INSPECTION OF FBIS BY THE IG STAFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP07-02184R000300510025-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2012
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: February 25, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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113RAi FOR: Inspector General -
REFER 1iCfi Inspection of FBIS1 February 1980,-Vols. I and-If
!.:-7 We appreciate the opportunity to examine the draft of ??the IG
?'Report`on FBIS,-which resulted from the inspection conducted between
July. and . November 1979. We found it a comprehensive and valuable - look
into. the operatioias and problems of FBIS.- There are many useful per-
ceptions'which will-'be useful to Agency management in understanding -
the'complexity -anus difficulties inherent in our extensive, worldwide
function.
2.. '-We have _attached an Atmex' of comments on specific statements
3. With regard to specific recommendations, we believe we can
pursue these, but note.the following:
in the report wiiich we feel might have been based on misinformation or
misunderstanding;":the'correction of *which would, we believe, make this
a stronger report . Whilee there are other points of disagreement, we
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report are necessariiy_natters of-opinion or perception and we have-
let them stand, even though we might disagree with the conclusion.
realize that to a considerable.extent may of the observations in the
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SUBJECT: Inspection of FBIS by the IG Staff
b. Criteria for promotion (page 53 of Executive Summary) were
published in FBIS on 8 November 1978 through an FBIS notice
that is still current. We have been using the87S&T hand-
book, but can produce a separate handbook for FBIS personnel
without much difficulty once revisions to the sub-panel
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sively-pursued.the,matter of 'leasing DOD housing=at Key,`
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possible alteratives to-die -.present -erode of nroducingIthe Daily
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:ice :higher''--.management the need for rnodernization.,v Daily
which 'the' C/ice -wasa::permanent member. F3IS asked for additional -. -
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