CLANDESTINE SERVICE SUPPORT OFFICERS' MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04722A000200020079-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: March 3, 1971
• Content Type: MIN

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CLANDESTINE SERVICE SUPPORT OFFICERS' MEETING
DDS Conference Room
3 March 1971
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2. Items of interest at the DDP Staff Meeting:
a. DDP Absence Mr. Karamessines will be away from noon today
until 22 March 1971. will be Acting DDP.
b. Field Reporting of Accidents Book Dispatch 7774, dated
22 February 1971, calls for reporting from field stations on accidents
which occurred during calendar year 1970. The reports, including negative
reports, are due in by 10 March 1971. When received, these reports are
to be sent to the Safety Officer in Office of Security. Also please let me
have a copy of any positive reports you receive.
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3. Items of interest at the DDS Staff Meeting:
a. Satellite Communications We were shown a series of slides
describing the upcoming staff communications system which will be
accomplished through satellites. We are arranging for this presentation
to be shown here next week and we believe you will find it both interesting
and informative.
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b. Gate Badge Checks reported that we may expect
frequent badge checks at the gates but not necessarily every day. He
again asked that offices devote some attention to cleaning out excess
accumulations of supplies and boxes so as to facilitate a quick search
by his staff should we receive a threat of a bomb being placed anywhere
within the Agency premises.
c. Skin Diver Accident Dr. Tietjen reported an accident at a
foreign post where an employee was skin diving and went down too far
and came up too fast with the result that he suffered the bends. The
employee is expected to recover, although with some impairment, due to
a quick lashup of a circuit between Headquarters and the post through which
an expert on this problem at Headquarters was able to communicate with
the doctor at the other end who was treating the patient.
d. Cost-of-Living Increase Mr. Fisher announced that at 10 o'clock
on Tuesday a press release was issued by the Civil Service Commission
stating that the Consumer Price Index based on the level of 119.2 reached
in January has triggered the three-month waiting period for a possible cost-
of-living increase. If the CPI remains at its present level for February and
March at least a 4% increase would be effective 1 June. A Book Cable has
been prepared for selected posts and an Employee Bulletin will be distributed
in Headquarters immediately.
4. Other items of interest:
a. UBLIC Insurance At our meeting last week we discussed the
underwriter's concern that the UBLIC reserve might not be adequate to
initiate the first phase of continued UBLIC coverage for retirees until they
reach age 60. You will recall our Board of Directors had hoped to permit
a person retiring before age 60 to continue to carry his UBLIC coverage at
the same premium rates until he reached age 60, provided he had carried
UBLIC for 10 years before retirement. You offered several suggestions on
how to make this added benefit possible. You suggested decreasing the present
top limit from $36, 000 to $30, 000, or increasing the premiums for retirees,
or increasing the premiums for all participants. We discussed your suggestions
with Harry Fisher immediately after the meeting and Harry tells us that these
points, along with a number of other alternatives, had already been considered
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by the Board of Directors. The issue is not dead and Harry is hopeful he
can find a way to make this very attractive package available at the earliest
practicable date. We will keep you informed.
b. Retirement Legislation The Office of Management and Budget
has requested the Agency's comments on a Civil Service Commission draft
bill designed to liberalize eligibility for cost-of-living increases in CSRS
annuities. The draft bill which has not yet been submitted to Congress
would provide that an annuity (except a deferred annuity) which commences
after the effective date of a cost-of-living annuity increase, but not later
than the effective date of the next such annuity increase, shall not be less
than the annuity which would have been payable had the person or his
survivor been on the retirement rolls on the effective date of an annuity
increase. This bill obviously has a long way to go before enactment since
there are all manner of fiscal and other questions to be resolved. Had the
bill been enacted into law at this time it would not be necessary that a person
be on the retired rolls as of 1 June 1971 to receive the CLI which is likely to
be effective that date. of OLC believes it highly unlikely for this
bill to become law by 1 June. In the words of the CSC, the reasons for the
proposed change are:
(1) The present provision produces the anomaly of an
employee who retires soon after the effective date of an
increase receiving less annuity than an employee, with
the same service beginning date and high three-year
average salary, who retires on or before the effective
date, even though the employee who retires after the
effective date has more service. A similar anomaly
exists in computing a survivor's annuity because the
survivor of an employee who dies on or before the
effective date of a cost-of-living increase receives the
increase, but the survivor of an employee who dies after
the effective date does not receive it.
(2) We are concerned about the way the large number of
retirements triggered by cost-of-living adjustments affects
the administration of the Civil Service Retirement System.
The present cost-of-living adjustment provision "bunches"
retirements immediately before the effective date of every
cost-of-living annuity increase by accelerating the retire-
ments of employees who had been planning to leave within
six months or so after that date. The last such increase,
effective August 1, 1970, for example, produced about
19, 000 retirements in addition to the 5, 000 or less that
occur in a normal month. Despite the Commission's plans
to cope with such a peak load, work is disrupted and annuity
payments are seriously delayed when so many retirements
that would otherwise have been evenly spaced over a period
f sever months oc a tth~e same time.
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(3) Agencies throughout the Government are also adversely
affected because an inordinate number of employees decide
to retire immediately before a cost-of-living annuity increase.
Many of these people, if they are willing, must be reemployed
as annuitants to complete the projects on which they were
working.
c. Shorthand Training Harry Fisher asked us to get your views
on the need each of your components might have for shorthand training
from scratch. Harry is trying to get a feel for the size of such training
if, in fact, you feel the need for it. Please give us a brief note that we
can pass to Harry.
d. You Need to Know We would be interested in the reactions
within your components to the new Support Bulletin "You Need to Know. "
Would you please be prepared to give us your ideas at our next meeting.
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