REPORT FOR MONTH OF JANUARY 1954 FROM MACHINE RECORDS BRANCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00211R000300280014-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: January 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Report for month of January 1954 frog MACHINE RECORD,- BRANCH
The turnover in Machine Records Brame has, been greater.
than a- n .ex the last reporting period. Three resignations
and one transfeer,I 1 were offectAIR during the month
of January. In contrast only one ei plo reel,
entered on duty. Because of this shortage of personnel, there
has been a great increase in the number of overtime hours worked.
In December, 362 hours 'wore worked; in January, 553 hours were
eked. A reassignment program is being put into effect to try
to relieve this personnel shortage in certain section.
A number of unfavorable conditions in this area of Curie
Hall has been brou, ht to the attention of the proper authorities
and steps s" belting taken to correct tbea. Among these are the
high voltage condition that is being handled by GSA and PEA=P&).
The lack of sufi:icleent beat during cold weather is being che..?` .-r
by PBA engineers. The barriers in the halls that grettly hinder
the moving of rachines and carts have also been reported.
A training program for Machine Records Branch perso ne l is
being studied. Its purpose is to furnish qualification data on
personnel for prvti.on and reassignment. If properly carried
out, this program should prove beneficial to the Branch,
Operational:
Since 4 January 1954, k 4-vthine Record-3 Branch is being fur-
nished daily employee production reports frox Printing and Re Pro-
ducti.on Division. There reports are the source of information
that is being transferred to -punch cards, and from the. punch cards,
recurring monthly reports and statistics will, be furnished Printing
and Reproduction Division on a weekly basis.
The Position Control Li3tings were furnished to Person.. el
Offiee about 20 January. Their reaction and covnaents on the
appearance of the report and the information it contained were
very favorable.
The, completion date for the T,/J operation for the DD/P group
was extended to 2 Fbbruary because of the changes received by this
Branch after the 27th of January.
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The W-2 ' c were completed and distributed about January
lties in balancing Control totals of eepl oySe
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and deductions, it was decided that in the future the balancing
operation would be done 012 a pay period basis rather than qv rteerly.
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Fitotographic Equipment) is in pro ress and in ntory data is h in
furnished Machine Records Branch on a daily basis. This data is
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being processed as received- The completion date for
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processing and reports has been establieshe
Pereoruisl ;ect .on
The status file for use by insurance actuaries was completed.
For details of this project, see the weekly report for J?nuary, 13.
conc'srrencee has been reaashed with 11ls.nning
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search, a n4 Development Staff, Personnel Office, to include as a
regular portion of the monthly recurrin security reportse, a eon
s=1lida.ted report -which caan be better uti .isedn 'Lieu of three
separate reports now disseminated. This project gives a
picture of security in process ngaina%t and/or "losses" for each
month.
Chief,
ne ecor s nch
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