CAREER DESIGNATIONS OF SENIOR FIELD REPRESENTATIVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000900040032-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: November 4, 1953
• Content Type: MF

Security Info'ation
NOV 4 1953'
zit; AaaaNDU ' t'OR: Chairmen, Clandestine Services Career
Service Board
Career Designations of Senior Field
Representatives
1. The PP Career Service :lord has r-cently conducted a survey
of all Senior -epresent- tives, Chiefs, and Deputy Chiefs of Missions,
and Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs of Stations. The basic purpose of this
study was twofold: (a) to bring the PP Career Service Board records
up-to-date; and (b) to ascertain what career designation each of the
individuals concerned crries t
2. Infortstion on career desilpaations was secured from machine
records, Position Inventory and appropriate Area Sivisions. In summary,
the results break down as follows:
Fu i D 1sT IYZix
FI
PP
3. It would appear that such, a breakdown gives a fallacious and
unrealistic picture. Inasmuch as all individuals included in the survey
are responsible for across-the-bo,.rd activities, to cover PP, F'I, DM and
in some instances TSS and other elements of CIA, it would seem more apnro-
priate that they be coded P (Office of the Deputy Director (Plans) ). It
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is recognized that the system presently employed conformswwith the
principle set forth in para. tab, of dated 31 August 25X1A
1953:
"It is expected that Staff ipioyees will, from time to
time, be assigned duties or reassigned to positions outside the
functional scope of their organizational components without a
change of Career Designation. Such assignments will be aide
for p1 bared periods, with the expectation that such individuals
will uit_Liaa.tely be reassined to uties corresponding to the
functional areas represented by their Career Designation."
The principle is both sound and workable when referring, for example,
to an officer with a career designation of PP w!=o has been given a
specific assignment in an 11 field. On the other hand, Senior Repre-
sentatives and Mission and Station Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs would seem
to comprise a special group of Cl- employees w::o have, as a result of
ability previously displayed, gone beyond the confines of one facet of
the DD/P complex and have broadened their horizon to assume the direction
of DD/P-wide activities in their p rticuiar geogr-aphical area. l orr lly,
upon return to headquarters, such officers are given similar sill.-embrac-
ing positions as Division or Branch Chiefs.
4. Inasmuch as a career design%tion of P carries with it a par-
ticular significance, the PP Career Service 13o-xrd recorr ends that con-
sideration be given to placing all Senior itepresent -.tivr s, Chiefs and
Deputy Chiefs of Field Fissions and ;stations, Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs
of Branches and krea Divisions, and all others with across-the-board
responsibilities in this a- tegory. It is further recommended that when
an individual with a career designation of P transfers back to a position
with a narrower and i;kore confining responsibility, the personnel action
(Form 52) simultaneously carry the transfer to the appropriate career
,resignation of the position to be filled or th