LETTER TO HONORABLE DAVID A. STOCKMAN FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00885R000100070061-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: March 23, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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FYI. We have sent a copy of the DCI's letter
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".Y9EMORANDUM FOR: ?
Director, Inteogence Community Staff
FROM: EA/DDCI
The DDCI would like you to ensure that each of
the non-CIA NFIP managers are aware of the attached
and respond to Stockman in any way they deem appro-
priate.
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Central tntef!igence Agency
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The Honorable David A. Stockman
Director
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D.C. 20503
Dear Dave:
Thank you for your-letter of 8 February regarding the National Foreign
Intelligence Program (NFIP) budget ceilings and the President's initiative to-
reduce the number of GS/G1 11-15 positions in the Federal work force. Let me
assure you that I share the President's commitment. to the prudent and efficient
management of our resources. At the same time, however, the proposed reductions
pose special problems for me as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The comments which follow relate only to the CIA and my position as head of that
Agency. I will defer to the other agencies in the NFIP with similar problems to
correspond directly with you or OPM as appropriate.
The planned reductions in the number of GS 11-15 positions during FY 1985-88
pose a special problem for me. With the President's vital. encouragement and
support, we have been engaged in revitalizing and strengthening the Agency's
capabilities in the operational, analytical, and high technology areas. This
process, both in the recent past and over the next fiscal years, depends on the
very positions which have been identified for reduction. Many of the tasks
facing the Agency during this period will be addressed successfully only by those
who possess skills borne of long, substantive involvement with the unique mission
of the organization or credentials for which the Agency is not the sole compet-
itor. These are the incumbents of the positions to be cut. To limit or suspend
our planned growth at this juncture will have a dramatic impact on our ability
to keep the President and others substantively informed. For example, the
proposed cuts would jeopardize such projects as the effort to improve research
on and analysis of the Soviet military-industrial complex and the Third World,
where recent events like the U.S. involvement in Grenada have shown the need for
more comprehensive intelligence on the nations in this category; the enlargement
of our overseas complement to enhance political reporting capabilities as well
as human source collection of intelligence on narcotics and technology; and the
on-time development and deployment of critical technical -collection systems, the
collection and processing of signals intelligence on some of the Intelligence
Community's highest priority targets, and research and development of high
technology state-of-the-art capabilities for intelligence applications such as
in the field of artificial intelligence where computers emulating human thought
processes promise to revolutionize the collection and analysis of a wide spectrum
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Finally, I am told that your office is aware that the Agency maintains a
strong, centralized position classification and management program which
addresses all of the Agency's positions on a regular basis. During this current
period of growth, all new positions have been reviewed and validated with
particular focus on the very issues addressed by the President's directive.
Accordingly, while I support the President's desires, the program of imposed
reductions at these grade levels in inconsistent with my presentations to the
Administration and to the Congress for increased resources in order to rebuild
CIA's intelligence capabilities. As discussed above, these grade levels are the
very ones from which our best product is derived. Rather than reduce at those
levels,. I am making every effort to develop and maintain expertise and capability
in these ,_
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In conclusion, I do not believe that we can partici ate in the initiative to
reduce the number of positions at the GS 11-15 levels.
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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