[RETIREMENT PLANNING - FBI]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00498A000500160005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

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4. Retirement Planning -' FBI
With the prior approval of DD/Pers/SP, C/RAD
responded to a call from Mr. Robert Quigley, Director
of the Assessment Center at The FBI Academy. Mr. Quigley
desperately needs guidance in setting up a retirement
planning program. He went to the AARP who in turn told
him CIA had a good program already in operation and sug-
gested that he call me.
Mr. Quigley's problem came about this way - A recent
public law established age 55 as mandatory retirement age
for all Federal investigators, effective 1 January 1978.
The Director of the FBI, Mr. Kelley, has stated that there
will be no exceptions to this age in the FBI. Consequently
from 1 January 1978 to 1 March 1979, a total. of 1,200 FBI
agents will attain mandatory age (out of a total of 8,500).
In order to prepare these agents for retirement,
Mr. Quigley needs to set up a system in a hurry. He
admitted that the program he sets up will also attempt
to overcome resentment and anger on the part of those
agents who had not prepared to leave at age 55.
Quigley says that it is embarrassing to admit that
the FBI has done nothing in preparing agents for retirement.
Now he sees the need to gear up to handle the problems of
handling the 1,200 and also to set up a system for continued
use in the future.
C/RAD gave Quigley a brief description of what CIA
does for its employees. Mr. Quigley said he was "flabbergasted"
to learn what we are doing; he said he also learned that the
Secret Service is "miles ahead" of the FBI in this regard;
and he said (again) that the FBI's record in this matter
is "embarrassing." He said he would digest what he learned
from CIA and the Secret Service and said he would probably
invite me down to the Academy sometime early in January.
Mr. Quigley related that he "backed into" the assignment
to set up a system of retirement preparation in this way.
Director Kelley, knowing that 1,200 agents will retire in
about 14 months (after 1 January 1978) gave Quigley the task
of identifying agents in the age bracket 34-38 who have the
potential to move up as managers and supervisors. He said
that he drew a lot of resentment from the older hands who
became aware of what he was doing (planning to replace them),
even to the extent of receiving hate mail and being subjected
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once to actual physical assault. He said that many of
those approaching age 55 believe the FBI can't get
along without them. When the attitudes of these agents
were thus revealed, Mr. Kelley decided to prepare them
for retirement and gave Mr. Quigley the task.
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