LETTER TO HONORABLE E. (KIKA) DE LA GARZA FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300090056-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: January 29, 1979
• Content Type: LETTER

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Letter-to-the-Editor
t?7ashington Star
~ti?ashington, DC
January 12, 1979
The article entitled "Pension Boosts CIA Chief's Pa_y to
$81,000", in the 1/11/79 edition of the Washington Star, was
misleading and unfair. You should have pointed out that the
arranc3ement arrived at by Admiral Turner is actually savinq_
ti7e Government money.
As an Admiral with over 30 years active service, Turner
is entitled to a pension of 750 of his highest base pay. His
highest base pay was $55,000 per year, so his pension would be
$41, 715 per year.
Under the long-standing rules governing ",double-dipping",
applicable to retired regular c.fficers of the Armed Forces,
Admiral Turner will lose 50? of his pension for each $1 he
earns as a civilian employee of. the Federal Government, after
the first $4,000 of his pension. This is why his pension will
be only $23,390, rather than fi41,715.
If Admiral Turner were to resign his position as Director
of the CIA and get a private-sector job, the Government would
have to pay him his entire pension of $41,715, AND it would
have to pay. someone else $57,500 to be Director o.f_ the CIA;
thus, the total outlay by the Government would be $18,325
GP.EATER.
A provision of the ne:w CivLi Service Reform Act iimit5
the total federal compensation of retired military personnel
(civil service pay plus military retirement) to $47,500 per
year.' (Admiral Turner escaped this provision by retiring
from the Navy before the new law went into effect.) Because
of this unfair new la:v, in the future people like Admiral
Turner Wlil be even less willing to serve in the Federal
Government as civilians. Less-t-{ualified people will have
to be used in important federal civilian positions, and the
total outlay of government funds.mat7 be GREATER rather than
lesser.
In the future, Sid Ta for of the National Ta STAT
y xpayers Union
should check his arithmetic before issuing assinine press
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~J. Stuart Showalter Samuel F.3T~Taht~