DEAR MR. GRIFFIN:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05538A000300060079-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: March 3, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
Washington. 25
B-10711,2
1.1r. Ho Way Griffin, Authorized Certifying Officer
Department of State
March 3, 1952
Dear Mr o Griffins
Reference is made to your letter of December 14, 1951 (File OBF:DF/Y),
enclosing a reclaim voucher for $63 in favor of Leon B. Poul.lada, Foreign
Service Officer, representing per diem in lieu of subsistence claimed for
temporary duty in Washington, D. C,,, incident to the officer's return to
the United States from Colombo, Ceylon, for home leave in California and
the transfer of his permanent post to Washington. Under the facts herein-
after related you request to be advised as to whether the voucher properly
may be certified for payment,
The employee's authorization, in effect, directed his return to the
United States for home leave and the transfer of his permanent station
from Colombo, Ceylon, to Washington, and also directed that he report at
Washington for a period of consultation before proceeding to Manhattan
Beach, California, on statutory leave, On the expiration of his leave
the order directed that the employee report to Washington for permanent
duty. Per diem while in Washington for consultation was specifically au-
thorized for a period not to exceed five working days unless the period
extended into two work weeks in which event per diem was authorized for
the intervening week end..
The authorized per diem was administratively disallowed under the
established rule that an employee is not entitled to receive per diem at
a place of temporary duty subsequent to receipt of actual notice that the
point of temporary duty is to become his new official station, In that
regard your letter cites 5 Comp. Gen, 874, 2t id. 593- Your doubt in the
matter arises in connection with the application of that rule to the above
related facts and in that regard your letter comments in parts as follows:
"Irrespective of their next posts of assignment, all employees of
the Foreign Service ordered to the United States for statutory leave, are
directed to report to the Department for a period of consultation during
which per diem is authorized in accordance with Section 103.607,(g) of the
Foreign Service Regulations. After a minimum two years tour of duty at
a post abroad, it is considered advantageous to the Department that em-
ployees be interviewed by officers in the regional bureaus and area opera-
tions offices concerning problems peculiar to their last posts of assign-
ment; and, in addition, interviews may be required in intelligence, budget
and fiscal, and other matters, The fact that some of these employees are
entering on Departmental assignments after completion of temporary duty
and thence statutory leave has no direct connection with the purpose of
or duties performed dur * It
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The case here involved may be distinguished from those in the de-
cisions referred to, and others falling within the scope of the general
rule,, since under the administrative practice described in the paragraph
quoted immediately above the employeets presence in Washington for con-
sultative purposes is not related or incident to. his assumption of per-
manent duty at that place upon completion of his statutory leave, it being
evident that he would be required to re ort fdrtemporary duty in Washing-
ton regardless of whether that city wwsto be his future permanent station
or not,
Accordingly, the voucher enclosed with your letter is returned here-
with and if correct in other respects it properly may be certified for
payment.
Sincerely-yours,
(Signed)LINDSAY C. WARREN
Comptroller General
of the United States
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