SAC HEARING QUESTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00530R001002380017-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 1, 1989
• Content Type: MISC

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SAC HEARING QUESTIONS
QUESTION AREA: Intelligence Community Personnel Issues
(NAPA Study Implications)
QUESTION #3: The NAPA study was provided to this Committee in
January 1989. It makes over 40 separate recommendations
regarding intelligence personnel management policies and
compensation practices. Do you agree with all of the
recommendations in the report? If not, with which actions
do you disagree and why?
ANSWER: My letter forwarding the NAPA Report to the
Congress indicates my broad agreement with the Report's
recommendations. In particular, I strongly support the
recommendations that advocate greater flexibility in
personnel management for all Intelligence Community
activities. I also support NAPA's conclusions on the need
for better Community coordination of personnel management
initiatives. Indeed, I have already established a senior
coordinating group--as recommended by NAPA--to enhance the
effectiveness of personnel management across the
Community. As you are aware, NAPA's recommendations cover
a very wide range of actions. While all have merit, there
are questions of feasibility, priority, timing, funding,
technical details of implementation, and so on that must
answered before firm decisions to proceed can be made. My
senior coordinating group, through a system of specialized
interagency working groups, is now actively reviewing the
.NAPA Report to identify the areas with broad Community
application that should be acted on first and to propose an
implementation plan. A relatively clear outline of where
we are headed should be available by mid-summer.
Concurrently, individual agencies are moving ahead on those
recommendations that have agency-specific aspects.
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SAC HEARING QUESTIONS
QUESTION AREA: Intelligence Community Personnel Issues
(NAPA Study Implications)
QUESTION #3A: The NAPA report made a number of recommendation
that have financial implications, if implemented, how do
you intend to deal with them?
ANSWER: In broad terms, virtually all of the Report's
recommendations have financial implications, as all concern
personnel and thus affect staffing and retention. Some of
the recommendations, however, have direct funding
consequences. My approach to dealing with such
recommendations will be consistent with my approach to any
funding or budget issues. Foremost is the need to treat
such issues within the context of the National Foreign
Intelligence Program as a whole. In the coming years a
great deal of Community scrutiny will be given to many NFIP
issues and initiatives, including hardware and operational
programs as well as personnel needs. Financial
implications of NAPA's recommendations will be dealt with
alongside these other issues as part of my effort to
formulate an NFIP that addresses our most pressing
requirements. I expect that initiatives that are uniquely
applicable to specific agencies will be treated similarly
by senior program managers.
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QUESTION AREA: Intelligence Community Personnel Issues
(NAPA Study Implications)
QUESTION #3B: Will implementation of any of the recommendations
require significant additional resources in FY90 or FY91?
ANSWER: As you are aware, many of NAPA's recommendations are
conceptual or concern realignment of personnel policies.
There is very little in the Report or its recommendations
in the way of the technical details of implementation.
Until those details are fully understood and described,
accurate funding estimates will be difficult to obtain. As
I mentioned, a senior coordinating group is now evaluating
the Report to more completely assess implications
--including costs--of the recommendations. A full answer
will await completion of that effort.- In some instances,
however, where agency-specific recommendations are
involved, projected funding costs are better understood.
Agency personnel officers will discuss those matters
directly with appropriate Congressional Staff as part of
the oversight effort.
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QUESTION AREA: Intelligence Community Personnel Issues
(NAPA Study Implications)
QUESTION #3C: The report highlights a number of areas where
benefits and allowances are not uniform for overseas
intelligence personnel, and recommends that your
authorities be extended to permit you to align benefits and
allowances with those the Secretary of State establishes
for U.S. government civilian employees overseas. Do you
intend to take action to create equity in overseas
intelligence compensation?
ANSWER: Achieving equity in overseas compensation is, of
course, a desirable objective, and I intend to work towards
it. As you are aware, however, the NAPA project staff
prepared a separate case study on this issue after the
completion of the main Report. The case study points out
the extremely complicated nature of overseas compensation
and notes the need for further work on the part of the
Community (working ultimately in conjunction with the
Congress). Because of the scope and technical details of
the issues involved, I have referred this problem to my
senior coordinating group (discussed previously), which is
examining it alongside several other compensation
recommendations. The group believes that the overseas pay
issue will be among the most complicated ones that it
treats.
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