RETIREEE PLACEMENT SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05939A000200040022-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 1, 1966
• Content Type: REGULATION

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1 July 1966
1. Fiscal Year 1966 Activities
We have now completed one full year of providing an all-grade,
all-Directorate employment search program for Agency retirees. It has
been a learning process for both the retiree and ourselves. We are
able to report at this time that the task of assisting retirees is
very difficult, but not impossible. With a few exceptions, we have
found complete cooperation and appreciation by those retirees who
have sought our service. Many, while expressing profound disappoint-
ment at the policy that forces their retirement at an age other than
of their own choice, also voice their appreciation for the "humanity"
of the Agency in offering this service.
Our experience to date allows us to make several generalizations
about the placement interests and opportunities' of our clientele:
a. The majority of retirees seeking our service prefer to
remain in the Washington area. This suggests to us that
the necessary personal adjustments that have to be made
in the act of retirement are quite enough for most people
without the additional burden of adjusting to a new
location. Those who have been willing to consider posi-
tions away from Washington tend to be quite widely trav-
elled and have been and are willing again to be teachers.
b. Organizations having foreign activities (be they business
or institutional organizations) are "standoffish" when
considering our overt retirees. These organizations,
while prepared to believe that our retiree comes as a
"free agent", owing no allegiance to his former profes-
sion, are understandably concerned that the countries
wherein they conduct their operations will not be so
convinced. Several such organizations, while acknowl-
edging the professional competence of our retiree, note
the "incompatability" between their interests and the
retiree's former profession. We suspect that more evi-
dence of this situation will appear and that overtly-
identified retirees will be virtually ruled out of conten-
tion for overseas positions with American organizations.
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During the first quarter of FY 66, the professional staff concerned
with retiree placement was reduced to one as the "retiree employment
research" man was reassigned to full-time recruitment and the then-
Chief, Recruitment Division found it necessary to devote full time to
facing a major recruitment build up. Briefly, during the second
quarter, a very capable officer from the Support Career Service was
detailed to assist in the "research" function and successfully
described our retiree placement program to a large number of organi-
zations in the Washington area. Late in the fourth quarter the
Retiree Placement Service was combined with the Employee Referral
Branch to form the External Placement Branch in the Recruitment
Division. At the close of the fourth quarter, two full-time pro-
fessional counselors concerned themselves with retiree as well as
resignee placement, with the Deputy Chief, Recruitment Division con-
tinuing to work with his earlier retiree clientele as well as selected
new retiree clients.
2. Fiscal Year 1967 Plans and Objectives
Plans, objectives, and workload in Retiree Placement for FY 67
will depend to a great degree on the amount of internal publicity
given this function. Although a description of this activity has
been presented in two editions of the Support Bulletin, this publi-
cation has limited readership. Too, the Retirement Officer, BSD,
apprises each impending retiree of our service. However, this takes
place usually a few weeks to months before actual retirement and pro-
vides little of the "lead time" so necessary in retiree placement.
There is, of course, a proposed "Employee Notice" which, if and
when published, would alert personally each person retiring or con-
templating retirement in the foreseeable future of the existence of
the Retiree Placement Service. This "Notice" would, in effect,
authorize an employee to deal directly with RPS; presently, in some
Career Services, a person contemplating retirement, especially under
the CIA Retirement Act, must make his contemplations known to his
Career Service. In some instances, this announcement of even a con-
sideration of the possibility of retirement has jeopardized the
position of certain employees within their own'career service.
If wider publicity is given to our function, then, it is probable
that an increase in the professional counseling staff will be required.
At least one full-time counselor would be needed as well as one full-
time "researcher" to continually canvass the labor market in a positive
search for retiree employment opportunities.
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RETIREE PLACEMENT SERVICE
DCI
Search in progress
Placed
*Other Services
DDI
Search in progress
Placed
*Other Services
DDP
Search in progress
Placed
*Other Services
vow
Civil
Service
Retirement
CIA
Retirement
Total
2
1
2
3
0
2
0
0
0
12
13
12
14
24
24
4
10
14
11
6
17
8
8
16
DDS
Search in progress
Placed
3
3
6
*Other S
i
17
4
2
erv
ces
20
1
21
DDS&T
Search in progress
1
0
Placed
*
2
0
Other Services
3
0
TOTAL
121
36
157 **
*Other Services constitutes a variety of individual counselings ranging from the
initiation of an employment search later terminated when the retiree's employment
is extended by decision of the Retirement Board, to the preparation of the state-
ments of verification of employment for purposes of credit, to the simple task
of "lending an ear" to the retiree who feels compelled to "call in" just to
"keep in touch."
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GRAND TOTALS
NNOpe Search in progress
22 ,C
Other S 44 11
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This Notice Expires 1 July 1966
dated 23 September 1964
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1. Enactment of the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of
1964 for Certain Employees has created a second retirement system
within the Agency. The existing retirement board, renamed the
Agency Retirement Board, will continue to be concerned with the
administration of the Civil Service Retirement System. A second
board, the CIA Retirement Board, has been created to assist in
the administration of the new retirement system for certain
employees.
2. AGENCY RETIREMENT BOARD
a. Advice and assistance in the administration of the Civil Service
Retirement System will be given by the Agency Retire-
ment Board (previously designated as the CIA Retirement Board).
Following is a current list of the members of that Board:
Lawrence R. Houston - Chairman
Robert H. Fuchs - Member
Otto E. Guthe - Member
- Member
George C. Miller z Member
b. Staff and secretariat support in the administration of the Civil
Service Retirement System is furnished by the Benefits and Coun-
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seling Branch, Benefits and Services Division, Office of Personnel.
3. CIA RETIREMENT BOARD
a. Effective 27 April 1965 a CIA Retirement Board was established
to assist and advise the Director of Personnel in the adminis-
tration of the CIA Retirement and Disability System
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b. Effective the same date Emmett D. Echols was appointed chairman
of the CIA Retirement Board. The other members of the Board ap-
pointed by the Director on the basis of proportional representa-
tion by Directorate are as follows:
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
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Intelligence Directorate
Science and Technology Directorate
Support Directorate
Paul A. Borel
Roger G. Seely
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George Miller, Alternate
c. A CIA Retirement Staff has been established in the Office of
Personnel to provide staff and secretariat support in the ad-
ministration of the CIA Retirement System.
L. K. WHITE
Deputy Director
for Support
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