THE 20TH CPSU CONGRESS IN RETROSPECT: ITS PRINCIPLE ISSUES AND POSSIBLE EFFECTS ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 1, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
"THE 20th CPST;CONGRESS IN RETROSPECT:
ITS PRINCIPAL ISSUES AND POSSIBLE EF'F'ECTS ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM '
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director/Intelligent
SUBJECT: Proposed Expansion of SRS/ T/O.
1. In connection with the preparation of its program for the
remainder of 1956 and beyond, the SRS has given considerable thought
to the question of its size and organization. We have come to the
conclusion that the present Staff is numerically too small to cope with
the responsibilities placed upon it by its charter. As
suggested in his memorandum of 9 November 1954 to the DCI, "the full
strength might be five senior professionals . . . . together with up
to five relatively junior research assistants and the necessary secre-
tarial help". (p. 27).
2. We have also come to feel the need for an individual who might
be described as Research Director. This officer would supervise and
coordinate the work of the Research Assistants. He would also perform
functions of editing, follow up on lines of research started by the
other members of the Staff, and would keep track of progress of the
various projects under way.
3. The attached chart indicates the proposed disposition of the
twelve slots which we feel are needed. The following comments are made:
a. All members of the Staff, including the Administrative
Assistant, are to some extent involved in the substantive work
of the Staff.
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b. All of the senior personnel, including the Chief,
Deputy Chief, and Research Director, will have fields of special
interest of varying scope, in which they will prepare their own
papers.
c. According to their abilities, the four junior research
assistants will be encouraged to develop fields of substantive
interest and thus to prepare themselves for advancement to the
status of research analysts. As this process takes place, some of
the research assistant slots will have to be up graded.
4. The gaps remaining to be filled are:
a. Research Director.
b. A senior research officer on the Far East.
c. Three research assistant slots of which one is presently
in prospect of being filled by a JOT officer. It is believed that the
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other/junior slots can readily be filled at the GS 5-9 level.
d. A typist or junior clerk.
5. It is possible that one or more of the above twelve positions can
be filled at least temporarily without the provision of additional slots
to the seven at present allocated to SRS. Eventually, of course, it would
probably be necessary to provide the staff with permanent slots for these
incumbents.
6. The addition of the Research Director and the Senior Research
Officer for China would provide a sufficiently broad base to the Staff to
enable it to take care of the temporary dislocations and imbalances involved
in absences for leave and official travel. With the present group of only
four senior members, the absence of even one on temporary duty travel
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would constitute a major weakening. As we have indicated to your office,
we believe that on an average, each senior staff member should travel
abroad once a year.
7. The creation of these additional slots would compel a readjust-
ment of our space situation. Within the presently assigned rooms we can
accommodate seven people. A small adjoining storage room, if it were
made available, would permit the addition of one more desk. This would
leave four additional desks to be assigned.
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