LETTER TO CLAIR E. GEORGE FROM (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00338R000300440009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 29, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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February 29, 1984
Clair George, Director
Office of Legislative Liaison
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Clair George:
Thank you for your letter of February 16th. I have, all along,
been in full understanding of the situation you describe.
It seems ironic and grossly unfair that these former spouses
must, in order to gain their rightful benefits, endure the costs of
lawyer and court fees to correct an injustice. How does one do that
when there is little money to orovide more than the essentials of
existing? In a divorce court, and bound by secrecy regairecrFnts they
cannot explain their cases adequately. Lawyers are well aware that they
cannot pay for intricate and lengthy legal maneuvering.
My mail indicates that many of these former spouses are already
existing at poverty level or are in danger of becoming a burden to society
in the form of being welfare recipients. These former soouses need unique
help in providing a financial base for their old age. They come late to
the job world. They have too few years of emplo,mient and too low job
status and pay scale to earn their own surviv^1 level retirement. Those
benefits earned on their own can be added to a government annuity. Then
the former dependent can hope to end un with an adequate income. Rights
to the government annuity should be vested rather than left to court
discretion.
Many of these former spouses no longer live in the jurisdiction where
The divorce was granted . For some of them a move to an area where living
costs were cheaper was imnerative.
cc: Mine Congressional Delegation
Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder
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