CONVERSATION WITH VICTOR ZAFRA, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, RE RETIREMENT LEGISLATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000100020095-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: September 17, 1970
• Content Type: MFR

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17 September 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Victor Zafra, office of Management
and Budget, Re Retirement Legislation
RETERENCEs Memorandum for the Record on the
Same Subject dated 16 September 1970
1. Victor Zafra, of OMB, called this evening with further refer-
ence to his conversation with an Wednesday regarding clearance
of our retirement package. Zafra sal t e Bureau would be very reluctant
to clear the benefit provisions of our package without the accompaning
funding provisions. He suggested that since the real urgency behind our
proposal related to the quota issue we consider submission of the quota
provision only at this time. He said he was quite certain that we could get
expeditious clearance if we went with that provision alone. STATINTL
2. I again reminded Zafra, as had done previously,
that practically all of the provisions in Title U ha been cleared by OMB
on several occasions and had actually been passed by one House of the
Congress. I said it was difficult to understand why the Bureau would be
reluctant to do as much now. He said the whole issue of merger of the
Civil Service, Foreign Service, and CIA funds had come into sharper
focus recently and that there was a general feeling that no further liberal-
izations should be made in any of the retirement programs until this issue
was resolved. I indicated that since it seemed doubtful Congress would
adjourn next month, perhaps the Bureau could resolve this issue before
the end of the year and we might still get clearance on our complete
had
package. Zafra was very skeptical that this would happen they
been trying to resolve this for the past three or four years without success.
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When I referred to the fact that the Foreign Service and the Civil Service
had obtained legislation on their programs as recently as last year, Zafra
only commented that the decision to go ahead with those proposals was
made "above me. 11 I told him that we were willing to go ahead with what-
ever funding theory Treasury and OMB agree on and that I had the very
clear impression CIA had become "the ham in the sandwich" in this whold
issue and I would have to talk further with our people. Zafra said to let
him know what we decided. STATINTL
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