Barr, Stephen. "CIA Undertakes a Very Public Experiment in Pay and Performance." Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2002, B2. [http//:www.washingtonpost.com] Barr, Stephen. "CIA Undertakes a Very Public Experiment in Pay and Performance." Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2002, B2. [http//:www.washingtonpost.com]
"The CIA will conduct an experiment," beginning on 26 January 2002 and running for a year, "aimed at linking pay to job performance." DCI George J. Tenet "announced this week that the agency's Office of Chief Financial Officer had been selected for the pilot project."
[CIA/00s/02 & C&C/DA]
Barr, Stephen. "Memorial Service Honors Four Who Fell in Service to CIA." Washington Post, 28 May 2007, D2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
CIA employees gathered last week in the headquarters lobby at "the Memorial Wall, where 87 stars are carved in marble. Four ... stars were added this spring.... The 87th star was engraved in memory of Rachel A. Dean of Stanardsville, [VA]. She joined the CIA in 2005..., and died last September [2006] in a car accident while on temporary duty in Kazakhstan.... One of stars added to the Memorial Wall ... commemorates an employee whose identity will remain secret, at least for now." According to the CIA, the "ceremony ... was attended by family and friends of more than 30 of the fallen, and dozens of retired CIA communication officers.... The retired officers played key roles in researching the deaths of two others added to the wall this year: James J. McGrath of Middletown, [CT], and Stephen Kasarda Jr. of McKees Rocks, [PA]. Both were communications officers.... McGrath was electrocuted in January 1957 while repairing a broken transmitter in Germany. Kasarda was killed in May 1960 in Tibet, while climbing across a roof that carried a lethal current from an improperly grounded wire."
[CIA/00s/07]
Barr, Stephen.
"Monitoring Service Spared in Latest Cuts." Washington Post,
6 Feb. 1997, A21
"In every budget season, there are winners and losers. This time around, it looks like one of the winners will be the arm of the Central Intelligence Agency that tries to chronicle what the world's media say. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) will be spared from proposed funding cuts, the CIA said this week."
[CIA/C&C/FBIS][c]
Barr, Stephen. "Pay-Personnel System Another Frontier for CIA." Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2004, C2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to Bob Rebelo, CIA chief of human resources, the CIA on 1 May 2004 will roll out a uniform performance appraisal system as the first step in creating a pay for performance compensation system "that rewards expertise and mastery of new skills."
[CIA/00s/04]
Barr,
Stephen. "U.S. Orders Cuban Diplomat's Expulsion in Spy Case."
Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2000, A25. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to State Department spokesman James Foley, the United States on 19 February 2000 ordered the expulsion of a Cuban diplomat linked to an INS official charged with spying for the Cuban government. Foley did not identify the diplomat.
[SpyCases/U.S./Faget]
Barr,
Stephen, and Vernon Loeb. "Senator Questions Mideast Plan for CIA:
Hearings to Cover Terrorism Monitoring." Washington Post, 26
Oct. 1998, A24. [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
SSCI Chairman Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) on 25 October 1998 "described as 'troubling' the Clinton administration's plan to use the CIA to monitor anti-terrorism efforts in the Mideast and said his committee would hold hearings on the issue....
"Melvin A. Goodman, a professor of international security at the National War College and a former CIA official, said he agreed with the thrust of Shelby's concern. 'What Clinton is doing, and [CIA Director George J.] Tenet is going along with, is verification of a political agreement. This is a policy role'....
"One former CIA station chief in the Middle East ... said [that] success in the Mideast peace process 'is such an unlikely prospect that I don't see this as anything but trouble.'
"But if peace between Israel and the Palestinians is important, argued Kenneth M. Pollack, a senior Middle East analyst at the National Defense University, the risks involved in reaching a deal make it imperative for U.S. officials to put their best assets in play....
"Graham E. Fuller, a Rand Corp. consultant and Middle East expert who was vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council in the mid-1980s, [said] that ... the CIA's role in this highly political process ... is not without danger.... 'If the agency strays into actual police work or strays into the politics involving Hamas and the Fatah organization, that could become very risky,' he said."
[CIA/90s/98/MiddleEast]
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