CIA RESERVE CORPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001600210015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 9, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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S+riSMC3RAI~iDUM FQR: Exe~utfve L?irector-Comptroller
SUBJRCT CIA Reserve Corps
1. More you r$ach any cos~ctusions regarding the feasibi4ity of
the suggested CLA Reserve Corps comprised of retirees receiving retainer
pay,. i think you should lmow the reasons ,may I proposed this approach to our
problem. .
~. As I see it, tine Agency has two teat and serious problems that
inhibit our use of early rctirexnent as a permanent solution to the constantly
accruing manpower unbalance in the Agency.
3. The first problem concerns that group. roughly 25~ ref Agency
em.ployeea, whose careers relate to the conduct and support of clandestine
activities abroad. Ws have .already established iri obtaining our retirement
legislation. that we cannot use all of these people much beyoa~d their early
~4's . Clnless a tantial nwsnber retire votuntarity or invotuntsrily about
this age, ~$ Agency moat absorb them in Headquarters positions . This
creat+as congestion, i~nmobitity, malassi,gnmsnta, and in~pe.irs job rotation
and career advancement .
# . ~e tow know that permission to retire at age 50, even with a more
favorable annuity computation formula, is not a sufficient incentive to induce
~y to do ao . We also Imor~v that the Clandestine Services i9 reluctant to
aasrc#se iavc~lunta:ry retirement measures far iQar of serious adaerse effects
on general morale, consideration of loyalty and compassion for ir~dividuale,
sad i~.r of reprisal .
5. I can see no solution. to these impedimenta to needed action other
a , To guarantee the individual unimpaired expendable income
fair at least one year a#ter retirement tv assist him during s difficult
period of vocational reorientation .
b. The establishment of a new mechanism fox effecting
involuntary early retirement that will avoid placing a stig3na on
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6. I had greviously proposed a solution car at least a partial
solution to this problem of too many middle-aged clandestine operations
personne3 . Dt provided supplementary separation ~retlrement) compensation
and merged the voluntary and involuntary retirement procedures to rnir~in7lze
stigmatizing the individaaala affected.. I also :proposed an annual eeic~tian out
program as an +sstsblished manpower control device that cauYd be r~scognixed as
a ne~ceseary, impersonal adm!Bistrative requirement and one which would correct
imbalances as they occur . There Is ample precedent in the Foreign Service end.
the Armed Services far this solution to an uz~voidable problem .
'~ . I was advised by the General Counsel that my proposal would require
legislation and was urged to seek some new basis upon which suppler{~tary
compensatlan could be paid $Ince the prospects of legislation at this 'tldie were
td1.
~. The second ma~ar problem Is haw to compensate Indlviduale, who retire
under Civil Service at age da is lieu of the vbvi~tus hngatrment of their retirement
annuities . In addltian to loss of salary, annuities are less than they w~uid a~her-
wise be by a lesser high-five salary and fewer years t~f creditable se~-Ice in the
+computatian of annuities . I was advised that sa long as age 6t3 retirement rc-
niained a "voluntary' process., there was na legal basis for gratuitous payment
and that even if such retirement were made mandatary, l+eglslatian would probably
be necessary. In this connection. the legal advisor to the CiA. Retirement Board
origitiall.y expressed to the Board an oppaslte opinion sad, indeed. espoused a
cta~np~rnaat?rY I~Yn-ent plan .
~. The Reserve Coxpe proposal. was euhnzitted as a basis (admittedly
sulxstantlally fictional but with considerable inherent merit] for solvir#g these
manpower management problems of the Agency. I contemplated that the primary
argumentation that would be presenxed to the CIA Congressional committees and
the GAO would bie tine Age~y manpower managem8nt problems, Agency security
problems, and ttae obstacles. faced by CIA is obtaining relief by noxmal legislative
prracesses .
1Ct. The; process of obtaining tacit approval was to have been Identical
tea ttaa,t followed by CIA when it was th+~ leader in Government in ~yirtg separation
cr~anpensatlo~ to ~zes:$epprated #n deference to compelling problems essen-
tially unique,to {~ , .;; :;~;;
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~~,; _ ~~ m~a~._~~ern Is that Agency rnan~.gernent reach an early
detsrmit~c~u,,~ the nature and magnitude ~rf tte~ manpower problems and
either c~,~~~' h~;:'.~~.ed~i ar that positive corrective action
ahotdd be taken . ~~ /
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