LOSS OF EXPERIENCED EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A002600170037-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: February 12, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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12 February 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Personnel
SUBJECT: Loss of Experienced Employees
REFERENCE: Your memorandum, dated 28 January 1958, same Subject
1. We have made a quiet survey of personnel, grade 11 and above,
in our Division. Only one individual has reported any job offers. The
Standard Oil of California made an informal approach in 1956; in 1951
a Department of State, OIR official made an unofficial offer, reported
as "no proselytizing"; in 1950 an Ohio corporation, J. Grinnan, Inc.,
made an offer to the same individual.
2. It might be of interest to quote from two written replies we
had to inquiries in the Division.
a. "If I were employed in private business, one of my
primary objectives would be to make money. As a CIA employee I
find myself waving the flag now and then, but this does not
obscure the fact that a healthy percentage of men in the Agency,
who are having trouble meeting the basic needs of family life,
could be taking home a fatter paycheck today if they had entered
private business.
"I like my work."
b. "l. rally informed me that comments on the
subject matter have been solicited in the hope that some light
would be shed on the reasons for the relatively high rate of
resignations in the higher grades.
"2. From remarks I gathered that those con-
cerned with the problem feel that most resignations are motivated
by the financial rewards offered outside the Agency. I do not
entirely agree.
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"3. Although some persons undoubtedly resign to accept
better paying jobs in private industry, I have the feeling that
most resignations are motivated by job dissatisfaction.
"4. There are those employees who resign simply to find
jobs that are more rewarding in terms of personal, and perhaps
family, interests and happiness. Obviously we can do little to
prevent resignations based on this type of motivation.,
"5. Then there are those who resign because of real or
imagined dissatisfaction with Agency methods of operation,
objectives, policies, efficiency, etc.
"6. On the basis of these personal observations, I have
the feeling that the problem is caused by internal conditions and
not by external financial attractions."
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