PER DIEM PAYMENT BY LOCKHEED TO DETACHMENT A CONTRACT EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00011A001000130131-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 131
• Publication Date: May 6, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMOk$ANDVM 1Obt: Project Director of Administration 5 Jane 1956
iL f13EG T Per Diem Payment by Lockheed to Detachment A
Contract Employees
1. Mr. C. L. Johnson informed me in a telephone conversations on
29 May that Lockheed is proposing to pay their employees while stationed
a a contribution toward their living expenses. The employees
will be required to submit as expense account and outlays for approved
items will be reimbursed up to the amount of per day.
This payment is calculated to cover a portion of the employees' living costs
of about Twenty?Dollars (W. 00) per week. The calculation is based en the
costs that have been experienced a The figure of TwentyDoilar?
is the estimate that was given the employees at the time of their selection
as the probable amount of their weekly living expenses.
2. Employees will be cautioned when they are told of this arrange-
nient that the less said about it to others a the better and that
they should describe it as a contribution by the Company to living expenses
in "hardship" cases and situations. They will also be warned that if this
becomes an issue with other groups is the Detachment as a consequence of
much talk about it. the whole arrangement will have to be reconsidered.
it is being stipulated by the Company that this arrangement applies only at
and will not necessarily be continued at any other location.
3. The justification for this arrangement is of course dubious but
I am convinced that some justification does exist. In equity it is that the
Lockheed employees have been spending nearly twice as much as they were
told to expect and that this unexpected extra living cost. if continued. would
eat up most of the bonus they are due at the and of their period of employment.
The more pra gnanatic justification is that Kelly was faced with a degree of
real unhappiness on this matter of living costs and is convinced that there
would be some attrition of personnel and considerable impairment of morale
it some action were net taken. This has been discussed provisionally with
the contract employees of Detachment A and I believe it is not possible for us
to prevent this arrangement from being put into effect.
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