PERSONNEL AND SPACE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NIPE STAFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 30, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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30 September 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR.: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH: Executive Director
SUBJECT: Personnel and Space Requirements for
the NIPE Staff
1. This memorandum contains a recommendation for
the approval of the DDCI. Such recommendation is contained
in paragraph 7.
2. The purpose of this memorandum is to establish a
basis for the allocation of office space and the authorization of
personnel ceilings for and assignments to the new NIPE Staff.
As far as I can judge at the moment, the NIPE Staff will involve
about 12 people working on substantive matters with adequate
stenographic and clerical support.
In addition to the Chief of the unit and his secretary,
my plans for the Staff envisage:
(a) An assistant concerned with all the
general activities of the Staff (Mr. Parrott,
GS-17).
(b) Two military members, one Major
General and one Colonel. This matter is now
under discussion with the Department of Defense.
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(c) Two program analysts (presently
Messrs. both potentially 25X1
G5-17.
(d) One requirements expert (tentatively
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(e) Your or five senior program evaluators
(GS-16 to GS-15). These evaluators could concern
themselves as required with:
(1) the adequacy and implication in
terms of cost and productivity, etc., of
intelligence coverage in specific geographic
areas, and/or
(2) problems involved in specific
systems (NRO, etc.).
One or more of these officers may be of very
senior grade in the Civil Service. Others may
be of lesser standing, at least as far as grade is
concerned.
4. Clerical and Stenographic Administrative Support.
I hope that space and personnel can be saved by satelliting
the Staff on to the administration of the DCI's office or by some
other device which will make it unnecessary to establish an
independent administrative office or officer. If this is so, we
could function with ten competent stenographers.
5. Space Requirements.
I see no alternative to locating the Staff in the Head-
quarters building in Langley. If it functions as the DCI's own
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personal Staff, proximity to the DCI appears essential. As
presently envisaged, specific requirements appear to be as
follows :
(a) Seventh floor: Three rooms at the moment
appear to be all that is required. These would be to
accommodate a senior military officer (if and when
he is made available from the Pentagon) and Messrs.
Parrott and Bross.
(b) Elsewhere in the building: The balance of
the Staff can, I believe, be located pretty much any-
where in the building but should be located together.
This is a problem which is complicated by the fact
that rather senior officers are likely to be involved,
although I should think some doubling up will be possible.
6. Specific Personnel Action.
The Director has approved I assignment
to the Agency with the grade of G5-17. Mr. Parrott's assignment
to the Staff has also been approved subject to the appointment of
a successor satisfactory to Mr. Bundy. Mr. Parrott would
like to bring his secretary with him. She has been assigned to
her position in the White House for two or three years but is
now carried on the roles of the Department of Defense. The
question of military assignments to the Staff has been discussed
with Mr. Gilpatric, General. Carroll and, briefly, with Messrs.
Nitze and Paul (also of course with the DCI). General Carroll
has advised that nothing constructive can be done until General
Taylor's return from Viet Nam. The DCI has already indicated
certain lines of inquiry for the Staff which would justify the talents
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of at least one and, very possibly, two senior analysts from
CIA. Other assignments to the Staff should probably come
from outside the Agency. Rand, IDA and the State Department
have been suggested as sources of personnel.
7. Recommendation:
I recommend that I work out specific proposals to meet
T/O and space requirements with Mr. Kirkpatrick and Col. White
who are both generally familiar with the general nature of these
requirements.
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JOHN A. BROSS
D/DCI/NIPE
Recommendation Approved:
(Signed) Marshall S. Carter
19 OCT 1963
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Date
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