CAREER TRAINING TASK FORCE REPORT - MAY AND JUNE 1983

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B01152R000200310005-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 8, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
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May and June 1983
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8 July 1983
MD~IORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Chief, Career Training Task Force
SUBJECT Career Training Task Force Report --
May and June 1983
1. The expanded effort to recruit CTs is now fully operational, in the
sense that we should now be able to meet the CT entry on duty goals. The
bureaucratic machinery necessary to find, screen and process the number of
high quality young officers we seek is established. Coordination with the
integral components of this process -- the Office of Personnel, the Office of
Medical Services and the Office of Security -- is efficient and free of sig-
nificant problems. The processing mechanism has been refined to the extent
that the time necessary to bring CT applicants from initial testing to full
clearance for entry on duty is now commonly dropping below six months.
2. New initiatives promise to enhance our recruiting efforts and further
diminish the time spent processing applicants. The most significant of these
during the period of May and June are the following:
-- Oral agreement has been given in principle by the Assistant Sec-
retary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics to permit us to have
access to resigning military officers who match our CT qualification
criteria. An effort is underway to build a mechanism which will allow
us to exploit this resource pool.
-- The PATB is being given with greater frequency to larger numbers
of CT applicants. We are still working toward getting PATB scores in an
always timely way. Moving this screen to the beginning of CT applicant
processing is saving hundreds of needlessly spent man hours.
-- We are actively trying to recruit future CTs from within the
Graduate Fellow group working in the Agency this summer. PATB testing
of a small number of this group who have expressed an interest in the
CT Program is underway.
3. Also having a beneficial effect on our CT recruitment effort is the
increasing number of referrals we are receiving from the now several hundred
persons in Academia who are willing to assist us. During May and June 17
students were referred to us by individuals in our Academic Associates Program.
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(In a continuing effort to build that program further we contacted 70 faculty
members at 28 universities during May and June.)
4. As we now reach a point of promise for reaching established CT recruit-
ment goals we have a responsibility to an increasing number of people in Academia
and the Department of Defense to whom we have said we have an urgent and con-
tinuing need for help, while seeking their assistance. That cannot appear to
have been a capricious request. Inevitably, the time will come to decelerate
our recruitment efforts. Ideally, that will be done slowly, over a period of
time. Otherwise, damage could result which would adversely affect CT recruit-
ment efforts for some time thereafter.
5. The recruitment mechanism is functioning well. It can function better.
We will seek to have it do so by fine-tuning it. As we do so we should be able
to improve the quality of incoming CTs, which has been and remains high, with-
out significantly reducing the number of CT's being brought in. By so doing we
can assure that those entering the CT Program in the near future will represent
the highest level of potential long term career excellence of any group within
the Agency.
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Distribution:
Orig -Addressee
1
-Executive Director
1
-Executive Secretariat
1
- C/CTTF
1
- DC/CTTF
(A$T)
1
- DC/CTTF
(RAP)
1
- D/PERS
1
- DDA
1
- DDO
1
- DDO/CMS
C/CTTF/SHR: jnun (8 Jul 83)
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