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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001800240005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 5, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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fly *top pod-up program, effect a not gain of m re
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-y desire t> keep the . y as aeon we passible
con iste t with the a ces l acco ishuxent f our o lon. It
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Distribution:
1 cc DCI
1cc -ER L.-
1 cc - Comptroller
1 cc - C/ Budget Div
1 cc - DD/S
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MC )RANDUM FOR: v puty Director (Plans)
Deputy Director Intelli nce)
Deputy Director (Support)
1. In confirmation of our discussion at the Deputy Directors' Meeting
on 3 August 1955, it is my desire that each of you examine carefully the
need for additional personnel which your components have requested in their
Fiscal Year 1956 Operating Budgets and in their estimates for Fiscal Year
1957-
2. Our personnel ceiling to date is a self-imposed one. Nevertheless,
the Bureau of the Budget and the Congress are keenly interested in this
matter and I do not feel that we should expand appreciably without consul-
tation with them. Our "on-duty" strength today approaches very closely the
strength which they have son ioned informally.
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e Deput ies' Meete various components
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3. As was pointed out
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have requested increases ove present strength total
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positions for Fiscal Ye 56 and for
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Fiscal Year 1957 an additionAll There are certain high priori-
ty projects that we discusse which must have additional personnel; these
will be authorized. ;However, g am not convinced that IQ general increase, and
certainly one of the itude requested(is eitherrnecepsaryQ 9practical.
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1i. I believe that the Congress would be most reluctant to sanction an
appreciable expansion, particularly in our departmental strength. Our build-
ings are already overcrowded and adequate relief is not in sight until our
new building is constructed. Even then, according to present estimates, our
authorization will permit us to construct a building adequate to accommodate
an increased. "on-duty" departmental strength of E__ I Experience 25X1
also indicates that our recruitment and entrance-on-duty processing facilities
could not, without a substantially stepped-up program, effect a net gain of
more then half of the number requested by 30 June 1956.
5. It is my desire to keep the Agency as small as possible consistent
with the successful accomplishment of our mission. It behooves us all to
find ways and means to do more without greatly expanding our numbers. We
must resist any suggestions that we assume duties which are not clearly our
function or which we have not been assigned as a service of common concern.
We must also pay greater attention to the establishment of priorities and
through constant analysis and evaluation eliminate marginal projects and
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programs. We should explore thoroughly all possibilities of contracting for
our work to avoid increasing our numbers where we can within the bounds of
good security.
6. It is essential that your reappraisal of these estimates be com-
pleted as expeditiously as possible and that your new estimates be submitted
to the Comptroller not later than the close of business on 9 August 1955-
ALLEN W. ]XJLLES
Director of Central Intelligence
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2. Our ;.
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matter and. I do not
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positions for i3 Year 19576/
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Al Year 1957 an as dditic "Tyre are Certain h1 Priori -
projects that diseusaed vb:WI1 a have a dditia 1 . 7; those
I rized. However, I ; not Winced that it era. #neree, an-I
taffy one of the magnitude sted, is either nm.vssary or prwt.$ cal .