CLANDESTINE SERVICE SUPPORT OFFICERS' MEETING DDS CONFERENCE ROOM 28 APRIL 1971

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04722A000200020033-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: April 28, 1971
• Content Type: MIN

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CLANDESTINE SERVICE SUPPORT OFFICERS' MEETING
DDS Conference Room
28 April 1971
2. Items of interest from the DDP Staff Meeting:
a. Blood Donor As a first order of business, Mr. Karamessines
read a letter from Harry Fisher commending on having
donated two gallons of blood. Mr. Karamessines presented Georgia with
a blood donor pin and complimented her on this achievement. Georgia
remarked that she had not given it all at once.
b. DDP Absence Mr. Karamessines announced he would be at
from the afternoon of Friday, 30 April until the afternoon of
Sunday, 2 May. Dur ing this period] will be away on a holiday.
c. Coordination of Travel lasked that where TDY travel
is to involve any area division that coordination be effected with all area
divisions concerned before submitting a travel order to DDP for concurrence
or approval.
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d. Senior Secretarial Changes I announced that with
retirement, will become Gen. Cushman's 25X1A
secretary, ill replace Barbara as Col. White's secretary and
of CA Staff will replace June as secretary. 25X1A
All of these changes will occur effective 7 May.
e. Compliment Mr. Karamessines read from a blind memorandum
which sent us in which a CI Staff employee took the time to
relate the outstanding consideration shown her by the Agency in connection
with a personal medical problem. She recited how the Chief of Support of
CI had made arrangements for her to visit with OMS, made arrangements
for an immediate credit union loan should that be necessary and made
arrangements for advance leave should that be required. This person said
"and these attentions were not given perfunctorily - everyone involved seemed
to take a kindly, personal interest in my problem. " She then said "I only
wish that those people who gripe about a promotion not given, or a too-far-
out parking slot, or whatever, could realize that there is another side to
the coin, and that the Agency does indeed take the finest possible care of its
own in time of need. "
3. Items of interest from the DDS Staff Meeting:
a. Death and Retirement Travel Benefits for CSRS Participants
On 26 April 1971 the Executive Director-Comptroller approved a recom-
25X1A mendation by the Deputy Director for Support that the Agency provide
participants in the CSRS the same death and retirement travel
employee:
(1) is a staff employee, a staff agent, a career agent,
or a contract employee converted from staff status without
a break in service;
This is a significant benefit for the families of those persons who die in
service in the U. S. and for those persons who wish to move to a new location
upon retirement under the CSRS. It is effective now and the necessary
regulatory changes will be issued at a later time. There will be no Agency
notice or employee's bulletin on the subject.
(2) retires on or before his scheduled retirement date
as determined b
(3) retires on or before his 62nd birthday when his
extension beyond a date of his eligibility for optional retire-
ment was approved by the Director.
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b. Voluntary Investment Plan Harry Fisher reported that as of
26 April, a total of 563 applications for participation in the Voluntary
Investment Plan had been received by his office. The average participation
is $25 per person per pay period and up to this point only Headquarters
employees have responded. We expect substantial participation by those
employees whb. are now abroad. There would seem to be no question that
the charge by the Mutual Fund will be not more than 2 percent and once we
reach the $1 million per annum participation the fee will drop to 1 percent.
c. Arabic Training Hugh Cunningham reported that beginning
1 July 1971 OTR will discontinue providing Arabic language training. The
absence of students makes this step necessary and the one contract instructor
is being released as of 30 June. State Department is likewise discontinuing
Arabic language training and henceforth we will have to obtain this training
d. Defensive Driving Course Hugh Cunningham reported that this
course has had so many people interested that it will now be regularly
scheduled. The film is being updated to accommodate changes in tactics
that have evolved.
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a. Death died of a heart attack
i n Monday, 26 April. He was buried there on 27 April.
was retired and engaged in a management consulting business. He
was age 62.
b. Post Differential Effective 18 April 1971, State amended the
Standardized Regulations to authorize payment of post differential to both
the employee and his spouse if both are regular (read Staff) employees.
Heretofore, a post differential could only be granted to those employees
eligible for a quarters allowance. While each spouse may now receive
the post differential, only one spouse may be granted a living quarters
allowance. The rule as to which spouse gets the living quarters allowance
is unchanged -- it goes to the one whose job brought the family to the post
in the first place.
c. Delegation of Authority Effective 27 April 1971 the DDS has
delegated to the Director of Personnel authority to grant exceptions to
travel plans calling for less than 20 workdays of leave or leave and
temporary duty in the United States, its possessions or the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico when the employee is returning to an assignment outside
the United States immediately after home leave. (Ref:
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is being withdrawn from the printer and will be reworked. Bob did not
know just how they will provide for the period between now and the effective
date but assumes that any purchases now would qualify for shipment.
e. Actions Requiring Headquarters Approval Please make the
following changes in your copy of the Headquarters Addendum:
G. ~eries * LOGISTICS
18. DDS, with coordination of Director of Logistics.
f. Standardized Regulations While the Deputy Director for Support
has broad authority to waive many Agency rules and regulations on any matter
arising out of the unusual functions of the Agency, he does not have such
authority with respect to the Standardized Regulations. The Secretary of
State is authorized and directed to exercise certain statutory powers of the
President and he has, therefore, issued the Standardized Regulations as
the rules which shall be followed by all agencies having government civilians
in foreign areas. The head of each agency is subject to the provisions of the
SR's and may depart from them only when the Secretary of State determines
that unusual circumstances exist with respect to special quarters, cost-of-
living, and representational allowances. Only in such cases, may the head
of the agency grant different or additional allowances.
We bring up this item due to a case last week where a request
was made to grant an exception to the requirement in SR 280 that a sponsor
must be at post for three months in order to be eligible for educational
travel of a dependent to the post from the U. S. OGC advised that the DDS
has no authority in such instances to waive the three month rule.
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