JOHN MARTINY LUNCHEON - APRIL 5

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: March 1, 1971
• Content Type: MFR

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1 March 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: John Martiny Luncheon - April 5
1. Met with Mr. John M-artiny, Chief Counsel and Staff Director,
Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and received from him the
tentative lineup of Subcommittee designations and Democratic members
of Subcommittees. Republican assignments will apparently be made at
the Committee organizational meeting next Thursday, 4 March.
Mr. Martiny told me that there will be several matters coming before
the Committee during the coming year of interest to the Agency and
he felt that the briefing on Agency personnel matters at this time would
be appropriate. We selected the date Monday, 5 April, 10:30 a. m. ,
for briefing and luncheon. Mr. Martiny told me that he has a couple of
new staff members coming on board one of which is coming in from
Government Accounting Office and will be working directly with him.
Mr. Martiny would like this individual together with Victor Smiroldo
and one of the minority staff members, either Bill Irvine or Theodore
Lazy to come to the briefing with him. He will review the status of
the security clearances on these people and will institute clearances
with Department of Defense between now and the time of our meeting
on any individual who does not hold current DOD clearance. I told
John that for the purpose of our briefing, we need not await final clearance
from DOD. I will obtain a provisional clearance for the purpose of the
briefing for members of his staff that he feels should be up-to-date to
assist in protection of Agency interests.
2. Mr. Martiny called Mr. Richard Barton, Staff Assistant,
and had him join us. Mr. Barton will be assigned to the Employees
Benefits Subcommittee to be chaired by Representative James Hanley
(D. , N.Y.). This Subcommittee will be handling matters relating to
constitutional rights of Federal employees. After some discussion,
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Mr. Martiny indicated that in all probability the Post Office Committee
will want to move legislation in this area during the coming year, He
suggested to Mr. Barton that he procure a copy of the bill drafted by
Mr. David Carper, Assistant Legislative Counsel, House of Representa-
tives, review it, and get a copy to the undersigned.
3. In another area, Mr. Martiny suggested that the Agency
should take a good close look at the recommendation of the Oliver
Committee at Civil Service which has been forwarded to all agencies
for review. The Oliver Committee report deals with position classi-
fication standards. From Mr. Martiny'a remarks, it would appear
that Mr. Oliver intends to bring the Agency within the purview of the
new standards at least to a limited extent. Mr. Martiny observed that
legislation on this subject is more than a year away but that we would
be well advised to provide as definitive a response to Mr. Oliver's
request for comments as possible. It is Mr. Martiny's present
position that the Agency should not be brought within the system at
all unless the Agency wants to be brought within the system.
Assistant Legislative Counsel
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