RECOMMENDATION FOR QUALITY STEP INCREASE - (SANITIZED), GS-12

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-00733R000200270041-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: December 3, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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FBIS-1186/85
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
FROM: John D. Chandlee
Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
SUBJECT: Recommendation for Quality Step Increase -
GS-12 (U/AIUO)
L This memorandum recommends a Quality Step Increase for
in recognition of her sustained excellent performance as an Intelligence
Officer, Foreign Documents. was promoted to GS-12 in January 1981
and her Perfotmance Appraisal Reports consistently have rated her overan
performance as excellent. She has not been awarded a QSI previously.
2. During her more than nine years of service in USSR Division,
progressively assumed an increasing degree of responsibility in
covering Soviet internal political affairs. For the three years prior to her
recent rotational assignment to JPRS she was responsible for publications
dealing with central Communist Party affairs, which include PRAVDA, IZVESTIYA
and the major CPSU journal KCMMUNIST, as well as a number of other leading
Soviet publications. In addition, as the Division's only Lithuanian linguist
she was responsible for exploiting the vernacular and Russian-language press of
that republic. has demonstrated a continued high level of
achievement in her duties an a thorough knowledge of Intelligence Community
requirements in all coverage areas in which she has worked. Over the years she
has demonstrated her versatility by working successfully in such wide ranging
fields as politics of agriculture, law and order, and Komsomol (youth)
activities. The knowledge of the Soviet press and Soviet affairs that she has
developed and her organized, methodical, and conscientious approach to her work
made her on lued and productive members of USSR Division. An
example o xcellent performance in the recent past was her
contribution to a Special Memorandum on which she collaborated with Analysis
Group on a detailed examination of the collected works of then CPSU General
Secretary Chernenko. did virtually all of the research for that
memorandum and much of the vrriting. This project was above and beyond
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SUBJECT: Recommendation f , Quality Step Increase -
GS-12
the scope of regular duties, which she simultaneously
continued to conduct at her usual excellent performance level. A more
recent project and one perhaps of even greater significance was her
effort to research and collect for a special JPRS report all of the
available speeches and articles appearing in the Soviet press by CPSU
General Secretary Gorbachev. This was an especially demanding task,
since--unlike for former general secretaries--there had not en a
collection of Gorbachev's speeches published in the USSR.
received a written commendation for this project from Senior
Analyst, USSR-EE Division, OCR, in which he stated that the Gorbachev
report "has been invaluable in my research for an intelligence assessment
on Gorbachev." And further: "It was equally helpful when I was
preparing a recently published intelligence assessment on Edward
Shevardnadze. le d] the USSR's New Foreign Minister.... In both
cases, publication transformed an almost impossible
research task into a manageable one. Indeed, in the case of the
Shevardnadze paper, without[ publication we never would
have gotten our assessment produced in time for Secretary of State
Schultz's meeting in Helsinki with Shevardnadze in late July...."
3. demonstrates a -high degree of flexibility and could
always be counted on to undertake and execute well the short-term
assignments and projects the division regularly receives. She is an
excellent writer, a skill which is essential to do a good job of
translating and editing, and demonstrates succinctness and logical
organization in her work, was sought out regularly by
others both in and outside FBIS for her linguistic and substantive
expertise and support. Her composure in situations involving short
deadlines, her initiative in offering solutions to problems, her
dependability in getting things done on time, and her insistence on
superior quality helped establish a high standard of excellence for her
branch and contributed significantly to the issuance of products that
consistently draw praise from customers in the Intelligence Community.
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SUBJECT: Recommendation for Quality Step Increase
GS-12
4. consistently excellent performance clearly
deserves to be rewarded. A Quality Step Increase would be an appropriate
form of recognition for the valuable contribution which she is making to
FBIS and the rest of the Intelligence Community
Deputy Director Science and Technology
DDS&T/FBIS/Prod/USSR/EROVA:mcl (3 Dec 1985)
Distribution:
Orig - Addressee (fwd to OPF)'
1 - D/FBIS (to be returned
1 - C/PETB (to be returned)
3 - DDS&T
6 - Retained in FBIS
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1 - JDC Corres File
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