MINUTES OF THE CIA CAREER COUNCIL 21ST MEETING, THURSDAY, 29 MARCH 1956, 4:00 P.M. DCI CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

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MINUTES
CIA CAREER COUNCIL
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21st Meeting, Thursday., 29 March 1956, 14:00 p,,m,,
.DOI Conference Roo!? Administration Building
Presents Lyman D To receive credit, employee, naust he at least age SOQ
Special credit would be given only for overseas service
with CIA from the date of its creation in 1947.
d., Service in territories and possessions would be counted.
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, The essence of the counter proposal of the Bureau of the Budget
is as follows:
There must be a minimum time spent in overseas service in order
to qualify. 10 years is suggested as minimum with possible
compromise at 9 years.
There must be a minimum time spent in total government service.,
20 years is suggested,
Ty, The "bonus" and regular time must not aggregate more than 2
percent. Thus - for each year spent in overseas service,,
additional credit of four,, rather than six months,, would be
granted.
d. In order to be granted to any person retiring between ages 50
and 60,, the Agency must involuntarily separate the employee:.
it is suggested that the Director use his special authority
in Section 1O2(c.), NSA of 1947.. Retirements at age 60 or. above
would not require involuntary separation,
u. Do not limit application to present CIA employment acquired
since 1947, i.e., do not exclude 'CIG,, SSU, OSS,, or service
wi''tola 'flth6r agencies of U.S. Govaz?rrroiit in an overseas area,
Limit to service outside continental UQS,, its territories and
possess' ors.
4. After detailed discussion of each point, the, Council decided
to reject each of the o:.bx counter proposals of the Bureau of the Budget
for the following reasons-. (sub-paragraph, a thru f following are keyed
to sub-paragraohs a thru f in paragraph 3. above.)
a,, Nine or ten years minimum time spent in overseas service could
work severe hardship on persons who, for operational or adm:La-
istrative reasons, could not continua to serve overseas. The
inability to continue overseas service might be reached at a
point just short of the minimum. Many persons, especially in
the DDI and the DDS, who might quite properly anticipate one
or two tours overseas would have little expectation in their
total careers of serving as much as ten years,. This provision
would make accelerated retirement unavailable to them. The
Council,, therefore, believed that there should be no minimum
requirement,
b. Since there are already restrictions and rigidities in the
Civil Service Retirement At that have been taken into account,,
the Council saw no purpose In adding a further restriction.
Adoption of the 20 year minimum would mean that a person joining
CIA at age 45 would have no opportunity of benefiting from
- accelerated retirement even if aIX of his service was overseas,
unless he served until he was 6r had had previous government
service.
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c, Since it is possible that the percent factor for retirement
for all Government employees may be raised by the Congress
above the present 1J%, the Council agreed to hold to the
"time and a half" factor rather than to the E42eo factor:.
The time and a half factor would preserve the desired
differential while the 2% factor might eliminate it.
d., The Council agreed that it would be inept in the extreme
to use the involuntary separation technique. In effect the
Agency would be dismissing persons in order to convey to
them a benefit. A better technique will have to be provided.
e. The Council has already seriously considered the problem of
crediting service prior to CIA for various purposes. It is
not possible to dev:".se an equitable formula for crediting
service in organizations that "preceded" CIA. Under this
proposal,, also, an extreme case would be that of a person
who entered on duty with CIA one day and retired the next,
thereby gaining accelerated credit for 20 years overseas
service in other government agencies. The Council agreed to
reject the proposal.,
f. Overseas duty in territories and possessions is a continuing
problem with CIA,, whereas it is no problem in the Foreign
Service with which CIA is usually bracketed in discussion of
this sort. The Council therefore agreed to press for the
principle of crediting duty in territories and possessions
as overseas duty, at least as far as accelerated retirement
is concerned.
5o The Council considered the other aspects of our discussions
with the Bureau of the Budget ether than accelerated retirement%,,
a. The Council agreed to eliminate the proposed death benefit of
$1000.00. The new insurance programs -- both government wide
and internal CIA -, partially fill the original need.
be The Council agreed to recede on benefits, as such, for those
persons serving in territories and possessions but to still
attempt to get the requested travel authorities. This point
was left to the best judgement of the DD/S and the negotiators.
c. The Council agreed to hold for the home leave and educational
and medical benefits using the term "abroad" rather than
"outside the continental United States".
d. It was agreed that CIA would recede on the question of commuted
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6,, The Council agreed that CIA should continue, to press for
introduction of the proposed bill to the Congress with accelerated
retirement deleted. Since the Bureau has agreed to make accelerated
retirement retroactive to 18 September 1917, a delay of a year or
two is not too critical. However for internal morale purposes it is
highly desirable to have our proposed legislation on these other
matters actually reach consideration by the Congress without further
delayo
7? The Council agreed to consider Individual Career Planning
on 19 April ands, if possible,, National Defense Executive Reserve and
the Senior Civil Service on 3 May and Competitive Promotion and
Assignment on 17 May.
8. The Council adjourned at 1zSO p.m.
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