WITNESS EXPENSES FOR U.S. EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00384R000200180016-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 15, 1951
• Content Type: MFR

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15 June 1951
SUBJECT: Witness Expenses for U. S. Bmployees
1. A question has been presented to this office concerning pay-
ment of expenses to Government employees who appear as witnesses for
the Government in court proceedings.
2. Officers and employees summoned as witnesses for the Govern-
ment before any United States Court or United States commissioner
shall be entitled to necessary expenses incident to travel by common
carrier and, if travel is made by privately owned automol:>ile, mm.ileage
at the rate of 7 cents per mile, together with $9 per diem in lieu of
subsistence to be paid under the provisions of the Standardized Govern-
ment Travel Regulations (62 Stat. 950; 28 U.S.C.Sup., 1823).
3. The above is set out in
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1949 SUPP., 21.1.
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4. The following information was given to me by hr. George Miller
of the Department of Justice, Code 197, Extension 200:
(a) If one of our employees is testifying regarding
something which he learned as a result of the performance of
his duties with another Agency, he would be issued transport-
ation request b office.
(b) If a witness has been subpenaed to re-)ort to another
city, e.g., New York, he may travel to New York in his own
automobile and be reimbursed at his destination following the
trial.
(c) In emergency cases, when an employee has insufficient
funds to make a trip, he may be given a travel advance by the
Department of Justice. This can be arranged through i?Mr. Miller,
who very likely will handle it through the U. S. Marshal's Of-
fice.
5. A witness summoned before the Civil Aeronautics Board is en-
titled to the same expenses paid witnesses in the courts under 28 USCA
1821 (see decision of the Comptroller General, B-100168, dated 22 Janu-
ary, 1951).
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