BULGARIAN FOREIGN SERVICE LEAVE, TRAVEL AND FINANCIAL REGULATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100830001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Bulgarian Foreign Service Leave,
Travel and Financial Regulations
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 17 May 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Effective 1 May 1954 the following regulations will apply to Bulgarian
diplomatic and consular representatives, according to an unidentified Bulgarian
government circular:
Annual Leaves
a. Technical workers,l including electricians, attached to consulate and
diplomatic installations abroad will take their annual leave in the
country where they work,
be All other employees2 assigned abroad will spend their annual leave in
Bulgaria,3
Travel Exnene
a. The government will pay travel expenses by train, air or ship from the
foreign post as well as to the foreign post.4
Salaries for Personnel Poste Abroad:
a. Employees assigned to foreign posts abroad will receive a salary which
is based upon what is called the "currency-exchange."
b. When an employee returns alone to Bulgaria on leave, without being
accompanied by any member of his family, 60% of hie "currency-exchange"
salary will be paid to his family who are remaining at the foreign post.
Forty per cent of this salary will be paid to the family remaining
behind if the employee takes one member of his family on leave with him
in Bulgaria and leaves the remaining members of the family at the foreign
post. If the entire family accompanies the employee to Bulgaria on leave,
30% of the "currency-e~change" salary will be withheld from the employees
salary while on leave.
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c. Personnel posted abroad, who are on TDY in Bulgaria, may receive, at one
time and in advance, their foreign post "currency-exchange" salary covering
three consecutive pay periods. Thereafter, until they return to their
posts, the salary which they receive will be paid in amounts as indicated
in paragraph three of the Pay Circular.
d. The salaries of employees posted abroad, including employees hired
locally, will be paid at the prescribed times. In case sufficient funds do
not arrive in time from Bglgaria, payment will be made from the revolving
fund of the foreign post.
e. When an employee first arrives at his foreign post he may draw in advance
one pay period "currency-exchange" salary. This amount will, thereafter,
be deducted from the employees annual salary in equal monthly installments.
Allotments of Emergency Funds to Foreign Posts:
a. For emergency needs, the government authorizes to all foreign posts, special
quarterly allotments, which are to be expended at the discretion of the
8hief of the foreign post. Requests from chiefs of foreign posts for these
emergency allotments should not be included in the quarterly budget estimates
of each foreign post.
Government Quarters at Foreign Posts:
a. Persons in charge of legations, consulate generals and consulates abroad,
and all staff employees assigned therein, must occupy the government
quarters available at each post.
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1. This presumably refers to chauffeurs, janitors, guards, etc., but only
electricians are mentioned.
2. This apparently refers to all regular staff personnel.
3.
some regular staff personnel have
in the recent
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pas to accumulated annual leave for two years and taken the accumulated leave
at one time in Bulgaria.
4.
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Bulgarian Government formerly paid travel
expenses of their diplomatic and consular personnel only to the foreign post.
The latter statement would seem to indicate that the salary of the Bulgarian
Government employee abroad is, according to the cost-of-living in that
country, increased, under a "currency-exchange" arrangement, to include some
type of quarters and allowances for the individual.
7.I Ithese requests have been included in the quarterl
budget estimates of some foreign posts.
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