EARLY RETIREMENT LEGISLATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000100140061-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: September 27, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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ACTION MEMORANDU
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No.
Date Z7 September 1962
TO : The General Counsel
SUBJECT : Early Retirement Legislation
REFERENCE:
1. In view of our inability to secure the passage of our early re-
tirement legislation during this session of Congress, it is mandatory that
we exert every effort to insure our success in the first session of the 88th
Congress. The fact that only a little over three months remain between
now and the opening of that Congress makes it important that we get our
preparatory work completed at the earliest possible time.
As I see it the following remains to be done:
a. Completion of the draft of the legislation to include all
e other items which we wanted in the law, which we
did not have time to include in our original draft, e. g. a pro-
viso permitting the Director to accept gifts in order that
we can set up our own scholarship fund.
b. Well before the Congress convenes, we should make a
concerted effort to contact every member of the Armed
Services Committees and other key members of the Congress
to explain to them the bill, why we used it, and answer any
inquiries they might have about the Agency which might in-
hibit their backing the bill. I am thinking particularly of the
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unexpected monkey wrench which Porter Hardy threw into
our efforts this last session. I believe that if properly
allocated among the members of the staff of the Legislative
Council, the Executive Committee and other senior officers
of the Agency we should be able to make dozens of valuable
converts before January.
c. We should also insure that the appropriate staff members
of all of the interested committees are thoroughly briefed on
the legislation, and to this I would add the appropriate per-
sonnel in the Executive branch, particularly the White House,
Bureau of the Budget, and Civil Service Commission, as
well as our friends in Mate and Defense.
3. 1 feel that it is most important that we do all this work before
January inasmuch as once the Congress convenes, there will be weeks lost
on organization followed by the annual scrimmage on the budget and then the
rush for adjournment.
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Executive Director
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