PERSONNEL CEILING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000500190030-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: February 29, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

Office Memorandum ?
TO Deputy Director ( Administration)
FROM : Chief, Office of Procurement and Supply
SUBJECT: Personnel Ceiling
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
1. In response to your memorandum of 19 February, similar subject,
it is requested that this office be ermitted to recruit up to our present
T/O personnel authorization of positions. 25X9
2. In justification and support of the reasonableness of this request
the following supported factors should be considered:
a. The Procurement and Supply Office has always been under-
staffed in relation to the proper accomplishment of its mission. This
is demonstrated by the average bi-weekly requirement of 4000 hours
of overtime.
b. Recruitment is a major deterrent with respect to technical
personnel, because of:
(1) The classifications required by this office are in short
supply, and are, particularly, individuals who have had govern-
mental supply experience; more particularly, Defense supply
experience. Such personnel, for the most part, are presently
employed by the Defense Department, or the Defense Department
is in competition with us in recruiting them.
(2) Agency policy precludes our direct acquisition of personnel
from other agencies; however, some, in the attempt to better
their position, do make application with CIA and seek release
from their employing office, with an end result of their office
promoting them and their consequent loss of interest in effecting
a change.
c. A high proportion of the Procurement and Supply Office 25X1
personnel are in the low grade unskilled and semi-skilled laborer
category. Attrition is at an extremely high rate in this group, due to
the transient nature of the personnel available, frequent security di
approvals, Military Service calls, and reluctance to wait even a m
Security Clearance period. In a four and one half month period, of
individuals processed, [=~ases were cancelled for security or personal
reasons, resigned after EOD for the same reasons, leaving a total
n duty. Five of these subsequently dropped from the rolls.
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d. Clerical personnel in the lower grades are assigned in
accordance with Agency Regulations.
3. In consideration of the foregoing, it is felt that in order to succeed
in even approaching the established personnel ceiling with "on duty per-
sonnel!" recruitment must be made against the T/O total of =positions.
25X1A
James Garrison
,s
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