LETTER TO LOUIS STOKES FROM EDWARD J. HEINZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00551R001200630004-5
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 26, 1988
• Content Type: LETTER

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Director
Intelligence Community Staff
Washington, D.C. 20505
ICS 4714-88
26 April 1988
The Honorable Louis Stokes, Chairman
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
STAT
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Enclosed is CIA's response to the Congressionally directed action on
Retirement Benefits for Certain Former Spouses requested in the unclassified
conference report to the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 1988.
Copies of this letter and the CIA response have been provided to the
Senate,Select Committee on Intelligence as well as the Subcommittees on
Defense of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
Sincerely,
war .
Lieutenant General,/US
Enclosure
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This report provides the status of CIA's efforts to carry out the
.provisions of Title IV, Section 401, of the FY 1988 Intelligence Authorization
Act, which amends the CIA Retirement Act of 1964 to provide retirement
benefits for certain former spouses.
Recently revised Agency regulations authorize annuity benefits for certain
former spouses divorced on or before 15 November 1982. The. regulations
outline annuity eligibility criteria, stipulate entitlement computations and
the funding source for annuity payments, and provide commencement and
termination dates for annuities awarded.
We are taking a number of steps to ensure that all those eligible for the
former spouses' benefits are notified:
-- In early March 1988 the Agency notified all known former spouses by
letter of their lifetime annuity entitlement rights contained in the
FY 1988 Intelligence Authorization Act.
-- We also sent a notice of the changes to all Agency annuitants and
published notices both for Headquarters and field personnel.
-- A notice was published in the Federal Register on 18 March and in the
legal notices section of The Washington Post on 20, 21, and 23 March.
An employee bulletin describing the provisions of the former spouse
legislation was issued Agencywide on 4 April.
-- An item about the legislation will appear in the May or June issue of.
Modern Maturity magazine, a publication of the American Association of
Retired Persons, and in the July newsletter of the CIA Retiree
We believe that the steps we have taken allow for the proper
implementation of the program and that reasonable efforts are being made to
inform former spouses of the benefits available to them.
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SUBJECT: Retirement Benefits for Certain Former Spouses
DCI/ICS/LL
(4/20/88)
STAT
Distribution: (ICS 4714-88)
Original - C/HPSCI (Stokes)
1 - C/SSCI (Boren)
1 - C/HAC (Chappell)
1 - C/SAC (Stennis)
1 D/ICS et al
1 - PBO (CIA Program Monitor)
1 LL Chrono
ICS Registry
LL CDA File w/encl
UNCLASSIFIED
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