PLAN FOR THE USE OF EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES IN THE RECRUITMENT OF MEDICAL DOCTORS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01370R000200100021-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 23, 1959
• Content Type: REQ

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NLIDENT1AL
23 July 1959
PLAN FOR THE USE OF EMPLOYMENT
AGENCIES IN THE RECRUITMENT OF
MEDICAL DOCTORS
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1. The Medical Staff has immediate requirements for four medical
doctors, one for staff employment at Headquarters and three for contract
employment overseas. These four positions should be filled in the next
six oionths. In the following six months, three additional medical doctors
will be required for contract employment overseas. The most successful
recruitment in the past few years as resulted from advertisements placed
in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This advertising as
reached doctors who were over-burdened by 70-hour-a-week practices
and by doctors who ad set up practice in small towns only to find that it
was difficult to build the practice rapidly. In recent months we have not
received the proper quality or the proper quantity of doctors from these
advertisernonts. Tis paper describes a plan to develop other sources for
doctors in order to increase the quality and quantity of the candidates.
2. It is proposed that the Agency should use the following medical
employment agencies in Chicago:
The Medical Bureau (Birneice Larson)
900 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
The Shay Medical Agency
55 E. Washington Street
Chicago 2, Illinois
The Woodward Medical Personnel Bureau (Ann Woodward)
185 N. Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
3. These agencies charge a fee which is customarily billed to the
employee but is often paid by the employer. As far as can be determined, CIA
has not used employment agencies in the past because the legality of this
procedure has been questioned. The following references concern the legality
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of using employment agencies:
a) The Federal Personnel Manual, C iapter X-1-18, Section
III, states: "Commercial employment offices. -- The services of commercial
employment offices shall not be used as a source of recruitment if the office
charges the applicant a fee for placement in Federal employment. The
Commission believes that there is a violation of democratic principles inherent
in any procedure under which an applicant is required to pay a fee, either
directly or indirectly, for securing Government employment. In some cases,
the charging of fees in connection with appointment may be subject to prosecution
under Title 18, United States Code." Consequently, the use of employment
agencies is forbidden under Civil Service Commission regulations.
b) Public Law 141 of the 82nd Congress amends Section 215
of Title 18of the United States Code by adding this paragraph: "Whoever solicits
or receives anything of value in consideration of aiding a person to obtain
employment under the United States either by referring his name to an executive
department or agency of the United States or by requiring the payment of a fee
because such person nes secured such employment shall be fined not more than
$1000 or imprisoned not more than one year or both. This section shall not
apply to such services rendered by an employment agency pursuant to the
written request of an executive department or agency of the United States." It
is proposed that the Director of Personnel request the services of an employment
agency under the exception granted in the last sentence of the quoted Public Law.
A sample letter to an agency is appended.
4. These medical agencies usually charge five per cent of the first year's
salary. Since these doctors will be 'tired at GS-13 and GS-14, the maximum fee
per doctor will be $580. 00. If seven doctors were hired through these agencies,
the fees could total $4060. However, some of the seven will probably be
recruited through normal Agency channels. Payment of the fee by the employer
should result in selection from a greater number of candidates. The Medical
Staff is willing to charge this amount to their allotment number 0172-101o. The
Office of Personnel pays normal recruitment costs but will not pay for the
expenses of this unusual procedure.
5. When this plan is approved by the interested offices, overt contact by the
Medical Staff and the Office of Personnel will be made with the three medical
agencies listed. No classified information will be given. The agencies will be
told only of our need for doctors and of the required qualifications. At the first
meeting biographic information will be obtained concerning the representative of
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each agency wit. Who 'In we deal. Tia biographic inform tion- will be sent
t?I the Office of Security for their approval. When the procedure is
completed, the only classified information which the agencies will liave will
be the names of the candidates whom we accepted.
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