TRANSMITTAL OF REVISED PROPOSAL OF INSTITUTING SELECTION OUT PROCEDURES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A002600170056-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: January 24, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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Z:T,1:IOR.ANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH: Deputy Director (Support)
SUBJECT: Transmittal of Revised Proposal for Institutin
Selection Out Procedures
1. There is transmitted herewith a revised draft of the office
of Personnel proposal for an Agency selection out system. This
revision incorporates comments from the Deputy Director (Plans) and
the Deputy Director (Intelligence), offered subsequent to submission
to your office of the earlier draft of this paper. These additions
are specially identified on a separate copy of the proposed paper.
2. In coordinating this paper with the Deputy Director (Plans),
the suggestion was made to this office that there should be incorpo-
rated a provision that
As the first step in undertaking periodic
reviews, Deputy Directors will determine the
minimum number of persons, by grade, to be
nominated for separation. After coordination
with the Director of Central Intelligence,
these quotas will be forwarded to the Career
Services concerned for action.
Also, in describing the kinds of personnel to whom the selection out
procedures would apply, the Deputy Director (Plans) proposed that the
pertinent portion of paragraph 1 should be expanded to state
...or persons who barely meet these standards
but for whom there is no real need.
At the suggestion of the General Counsel, these two elements have
been omitted from the paper which is now submitted. To have retained
the statements quoted above would, in the opinion of the General
Counsel, almost certainly place this procedure in the reduction in
force program category. The Agency is not able to establish its own
reduction in force procedures since the Veterans Preference Act vests
where authrity to promulgate
in the Civil Service Commission
exemptions from
such regulations, except in cases
such coverage.
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3. We would agree to omitting the provisions which might be
construed as giving this paper a reduction in force character, from
a legal viewpoint, in order that the Agency policy might stand up in
the event it were to be contested. However, we feel strongly that
the reviews made to identify employees for selection out should be
related to the Agency's specific personnel situation, and the Deputy
Directors and Heads of Career Services, in instructing their sub-
ordinate officers (who will assist in making these selections) furnish
them with reasonable goals, in terms of the numbers of personnel
affected.
4. The General Counsel has agreed with our suggestion that the
question of seeking legislative exemption from the Civil Service
Commission's jurisdiction on reduction in force matters might well be
explored at this time. It is understood that he is now proceeding
with such a study.
5. The paper forwarded herewith has the concurrence of the Deputy
Directors for Intelligence, Plans and Support and of the Inspector
General.
Gordon M. Stewart
Director of Personnel
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