Letter to Edward Boland from Marshall Green in Support of H.R. 5805

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Retired Foreign Service Officer Marshall Green writes to House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Edward Boland to urge approval of H.R. 5805. Green argues that former spouses of CIA personnel deserve essential financial benefits and protection comparable to those provided to former spouses of Foreign Service officers. He warns that failing to pass the legislation would perpetuate an injustice and discourage qualified citizens from serving in the CIA.

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“I join with many of my colleagues in the Foreign Service and in Cla, active or retired, in urging approval of H.R. 5805 (or similar legislation) by your Committee. Sincerely”

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Australia CIA East Asia Edward Boland Foreign Service H.R. 5805 Hong Kong House of Representatives Indonesia Korea Marshall Green Select Committee of Intelligence State Department Washington, D. C.

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/09 : CIA-RDP10-00750R000100910001-9 Wb (IE Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/09 : CIA-RDP10-00750R000100910001-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/09 : CIA-RDP10-00750R000100910001-9 MARSHALL GREEN STAT September 4, 1984 Tle Honorawple Edward Boland Chairman of the Select Committee of Intelligence House of Representatives Washington, D. C. 20515 Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing in support of H.R. 5805 now under consideration by your Committee. My commments are based on 40 years as an American Foreign Service Officer, including assignments as Minister to Korea, Consul General to Hong Kong, Ambassador to Indonesia and Australia, and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific. At present, an retirement, I am a consultant to the State Department for population and refugee affairs. Against this background, I can attest that State Department and CTA officers, together with their spruses, work hand-in-hand for our country, sharing inter-related responsibilities and rewards of service, enduring common hardships, often including distant separation from home and from children in schoool and college, and facing the same hazards of living in unhealthy posts and of being potential vi tims of terrorists as in Iran, Lebanon, and elsewhwere. The provisions of H.R. 5805, like those of a similar bill to provide essential benefits to certain former spouses of Foreign Service personnel, are long overdue. Clearly these spouses are ent.tled to the financial protection and relief which this bill equitably provides. Indeed, there is a danger that failure to pass this bill will cause more and more of our best qualified citizens to be reluctant to serve our country’ in CIA, quite apart from how failure to pass this bill will perpetuate an injustice. I join with many of my colleagues in the Foreign Service and in Cla, active or retired, in urging approval of H.R. 5805 (or similar legislation) by your Committee. Sincerely yours, Marshall Green Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/09 : CIA-RDP10-00750R000100910001-9