LETTER TO LOUIS STOKES FROM ROBERT M. GATES

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• Publication Date: May 22, 1987
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Central Intelligencc Ageny
Washington D C 20505
22 MAY 1987
OCA 87-2216
The Honorable Louis Stokes, Chairman
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This is in response to your letter of 8 May 1987 concerning
General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Protective
Officers (FPOs) and the CIA's Security Protective Service
(SPS). Let me begin by answering briefly the specific
questions contained in your letter:
O As of 10 May 1984, 161 FPOs, 145 of whom were
minorities, were assigned to the Agency.
O To date, 11 FP05, six of whom are minorities, have
applied for SPS positions.
O As of 8 May 1987, the Agency has hired four FPOs,
three of whom are minorities. Five other FPOs, three
of whom are minorities, are in process for employment.
In addition, you might be interested in our experiences
with this program to date:
O At the start of the SPS recruitment program, we
notified all FPOs assigned to CIA facilities that we
were recruiting for the SPS. They were afforded
special briefings on the program in the CIA
auditorium. We provided incentives in the form of a
waiver of Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
(FLETC) training if the individual had Federal
Protective Service (FPS) refresher training within the
past five years. We also waived for FPOs the minimum
Agency qualifying score on our standard
clerical/technical employee aptitude test (SET).
Three of the four former FPOs now in the SPS ranks
were hired during this initial period, prior to
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October 1985. All four received starting pay
comparable to that which they had been receiving in
the FPS.
O Very early in the SPS program we learned that GSA,
which was operating at about 65 percent of its FPO
strength, would not be able to replace FPOs in CIA
buildings who left their service to join the SPS. Due
to the fact that the Special Protective Officers
(SPOs) could be assigned only to certain facilities at
that time, we were left with an unfillable vacancy
each time an FPO departed from a facility which could
not be covered by the SPS. By agreement with GSA,
Agency managers refrained from active recruiting of
FPOs at that time. We did not decline to accept
applications from FPOs, but the only preferential
treatment afforded FPOs between October 1985 and
November 1986 was the waiver of FLETC training and SET
scores.
O Prior to October 1985, SPO starting salaries were
determined by what was asked for by the applicant and
the applicant's credentials. We learned that other
services, such as the Secret Service Uniformed
Division and the Capitol Hill Police, had set uniform
entry salary levels which served them well.
Therefore, we set a uniform maximum entry level of
GS-06, Step 1, effective in October 1985. All SPOs
hired between October 1985 and April 1987 were at the
GS-06, Step 1 level.
O While uniform entry-level pay was fair in the sense
that it was uniformly applied, the fact of the matter
is that our starting salary of GS-06, Step 1,
represented a pay cut for most FPOs who, although they
were GS-04s and GS-05s, were at step levels which
afforded them higher pay. The thought of a pay cut
was surely a disincentive to many FPOs. After our
initial efforts to recruit SPOs from the local areas
had failed to produce a sufficient number of
applicants, we began to recruit more widely throughout
the Continental U.S.
In November 1986, we reached agreement on completing the
FPO/SPS transition with the FPS and obtained its agreement to
resume active recruitment of FPOs. We subsequently sent about
150 recruitment letters to FPOs and distributed an equal number
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of recruitment brochures. We are giving all FPO applications
priority handling. In addition, in April 1987, we raised the
entry-level SPS salary to a negotiable range from $20,378 to
$26,435, depending on qualifications, to be more competitive
with local police organizations. We hope these steps will
increase our success in hiring FPOs for the SPS.
The bottom line is that we have not been successful in
recruiting a significant number of FPOs for the SPS thus far.
Although there are many reasons for this situation, as
described earlier, one principal reason is that we were simply
not active enough in recruiting FPOs from the start. I assure
you that since last November we have worked to correct this
deficiency and will redouble our efforts to ensure that the
FPOs assigned to CIA receive the hiring preference which
Congress expects.
OCA/Senate
Sincerely,
Is/ lob-at wet,
Robert M. Gates
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
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LOUIS STOKES. OHiCy CHAIRMAN
ADAVE McCUIIDY, OKLAHOMA
ANTHONY C. BEILENSON. CALIFORNIA
ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER. WISCONSIN
DAN DANIEL. VIRGINIA
ROBERT A. ROE NEW JERSEY
GEORGE E. BROWN. JR.. CAUFORNIA
MATTHEW F. McHUGH. NEW YORK
BERNARD J. DWYER NEW JERSEY
CHARLES WILSON. TEXAS
BARBARA B. KENNELLY. CONNECTICUT
HENRY J. HYDE. IIJJNOIS
DICK CHENEY. WYOMING
BOB LIVINGSTON. LOUISIANA
BOB McEINBC OHIO
DANIEL E LUNGREN, CALIFORNIA
BUD SHUSTER PENNSYLVANIA
THOMAS K. LATIMER. STAFF DIRECTOR
MICHAEL J. crown_ CHIEF COUNSEL
THOMAS N. SPAEETON, ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6415
May 8, 1987
Honorable Robert M. Gates
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mt. Gates:
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The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1985 contained a
provision authorizing the appointment of special CIA policemen to protect
Agency personnel and property. In its report accompanying the House version
of the Fiscal Year 1985 bill, the Committee stated, with respect to the
special police authority, that it "expects the CIA to grant preferences in
hiring for the planned CIA physical security personnel positions to qualified
individuals who currently serve in FPO assignments at the CIA."
Please provide the Committee with a statistical analysis that shows:
- how many FPO policemen were assigned for duty at CIA on May 10, 1984,
the date the House report was filed, including how many of such number
were minorities;
- how many FPO policemen applied for special CIA police positions
including how many of this number were minorities; and
- how many FPO policemen have been hired by the Agency as of the date of
this letter, including how many of that number are minorities.
In addition, please provide the Committee with a description of how the
Agency went about giving preference to those FPO policemen formerly assigned
at CIA who applied for employment as special CIA policemen, as well as any
efforts the Agency may have made to inform these FPO policemen of job
opportunities and possible hiring preference at CIA.
Please provide this information to the Committee by May 18, 1987.
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Chairman
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CHARLES WILSON, TEXAS
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BARBARA B. KENNELLY. CONNECTICUT
WASHINGTON, DC 20515-8415
HENRY J. HYDE, IUJNOIS
DICK CHENEY, WYOMING
BOB UVINGSTON. LOUISIANA
BOB McEWEN, DING
DANIEL S. WNGREN. CALIFORNIA
BUD SHUSTER, PENNSYLVANIA
June 5, 1987
1140MAS K. LATIMER. STAFF DIRECTOR
MICHAEL J. O'NEIL CHIEF COUNSEL
THOMAS ft SMEETON, ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
Honorable William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Judge Webster:
You and I have discussed the issue of minority hiring several times in
your previous position as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
I was impressed by your interest in this matter and by your efforts to
improve the minority hiring practices at the FBI.
Although I did not mention this issue at our meeting the other morning,
there is something that I want to bring to your attention.
In 1984, the CIA asked the Committee for legislative authorization to hire
special CIA policemen to replace GSA Federal Protective Officers assigned to
protect CIA property and personnel. GSA was unable over a several year period
to provide sufficient numbers of personnel to fill the number of guards
required by the CIA.
The FY 1985 Intelligence Authorization Act provided the requested
legislative authority. The report accompanying that bill stated that the
Committee expected the CIA to grant preference to the GSA people then assigned
to CIA in hiring for the new CIA protective force.
On May 10, 1984 when the House report was issued, there were 161 FPOs
assigned to CIA, of whom 145 were minorities. This Committee in May of this
year asked CIA how many of the 161 had been hired by the CIA and how many were
minorities. The CIA answer stated that only four of the 161 had been hired,
of whom three were minorities.
Apparently the briefing that CIA gave the CZA personnel about the changes
that were coming indicated that they would have to take a substantial cut in
pay if they applied for and were accepted into the new CIA protective
service. Naturally, most of them preferred to stay with GSA and to take other
assignments.
That contrasts with the way the National Security Agency handled a similar
transition. NSA offered an increase in pay for GSA personnel who were willing
to switch to the new NSA protective force and 383 of the 387 GSA personnel
assigned to NSA joined their new force.
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Knowing of your interest in minority hiring, I wanted to call this to your
attention. I look forward to working with you on this and other matters in
your new position as Director of Central Intelligence.
UIS STOKES
Chairman
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