CLANDESTINE SERVICE SUPPORT OFFICERS' MEETING DDS CONFERENCE ROOM 4 NOVEMBER 1970

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04722A000200010028-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: November 4, 1970
• Content Type: MIN

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CLANDESTINE SERVICE SUPPORT OFFICERS' MEETING
DDS Conference Room
4 November 1970
2. Howard Osborn spoke on bomb threats.
3 . Items of interest at the DID' Staff Me eting
a. Director's Trip to the Far East Mr. Karamessines advised that
the Director was most laudatory in his statements regarding FE Stations and
personnel following his recent trip to the Far East.
b. CS Grade Levels Also the Director asked the DD/S to discuss
with him the discrepancies between the grades of our people in the field and
the grades of personnel of State, AID, USIA, etc. In :this connection, DD/P
gave DD/S a copy of a memo he wrote to the Executive Director-Comptroller
which discussed this problem and which requested an increase in the number
of CS Supergrades and a slight increase in the CS average grade.
c. Course for Wives Going Overseas Mr. Karamessines asked Al
about the course given for wives before they go overseas and was
informed that the course had been stopped. He requested that the course as
previously given be reinstated and that he felt it should be made more or less
compulsory, especially for wives who have not been overseas before. He
requested that it be run about six times per year and stated that the CS
Divisions would help to the extent required by OTR. He suggested that some
experienced wives be used as instructors in the course. For mid-level
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d. Post Reports Mr. Karamessines also requested that branches
and desks take on the responsibility for maintaining up-dated Post Report
information. In this connection, pointed out that OTR was
now producing kits on the various Stations for handout to wives. He stated
that this program was not yet complete for all Stations, but that it was well
underway. You as Support Chiefs are going to have to take the lead on this.
to make sure that complete info is available in your Component for each
overseas Station.
e. DDP Absence from Headquarters Mr. Karamessines is away on
a trip from last Thursday through today.
~.. Ambassador Briefings and Lunch The ADD/P requested that
Division or Staff Chiefs who are inviting Ambassadors out for briefings
and lunch, discuss their plans ahead of time with the DD/P or the ADD/P.
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4. Items of interest at the DDS Staff Meeting:
a. Environmental Control
DDS Environmental Control Officer to work with
has been designated as the
(contractor) to
try to improve conditions in some of the Agency work areas.
b. Assignment
OSP replacing;
is the new Deputy Director,
who moved to OEL as Deputy Director.
c. Inter-Directorate Rotations
committee to review inter-Directorate rotations.
representative on the committee.
will chair a new 25X1A
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d. Marriage to Aliens Anew time frame will be established for
marriage to alien cases which will provide time for a full security clearance
for the intended spouse.
e. Summer Employment Program The 1971 Summer Employment
Program has been approved at not to exceed 200. Personnel will telescope
processing time in order to inform dependents whether they have been
accepted in early spring 1971. A notice on this subject is now in process.
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f. Rendezvous Room It has been decided that the Rendezvous Room
will be open to non-badged personnel after a notice has been published
informing all employees of that fact.
g. Personnel Data in Soft Files A recent IG Survey revealed that
soft files continue to contain info regarding individuals which should be
available to management when considering the individual for assignment or
promotion. As a result of this, of the IG Staff has been set 25X1A
up to chair a committee to review the problem and determine how this
material is to be collected and made available to management.
h. Project USEFUL Project USEFUL is being cancelled.
i. Drug Display OMS will have a drug display in the 1-B corridor
from 9 through 24 November 1970.
j. Foot Surveillance Film OTR has completed a 45 minute film
dealing with "Foot Surveillance" which is now available for groups who
would like to use it.
k. Visitors to Headquarters Building The McLean Rotary Club has
been invited to the Agency on 24 November 1970,for a briefing in the
Auditorium and lunch in a roped-off area of the North Cafeteria.
received from one Division to pay shipping costs from the U. S. to an
employee's new Station (lateral transfer) because the employee's vehicle
was $ years old. It turned out that the employee had shipped a 6-year old
vehicle to his first post and he had used it overseas only 2 years. SSA-DD/S
urged that Support Chiefs question cases where individuals propose to ship
"old" vehicles overseas and do their best to discourage the shipment.
a. Shipment of Old POWs discussed a request which he
b. Commuted Travel System SSA-DD/S described the new proposal
from Director of Finance for a commuted travel system for return travel
from the field which had been approved for development of schedules by the
DDS. Basically it provides for commuted rates by economy air from the
overseas post to the gateway into the U. S. , and commuted rates by either
air or POV from the gateway to the home leave point and then to Headquarters.
It also provides that employees who have access to U. S, ships for return to
the U. S. , and are authorized to travel by ship and do in fact travel by ship,
will have their vouchers computed by Central Travel Branch as in the past,
i, e. , they would not be treated under the commuted travel system. Less
than l0ojo of our overseas personnel would fall in this group. None of the
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c. Shipment of Foreign Manufactured or Assembled Vehicles
The Travel Policy Committee has recommended that the Agency adopt
the policy that reimbursement will be allowed for the shipment of foreign
manufactured or assembled vehicles. Employees will however have to
in accomplishing the shipment. The DD/S has given his
informal approval of this policy.
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