POLICY WITH RESPECT TO INDIVIDUAL SPECIALIZATION AND GENERALIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000400020005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 1, 1953
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2000/0971
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1 December 1953
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, CIA Career Service Board
SUBJECT, Policy with Respect to Individual
Specialization and Generalization
1.
This problemAs three separable aspects.
a.
b.
c.
Designation in respect to the support components.
Designation in respect to the operating components.
Specialization and generalization as such.
2.
A. above (support designation) is easiest, logical and
practical whereas itlsnot at all clear that designation in respect to
the operating components is practical. It may well be a completely
theoretical conception which has no true utility. To determine this,
substantial examination must be made of what other Government units
have discovered. But at any event, as set forth in the "Ass-umptions"
herewith to deal with it now is considered premature.
3. Specialization and generalization as such i.e., how to secure
experteze and at the same time keep promotional personnel coming along
for subsequent future senior posts and avoid the white haired boy
accusation, is an aspect which also calls for substantial study of
what other Government studies reveal and is too delicate a matter on
which to conclude quickly.
4. The tenets set forth in the base of the accompanying paper
may serve as criteria material in whole or in part for the other papers.
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