REQUEST TO EOD CRITICAL CATEGORY APPLICANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00065R000100100008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 27, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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MHMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
STAT
SUBJECT: Request to EOD Critical Category Applicants
1. During FY87, FBIS launched an active recruitment campaign in an
effort to reach our ceiling. FBIS was aided in this effort by your decision
in August to dedicate DST processing slots to this office. In addition, we
specifically focused on minorities during the campaign not only because we
thought it important, but because the Agency thought it important enough to
allocate additional processing slots to aid the cause.
2. Currently, FBIS has 27 applicants in process by the Office of
Personnel. Of these, nine are fully cleared and ready to EOD. Our
recruitment among minorities and women has proven to be particularly
successful. Of the nine cleared applicants, seven are women. Three of these
women are also minority applicants.
Hispanic
To date we have not been able to EOD any of these prospective
employees.
3. It seems to me that minorities are going to have less and less
confidence/patience in us if we do not culminate the prolonged process we have
put them through to date. If the Agency is to be taken seriously in its
attempt to recruit and retain minorities and females, then we should act
decisively to EOD them when we have the opportunity.
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SUBJECT: Request to EOD Critical Category Applicants
4. I ask your intervention on FBIS' behalf to EOD those candidates not
because it will aid the FBIS staffing posture (which it will) but because of
my personal concern about the negative effect on the Agency's credibility in
the area of minority hiring and retenLion.
APPROVED:
Deputy Director for Science an Te ology
Distribution:
Original - Addressee (Return to D/FBIS)
3 - DDS$T
1 - RWM Correspondence File
1 - D/FBIS Orono
1 - AS Chrono
1 - PB Chrono
1 - Each 201 file
1 - FBIS Re ist
DDS$T/FBIS/Per (22 October 1987
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