ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00261R000600030069-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: April 21, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR.: Executive Director-Comptroller
Administrative Authorities
APR 1971
REFERENCE (a) Memo dtd 30 April 68 for Ex. Dir. -Compt.
fr DD/S, Same Subject
b)
Memo dtd 21 May 68 for Ex. Dir. -Compt.
fr DD/S, Same Subject
Memo dtd 23 June 70 for DD/S fr General Counsel,
Subj : Administrative Adoption of Statutory Benefits
(c)
1. This memorandum contains a recommendation for your approval;
such recommendation is. contained in paragraph 6.
2. Reference (a) recommended the adoption of the administrative authori
of the Foreign Service Act, as amended, to permit the payment of travel and tra:
portation expenses for employees retiring under the Central Intelligence Agency
Retirement and Disability System (CIARDS) to a place designated in the United St
its territories or possessions. This recommendation, which you approved on
30 April 1968, followed an extensive review made of existing Agency authorities
in the fields of travel expenses, allowances and other fringe benefits provided to
Agency employees to insure that these are as favorable as those provided by ex-
isting laws enacted for other government employees in similar circumstances.
On 23 May 1968 you approved the recommendation in reference (b) to adopt anoth
administrative authority of the Foreign Service Act to permit reimbursement of
travel and transportation expenses of the dependents of a deceased CIARDS parti4
ipant to a designated place of residence regardless of the participant's PCS point
U. S. or abroad. We believe it is now appropriate to reconsider the basis for
limiting these death and retiree travel benefits to participants in CIARDS.
3. Key to our reconsideration of present authority is the Agency's retire:
policy which applies equally to employees in'CIARDS or the Civil Service Retirer.
System (CSRS). As early as 1959 the retirement policy was that employees woul
be expected to retire at age 60 with 30 years of service, or at age 62 with at leas
five years of service under the then existing optional retirement provisions of thf
CSRS. On 3 May 1968, after an in-depth review by the Agency's senior echelon,
the Director of Central Intelligence decreed that it would continue to be Agency
policy that employees under the CSRS be required to retire at age 60 or as soon
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thereafter as they are eligible for optional retirement under the law. Paragral
12 of the rationale for the age 60 retirement policy (attached to the memoranduz
approved by the Director on 3 May 1968) is pertinent to this memorandum.
"12. In summary, the age 60 retirement policy is a key element
of the Agency's efforts to attain excellence in its staffing. Without the
policy the entire personnel program of the Agency would be impaired.
The most vigorous and productive individuals, finding themselves stymie
will leave the service or will never be persuaded to enter in the first pla
By shortening the career span of all employees, service in intelligence i
continue to be highly attractive to outstanding young men and women. In
the end, our national intelligence objectives will be best served. "
4. The Agency's early retirement policy, for employees under either C or CSRS is ample evidence that the conditions of employment for our personnel ;
such as to set them apart.from other Federal employees. Having established a
requirement for retirement at age 60 under both' systems, based on the premise
.that such action was deemed necessary for the proper administration of all emp]
ees, it would appear logical and equitable that similar retiree and death travel
benefits should flow from this policy. It would also appear logical and equitable
to provide these benefits only to those employees under CSRS who in fact retire
at age 60 or as soon thereafter as they are eligible for optional retirement, unle
the employee's retirement is extended by the Agency but in no event should the
benefit be available after age 62.
5. In reference (c) the General Counsel noted that the discussion of the
merits of extending retiree and death travel benefits to participants in CIARDS
and not to employees covered by the CSRS placed great weight on the fact that.
CIARDS participants had met measurable standards which distinguished them
from normal CSRS participants. He went on to say that this may not be a valid
distinction inasmuch as such benefits had previously been granted to participants
under both systems who were stationed abroad and, therefore, there is an appar
inequity for employees who are stationed PCS in the United States. The General
Counsel concluded that he would offer no legal objection to an extension of death
and retiree travel benefits to employees covered by CSRS if such action is deem(
necessary for the proper administration of employees of the Agency.
6. In line with the above, and pursuant to the authority 'delegated to- you
by the Director of Central Intelligence on 5 October 1967, it is recommended tha
effective with the date of your approval you determine it to be necessary for the
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proper administration of all employees of the Agency to adopt the administrativ,
authority of the Foreign Service Act, as amended, to provide to participants in
the CSRS the same death and retirement travel benefits now approved for CIRRI
participants, provided the employee:
(a) is a staff employee, a staff agent, a career agent, or a
contract employee converted from staff status without a break in service
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(b) retires on or before his scheduled retirement date as
determined by
(c) retires on or before his 62nd birthday when his extension
beyond a date of his eligibility for optional retirement was approved
CONCUR:
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General Counsel
Date
The recommendation, contained in paragraph 6 is approved.
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Executive Director-Comptroller Bate
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