LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM JOAN M. CLARK

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92-00420R000300110032-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: July 21, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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Washington, D.C. 2U52U
The Honorable
William J. Casey, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
United States Department of State
Director General of the Foreign Service
and Director of Personnel
July 21, 1982
Thank you very much for the copy of the report you plan to
submit to OMB and Congress recommending 10 per cent premium
pay for overseas employees of the Agency. After having ex-
amined it, I must regretfully conclude that I cannot concur
with the recommendations you wish to make to Congressman
Boland's committee.
The primary difficulty lies with the job analysis of certain
Department of State overseas positions in the 0 report 25X1
upon which your recommendations rest. Perhaps the most
troublesome example is that of State Political and Economic
Officers: The F__-Ireport states:
The primary duty is to collect, analyze and report
information .... The position's focus is more upon
data gathering and analysis than on interpersonal or
persuasion skills."
Data gathering and analysis represents, at best, barely
half the primary duty of the Department's Political or Economic
Officer - the other half being to negotiate and to represent
U.S. Government interests and positions on various issues
to host country citizens (whether public or private), activities
which clearly require considerable interpersonal skills
and persuasive powers to accomplish effectively. It should
be noted that the Standard Field Descriptions for Political
and Economic Officers contained in the Foreign Service
Position Classification Handbook contain, inter alia, the
following duties, all of which require strong interpersonal
skills and persuasive ability.
(1) speaks on behalf of the U.S. Government to host
government officials, political party leaders,
foreign diplomatic representatives, private
groups or individuals, and newspaper or other
media representatives ...."
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(2) "... Negotiates as required with host government
officials on issues of concern to the United
States Government.
(3) "Travels within country to establish and maintain
contact with local officials, party leaders, and
influential members of the private sector in order
to report significant developments, represents
the United States, and helps develop an under-
standing of its roles and objectives." (emphasis
added)
(4) "Represents the U.S. at selected official func-
tions ceremonies, and meetings and may be desig-
nated to serve on delegations to intergovern-
mental meetings."
A State Political or Economic Officer who is only analyzing
and reporting would assuredly be doing only half the job and
his or her evaluation report would so reflect the lack of rep-
resentational activities, thereby putting that individual at
a disadvantage when being competed against others in similar
positions. The existence of "representation allowances" (for
use in hosting social functions in which interpersonal skills
and persuasive ability are called into play throughout and
are of importance for obtaining U.S. objectives), which are
allotted primarily to Political and Economic officers,
should confirm the significance with which the Department
views these functions-- functions which have either been
totally overlooked or mistakenly excluded from consideration
25X1 in the F___]study.
We also find serious flaws in the comparison of the com- 25X1
munications activities of the Department and the Agency. The
study compares State communicators to a private sector tele-
communications operator whose duties are exclusively oper-
ational while Agency communicators are matched to computer
equipment technicians since, in addition to operational duties,
they also perform maintenance and repair functions as well as
modifying and updating equipment. Perhaps because of the
limited number of posts visited, the Oreviewers showed 25X1
no awareness that at numerous posts State communicators are
required to demonstrate proficiency in the full range of
operational and first echelon technical systems maintenance
skills for record communications high technology computer
based systems, state of the art radio teletype transmissions
systems etc., together with technical control and related
testing.
In addition, State Communications personnel responsibilites
include computer based telephone and secure systems, HF/VHF/UHF
voice radio systems and other diverse duties. The complexity
and modernity of State's communications equipment requires
skills far exceeding those outlined by F and we feel that
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any study which fails to take these factors into account can
scarcely present a credible comparison of the two organiza-
tions' activities in the communications field.
A final although lesser deficiency is the study's failure
to include in its comparison of total compensation packages
those non-salary, non-allowance perquisites which Agency
employees enjoy but which are not available to State employees.
The assignment of monetary values to and inclusion of
such perquisites in the total compensation packages would
present a more accurate picture than is presently the case.
As I had informally suggested earlier, the Department believes
the pay problems to which the study is addressed could 25X1
be most satisfactorily overcome by moving Agency employees
to the Foreign Service salary schedule during their periods
of overseas duty. I very much regret that I cannot concur
in this matter as you have asked but in view of the grave
reservations I have concerning the serious shortcomings in
the 0 study on which the recommendations are based, I am
unable to do so at this time.
Sincerely,
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FULLTIME AUTHORIZED PART-1'lP 1E AUTHORIZED FILLED
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Canada
China
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Egypt
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Netherlands
Nigeria
Norway ;
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Saudi Arabia
South Afria
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Thailand
United Kingdom
Uruguay
USSR
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
2 Algeria 1
1 Australia - DL I
1 Belgium 1
3 Brazil 1
2 Bulgaria -1 /2 1
2 Canada I
1 Colombia 1
1 Cyprus
3 Germany - DL 1
4 G ree,ce 1
2 Honduras 1
3 Hong Kong 1
1 India 1
2 Italy 1
1 Jamica 1
I Liberia 1
1 Malaysia 1
1 Nicaragua 1
1 Nigeria 1
1 Panama 1
2 Poland 1/2 1
2 Romania 1
1 Senegal 1
1 Suriname 1
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SUMMARY
0 Defense. Attache Personnel
Full-time 58
Part-time 22
Belgium
Germany
a i i Japan -
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