Contents of this sensitive but unclassified report: (1) Background; (2) Integrity and Fairness: Confidence as the Measure; Safeguards and Vulnerabilities; (3) Issues for Attention: Annotation of Lists; Presidential Awards; Specialist Boards; Reconvened and Reconstituted Boards; (4) Looking Ahead: Office of Performance Evaluation; Evaluating an Expanded Foreign Service; Virtual Boards; (5) Recommendations. Appendixes: Board Deliberations and Procedures; Total Foreign Service Hiring Projections for FY 2009 to FY 2013; Basic Safeguards Agreement Dated Oct. 1973; Responsibilities for Management of Promotion and Award Processes. Illus. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.