FUNCTIONS OF THE INSPECTION AND REVIEW STAFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03985A000400040032-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 32
• Content Type: MEMO

STANDARD FORM NO. Approved For Release 2002105/ P78-03985A000400040032-5
Office Memo ndu)~Z UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief of Logistics
FROM Chief, Inspection and Review Staff
suBJECT: Functions of the Inspection and Review Staff
DATE:
1. The attached statement of mission and functions will in our
opinion, adequately provide for the inspection and operations review
job as specified in the Logistics Office T/O approved by the DD/L
26 March 1953.
2. The following will summarize for the record the more important
reasons for creating this activity, as previously discussed:
a. The establishment of the I & R Staff recognizes the principle
that top management, in order to achieve peak effectiveness, must provide
for the systematic appraisal of operations in comparison with standards
and objectives. This appraisal is necessarily separate and distinct from
the review functions that are essentially a part of the supervisory res-
ponsibilities of division chiefs because:
(1) When the review function is left exclusively with
operating officials, it is usually subordinated to the opera-
ting pressures which fluctuate from day to day. Consequently,
it ceases to be systematic and sufficiently thorough.
(2) The review responsibility of the I & R Staff includes
the appraisal of management at all levels. While management
personnel should be encouraged to be self-critical, such review
cannot be expected to be wholly objective. The type of evalua-
tion work to be performed by I & R is that which the Chief of
Logistics himself would carry out if it were possible for him
to do so.
b. An important aspect of the mission of the I & R Staff is the
fact that it provides for preventive as well as curative measures. The
matter of identifying and isolating "problem" situations and incipient
fires before they occur, may well represent the difference between an
operation that is characterized by afire-fighting" and one that # g res
the fullest measure of stability and progress through effective management
planning and adequate control.
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c. The functions of the I & R Staff should. not be confused
with the typical survey activities of Organization and Method examiners
who concern themselves principally with procedures, paper work and technical
minutiae. While the analytical management techniques of Organization and
Method will be employed as necessary by the I & R Staff, they are but a
single part of the I & R program as a whole.
3. The preparation of review procedures, check: sheets and time
schedules are in process and will be submitted for your approval upon
completion.
1 Attachment:
Statement of Function
LO/BR/WSW: ae
Distribution:
Addressee
1 - Official file -_-"
1 - I&R
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