CIA PROMOTION POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000600230003-2
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 28, 1952
• Content Type: MF

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28 October 795
1~SIT~iQRAr3~~f POR: Chai~sn, CIA Career Service Board
FROx~lt As~3.stant Director, Personnel
~3ITBJgCTa CIA Promotion Policg
3o Attached is a proposed s'tetemetrt of GIA promotion polies
which is submitted to-the Career Service Board for approval
20 Promotion is onlg aa~s aspect of the broadax problem of
plac~.ng personnel in aissigra~ents which will mast effect3.vely
uti?~ize and develop their s3sil.]a o Therefore, this paper has been
cast as a part of an overall placement polies statememto
3o In preparing this sfatarnent, the- Personnel Office consi~red
current promotion practices and policies of the variotas offices of
CIA. of other t3averronent agezxsi.es, and of a representative list of
pri~rate incit~stxies o GIe have tried to adapt the beet of those concepts
to the special needs of CIA.
~o Throughout the papers repeated emphasis has been placed oa
the use of real,fetic qualit'icatiun standarcLs in selecting persona
for promotion and reaasignment? This idea 3a fundamentalo Such
star:lords prooic~e the only practical means 11?now by which individual?s
sk3.:~3s can be measured ob~ectivel~~ against work requir~entsa The
Per{~onnel Office has been working for some time to dev+alop fob reQ
qu3s~ements. throughcsut the Agencgte Progress has been s3,owa The
establishment of working Gareer Servf.ce Boards in tY~e Operating
Offices will accelerate the program bg stLmulating ful.3~er partiai~
pat~.on of operating officials in developing irk requirements for
their vni.ts 4
5v Although the basin concepts contained in the attached .paper
have been discussed with represc3ntatives of Qperatix~ Officea9 no
effe~x~ has been made at formal coordination of the paper o
~s~ W, RQ Hd Norris, Jro
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.~;n $~ prca~.c.n the ~~.e~ast gsss,~~.b1e base 3.n seeking candidates
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