HOUSE POST OFFICE/CIVIL SERVICE HEARING ON RETIREMENT: CIA PARTICIPATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M01152R000200170005-2
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 19, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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OLL 85-0666/4
19 April 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
House Post Office/Civil Service Hearing
on Retirement: CIA Participation
1. On 25 April, the House Post Office/Civil Service
Committee hearing on the retirement needs for special
employee groups will begin at 1000 in Room 311 Cannon.
I have scheduled a van to depart Headquarters at 0900. I
anticipate the hearing will adjourn at around 1200.
2. The tentative hearing schedule is as follows:
GAO Representative to discuss GAO/GGD-85-22:
"Options to Consider for Certain Employee
Groups in Designing the New Civil Service
Retirement Program"
Panel: Herman J. Cohen, Dept. of State
Acting Director General of the
Foreign Service and Director of
Personnel
Robert W. Magee, CIA
Director of Personnel
Note: I have arranged with the staff for you to read your
statement after Cohen reads his, then the Members will pose
questions to the two of you.
Panel: Federal Bureau of Investigation
William H. Webster (or his deputy)
Panel of Employee Groups (American Foreign
Service Association, Firefighters and
Air Traffic Controllers)
3. I explained to the staff that we could not submit a
statement in advance because of our ongoing discussions with
OMB. The staff understands the dilemma and invites us to
give them a list of questions that we want to be asked. The
intent here, of course, is to give us the opportunity to say
what we want, irrespective of OMB's position. The State
Department has been given the same opportunity. State has
told the staff that OMB is now looking at their advance
statement and may not clear everything that State wants.
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4. Please let me know questions you would like Chairman
Ford to pose,--questions that would open the way for you to
elaborate on points of your choosing. (Also, let me know
the areas that you hope the Committee avoids). The staff
has shown every indication of its willingness to cooperate
and to write a script for the hearing that meets our needs.
Insofar as Committee-initiated questions, the staff does not
plan to prepare questions for the Members.
5. It is highly unlikely that there will be any TV
coverage. It appears that only Donald Devine (or maybe it's
his cigar) attracts the cameras to the Civil Service
Committees. If I learn otherwise, I will alert you and CRS
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