THOUGHTS ON THE OGA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00289R000200030013-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 7, 1990
• Content Type: MEMO

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7 September 1990
SUBJECT: Thoughts On The OGA
1. The information contained herein represents informal ideas
on the newly-constituted Office of General Administration (OGA),
the home-base of the MG Career Service.
2. MISSION. It is the mission of the Office of General
Administration (OGA) to provide all-source administrative support
to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in order to enhance the
Agency's acquisition and analysis of intelligence information.
- Central Travel Services (CTS): Official travel and
travel policy should become a function of OGA. In this context,
OGA would assume responsibility for all repeat all official
travel processes and policy to include initial but limited
funding (pilot program), online ticketing, itinerary development,
cover coordination, accommodation bookings, and other related
travel requirements. The OGA travel function needs to be
all-encompassing, i.e. evolving into (through management
processes) a portal-to-portal "travel agency".
Travel Policy - OGA should be the focal point for all travel
policy regulations to include the Travel Policy Committee
responsibilities and actions. In this context, OGA would evolve
into the Agency's focal-point for the implementation of all
official travel policy decisions and programs including liaison
with other agencies of government to promote fair and equitable
travel standards for all employees.
- Central Cover Staff - It should be the responsibility of
OGA to administer a comprehensive cover program tailored
appropriately to the demands of operational mandates and
programs. OGA should evolve into the Agency's focal-point
component responsible for establishing and maintaining various
methods and degrees of cover including official cover,
non-official cover, commercial cover, and other cover as
necessitated by the assignment process.
- Liaison With State and Defense: It should be the
responsibility of OGA to create and maintain an effective and
substantive ongoing administrative liaison relationship with both
the Department-of State and the Department of Defense. This
function should be formalized through the formation of an
component within OGA known as the Administrative Liaison Staffs
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Agency and Defense respectively.
The above thoughts/ideas represent my initial efforts in
attempting to put together something that would assist in
creating substantive criteria for a future OGA functional
analysis study which would hopefully lead to the acquisition of
all of the above responsibilities in addition to those not
addressed.
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