AMENDMENT OF CIA TRAVEL LEGISLATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000600100053-7
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: May 27, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT : Amendment of CIA. Travel Legislation
REFERENCES (a) Memo to Dir. of Pers fr E0-DDS dtd ll May 65,
subj: H.R. 6277, A Bill to Amend the Foreign
Service Act of 19+6
(b) Memo to ?OGC fr ADD/P dtd 10 May 65, subj: same
as above
(c) Memo to DD/P and DDS fr OGC dtd.19 Apr 65, subj:
Foreign Service Act Amendments of 1965
1. Referent memoranda point out that there is now before the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs a bill entitled, "The Foreign
Service Act Amendments of 1965," which provides for certain amend-
ments to the Foreign Service Act. The proposed amendments will be
of considerable benefit to the Secretary of State in the adminis-
tration of his department. Several of the proposed amendments are
pertinent to CIA. administration, and we should attempt to have com-
parable provisions included in our legislation.
2. One of the amendments of special interest to me deals with
the proposed extension of the Secretary of State's authority to
prescribe travel regulations. As the OGC has pointed out, this
amendment would give the Secretary of State essentially "carte
blanche" in the travel field and would result in broader regulatory
authority than that possessed by the Director under Section 4 of
the CIA Act of 1949.
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3. To an increasing extent, it has become apparent to me
that our present travel authorities under the CIA Act of 1949 do
not permit us to handle equitably certain travel situations involv-
ing our employees. In particular, I have in mind those instances
of domestic PCS transfers, the number of which have been increasing
each year. The majority of persons involved in these transfers are
Career Officers subject to rotation to or from overseas posts of
assignment. Since their household and personal belongings are
normally geared to the allowances applicable to overseas travel, it
works a definite hardship to limit these officers to the much smaller
household effects shipment allowance and other restrictions placed on
domestic transfers by the Standardized Government Travel Regulations.
4. The Foreign Service Travel Regulations stipulate that they
are applicable to the travel of Foreign Service officers, regardless
of whether such travel is domestic or foreign. On the other hand,
Section 4 of the CIA Act of 1949 permits the Director of Central
Intelligence to prescribe travel authorities only for travel involv-
ing personnel assigned to posts outside the United States, with the
result that domestic transfers must be accomplished under the
Standardized Government Travel Regulations. Since the Agency offi-
cer most frequently involved in a domestic transfer is faced with
almost identical household goods and other problems as the Foreign
Service officer transferred domestically, it would seem to me that
our law and the regulations derived therefrom should have identical
benefits to those of the Foreign Service Act and its implementing
regulations.
5. Ideally, action should be taken to amend Section 4 of the
CIA Act of 1949 to coincide with Section 19 of the Foreign Service
Act as it is proposed. If this is not feasible, the minimum for
which we should strive is an amendment to Section 4 which would give
the Director authority to apply the CIA travel regulations to domestic
situations. I would appreciate your review of this problem and any
action you can take to initiate the desired legislation process.
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