ACTION MEMORANDUM # 431

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200040013-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 30, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No.
Director of Personnel
THROUGH : Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT
Agency Out-Placement Program
REFERENCE:
30 September 1964
1. Reference is made to my Action Memorandum A- 415 of
31 July 1964 asking the Director of Personnel to review the Agency's
out-placement program and make recommendations for its improve-
ment, and to your reply of 18 September 1964 recommending
(a) that the Agency adopt a policy of offering out-placement service
to all employees (with certain exceptions) who are leaving our
service. (b) that this policy and the functions of the Out-Placement
Branch be formalized in Agency regulations, and (c) that the out-
placement program continue substantially in its present form,
though improved and refined.
2. Recommendations (a) and (b) above are approved.
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3. Although the present out-placement program would be more D
than adequate for most Government agencies, I am not satisfied that T T
it meets the special needs of the Central Intelligence Agency. I U
agree that any departing employee must sell himself to a new employer. M
But the very limits and handicaps CIA imposes on its employees in
discussions with potential employers require that this Agency go far
beyond the administrative assistance rendered by other agencies.
Consequently you are instructed to:
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a. Initiate a more aggressive and imaginative out-placement
programs including an active search for employment
possibilities followed by specific job references and
introductions.
b. Sponsor and coordinate throughout the Agency a program
to exploit the internal potential for providing employment
leads.
4. 1 shall expect a fresh and positive approach to this problem
Chief, Manpower Control
and have asked Mr.
Staff, BEAM, to follow your progress and keep me informed.
(signed) Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Executive Director
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