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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000800200020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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1. Personnel Office report on the Project is
attached.
2. The report indicates thatt
a. To date a total of 42 persons have been desig-
nated to serve as college consultants.
b. Personnel Procurement is working on the assump-
tion that during the current Fiscal Year they should
continue to sign up consultants to procure not over 7S
by 30 June 1954. Their plans call for a continuation
of such procurement efforts so that during the 1955
Fiscal Year as many as a hundred college consultants
might be under contract.
c. The results have been very meager up to now.
Twenty-five candidates have been referred by the 18
consultants who are in "functioning" status. Signifi-
cantly, 19 have been rejected as not meeting JOT
requirements. Chief, PPD, says the consultants need
to have experience in "considerable trial and error"
before they'll get "on target," and that we feel that
we are working toward this goal with reasonable success."
3. I believe that the very limited accomplishments of the
college consultants points to the need for further study. For
example, what was wrong with the 19 people rejected? This ques-
tion is pertinent in view of the fact that 18 of these consultants
have participated in headquarters indoctrination of one week's
duration, at $50 per day. In that length of time they should
have acquired some fairly precise ideas about the kind of JOT
people we want--unless the indoctrination was inadequate. I do
not feel competent to discuss that part of the JOT program which
is intended to introduce general intelligence officer candidates
into CIA. However, I do feel somewhat acquainted with the problems
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surrounding the recruitment of junior management trainees. As
you perhaps recall, 25 JOT slots are reserved for college graduates
whose field of study has been principally in public or business
administration. These people, once entered on duty, are supposed
to go through formal training courses offered by the Office of
Training, and then made available for rotation to administrative
offices throughout the Agency. Picking high caliber people whose
college training has been in such fields as personnel administra-
tion, budgetary and fiscal work, organization and methods analysis
should not be too difficult a task. Yet who heads
the JOT program, tells me that only 2 can i a es have participated
in the administrative phase of the JOT program. Practically
every government agency in Washington has given special priority
to the recruitment of so-called junior management trainees of
this kind. Our record is very poor by comparison, and particularly
so, in view of the machinery we've setliP-.
b. I believe that an informal discussion of this problem
with both George Meloon and Matt Baird might stimulate interest on
their part to see that we get a better return for the money spent
on this project.
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