EXEMPTIONS FROM THE HIRING FREEZE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00890R000600080002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 3, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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3 FEB
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Personnel Policy,
Planning and Management
FROM: William N. Hart
Acting Deputy Director for Administration
Exemptions from the Hiring Freeze
1. At the end of fiscal year 1979, the Directorate of
Administration was 27 under its authorized ceiling. The growing
number of retirements and reassignments, when combined with the
"1 for 2" hiring freeze, produced a 92-underceiling situation by
the end of fiscal 1980. Although the number of hirings has in-
creased in recent months, retirements have increased as well. At
the beginning of the present month we were 101 under our fiscal
1980 ceiling. The 29-position increase in.our fiscal 1981 ceiling
will place us in an even more negative situation..
2. All of the Offices in this Directorate will suffer, to a
greater or lesser extent, from the present freeze. I am limiting
my requests for exemption, however, to those that can least afford
and will suffer most dramatically from an extended freeze.. The
attachments are self-explanatory.
3. In light of our present situation and the probable impact
of the hiring freeze on our ability to perform our mission, I re-
.quest exemptions from the freeze for the following Offices listed
in order of priority: Communications, Logistics, Security, and
Data Processing..
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SUBJECT: Office of Communications Current & Projected Personnel
Staffing
1. The Office of Communications began fiscal year 1981
100 personnel understrength (see attached chart). Should this
condition continue, the following curtailment of Office of
Communications services to the CIA and customer agencies will
be necessary:
a. Foreign Network
(1) It will be impossible to staff the following
new and expanded requirements. recently received from DDO.
Expanded
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traffic handling at those stations. These measure would
compensate for only our current personnel shortage..
(3) In addition, should this trend continue in
FY-82, the Office of Communications would be forced to
eliminate
approximately 40 percent of the traffic now transmitted
electrically would have to be sent by dispatch and
pouch.
b. Domestic Activity
Our Domestic Networks Division is now projecting
an increase of 66 percent of overtime in FY-81. This
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figure would increase s should the current
trend in under-staffing continue. In spite of the
amount cited above, it is anticipated that a signi-
ficant delay in response time to maintenance and
repair of the Headquarters area telephone service
and other domestic networks technical support due
to increased demands. The project
will not meet the 25 June schedule. The Headquarters
secure telephone service installation schedule will
be
also/adversely affected.
C. Engineering
If the current trend continues,Engineering Division
will be forced to curtail all activities related to
design, modifications and modernization of equipment.
and systems such as MERCURY, SKYLINK, secure voice,
etc. The majority of this Division's resources
would be diverted to support and install existing
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systems, effectively prohibiting further work on
recapitalization of the network.
2. To date, the Office of Communications has adopted
the following short-term measures to compensate for our existing
short-fall of personnel:
a. Office Of Communications personnel are allowed
.only minimal occupational and no developmental training. aG.
This amounts to an percent decrease in available
training.
b. Overtime in the foreign network area has increased
from 14,000 hours in FY-80 to 17,000 hours in FY-81.
3. The impact of these measures is already evident in
terms of stress-related illnesses among Commo personnel, increased
attritions related to employee dissatisfaction and a steadily
increasing number of personnel requesting transfer out of the
Office of Communications. These factors will force the Office
of Communications management to consider significant curtailment
of services mentioned in para 1 above in the near future.
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