BUREAUCRATIC DETERRENTS TO COMPLETION OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00058R000100080035-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: April 16, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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16 April 1987
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Information & Management Support Staff, OL
Chiet, New Building Project Office, OL
Bureaucratic Deterrents to Completion of
Responsibilities and Potential Solutions
REFERENCE: OL 4055-87, Same Subject
1. I would like to submit two items for your consideration in
responding to the DDA's call for identification of bureaucratic stumbling
blocks. Unfortunately, I am providing only half of a response! We can
identify what are to us problems; but we do not know enough about the
processes involved to pretend to have solutions. And, the problems we cite
may be due to factors other than bureaucratic. You can detemine whether
they should be included in your response.
2. The first problem is one shared by every component in the
Headquarters building; i.e., telephone installation/modification. While
NBPO has had no direct telephone requirements during my tenure here, we
have been involved indirectly in construction-related telephone
requirements on behalf of components such as the Office of Security and
Facilities Management Division, OL. In those instances, it was necessary
to obtain the signature of the Director, Office of Information Technology
to have phones installed at the Rt. 123 Visitor Control Center and the new
North Loading Dock. As you are aware, currently it is necessary to have
the Executive Assistant to the DDA sign off on requests for telephone
services after a senior Office representative has reviewed the request.
3. In an era when the Agency is striving for excellence and more
delegation of authority, a request for rather simple telephone work should
not have to be addressed by senior Agency management. I realize that the
current situation within the Agency regarding telephones may call for such
action; but nonetheless, it is a counterproductive when components must go
through so much to obtain service or perhaps even have to do without. It
seems that we have never handled telephones very well, whether it was the
responsibility of OL, OC, or OIT!
4. My Security Officer has encountered some difficulties in bringing
in addtional security monitors for the New Headquarters Building (NHB)
consrtuction project. When they retired, most of these monitors were
working within Agency buildings with full clearances and with access to
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classified, often codeword information. Yet, even when they wish to begin
working as a security monitor immmediately after retirement, I understand
it often takes six to twelve months to clear them so that they can go into
an unclassified building and have no access to classified information. I
cannot see the logic in that - particularly when there are security escorts
(often immature) working without full background investigations and
polygraphs in the Original Headquarters Building where there are classified
documents and classified discussions. Attached is input from my Security
Officer.
1 - OL/NBPO Subject (w/att)
1 - OL/NBPO Chrono (w/att)
1 - OL Files (w/att)
Orig - se watt
OL/NBP I16Apr87
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