LETTER TO THE HONORABLE EDWARD P. BOLAND FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92-00420R000300110055-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2009
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: July 14, 1981
• Content Type: LETTER

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Thursday, 4 March larch 1982, in
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our meeting with the I-1PSCI staff
Mike O'Neil suggested that, since
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the overseas pay study was
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community-wide in nature, the
effort should be driven by the IC
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Staff and that he was surprised
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that one. of their representatives
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was not at the meeting. In the
attached letter to the Chairman,
I-IPSCI, dated 14 July 1981, the
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For the longer
DCI stated that
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term I have asked our Office of
Personnel to undertake a thorough
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review and analysis of CIA pay
scales and the compensation of
other Intelligence Community
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civilians overseas.
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While the question of who
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drives the study may not be a
continuing issue, it is clear that
HPSCI was notified last July that
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the responsibility for this
initiative would be given to the
Director of Personnel/CIA.
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~ no-s--,-e Edward P. Boland
~...o _ ~o - LC ai -"an, Pe parent Select
Co---ittee on Intelligence
o:ise o PepresentatiVes
ash_n:` ,.,,n, D.C. 2Q515
I deeply appreciate the support you and your colleagues on the Co=. itcee-
'have given CIA and the Intelligence Coi-unity over the years. And I want
to t' __- you for the recent opportunity to personally explain the reasons
w I feel it necessary to acknowledge the unique duties, responsibi? hies,
and hazards of CIA employees working overseas by providing then an interi=
I want to assure you that I an confident that the differential -- 9.6
percent of an employee's base salary -- is fully justified by the special
circ.u=stances and substance of. intelligence-work overseas. We will. bet send-
ins the C.^.-mittee next week additional material justifying and documenting
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the o:'e=seas differential. In accordance with your suggestion, in the coning
months we will complete a full-scale analysis' of our overseas compensation
situation. We would hope to return to the Congress after this analysis is
complete ::itt the purpose of adjusting the pay scales of CIA and other civilians
in the Intelligence Cc-unity working overseas. 25x1
I ho e =___t, as G yesu?_ of our conversation, the Comaittee understands
our reasons =or caking this step. For some time senior managers in the Agenct*
have been al--r=ad over the increasing difficulty of retaining experienced
officers and geccing has to serve overseas. In my earlier letter, I referred
to the circ.__stances which have made service overseas increasingly onerous and
less attract_'re to our people: -
-- The increased threat to official Americans, and especially CL4
officers, serving overseas. Since 1979, we have been forced to burn
station holdings on 16 occasions, vivid testimony to the growing
ir-stabrility in the world. The threat to our people has also gro-a^
because of the increased public awareness of CL4 and the work of
Agee and others to promote attacks, on US intelligence activities-
Con_cern over the well-being of one's family. is playing an increasing
part .in 'the career decisions of our officers. 25X1
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ave
uties L. a a
-- CIA officer. overseas
those of the aver r employee, or even a Foreign
Service o_`ficer.
It is testimony - to the patriotism and dedication of our people that
the co-:tr _ _t ion they to the county;: 's security has taken precedence
over t=ie =__ve -s=ects of serving overseas. Wa have managed, therefore,
to keep Loa- p_sitions filled. But, in all candor, about a year
ago, it beca e c -ear that the trends --particularly in the Operations
Directorate _n w_! the C==ice of Communications -- were getting worse. Where
we once had two or three candidates for an overseas post, we are down to
one, or in ss=e cases, none. It was obvious in the Operations Directorate's
career couas?lig--i :ter