PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00882R000200270008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 5, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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5 Auglist 1955
Director
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Deputy Director (port)
Personnel
eonfirmation of our dissuasion at the Deputy Directors'
en ) August 1955, it is my desire that each of you *amine
earefully the need for additional personnel which your ?opponents
have recosested in their Final Tear 1956 Operating Budg?tis and in
their estimates for Fiscal Tear 1957.
24 Our personnel ceiling to date is a self-inposed one. SWOT-
thelon, the Bureau of the Budget and the Conerees are keenly interested
in this natter and I do not /lel that we should expand ippreciably without
consultation with than. Our men-duty" strength today qproacbsa very
closely the strength *Joh thgf have sanctioned Internally.
3. /Alias pointed out at the Deputies' Beetle& the various
components have requested increases over our pies t to
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military) -amtlisoal Tear 1957 an additional
are certain high priority projects that we dissussed
edditionalpersonnel; these will be authorised. NeweVer,
Med approve any such general increase, ami certainly one of
magnitude requested, I would have to be eenvinsed that it is be
neeessary and practical.
4. I believe that the Congress would be most reluctant to
in appreciable expansion, particularly in our departmental strength
Our buildings are already overcrowded and adequate relief is not in
sight until our new is oonstrusted. Even then according to
presant estimates, our authorisation will permit us Ur eenstruet a
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strewth of only about EXperience also indieetes that our recruit-
meat and entrance-on-duty processing facilities could net, without a
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substantially stepped-up program, effect a net gain of more than half
of the number requested by 30 June 1956.
S. It is my. desire to keep the Agency as small as possible con-
sistent with the successful accomplishment of our mission. It be-
hooves us all to find mays and means to do more without greatly expand
ing our numbers. We must resist any suggestions that we annum duties
which are not clearly our function or which we have not been assigned
as a service of common concern. We must also pay greater attention to
the establishment of priorities and through constant analysis and eval-
uation eliminate marginal projects and programs. We should emplore
thoroughly all possibilities of contracting for our work to avoid in-
=easing our numbers where we can within the bounds of good security.
6. It is essential that your reappraisal of these estimates be
completed as expeditiously as possible and that your new estimates be
submitted to the Comptroller not later than the close of business on
9 August 1955.
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ALLEN W. DULLS
Director of Central Intelligence
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