REVIEW OF RETIRED MILITARY PERSONNEL EMPLOYED BY THE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00473A000500140010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 22, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Career Management Officer/DDA
Acting D rector o Security
SUBJECT: Review of Retired Military Personnel
Employed by the Agency
REFERENCE: DD/A 77-2165 to Multiple Adse,
dtd 18 Apr 77, same subj
1. In response to reference, the information
requested is contained below. For ease of explanation,
we have grouped these individuals into one of three
categories--technical employees, security polygraph
officers and confidential correspondents.
2. Technical Employees
The single most important reason for hiring
retired military personnel in technical positions like
those presently occupied
is simply that people with the unique combination of
skills and experience of these two gentlemen are extremely
rare or non-existent in the private sector. In fact, as
the emphasis on technical security grows in the commercial
world, the demand for retired military personnel with
appropriate skills steadily increases in private industry
just because about the only source for such people is the
military. Generally speaking, the only alternative to
hiring from the military services is to initiate an exten-
sive program to select and train people in the required
disciplines. This course of action would not only be very
time consuming, in the order of several years, but also
expensive.
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as a military officer in the
United States Army, Counterintelligence Corp, from 1945
to 1966. He retired from the Army in 1966 as a Lieutenant
Colonel.
At the 1:i-,we of retirement, the
Polygraph Branch was seeking to a polygraph trainees
or experienced polygraphers to its staff who, in particular,
possessed language skills, Much to our good fortune,
not only had the necessary language facility,
Japanese and French, but he was a fully trained polygraph
examiner whose 20 some years in the military included a
wealth of security and counterintelligence experience.
Though an effort was made both within anc outside the
Agency to seek these language skills in combination with
spent approximately three years at
as a military
e Immediately prior to nis retirement. He was
and is uniquely qualified for the position he now holds.
He is providing a very valuable service, not only to
the Agency but to the United States Government Intelligence
Community as a whole. His combination of skills includes
expertise in instructing, administration, electronics,
audio countermeasures, locks, alarms and telephones.
also spent a tour as
an instructor prior to his military retirement. e
subsequently went to the private sector in the security
field and was later hired from the private sector by the
Technical Security Division to fill a key vacated job for
which he was and is uniquely qualified. He has expertise
in briefing (at all levels on complex technical subjects),
instruction, audio countermeasures, locks and alarms. He
continues to provide a very valuable service for the Division
and the United States Government. The Office of Security has
tried to locate personnel from other sources for his position
without success.
3. Security/Polygraph Officer
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a trained or trainable poly ra h examiner, no candidate was
forthcoming who could match qualifications.
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on duty as a .
is now the Deputy Chief of the Polygraph
Branch w a en years experience in the Agency polygraph
program. It would be extremely difficult to find a replace-
ment in this vital element of our organization where
skills in management and polygraph operations
contr ute so significantly to the recognized success of
the program. In fact, losing would be a serious
setback and would not be cost effective for the Federal
Government.
4. Confidential Correspondents
The following confidential correspondents are
employed as Independent Contractors in the areas indicated.
Colorado Springs, CO CIAO/USA
Fairfax, VA Lt. Col./USA
Dallas, TX Col/USAF
Hawaii Lt. Col/USAF
Puerto Rico Enlisted/USA
Las Vegas, NE Col/USA
(*Not listed in OP memorandum)
The above individuals are all experienced investigators.
They are utilized on a "when actually needed" basis to augment
our staff investigative force during periods of peak caseloads
and in isolated geographic areas where it is not economically
sound to send staff investigators on TDY. These retirees were
hired in the first place because they were experienced
investigators who needed no training and could work on a
part-time basis.
These individuals render a valuable service in that
their talents can be utilized when actually needed, on a case
basis, with no career commitments or fringe benefits. Retention
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most important because their strategic locations an proven
abilities deliver substantial savings in funds and time
required to handle isolated investigative leads. The
situation regarding the other four persons in this category
is as critical and the value on these four is less obvious.
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