NOTES ON MR. MELOON'S STUDY OF THE RETIREMENT POLICY PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE DD/S

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03091A000200020042-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: January 11, 1968
• Content Type: NOTES

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NOTES ON MR. MELOON'S STUDY
OF THE RETIREMENT POLICY
PREPARED AT THE. REQUEST OF THE DD/S
1. There are several recurring themes in the paper recounting conversations
with senior officials of the Support Directorate:
a. There is general agreement that Support Offices can live with
the current policy calling for retirement at or before age 60. It is noted
that the policy is being accepted with some bitterness by some employees;
there may possibly be some difficulty in future recruiting due to the age
limitation (noted by OTR); there should be a review of our commitments
to individuals who understood upon their employment that they could work
to age:
70 (printers)
- 65 (scattered personnel in OTR and other offices)
b. There should be one Agency retirement policy.
c.' The retirement policy must be fairly applied to all Agency
personnel.
d. A majority of the Office Heads feel that post retirement contracts
should be held to an absolute minimum, with possible exceptions for:
- Historical work
- Investigative help
e. The most prominent basis for an early retirement system in the
Support Services is noted as being the necessity for youthful, healthy,
available group of overseas rotatable personnel (this. was commented
on by OL, OF, Commo, OS, and the "S" career service).
f. Early retirement (before age 60) requires further inducements.
The slight increase in annuity under the CIA system is not considered to
be sufficient to achieve early retirement by an appreciable number of
personnel (this. was commented on by OC, OL, OF, OS, OTR, OMS, and S).
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g. Two of the offices pointedly raised a question as to the legality
of the Agency policy of requiring people to retire at age 60 under the
Civil Service Retirement System.
2. While there was general agreement that all offices could live with the
age 60 policy, it should be noted that OC and OTR specifically suggested that a
system might be devised for retirement at. age 62 under the Civil Service Retirement
System. This suggestion quite possibly might find considerable support among those
components of the Agency who have few if any personnel eligible to retire under the
present program of the CIA system. Although this might seem an attractive
compromise, the fact remains that in the Clandestine Services, and in most of the
Support Services, the basic reasons calling for a policy of retirement at age 60
(youthful service, rotatable personnel, unblocking of slots needed for maintenance
of adequate promotion rates, etc.) apply toall personnel. The system under which
they retire is really not the controlling factor for the question of when they should
retire.
3. The question of further inducements as a means of achieving early
retirement should be carefully looked into. Two particular considerations concern
me with respect to this:
I personally feel that our better people, those with the get-
up-and-go to go out and find second careers, will be lost to
us to a greater extent than any personnel classified as dead-
wood who might optfor early retirement. In other words)i think
that if we are interested in retaining our better people sweet-
ening the pot of early retirement may do us more harm than good.
be kept in mind in reviewing a policy of inducement. With the
number of GS-14 through 18 personnel that we are due to lose
in the next 8 years it may be that we will be interested in
retaining a goodly number of these people until the succession
problem is better under control.
succession problem faced by the Support Services should
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 1. Based on continuing secrecy., DD/P proposes a retirement. of 56.25%
of high five (30 years - CSR; 28. 125 years - CIA) -- which is ".. , current income
with which a reasonable scale of living may be maintained after retirement. "
- Does secrecy have a price?
- What assurance is there that we can buy secrecy at 56.25% - or 50% -
or80%?
2. DD/P proposes to make up the difference in cases where age 60 retirement
would not produce 56.25% of high five --
Lump sum payment to make up difference
Extensions of service to reach 509 of high five --
- Latter does violence to keeping program youthful, would
continue blockage of promotion headroom, etc. (May not
be problem, depending on size of group which would
necessitate extensions).
3. Believe that we must consider any such arrangements carefully -- what is
obligation of individual to provide for own retirement? (especially if changes jobs in
40 + age bracket)
- add in any social security coverage, etc.
4. What about envy types?
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General Counsel
7-01 8.
Colonel White asked that you become involved
in this and stated that he would like to be briefed
before we get committed to anything. Dr. TietJen
has a copy. Mr. Bannerman plans to call a meeting
soon with you, Mr. Echols, and Dr. Tietjen to
determine the approach to be taken with Mr.
Oganovic.
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Distribution:
Orig - Adse w/T of DD/S 68-0022 & w/T of basic (DD/S 67-6656)
1 - DD/S Subject w/X of DD/S 68-0022
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DD/S 68-0022: Memo dtd 3 Jan 68 to ExDir-Comp fr D/Pers, subj: Procedures Proposed by
Civil Service Commission in Involuntary Disability Retirement Cases
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