LETTER TO THE HONORABLE EDWARD P. BOLAND FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: July 14, 1981
• Content Type: LETTER

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_; e :~~~o_a`~ } e Edgard P. Boland
C':ai~La Permanent Select
Co-~nttea on Intelligence
~-.:se ;i ?_presentatives
,1G J_iLL~~tvi:, D.C? 2v^^.515
Dear ~-ir- Cha:rn3n:
1 -deeply appreciate the support you and your colleagues on the Co?snittee
have given CIA and the Intelligence Community over the years. And I want
to t^a_ you for th? recent opportunity to personally explain the reasons
c; ,~ I feel it necessary to aChno'~rledge the unique duties, responsibilities,
a-~d hazards of CIA empl? r~WOr'-'-ing overseas by providing them an interims
overseas differential.
I hose _~=~, `, a =e:,ult of our conversation, the Contaittee understands
our reason^.s `or ra{ir_g t:izs step. For Bone time senior managers in the Agency
hsre been ale=3ed over _h? increasing difficulty of retaining e~:perienced
oiricers a:?~ .eLt^~ ti:e~ to serve overseas. In my earlier letter, I referred
Lc the circ:._:=,ta:~ces which have made service overseas increasingly onerous and
lit the '1 ,t2~11.~eRCe ~C'-+~'i=r=~ ty cJOrking OVerSeaS.
I want to assure you that I am confident that the differential - 4.6
percent of an eTployee's base salary -- is fully justified by the special
circ.u^stances and suhstarc~~ of intelligence wort: overseas. ~?le will be send-
ing the Coy*-iittce next wee'--: additional material justifying and documenting
th? ot-erseas differential. In accordance with your suggestion, in the coninj
:-oaths .ce will. cor~pl_ete a full-scale analysis of our overseas corspensation
si~uatian. the would hope to return to the Congress after this analysis is
f CIA and other civilians
coaplete ~..*i*_h the purpose of adjusting the pay
less attracti=~e to our pecgle:
lh~ i::CT.~aseu threat to official Anericans~, and especially CIA
ofTir~~rs, serving overseas. Since 1979, we have been forced to burn
station `:olLings on 16 occasions, vivid testimony to the growing
irstab'ility in the world. The threat to our people has also grown
because of the increased public acaareness of CIA and the work of
Agee and others to promote attacks on US intelligence activities_
Concar over the well-being of one's family- is playing an increasing
part in~the career decisions of our officers.
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-- CIA officers overseas have duties that are clearly different frora
those of the avara~e GS ~overn~er_t ennlovee_ or even a Foreign
It 's testi~.ony to the patriotism and dedication of our people that
the cor:tr_b_tion the;% r~,a'-_a t;, the cOUritrj `s security has taken precedence
over t s :. ~=`_ive =srects ~` serving overseas. Tde have managed, therefore,
to keep roa_ ore=seas p_s_t:ons filled. Eut, in all candor, about a year
ago, it beca~> clear that the trends -- particularly in the Operations
Directora_e sn~~ _e Cf=ice of Cammunications -- were getting worse. TJhere
we once had twc? ar three candidates for an overseas post, we are down to
one, or in some cases, none. It was obvious in the Operations Directorate's
career couaselyng interviews that the burdens of overseas service as a CIA
officer were. betting h?a_?~.ier on our personnel. iiany :ere actively looking.
for positio s.:~__~t did not entail going overseas even if that rseant leaving
the Agency. ~lar:~ed by w:,at these interviews portend for the future, the
Office of Personnel with the strong encouragement of Agency manage;~ent in
the spring of ?980 began work an options to acknowledge the extra duties and
burdens iraasa~ oa CIA zrsonnel overseas
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Tile ~tge:,cy felt it hat no choice but to move ahead with additional
compensation far its people when Foreign Service officers got Wore pay this
past winter. Ir.~aoine, if you will, the impact on the morale of our officers
when their Slate Department colleagues, with ~?Thom they work an close terns,
received increases as high as 13 percent. The impact was all the greater
because:
In recognition of the unique. duties and burdens of CIA officers over-
seas, r:.y predecessor Wade the decision to grant pay increases for our people.
while they are employed overseas. ~ti'hen I became the DCI, I reaff irn~d ray
predecessors decision in principle, a:~d with the benefit of your advice,
I have dt'Cidar! *_o afford this compensation in the forn of an interims overseas
dirferentia]_ effective in early July.
I real~:ze that questions have been raised about whether we in CIA were
now '?ratch?ting" up Lila pay scale. This is not our intent, and our interim
overseas differential c'aes not affect the pay scale under which we conpansate
all CZ:1 ne?o ~ _ ?. In a? 1 ca:lwor, I believe. that an objective review of the
duties, res;~~~nsibi,i=?as and burdens of CIA ennlovees overseas will demoZ-
strate the e,;u_ty of T-:creased compensation.
I trns~_ a~.? hone that the Committee, which has been Host helpful in
the procnss of rebuil~7ino American intelligence, will understand our reasons
for proceef=^a with steps to neet a~,pressing need. I would ec~phasize that
only about percent of our people kill be affected by the Interir.~ Overseas
Differentia'. Z fully understand and am sympathetic to the Committee's _
concerns, cor the lor.~er tern I have asked our Office of Personnel to
undertake a t~?OrO1:~i1 review and analysis of CIA pay scales and the CoMpensa-
Lion of other- Zntelliaence Co::i~aunity civilians posted overseas. I believe
that ir.telliger_ce operations overseas are different in character from either
normal dc:;lestic federal service or from the Foreign Service, and this factor
rtay warrant the creatzon of a separate pay scale fQr intelligence officers
serving overseas. This analysis will be finished on or about 1 February
1982, and Z intend to rake it available to the Com:~ittee with a Hind to
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k-cie__vro er compensation to
ra':ino what-`ver ad justrents are necessa_y to prof I P
ti:ose in the difficult intelligence profession.
Once again, in this matt n others, I want to thank thz Co~~ittee
or its constructive support.
/~/ lr~a3~iar~ J~_~~ s~~
gill iata J. Casey
Director of Central Ir_telligenca
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D/Comp (13 July 1981)
Distributio:::
Orio -Chairman, HAC/Defense
I - Chairman, HPSCZ
1 -SAC/Defense (L~Hight E. Dyer)
I - SSCI (Jac Bla?:e)
1 - DCI
l - DDCI
I-ER
1 - DD:~
- ADDA
1 - D/rinance
1. - DD/OPiPAE
I - DD 1t~DP
I - C/DO/Ci-ij
1 - C%LL
I-GC
3 - GGC
1 - .CJ
1 - Compt
I - D/r0 LL~r
I - C/AG
I - C/OC
3 - Copt Subj
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