RATIONALE IN SUPPORT OF THE AGENCY'S RETIREMENT POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03091A000200020015-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 16, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT : Rationale in Support of the Agency's
Retirement Policy
1. I am not yet satisfied that we have the kind of statement
on rationale which we need to support retirement at age sixty, to
which we generally subscribe. I believe that our rationale paper
should answer at least the following questions. I also believe that
if it answers these questions adequately, it should be good enough
to support the policy. The questions are:
a. Why does CIA generally have to be young and expect
and require its people to retire earlier than normally required
by the Government in general and earlier than required by law
for the systems in which we participate? (I think your state-
ment and several others answer this question fairly well. )
b. Why is it that we adopt the same mandatory retirement
age for the Civil Service System and for the CIA System? Why
couldn't people who are serving under the Civil Service System
serve longer than those under the CIA System ? Since we do
have two systems we must rationalize the establishment of an
upper limit of age sixty for both.
c. Why don't we make exceptions to the general policy
for individual career services or selected groups or occupa-
tional categories? Why is it that we feel ORR. or Logistics
personnel must retire at age sixty? Why don't we recognize
printing and reproduction employees as a category, or chauf-
feurs or receptionists or some others?
2. I think the first two questions can be answered affirmatively.
I suspect the third question may have to be answered by recognizing
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the varying degrees in which the policy applies and by concluding
that it would be extremely difficult to administer a system with a
long list of exceptions. I think you can also argue that the tempo
of the Agency must be geared to a single pace and that the flexi-
bility which we must attempt to maintain would have to be handled
on an individual case basis.
L. K. White
Executive Director -Comptroller
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