CIA CIVILIAN RESERVE PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00490R000100020010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 27, 1972
• Content Type: MEMO

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A lMORANDUM FOR: Executive Dire ctor-Comptroller
TYfOUGH . Deputy Director for Support
.SUBJECT CIA Civilian Reserve Program
1. This memorandum submits a recommendation for your approval. Such
recommendation is contained in paragraph 6.
2. The Agency has maintained a centralized civilian reserve program under
the Director of Personnel since 1958. The objective of the original program
was to establish and maintain a current roster of selected former employees who
would be willing to return to the Agency if needed during an emergency. The
program was revised in 1962 to providea register of persons who, because of
their skills and. experience, might be able to assist the Agency in current oper-
ations on an occasional basis, with a secondary objective of providing a source
of manpower in event of emergency. The revised program is governed by~
3. In both its original and revised forms, the program has turned out to
be almost completely passive. There has been no lack of willingness on the part
of reservists to assist the Agency, but components have levied very few requests
for assistance on the Office of Personnel, and none have come from outside the
Clandestine Service.
4. Undoubtedly, part of the problem has been a lack of current awareness
of the program throughout the Agency. To counteract this, the program was
recommended for inclusion in the Agency's electronic data processing system with
a view to producing periodic rosters to alert possible users to its potential.
A Support Information Processing Staff (SIPS) Team studied the program and con-
cluded that computer support would increase its effectiveness and utilization,
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and that such support was feasible. Since the Team found, however, that
duplicate and supplemental directories had been established by some offices,
it recommended that computer support be provided only on condition that the
Civilian Reserve'Pogram would be used as the central data bank for storing
and retrieving information and that duplicate and supplemental directories
would not be maintained by other offices. A proposed revision
of ex-employees."
5. The number of reservists now stands at
designed to meet the SIPS Team recommendation, was placed in coordination in
September 1970 but did not receive the concurrence of the Clandestine Service.
The Deputy Director for Plans proposed to maintain a separate register of
former Clandestine Service personnel who might be called upon to assist from
time to time in CS activities. This register, though maintained separate,
would be coordinated with and operated as a part of the central system. On
21 December 1970 he announced the designation of an officer within OPSER/CPS,
"to work with the Agency's Civilian Reserve Program in maintaining a register
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An invitation to participate in the Civilian Reserve Program undoubtedly has
some psychological value to separatees at the time of departure but, if their
subsequent contacts with the Agency are limited to an annual contact letter and
questionnaire, that value is probably short-lived.
6. In view of the circumstances discussed above, and the limited interest
in the program.outside the Clandestine Service, it is recommended that the Deputy
Director for Plans be given the responsibility of continuing the Reserve Progr:m
for those ex-employees of the Clandestine Service whom he may wish to enroll and
that the remainder of the program be discontinued by the Office of Personnel.
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Harry B. Fisher
Director of Personnel
Deputy Director for Plans
Executive Director-Comptroller
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Recommendation No. 8
Prepare a paper recommending turnover to the Deputy
Director for Plans the responsibility for continuation of the
civilian reserve program for DDP personnel and discontinuing
remainder of this program.
Attached is a draft memorandum which the Director of Personnel
might send to the Executive Director-Comptroller to accomplish the
purposes of the recommendation. The draft has not been coordinated
formally with the DD/P, but it was discussed with the 25X1A9A
officer within OPSER/CSPS who is mentioned in paragraph 4, andlI 25X1A9A
stated that it is consistent with the DD/P's wishes.
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