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I was most interested to read the thoughtful paper on this subject enclosed with your letter of 30 December 1980 to Peter Ramsbotham. I nevertheless wonder whether it drew the right conclusions from the available data.
Let me try to explain why.
2. Paragraphs 8 and 9 of the paper spelt out estimates of staff requirements for the period 1981 to 1990, and concluded that the total should be taken as 60 for planning purposes. That total could in my present view usefully be broken. down into three quite different categories, which might be filled from different
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The first category comprises the specialists :
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Paragraph 12 of the paper recognizes that these posts "are of a somewhat specialist nature", and that they will therefore "still need to be filled on contract". But the paper does not seem to take account of the consequence of filling them in this way which must prima facie be that we can for the most part ignore the posts when calculating future demands on the Diplomatic Service.
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4. You may, of course, expect to fill some of them with the serving or ex HMOCS officers listed in Annexes B, C and D to the paper. In that case due account will clearly have to be taken of your expectation (though I am unable to take any, because I do not have the full facts). Or you may be concerned lest it proves impossible to find enough suitable people to appoint on contract. If, however, there was a shortfall, the ODA should be better able than the FCO to provide
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