AMENDMENT TO MISSING PERSONS ACT COVERING ALIEN EMPLOYEES

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MEMORANDUM FOR : Assistant Legislative Counsel
SUBJECT : Amendment to Missing Persons Act
Covering Alien Employees
REFERENCE : Your Memorandum, Same Subject, dated
13 December 1963
1, As requested, we have reviewed the Department of State's
legislative proposal for amendments to the Missing Persons Act to
include coverage of aliens employed by the United States Government.
2. As noted in reference, the legislative proposal contains two
basic features:
a. Coverage under the Missing Persons Act would be
extended to aliens employed by the Federal Government
outside the United States, and
b. alien coverage would be made retroactive to 31 Decem-
ber 1945.
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4. Although we must recommend against the Department of
State's legislative proposal, it is our hope that we can continue to be
attentive to the plight of missing or captured alien personnel and to
provide some measure of assistance where needed and justified. While
we should not be encumbered with administering missing persons
benefits automatically granted, in the fashion proposed by the Depart-
ment of State, we should be able to develop some other approach to
this problem, including some provision for accrual of benefits for the
alien or assistance to his survivors. In this connection, an example
of what has been done is attached, and it demonstrates how the
Agency can resolve these situations on an individual basis while at the
same time maintain some degree of flexibility and security, without
the many problems involved in the administration of a statutory benefit.
Emmett D. Echols
Director of Personnel
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commenting on State's Missing Persons legis-
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agree with the cohclusion reached by
and by 0 that this proposal appears
undesirable from the Agency's point of view.
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reply to Legislative Counsel. Should the
proposed bill begin to recei-