SUPERGRADES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000600080010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 4, 1976
• Content Type: REQ

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SUPERGRADES
A. POLICY
1. The Director of Central Intelligence, with the approval of the
Office of Management and Budget, will establish the supergrade allowance
of the Agency, and will determine the number of Agency personnel who may
hold supergrade rank.
2. Allocation of supergrade ceiling to the four Directorates and
the Offices of the DCI will be determined by the Director of Central
Intelligence upon recommendations of the Agency Supergrade Board. Unused
supergrade allowances will be held by the Director as an Agency-wide
reserve.
3. An employee will hold supergrade rank for such time as the
Director may determine, regardless of the nature of the duties performed.
4. All supergrade officers will be counted against the'Agency
supergrade ceiling regardless of type and/or grade of their position of
assignment. Contract employees whose contracts state a supergrade rank
will be counted against the supergrade ceiling. Flag-rank military
officers on detail to the Agency will occupy military designated positions.
B. RESPONSIBILITIES
1. The Director of Central Intelligence is responsible for:
a. Approving recommended actions effecting a change in the
allocation of supergrade ceiling or a change in a supergrade position.
b. Approving any changes in the rank of personnel holding
or proposed for supergrade rank.
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2. The Agency Supergrade Board, composed of the DDCI as
ILL E GIB Chairman, the four Deputy Directors, the Chairman of the Senior Executive
Career Service Panel and the Director of Personnel and the Comptroller
or his designee (as advisors) will be responsible for:
a. Reviewing requests from the Deputy Directors or the
Offices of the DCI for supergrade ceiling allocation, the establishment
of new supergrade positions or grade adjustments of supergrade positions,
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b. Reviewing the findings of the Office of Personnel annual
review of supergrade positions and making recommendations for Agency-
wide allocations and control of supergrade ceiling.
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c. Monitoring on a periodic basis (annually) the utilization
and the development of supergrade officers throughout the Agency.
3. Deputy Directors and the Chairman of the Senior Executive
Career Service Panel will be responsible for:
a. Submitting requests to the Agency Supergrade Board, through
the Office of Personnel, for reallocation of supergrade allowances, for
establishment of new supergrade positions or grade adjustments of super-
grade positions.
b. Insuring the appropriate career management and development
of supergrade officers.
4. The Director of Personnel will be responsible for:
a. Providing the staff work concerned in supergrade ceiling
allocation studies and in the processing of personnel actions affecting
supergrade personnel.
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b. Completing the classification review of requests for
allocation of supergrade allowances, for establishment of new supergrade
positions, and for grade adjustments of supergrade positions and submit':,,__
findings to the Agency Supergrade Board within 14 days of receipt of the
request.
c. Reporting to the Agency Supergrade Board annually the
findings of the OP comprehensive review of the supergrade allocation of
allowances and grades of the Agency.
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