LETTER TO HONORABLE PERCIVAL F. BRUNDAGE FROM HARRIS ELLSWORTH

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• Publication Date: May 9, 1957
• Content Type: LETTER

Honorable Percival F, Brundage
? Director I
Bureau of the Budge
Washington.25., D.
The Commission has your letter of March 27th, requesting
UNITED STATES CIVIL. SERVICE C
Washington 25, D. C.
May 9, 1957
On file CSC/OPM release. instructions apply.
its comments on draft bill "To amend the Central Intelligence Agency
Act of 1949, as amended, and for other purposes.
Section 5 of the draft would add a new section 9 to the Central
Intelligence Agency Act providing special retirement privileges for
certain employees of that Agency. Benefited would be those persons
with at least 10 years' Agency service, of which not less than 5 years
are performed outside the continental United States, who have served
outside the continental United States during at least 40% of Agency
employment prior to age 50.
Each employee meeting these conditions would be given the
option of retiring on an unreduced annuity under the Civil Service
Retirement Act, if the Agency Director approves, at any time after
attaining age 50 and completing 20 years of Government service. In
computing annuity rate in such case the employee would be allowed
time credit at the rate of 1-1/4 years for each year of Agency service
outside the continental United States.
If this amendment is considered in its present form, the words
"as amended, (Act of 22 May 1920, 5 U. S. C. 691)" should be deleted
to provide a correct reference. However, if this retirement proposal
is to receive the attention of Congress, we strongly urge that it be
redrafted as an amendment to the Civil Service Retirement Act. To
accomplish the result sought by its proponents, section 5 of the draft
bill should be changed to read:
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and the Bureau of the Budget. In addition, Commission personnel
have participated in a number of discussions in the past few years
at which different agencies have been represented.
e of these studies, considerations, or discussions has
resulted in a option of an administration policy on the subject of
re i Em- _e benefits for overseas personnel. No one proposal, or
combination of proposals so far considered, has found general
acceptance as offering a satisfactory solution.
We think the retirement problems concerning Central Intel-
ligence Agency employees should not be isolated and considered
independently of similar problems affecting overseas employees of all
other agencies. The Commission has consistently leaned toward
adoption of a general definition of overseas employees for retirement
purposes, and consideration of provisions for earlier retirement and
uniformly calculated annuities for all suchanployees, regardless of
the agency or agencies in which employed.
In view of the urgency expressed by the Central Intelli
ence
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Agency, Commission personnel will be available at the convenience
of your office to participate in further discussions and attempts to
fi
nd workable solutions to existing problems in this area.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Mr. Tones:
Thank you for letting us review the latest draft bill "To
amend the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949." Since we
have previously commented at length on Central Intelligence
Agency's proposals and many of the provisions of the current
draft are in line with our suggestions, we are confining our
present comments to Sec. 5 which covers special retirement pro-
visions for their employees.
As indicated in our letter of February 15, 1957, this office
does not approve the provision to grant extra service credits
under the conditions specified. CIA states that such extra ser-
vice credits, at the rate of one year of extra- credit for every
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our years served abroad or fraction thereof, would result in
annuities for employees retiring under this section nearly equal
to those granted to Foreign Service Officers. However, according
to our calculation, it would appear that when an employee has . orn_
overseas, his annuity would
be progressively higher, depending upon the total amount of time
served abroad, than that payable to Foreign Service Officers. We
consider this undesirable since it would create a further dis-
tinction among employees serving overseas and provide a premium
for service with one particular agency, whereas the objective of
this Administration is to achieve a greater degree of consistency.
As you know, this office has long felt that special consider-
ation should be given to civilian employees of the Government who
have served for long periods in foreign countries and who in effect
have made a career of service overseas. It has been our thought
that certain provisions now available to Foreign Service Officers
should be extended to such individuals. For example, for employees
who have completed ten or more years of civilian service in foreign
countries, it would seem reasonable to apply the two per cent rate
I in computing their annuities, and further, to permit them to re-
tire on full annuities in the event of involuntary separation, not
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for cause, at age 50 with 20 or more years of creditable service
including 10 years of civilian service in foreign countries.
If Central Intelligence Agency were to s
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a proposal alon+,
these lines, including a provision covering voluntary retiremen at
age 50 with 20 years total service, of which not less than 10
years covers civilian service in foreign areas, including 5 years
overseas service for CIA, and authorizing retirement at full an-
nuity computed at the 2% rate, subject to approval of such retire-
ment by the CIA Director, this office would not object thereto.
Such a proposal would be more nearly in line with the provisions
of the Foreign Service Retirement System, and would lend itself to
possible extension at some future date to
Sincerely,
/s/ Harris Ellsworth
Harris Ellsworth
Mr. Roger W. Jones
Assistant Director for Legislative Reference
Executive Office of the President
Bureau of the Budget ;
Washington, D. C.
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Private bills in which CIA had an interest numbered about
30 in the 2nd Session of the 83rd Congress. Information in the second
category was furnished to the Subcommittees in about 50 cases during
the 2nd Session.
A detau1et tudy of the wor is office in connection with
Private Bills is attache a-iCs-T ab B.
b. Liaison With Committees of the Congress.
=Oaf ro==iU-e4i-& of the Gorxjvts-s-.- This work includes assisting in
arranging for the presentation of testimony by appropriate officials
of the Agency, the furnishing of information to Congressional com--
mittees in accordance with their requests, and in general maintain-
ing the relationships in accordance with the "Assumptions" set forth
in paragraph 2 above. The largest percentage of liaison with the
Senate and House committees is as follows:
i. Appropriations Committees.
Liaison with the Appropriations Committees involves in
large measure arranging for the presentation of the CIA budget to
the Committees, together with related matters, The CIA Comptroller
shares largely in these activities. For a detailed study of CIA
relations- with the Appropriations Committees in the 83rd Congress
see Tab C attached.
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26 December
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THE SENATE OF. THE UNITED STATES
?. MAC 15 (legislative day, MAY 7),1956
Mr. Russ (for himself.and Mr. SALTowsTTLL) (by request) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Armed Services
A BILL
To amend the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, as
amended, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTIOV 1.. Section 3 of the Act entitled the Central
4 Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949,
5 as amended (63 Stat. 208, 50 TT. S. C. 403a), (hereinafter
6 'referred to as "such Act") , is amended to read. as follows :
7 " (a) In the, performance of its functions, the Central
a Intelligence agency is authorized to exercise the authorities
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