MEETING WITH THE SSCI PERSONNEL REVIEW TEAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01390R000500650021-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 25, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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OCA 86-2562
25 July 1986
SUBJECT: Meeting with the SSCI Personnel Review Team
1. On 9 July Agency representatives met with the SSCI
personnel review team to discuss their basic purpose and
method of operation. Charles Battaglia, will head the
overall effort. John Despres will head up the team
reviewing the Agency and will have John Nelson, Gary Moore,
Natalie Bocock, Larry Kettlewell and Merrill Kelly on his
team. The Ag encv was presented by Bob Magee, Director of
Personnel and Deputy Director of Personnel for
Policy, Analysis an valuation.
2. In outlining where the staff hoped to go, Despres
said that the Committee would be interested in finding out
our concept of the personnel problems and issues that the
Agency will face in future decades and our plans for
recruiting and retaining the kind of people that we will
need. He said that the staff will complete a report this
year and whether the review would be continued next year
would be up to the new SSCI leadership.
3. Magee commented at the outset that homogeneity as it
relates to the community is a dirty word to us because we
maintain that our needs are unique. Despres replied that
they are not trying to homogenize the community but to find
out if there are any areas of common interest. Magee
continued that he looked upon the SSCI personnel review as
an opportunity for the Agency to inform the Committee about
the personnel initiatives and plans that we have for the
future. He said that he sees the Agency taking a modular
approach to personnel improvements, adding them as
appropriate. He added that he does not see the need for new
legislation since the Director already has unique
authorities.
4. Magee explained to the staffers where the Agency was
at present in terms of personnel improvements. He outlined
the pay banding for communications technicians and the new
secretarial system as new experiments that have just begun.
He noted that our current retention rate is one of the best
in the government because it is special to work for the CIA
and that our goal is to preserve that attitude.
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5. Battaglia explained that the teams would begin their
contacts with the Agency shortly. Bocock will be the DDI
reviewer while Moore will interface with the DDA, Nelson
with the DDS&T and Kettlewell and Kelly with the DDO. It
was agreed that any written material must go through
who will be the primary action officer for the Agency:
Requests for interviews and information are to be made
through the Office of Congressional Affairs.
Office of Congressional Affairs
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