PERSONNEL AND SPACE ALLOCATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A000500190088-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 88
• Publication Date: April 28, 1950
• Content Type: MEMO

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T0: Each Assistant Director and Staff Chief
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Personnel and Space Allocations
28 APR 1950
1. a. After exhaustive efforts during the past several months
to obtain needed additional space for further expansion of CIA
under planned build-up through the fiscal year 1951 it has been
determined that we can anticipate no addition to currently
assigned space in the Washington area prior to 1 January 1951,
b. This determination makes it necessary to restrict our
departmental personnel build-up and other planned facilities to
those which can be currently accommodated for most efficient
results within our overall space allocations, until additional
space can be made available to the Agency.
2. In the light of these conditions the following policies and
procedures are re-emphasized for continued study and action:
a. COAPS will continue special effort toward:
(1) The defining of essential substantive programs and the
elimination of substantive effort which, even though it may be
of some value, is not currently essential to the CIA mission.
(2) The early recommendation of solutions for current
problems in connection with abstracting and indexing, liaison,
intelligence information requirements, and overt collection
effort within the Agency.
(3) Reducing to the extent possible the requirements for
reproduction and dissemination of substantive materials,
b. The Management Staff will direct special effort toward:
(1) Continued elimination and avoidance of duplications
and non-essential activities in administrative effort.
(2) Streamlining and centralization, where appropriate
and feasible, of decentralized administrative effort.
(3) Reduction of current personnel authorizations to the
fullest extent commensurate with the continuance of esse
programs and operational activity.
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(4+) Adequate controls, through further centralization
and priority determinations, of the utilization of reproduc-
tion facilities.
(5) Assistance and support of COAPS in carrying out the
provisions of a. aboveo
c. The Personnel Director will, in coordination with the
Chiefs of the Administrative and Special Support Staffs:
(1) Determine, in collaboration with the Assistant
Directors and Staff Chiefs, the maximum numbers of personnel
which can be accommodated by Offices and Staff Sections within
allocated space, and the designation of positions to be filled
within space restrictions.
(2) Direct personnel procurement activities to concentrate
their efforts to filling such positions until the availability
of additional space can be predicted with sufficient certainty
to warrant resuming an increased or overall effort.
3. Assistant Directors and Staff Chiefs will give full cooperation
to the implementation of the emergency measures indicated above, and must,
of necessity, tailor their current plans and programs to the availability
of facilities and personnel to carry them out.
4. a. COAPS and the Management Staff will afford the fullest
opportunity for conferences and general discussion between all
Assistant Directors and Staff Chiefs concerned in determining
action to be instituted or recommended under these instructions.
b. Matters which cannot be resolved in this manner will be
referred to the Executive, with full statement of the position of
each official concerned, for action or further reference to the
Director*
c. All action involving changes in Agency policy, organization
structure or major functions will be referred to the Executive prior
to implementation, even though full agreement has been reached by
all concerned.
5. a. Attached hereto is a tabulation showing your current de-
partmental personnel authorization and total space (exclusive of
space for guards, I & S receptionists, emergency rooms, etc.)
which can be allocated to you in the Washington area within
current overall availability. The final determination of author-
ized facilities and personnel to be housed within this space
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allocation must necessarily be left to you.
b. An Agency policy statement relative to personnel plan-
ning for your fiscal year 1952 budget presentation has been
added to the inclosure to avoid the necessity for a further
directive on this subject.
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Copies of each inclosure furnished:
COAPS
Management Staff
Budget Officer
Personnel Director
Chief, SSS
Chief, Administrative Staff
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