CIA CIVILIAN RESERVE PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00490R000100020024-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 24
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: (Operating Officials and Heads of Independent Offices)
.,U13JECT CIA Civilian Reserve Program
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prescribes the policies for the selection and use of
Civilian Reservists and provides for the establishment of a. centralized di-
rectory in the Office of Personnel to implement the Civilian Reserve program.
The purpose of this memorandum is to enlist your assistance in ident-
ifying and locating those former employees and other individuals who, because
of their skills or present status, may be capable of assisting the Agency in
the recruitment of personnel, outplacement, the reporting of cover opportu-
nities or investigative leads, certain operational activities and other special
tasks that can be performed by persons outside the Agency. This Reserve will,
of course, have additional value as a potential source of manpower in event
of emergency or wartime expansion.
. The CIA Career Council in 1958 approved the establishment of a di-
rectory of selected former employees which was designated the "CIA Civilian
eta.ndby Reserve". This Directory now contains the names of approximately ?00
persons who have expressed an interest in serving the Agency if needed.
Approximately 350 additional names are in varying stages of processing but have
not yet been contacted. The initial phase of this Directory was formed in
1958 when senior officials reviewed machine listings of employees GS-07 and
above who had left the aency between 1947 and 1958. Since 1958 we have add-
ed to this Directory by screening monthly separations lists. The problem with
this Directory is that since the primary objective of the program was to pro-
vide a potential source of manpower in event of national emergency it has a
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preponderance of lower-graded, non-technical personnel who would have limited
potential for rendering assistance in current operations. In fairness to the
some 700 who have been contacted and indicated a willingness to serve the
Agency in time of emergency I do not propose to drop them out of the program
at this time but it will be necessary to apply more stringent criteria for
i1rmbership in the program now envisaged in
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=1. The attached list (Attachment 1) which has been extracted from the
cnnrrent Directory contains the names of those who were former employees either
of your office or the predecessor of your office. After reviewing this list
it is requested that you identify those individuals, if any, whose primary
potential is in sensitive operational activities and advise me whether their
names should be included in the Directory and if included, how contact with 2. 1A
Also, please furnish my office
the names, along with any available pertinent information, of other former
employees or other individuals whom you consider to be potential Civilain
In the interests of uniformity
-it is recommended that nominations be made in the format shown in Attachment 2.
provides that future nominations may, in the
=.ase of present employees, be made on the Form 1152, Request for Personnel
Action, prepared at the time of separation from the Agency.
For your information, I plan to send a questionnaire similar to that
:_shown in Attachment 3 to those individuals in our current Directory believed
to have a potential for assisting the Agency in current operations and to all
1~ture nominees who are cleared for contact. Information from r_omnleted
questionnaires will be added to pertinent biographic information available
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.-thin the Agency and made available to Operating Officials and Heads of In-
de-pendent, Offices to meet specific requirements.
F~uestions rewarding this program may be directed to
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Chief, Mobilization and Reserve Branch, HIPD,
Room 1351 R & S 25X1A
Ilvildinr7. Your assistance in developing this program is greatly appreciated.
nrnett D. Echols
'A rector of Personnel.
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