SABBATICALS FOR SENIOR INTELLIGENCE SERVICE MEMBERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP95-00535R000300020008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 1, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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FROM:
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE:
FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Harry E. Fitzwater
Director of Personnel Policy, Planning,
and Management
Sabbaticals for Senior Intelligence Service
Members
DDCI Questions re Sabbaticals
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1. Our original sabbatical proposal was returned on 7 January with
the DDCI's request for legal clarification which we sent to OGC on10January.
OGC's opinion was received on 14 February at which time we were engaged in
drafting and coordinating the Senior Officer Development Program (SODP) paper.
Following PMAB consideration of the SODP paper on 14 April, another meeting
was scheduled for 12 May to consider the sabbatical proposal. The final draft
was signed by D/PPPM and D/OTR and sent to the DDCI on 22 May. Although action
on the sabbatical paper could have been pushed through earlier, the sequence
of events and the significance of the SODP led us to give the SODP proposal
first priority, with the sabbatical proposal presented directly thereafter.
2. The five-year SIS service requirement does indeed reduce the pool of
eligible officers as does the seven-year requirement for SES officers contained
in the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA). We sought to temper its impact on
CIA by lowering the requirement from seven to five years and by applying the
Civil Service voluntary retirement age of 55 to all SIS officers, including
those eligible to retire at age 50 under CIARDS. In the group of 49 officers
STAT currently recommended for promotion to SIS-1, would be eligible
for sabbaticals (currently 47 or younger, could meet the five-year requirement,
take a year sabbatical and return for two years before reaching age 55). It
is likely that the Congress, Office of Personnel Management, and perhaps
the Government Accounting Office. will scrutinize all SES programs after the
first year. We continue to believe that it would be prudent for CIA to conform
to CSRA wherever feasible and to deviate only where there are unique CIA
considerations. After the first year we can take a new look and make changes
as appropriate.
STAT
3. Based on your questions, we recommend briefing the EXCOM prior to
putting out the policy.
Hare, J. Fi'xwater
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DATE
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DATE
OFFICER'S
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
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RECEIVED
FORWARDED
INITIALS
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
1. Acting Director of
Personnel.Policy,
Planning, and Managempa
DDCI has approved the SIS
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Sabbatical paper but has
comments and questions as
follows:
3.
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"I approved but have some
concerns:
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1. Why did this take so long?
2. Doesn't the 5-year plus
retirement eligibility threshold
5.
reduce the eligible pool to
a negligible amount, particularl
CIARDs employees?
6.
3. Let's brief EXCOM at next
meeting.
4. If my concdrn in 2 is
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unwarranted, go ahead and
put out to employees."
8.
OPPPM should discuss this at
the 18 June EXCOM meeting.
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