CAREER OPPORTUNITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00423R000300270003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 29, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
FROM Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT Career Opportunity
1. This is in reference to your memorandum of 15 March
concerning steps to be taken for redressing the imbalance with
respect t men in senior, specifically supergrade, positions.
There are substantive and administrative officers in the
National Intelligence Council. of these are women:
There are no women supergrades in the NIC.
development path for any of its staff. Nearly
all
are on
rotational assignments from other elements of
CIA
or the
Intelligence Community. Thus, the opportunity
to
bring someone
along and move them into a supergrade position
is
quite limited.
2. "Doing something" to redress this lack of women in
supergrade positions in the NIC is a two-fold problem. First,
the NIC is a rotational service with essentially no career
3. The second problem is that virtually all supergrade
appointments within the .National Intelligence Council are made _.
personally by the Director or the DDCI; those they do not
personally select, they must approve before appointment. A .~.
related problem for them is tied directly to the paucity of
supergrade women throughout the Intelligence Community -- the
pool of SIS-04 women with substantive responsibilities from which
to draw for appointments to the NIC is exceptionally small.
Moreover, it is my impression that women who have achieved a
senior line management position in a substantive area would be
reluctant to forego it for the perceived more limited
responsibility of an NIO or assistant NIO.
4. In sum, I'm afraid that the best that the NIC can do is
to insure that when openings occur at the supergrade level
supergrade women within the Intelligence Community who are
possible candidates are at least surfaced to the DCI or DDCI to
allow for their consideration.
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29 March 1984
SUBJECT: Career Opportunity
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15 March 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: .Members,-E Career Service Board
-Chief, Planning Staff
Executive Secretary, 0/DCI
Administrative Officer, 0/DCI
.SUBJECT: Career Opportunity
Executive Registry
1. The DDCI, in memoranda to me dated 15 December 1983 and
12 March 1984, and in his address to Agency female employees in~
the auditorium last week, deplored the small percentage of women
in senior, specifically supergrade, positions. - .He has asked that
I submit a plan to him by 1 April for redressing the imbalance. ~~
2. Neither he nor I intend any change in .qualitative criteria
for promotion to supergrade, nor do we seek a solution through
quotas. I have no omniscience to apply to this issue. I do have
the responses to a request I made to the Deputies a short time ago.,
--r,__~_, .. - - -
taken to address the problem.- ~ - ~ a
3. There has, in alY judgment, been some progress. But there are
other steps that can be taken. I would like each of you to pick the
brains of your folks to identify both immediate and longer range '~~~"'?
actions that could be taken. .We've s oken of the assi ~~~~~'
P gnment process
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quota course training,,.rotation to other agencies or directorates,~'`~-
officer positions (including career ~anel executive secretariat);~~;j;~?
;
_~ ?~a,
as well as to substantive or managerial task forces are some options.
4. Please give me your thoughts by Wednesday, 28 March.
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