LETTER AND RESUME SUBMITTED BY MR. JOHN A. SHAW, INSPECTOR GENERAL OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE, DEPARTMENT OF STATE

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• Publication Date: June 17, 1977
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Cents Intelligence Agency
Executive Regialn~
2 7 JUN '077
Dear Commander Preston,
I enjoyed and understood the motives and reasoning behind
your Letter to the Editor in the June 22nd Star. Enclosed is a
copy of the directive I put out with regard to hiring annuitants.
Please note that the objective of this directive is to permit a
reasonable promotion opportunity for the young people in the CIA
organization. It, as the military, is a youthful profession.
The CIA does not have the same stringent weeding-out procedures
that we do in the military and which you detailed in your letter.
Therefore, we are in a considerable problem of ensuring a viable
and attractive career prospect for our people.
Beyond this, please note that. the prohibition applies to
annuitants from any form of government, not just from the military.
Further, when the requisite skills are not available within our
own organization, there is specific provision for hiring annuitants.
Finally, there is a provision that the Director may authorize the
hiring of annuitants under any circumstance. I intend to utilize
that provision when appropriate.
In short, I believe I am making a necessary and appropriate
compromise between the utilization of the considerable talent for
our country which the retired coiriiiutiity represents and the congestion
of the CIA structure to the detriment of a reasonable career oppor-
tunity for our career people.
With warm regards.
STAT
Commander Joseph M. Preston, USN (Ret.)
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HIRING, OF ANNUITANTS
I am anxious to ensure that we offer good promotion opportunity
for our younger professionals, and a steady accession of new career
talent. To ensure that these goals can be achieved`I wish to restrict
lateral input of outside retirees into positions that could be filled
from within our own ranks. Therefore, effective immediately the
further hiring of annuitants from any Government service is prohibited
unless:
a. The Deputy Director for Administration certifies
that the skills required for the task to be performed by
the annuitant are not available from any currently serving
employee and, additionally, the Agency would have to under-
take specific recruitment to find the particular skill necessary
if the annuitant were not hired, and
b. I personally approve the hiring.
/s/Stansfield Turner
STANSFIELD TURNER
Director
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June 23, 1977
Dear Admiral Turner,
Upon reading my letter published in the Washington Star of
June 22, I realize that I could be judged to be somewhat self-
indulgent and unfairly critical of you. Such was not my intention.
I intended to comment. on a reported policy of the Director of the
CIA.
It is the nature of letters-to-the-editor that they are written
and mailed in haste--mine, anyway; if I delay for even five minutes
I file the letter in my desk and am the better for it. Unfortunately,
the letter to which I refer was one for which I had a stamp readily
available. I sincerely apologize if the style of my public utterance
paiu:cd you in any way, and I stand ready to make up for it however
you desire.
I remain in disagreement though with your reported policy in
regard to retired officers. I feel that this policy seems to imply
that retired officers are in some way deficient, and while such a
policy is unfair, though perhaps understandable, in a civilian
Director, it would appear to be doubly damaging when pursued by
a naval officer.
J. . PRESTON
CD USN (Ret.)
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and- incredibly -- Admiral Stans- 3 :j'C ~''S1Ou` ' or early aaa invotun ~
whandn firtr#? }~immisleadincaifiAn military officer offset relatively low active-duty pay
The military service is, quite sory severances occur to command- sect to a isneaiate recall to active
rightly, a young man's game, and ors not selected for captain, and to duty if
there are strict limitations imposed captains not selected for rear adrni- F_
by Congress on the number of offi ral. Whether military officers' sere-
cers who can be retained on active ices are worth such pay is, of
duty in each Their non-selection is not course, for Congress to decide--- as
grade. From a total of indicative of egregious incompe- well as for the officer. If he per--
over 60,000 naval officers on active - tence, since no incompetent. would ceives it as a. ripoff, he will from
duty, the? numbers dwindle in: the have made it to the selection point; economic necessity forego the- serve-
higher grades to about 50 flag offi- it is primarily due to the statutory ice early on and won't stay around
cers. Except for those selected to be restrictions on numbers who may be to be possibly non-selected at` age-
one of"these 54, everyone else of selected. There may, for example, 45.
comparable longevity has to go. In --.be a group of. 400 military and Or, as now seems likely the mili-:I
the Navy
it's "up or out" -- there '
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are no Iona-term managerial geniuses available for. tary officer will emulate his fellow;
paper-pushin
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g selection; nevertheless, only 50 of citizens,- form
a political' power
jobs wherein one can sit collecting ` them can be:selected for flag rank: bloc, and simply demand the wages
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Dt _ to the Navy and are in their mid-40s. Second, in the present context, .
`? proportionately greater Th
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ey are energetic
and the important thing about so-called
grade restrictions in the grades of - - accomplishment-oriented, and they "retired pay"-is that it has'-been
captain (bird colonel) and-rear :.., are on the street, many without a earned fairly and squarely. ..The
adrziral (two-star), most compul-, marketable skill other ... than w _ . a a--' and the part a knowl..._" amount and hterms were of
..characterize such. earned pay as
`vaguely dishonest and"somehow-a
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:ernment or in the private, sector::
.His fitness' for a job-is in no way af-
fected by his. financial status,
whether it is based on previously in-
employment, whether with the gov-1
government from'. the outset --a+
deal made with: full public knowl
edge and a,-deal -in which the
severed officer fulfilled his part
under constant-scrutiny and exami-
nation. Entitlement to this pay
snouia in justice have?absolutely no
. effect on an officer's subsequent
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Yet'the Presidenthimself un-
fairly stigmatizes retired officers
by implying that they are somehow
hoodwinking the good people of
:'.America by "double-dipping, triple-
: dipping, sometimes quadruple-dip-
ping - into the public till, one is
.encouraged to' assume. This inter-
pretation'of the President's attitude.
is no fantasy, for many years retired
officers, regardless. of .their skills
and energy, have been discouraged
from accepting federaiemployment
by mandatory, legislated salary
penalties. based not on the abilities
of the applicant but.'on something
else
Worse, Admiral a Stansfield
Turner; himself an active-;duty-
naval `Officer who certainly under
stands better. than I'.theI issues in-
:.volved,