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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020102-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 102
• Publication Date: April 29, 1948
• Content Type: LETTER

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eipa presences! tafora4 ion Service
Tahye Urowel
AC of Ss "s WtQ, TV
APt? MOO, of, Postmaster
sea Praacisso. Csliforaais-
I 00 sorry there was some, confusion and ai saaderst aandisd aoat
the a atestifina of dollar Igsest, Particularly is rely tios to year letter
of 39 barob 1$d. 'that latter was received promptly just as colonel
Whits was !earrings brat sixes, ? etxpseted from Yom daftly the aeterifl
he had rs? a,eared in his message OUTlO I held your reeonasnUttoas of
2? Marsh in order to present the whole case together to the administrative
branches. Upon, receipt of y? ur teletype resaa ms of the litter, since
it appeared W>-t it aid'ht be *castle* before you could submit the
reaut,sted date., I srra"ngsd an informal but definitive eanfereaee with
the met and Pins.ece )raaoh. It was than unanimous opiates that the
only possible basis for dollar papwat to that outlined is Cohn.l whites e,
mossaje, that is CI.k pac t of the full salary of local saaplgyoee an
ra scale in atzeordaace with local practice.
Tfzweschered fords are authorised only to avoid revealing t3`hly
sensitive classified apsr tieas. In the ease of such !loads alres4 a?sdo
available to you for time the Director , r..& to stretch a point on
the bAols of Coloetel White$* presaatartiaat thit this exception to policy
was aseessary is order to avoid losing all toreaaa coverage. It is
salilcely that aa, repetition of the specific request, eras if we were
villiad to seke its would resolve approval; and there would be no
pesstbatity of getting uaavoacherad fawns for the more, jsaasr+al purpose pro-
posed in y->,ur 27 Yaarch, letter.
Please bear is mind that bssauss of the pa rposee for which
onvouoheired funds are sathorived the availability of each !beads to CIA
Is olasaat ri std and should not be di settaa,asad by tele$ypo.
On the best* of paying full saalaaariss of locally recruited
omplayees, the only deviee by whteb You can adjust them to Individual
needs is the preseotattss, of parallel cases is ozistiaj lest prseiics
sufficient to establish the ariesiple as a local etetou, I recogni so that
you have a auabsr of stress aar is for using soaas other basis that this
for dollar payment, but it spperr s from hers that the only site rn-,tivs
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wenld to to lot the outire matter drop for as long a time as $C,awP
permits yr r .sployaes to rrs sin an occup4tos patrrolt. I doubt if
pear will want to rocomment that.
S o f r rslustsnce to transfer these people to CIA
padrroll is not Justified. I have a ssura*es,, for seeswtea that salaries
can be seeds a s flexible as assessary to the care of the dssresst $
p*rcbasiag value of the on. It is net likely that the now stntios will
be operative in loss than a fall ywr and it s well be a good deal
leap?. The real rasa Laing problem is tbf t of the foreign uaatiosat
alas, aad t hope you will be able, to find so" 9011M OR for that.
Caareeratag othaar ssbJeets in your letters of 'T Match nod
16 MA 1$ April: to bath your questions coasssraiag the vise of the log,
the smover is "yes". It is used as a chock list of ia>;portanrt broadcttete
for daily report *"tors, as a guide to wire editors asking a) the 'Aftua-aaat7
of Significant Eroadessts' vbieh is I ter distributed in revised end
aisso raGphed fors to front offices in 'Tv obl gtoni and as an el tsiy
sort of liaison between field st arti oars.
Xmu ere right thF:t the P:.rget ci lling for reports an sult-
Cam"Atst a cti osa within trade real on. should be amended to include sloe
pro.Caus-aist eetio*s. Soaeoae had swsasd that Cosssaautist activities
would be reported,
ve are Investigating possibilities for in the event
that be recalres prolonged bospitalisstion and treatment. The a approval
of leave without pay for his after his annual and sick leave are
?shometed will probably depend *pon prognostication of his ease sa,
the tine. It is too bad for his person ally this bs:s hs peat. tam
owl try to give you all the "dome passible is seieatiag Koreas
nstenlel dcrtag y?:-our staff shortaagde.
I think it might be, beet to Its low on the Fern chergoo
naless there tars out to bs so" repercussl ens which vou13 sake it
advisable t chock the veracity of his st p t omont s with the ladivi duals
he cites.
I Arnow you bsva Voss hard pressed and hops th t having
will ass your official life a bit lest
?tncorely,
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