MINUTES OF INCENTIVE AWARDS MEETING 29 SEPTEMBER 1955

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00832A000200060010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 25, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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IORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Incentive Awards Board
SUBJECT: Minutes of Incentive Awards Meeting 29 September 1955
1. The CIA Incentive Awards Board met on Thursday, 29 September
1955 at 2:30 in Room 2J2, Curie Hall with the Chairman presiding and the
following members present:
Training
Communications
DD/P
Logistics
Personnel
DJ/I
Management Staff
MS/Executive Secretary
MS/Incept:ve Awards Officer
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Others attending at the invitation of the Chairman included:
2. spoke on the need to improve coordination between
Honor Awards Board and the Incentive Awards Board in their consideration
of meritorious performance awards. He proposed that the Incentive Awards
Board revise its method of handling recommendations for such awards to
include one additional step. The Executive Secretary is to send all
such recommendations to the Honor Awards Board before submitting them to
the Incentive Awards Board in order that the latter group may have the
benefit of a recommendation by the former. Several Board members commented
concerninfr this proposal. The most important comment stressed the need
for establishment of criteria and standards by each Board for such cases.
The Chairman invited the former Chairman, to accompany him
to the next meeting of the Honor Awards Board on 3 October to assist in
presenting the Incentive Awards Board position on this matter and to
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obtain a working agreement for handling future cases. Examples to be
discussed included all 3 of the performance awards up for consideration
on this meeting's agenda plus selected ones which seem of possible
interest to both Boards. It was agreed further that the Honor Awards
Board would not serve as a reviewing authority over actions recommended
or taken by the Incentive Awards Board, since the Incentive Awards Board
would receive and consider cases only after the Honor Awards Board's
recommendation had been made and there would be no further referral to
the Honor Awards Board. The Incentive Awards Board would not be bound
to accept the recommendation of the Honor Awards Board, but would have
the benefit of it. It was further agreed that this aim of improved coord-
ination should help both groups ensure more appropriate recognition of
deserving employees and reduce the possibility of one Board's acting with-
out the knowledge of the other Board's position on the case. The Board
members expressed a preference for resolving this problera by a working
agreement rather than by emphasizing it in a revision of the regulations
controlling these two programs. It was felt that many of the employees
recommended for performance awards under the Incentive Awards Board system
might also qualify for Honor Awards in addition. The whole purpose is to
clarify the areas of responsibility of the two Boards and to improve coord-
ination between them in order that each may better accomplish its objectives
of identif ing and recognising outstanding employees. In summary, Mr.
will reach an agreement with
Chairman/HAB, and will leave it to the Executive Secretary IAB and the
Recorder/HAB to implement the improvement in coordination.
3? The Chairman introduced who had been asked to atend
in order to ensure uniformity between Incentive Awards Board and Special
Panel in their operations. He stated that he intended to obtain the
nomination by DD/P of the Chairman of the Special Panel to serve as the
second DD/P member on the Incentive Awards Board as soon as the proposed
- increasing DD/P and DD/I representation is coordinated and publish-
ed. In the interest of maintaining this uniformity of approach between
the two groups, other members of the Special Panel will be invited to
attend future meetings of the Incentive Awards Board.
on which the IAB acted on 1 September 1955? The Executive ecre ary was 25X1 A
authorized to submit this award to the DD/5 for approval without waiting
for the results of the discussion with Honor Awards Boas, since it had
already been acted upon by IAB,
members at their next meeting including the case of
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14. The Chairman read a memorandum dated 29 September 1955 from Mr.
(DD/Pers/PD), subject: "Honor Awards Board and Incentive
Awards Board Problems." Following discussion of this paper, it was agreed
that the Honor Awards Board should consider that the problems referenced
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5. The Board approved a superior accomplishment award of $1,000 for
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Non-adopted suggestions:
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10. The meeting was adjourned at 4:L5 P.M..
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Executive Secretary
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Chairmian, Incentive wards Committee
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