ORD Career Service Panel

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00452R000100010004-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 1997
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 13, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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ORD 1073-65
13 April 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Director for Research and
Development
SUBJECT: ORD Career Service..,Boar
1. The following recommendations are suggested as a
modification of the attached ORD Instruction 20-1.
a. Organization - The Career Service Panel should
include all division chiefs and the Executive Officer
as permanent voting members. The Administrative Officer
should be the Executive Secretary and a non-voting mem-
ber. A Recording Secretary, non-voting, should also
be present. The chairmanship of the Panel should be
rotated every six months among the voting members. Ex
officio members should be present only when requested
by the Panel.
b. The minutes of the Panel meeting should be re-
corded and distributed on an "Eyes Only" basis prior to
each Panel meeting. A summary of Panel activities
should be disseminated through the Office every four
months.
c. In addition to the functions listed on the at-
tached instruction, I would add the following.
1) The Career Panel should review nominations
of candidates for the CIA Mid-Career Course.
2) The Career Panel should review nominations
of candidates for the various senior officer schools
such as the National War College, Armed Forces Staff
College, Industrial College, etc.
3) The Panel should review requests for transfer
of ORD personnel to other Agency components, partic-
ularly when a change in career service is designated
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and should review recommendations relative to
rotation and reassignment of individuals to other
components on a loan basis.
4) The Panel should consider and review
nominations for ORD, CIA., and other federal ser-
vice honor and merit commendations and awards.
5) The Panel should make recommendations rela-
tive to the selection of individuals for career
employee status.
2. The most important single factor in the success or
failure of a career board appears to be a clear definition
of its role vis-a-vis the head of the office. It should be
clearly understood by the Panel that its role is advisory,
not supervisory. Although they are not responsible for of-
fice management in the specific sense, they have an oppor-
tunity to shape the policies of ORD which, in the long run,
are even more important than specific actions. Although
promotion recommendations inevitably seem to be of major
concern to the Career Boards, this function is in fact only
a small part of the board's responsibility; this should be
emphasized.
Deputy Assistant Director
LS/ORD/DD/S&T
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