DDS AND DDP STAFF MEETING, 24 FEBRUARY 1965

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06096A000400010010-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2000
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• Publication Date: February 25, 1965
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25 February 1965
ME, ',;ORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Training
SUBJECT
DDS and DDP Staff Meetings, 24 February 1965
1. The DDS Staff Meeting covered the following topics:
b. Agency Retirement System
Echols reported that as of today the Agency is able to proceed
with establishing the retirement system. The go-ahead has been received
from the lawyers hired as consultants by the Director, the Bureau of the
Budget, the Senate and House Committees. It will probably be another two
..weeks, however, before the Agency has formal written approval from the
two Committees. As soon as this is received and the Director gives his
approval, a Retirement Board will be established. The next step will then
be to identify the participants. Rosters are now being prepared; they will
probably 'NL ready for distribution to the Career Services within two weeks.
They will be made up of those in the Agency who are at least 50 years of
age, have 20 years of government service, 10 years of which have been
with the Agency and which have had "some apparent overseas service."
The problem will be to identify those who do and who do not qualify. This
may involve quite a bit of research as the records are often incomplete.
Rosters will be acted upon first by the Career Services concerned, they
will then report their findings and recommendations to the Retirement
Board for review and submission of final recommendations to the Director
of "Personnel.
(1). On the subject of retirement, Colonel White commented
that he wanted all Office I-leads to give a good deal of thought to what they
were going to do about cases that clearly qualified; he wanted them to think
about those persons whom they may want to have retired as well as about
those who may themselves want to retire. In discussing the Retirement
System, Col. White referred to the five years of qualifying service as
being five years of duty overseas (Echols had simply referred to this as
"some apparent overseas service"). When questioned on this point Col.
White stated that the qualifying service requirement would generally be
interpreted to mean five years of overseas duty. He went on to state,
however, that there would be exceptions to this rule (e. g. , that it would
be possible to qualify without any overseas service) but for; the, present he
wanted them to proceed on the basis of five years of overseas service.
When asked about the limitation of 400 who maybe *retired during"the first
five years, he stated that he didn't think it would .be. upieful for Office Heads
to concern themselves with that matter, at Ieas,t 16r`the -present. He added
that hAp)Yr bll k'i r4M@ idqO0L/ 9-vq @fALA O~~9rYAo a oib61*oi id`volun=
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c. Sum stion Awards
chols reported briefly on the Suggestion Awards Program. During
the -~Iirst half of FY 65, 51 suggestion awards had been adopted. This repre-
sented 30% of the total submitted. The average cash award was $331. 00.
11,39ether $14, 895 had been awarded. By far the largest portion of this
0um had been awarded the DD/S&'I, with DDS, DDI and DDP trailing as
Iiv,wed.
d. JOT Program
Col. White commented on the expansion of the JOT program.
Two questions in connection with it had been raised. First, should the
JOT Program be expanded? Second, could the Directorates accommodate
the JOTs which had been recruited for them if they didn't have the necessary
personnel ceiling2 Col. White reported that these two matters had been sub-
mitted to the DCI for his decision. As a result, Col. White was now able
to report that the Program will be expanded and, that when JOTs are ready
for transfer to the Directorates, the extent to which their transfer puts a
particular component above ceiling will be tolerated. (Echols interjected
that the question had been raised in the past of the recruitment into the
JO's Program of Negro candidates. He stated that thus far there had been
10 JOTs come into the Agency through the Program and that they now have
applications from 3 new candidates.)
e. Assignment of JOTs to DDS Offices
Col. White reported that he had asked to interview
each of the JOTs in the present JOT Support Course. He went on to explain
that he wanted each member of the class assigned to a definite job two
weeks before the end of the course. He informed the Office Heads that some
of them would have JOTs assigned to their offices and that he wanted them
personally to see that these young officers were properly handled. He
underscored this point by reminding them that he had only recently learned
that not too good a job had been done in this respect with the JOTs' interim
assignments in the DDS offices, i. e. , that too many of them had been given
make-work jobs and tasks. He reiterated that the Office Heads must see
that these young officers are handled right.
f. Summer Employment
Col. White also discussed briefly summer employment. The num-
ber is to be limited to those absolutely needed and the Program must be well
administered. I-le instructed Office Heads who have requirements for sum-
mer employees to report how many they want and for what specific jobs.
He wants this report submitted under the signature of the Office Head to the
Director of Personnel through the DDS. The Agency, he said, was going,..
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to run a "hard-nosed program" in comparison with past programs. A
notice will be coming out on summer employment in the next two weeks.
h. Supergrade Quotas
The Agency has also been told by the Bureau of the Budget that it
will. have to absorb from its existing quota of supergrades (392 established
Z 1/2 years ago) DD/S&T's requirements for scientific supergrades. In
effect this will have "to come out of the hides" of the DDP, DDS and DDI.
Col. White requested Office Heads, therefore, to submit recommendations
on r..yone who was ""particularly deserving" as he was certain the DDS would
have to give up some of its existing quota.
i. NSA Establishing an Overseas Program
at NSA has met with Col. White to learn from Agency
crience in establishing his overseas program. It seems that NSA at
rv ent is embarking on an overseas program and is running into all sorts
of Problems that are now to their".. Col. White requested Office Heads to
c:oororat.e with NSA representatives in sharing our experience with them.
HHo reminded thos
The DDI is taking a team to 0 to discuss and review the 25X1A
Vietnam situation. At this point, Halms interjected a comment that
Cline has the unenviable task of "explaining to the what the 25X1A
Americans are doing in Vietnam."
f. WH Station Chiefs Conference
'!'he WH Station Chiefs Conference will be held ati 25X1A
10 to 12 i `arch. Division and Staff Chiefs having any business with any of
the visiting Station Chiefs wdre requested to make arrangements to see
them well in advance.
g. Special Airplane
supplied information on an airplane which he described
as being an adapted B-26 bomber. There will be one at Dulles for the next
few days. It has a maximum range of 1800 miles, a low level flight speed
of 280 plus knots, and the appearance of an executive transport. There
are 22 scattered around the world so they will not necessarily be identified
with the Agency. It does not have a bomb bay but it does have a hatch in
the rear.
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