VALIDITY OF CERTAIN ALOWANCES FOR SHIPMENT AND STORAGE OF HOUSEHOLD AND PERSONAL EFFECTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00882R000300290029-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: March 22, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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OGC HAS REVIEWED.
1955
10101MUNIM FM% Chief, Travel Section, Manse Division
Validity of Certain A es for Shipment
and ftames of tetaold and Persoaaal Effects
Lu and Destination
expenses of t3* oat' a~ . authorized here*mder or rein-
Inn se sent on a commiated. basis within the continental thsi tdd
States shall be allc irable wbw her the shi out tutees at
1. In your 1i i xstidMt, you requested the opinion of this office
as to mbethrer the Agency e 3.d stand the costs of certain shining
and storage trntnsarct ons, the ci rommstanees of whi were detailed in
three hypothetical sitnati rs designated Mee 1, Case 2 and Cam 3.
2. Cases 1 and 2 mat be considered together as they pose the
comma question of 'whether the Agency may pay the alwases iftident to
the transportation to a storage point within the United States of so
mach of the effects of an eeap1myee about to be transferred averse" 8.8
be elects not to take with h1ee to the overseas post of assigiaeaent when
the total vel4&t at effects desired to be taken and effects desired to
be starred in the United States is within the appropriate wit allowance.
In this Memeral o eweti n, directed car attention to 93 Comp. Can.
886 (1944) and 23 C. Gen. 9o (1944), and you stated that ela3aes for
transportation in tie eiircwmateme es bat been swhsitted on the theory
that the coat to the Save ram as t was less than it would have been had all
of the effects been shipped to the . ove Tessa poet.
3. We tease reviewed the cited decisions, and of errs related to then,
and are of the opine that they are not applicable to the sir tan"s
presented In your Cases 1 and 2. This for the reaman that since the dates
of then deecisicas, the President bax ism" Executive Order 9W,, dated
25 Na ber 19 46,, as amaaeded end a deem certain provisions of that
cutive Order, and its amendmentelt to be arara pertinent to the problem
presented. Section 8 of itexeautive Order 10196, dated 20 December 1950,
'hich aneemda section 8 of wive Order 9$50, provides as follows:
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'rea the Cost of shipment in one Lot by the most eccoomical
route from the last official station to the astir. No expenses
eball be allowable for the transportation of property acquired
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6. Ycor ?'asee n er 3 raises the motion of uhather or not an
eaeloyse being trenefarrud an - nt dmmW of static fron without
the t ti nsata l United States to within the titeenrlllel ftited. States
my ship vithin the United States eeaertaft of hi. effects vtdmb have been
stared frm the place of storage to the : emotion providing such affects
first question we feel it to be anavered is part by the Vx*W4 portion
at section 8 at Bosomtivo Order , as amend". is `there provided
that the effects may be shipped gva t sivemot " betbsr the ship-
scent ortginat es at. the eseple es's last official station or at scorer other
point, or paxtdally at ", .n sub, t to the liadtetion that the
total amount of etfemta ebippe" and the cost of the ehipe ent, including
effects cog from the List official station an those t oing fro& eoeee
other point, do not end the cost of the &I pmt of the =Udun
a ,low anees of affects by the met ml direct-rte from the old
station to the Hoer. As to w h e t eersr the regulations pertaining to Over-
* we shUmeeets shalt apply, or user pertaining to Mitt shipments,
we am of the qgjdm that the latter should be o served for the reason
that the .b nst of those effects not being sent from overawe takes
place within the aotrti~ t3:ts of the meted States.
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