HIRING U.S. CITIZENS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-01355R000400260002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 21, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Personnel
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Director of Security
Chief, Administrative Staff, FBIS
Hiring U.S. Citizens
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FBIS 1430-88
21 June 1988
1. Paragraph four contains a proposal for your approval.
2. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) hires foreign nationals
as employees with staff-like benefits to work at our overseas bureaus. The
initial security and medical clearances for these employees are granted by the
local embassy. This permits us to hire some of these employees, especially
secretaries, quite rapidly since they may be on the embassy's hiring list,
cleared and waiting for a job to become available.
3. The bureaus' secretary and admin assistant duties can be performed by
either foreign nationals or U.S. citizens. There are no classified duties in
he e iositions when they are filled by foreign nationals. Recently, in
the bureau advised the embassy that we had a vacancy for a
secretary. e embassy replied that there were no foreign nationals available
but there was an embassy dependent, the wife of a Foreign Service Officer, who
had embassy security and medical clearances to work. Since current Agency
procedures require that we get prior Headquarters security and medical
approval before hiring an U.S. citizens, we had to delay her employment.
Thus, in cases such as we find we can put foreign nationals to work
immediately while U.S. ci izens must wait for Headquarters approval before
they can be assigned the same unclassified duties. This situation did not go
unnoticed and the individual involved threatened to write to her Congressman
because of what she perceived to be unfair treatment of U.S. citizens.
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SUBJECT: Hiring U.S. Citizens
4. We request that FBIS be permitted to employ U.S. citizens with
embassy clearances when they are to perform the same unclassified duties as
foreign nationals and have no access to classified information. These
employees would be hired by the embassy
APPROVED:
Director of Personnel
Date
Director of Security Date
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
1 - D/OP
1 - D/OS
1 - AS Chrono
2 - PB Chrono
2 - FBIS Reg
DDS&T/FBIS/PERS/
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