SPECIAL RETIREMENT OPTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A000300110021-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 14, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM . John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT. : Special Retirement Options
1. Action Requested: That the Director of Personnel be authorized
to approve special xetircmcnt options to be exercised 15 July through
30 September 1977 by those Career Services justifying their need under
specific circumstances. ?
2. Backgrocand: On previous occasions, the Agency has offered
11 bcralizec~ rota rc anent optt i ons ; :t . e . , discontinued service retirement
under the Civil Service Retirement Act and involuntary retirement under
the CIA Retirement and Disability System, to individuals eligible by
virtue of age and years of service. In recent times, options have been
offered not across-th.e.-board but t:o meet specific circumstances where
:individual. components have expected to be above strength in the absence
of such special options or in anticipation of a need to resolve such
special problems as that of olpc:11ing room for a greater inflow of young
professionals. Such use of the special options has been discussed with
the Civil. Service Comniiss:%on within the past year and reviewed by the
General Counsel as recently as 21 December 1976, The latter found it
appropriate that the Director of Personnel retain the discretion, under
the proposed approval arrangements, not to offer options more broadly
than is justified by actua.al. situations existing within the Directorates
or Offices.
3. Staff Position:
a. As on several past occasions, this special opportunity
to retire is not justified on the basis of aggregate Agency on-duty
strength projections. For some Directorates it is a different matter,
as they are -Faced. with coiling reductions and the possibility of having
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surplus personnel. All Directorates are facing problems because of
unusually low rates of attrition that have produced exhaustion of head-
room, creating serious barriers to the advancement of deserving employees
and that preclude the desirable rate of inflow of those officers who
will be the future of this Agency. To the extent that individuals in
these components and Directorates choose to retire under the special
retirement options, a component is more able to hire and. promote.
b. There have been indications that the Directorates would.
like to be able to make limited offerings of the special retirement
options. The Director of Personnel. should serve as the review mechanism,
as in past instances, to assure that proposals to offer the options at
Directorate or Office levels, or within occupational or grade categories,
are justified and applied within the context of criteria governing the
offering of these options.
c. Under legislative authority, the next cost-of-living
adjustment of retirement annuities will occur on 1 September 1977.
It is expected that many potential retirees will time their retirements"
before this date. As the end of the fiscal year is 30 September, it
is proposed. that the special retirement options be offered from 15 July
through 30 September 1.977.
4. Recommendation: That the Director of Personnel. be authorized
to offer from l S .Taaly taror:al;I~ 30 September the special retirement options
upon his review and approval (-)f--' specific proposals received from the
Deputy Directors and the Chairman. of the Executive Career Service., which
serve to resolve a. problem of surplus of personnel or other serious
management concerns at artrta:rx:i. rrt:.i.onal levels or within occupations
or grade categories.
APPROVED/111 SAPPROVfiD:
Acting I eput' I hector of Central :Intelligence Date
Prior to actually implementing the program, I would like to be made aware
of the "specific proposals received from the Deputy Directors and the
-Chairman of the Executive Career Service" and, further, would like to
have the paper giving me this information bear the concurrence of the General
Counsel. I would also appreciate in that paper any projections you cM- i4lfe
as to the number of retirees we might expect by virtue of this exercise.