current
theories on the subject of human resource management. The Task Force,
consisting of senior representatives from each Directorate and the E Career
Service, has been examining ways to improve the flexibility of the Agency's
human resource management system to meet changing mission and personnel
needs. The seminar provided the participants with an opportunity to test out
some of their ideas on the speakers, who addressed areas including management
development and strategies, organizational alternatives, compensation and
benefit trends, and the integration of program and human resource planning.
Task Force findings and recommendations to the DDCI are due in August.
7. The Office of Information Technology (OIT), on 16 May, accomplished
the task of co-locating all the Directorate of Intelligence customers in the
Northside Computer Center. This will assist the implementation of Support for
the Analysts' File Environment (SAFE) Delivery 2.
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8. There was an extended SAFE outage on Sunday, 18 May. The problem was
due to a procedural error that resulted in the delay of processing incoming
traffic for two hours Monday morning and a delay in updating certain key files
for twenty-four hours. The incidents leading to the problem are understood
and corrective actions have been taken by OIT.
9. The Office of Training and Education (OTE) reports that the Executive
Development Program's elective seminar "CIA and The Congress" began on
13 May. The opening session panelists were the Director, Office of
Congressional Affairs and members of his staff. After the panel session, the
participants met with Representative J. Kenneth Robinson, former ranking
minority member, HPSCI, who provided insights on the CIA-Congressional
relationship as seen from the Hill. On 14 May, the seminar met with
Representative Henry J. Hyde, Member, House Foreign Affairs Committee and
Member of HPSCI. Congressman Hyde discussed his bill to have only one
oversight committee, a joint House-Senate Committee, stating that he preferred
a smaller membership on the joint committee than his bill calls for.
10. More thane Career Trainees from all four directorates will
begin interim assignments in the Directorate of Operations during June. With
one exception, all will be going to their first or second choices of
assignment--reflecting a fortuitous group of "wish lists" from the trainees.
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18. On 15 May, OL presented a performance award fee to Eastern Allied
Maintenance Corporation senior management totalling $339,295 for the first two
quarters of the fiscal year. The award totalled 91.5 percent of the amount
available, and identified excellent performance for the exterior grounds
maintenance, support of special Agency functions, short deadlines on
renovation projects, security, and cost performance. Deficiencies were
identified in several management objectives and in the noticeable decline in
custodial support.
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19. OL personnel visited the Merrifield Regional Postal Center to discuss
delays in mail deliveries to the Agency. Postal officials explained that the
system has a built-in delay factor because of the Washington, D.C., address
for a Northern Virginia facility. All mail for Washington, D.C. 20505 is
channeled into the Main Post Office in D.C. and re-sorted back to Merrifield
for delivery to the Agency. A delay of three to five days is average, but if
the sort falls on a Friday, it is not unusual for a ten-day delay to occur.
Tower of the new Headquarters Building. Of 28 pours scheduled in the South
Tower, 14 have been completed so far. The contractor still anticipates
completion of all major concrete pours in the entire building by mid-June.
Masonry work is also in full swing with stairwells being closed in, equipment
rooms being built, and restrooms being enclosed. The first windows, which
comprise the interior window wall, have been installed on the second floor of
the North Tower. Work on the exterior curtain wall is scheduled to begin in
late June.
21. OL reports that major concrete pours are continuing in the South
22. OL provided a 20-slide briefing on the New Building Project to OTE
which will be used by the Secretarial Training Branch in the familiarization
training for new secretaries.
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