PROPOSED LEGISLATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01370R000500020004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 29, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2002/06/13 CIA-RDP80-0137OR000500020004-1
General Counsel
Comptroller
1. In connection with the draft of proposed legislation
attached to your memorandum to the 0D/A dated 28 August 1952, it
is suggested that consideration be given to adding the followings
"See. 5(a) is $irrnded by deleting the words I........ its
territories,, and possesaions...........' from the first
.sentence thereof."
er 1952
2, The inclusion- of those words in P.L. 110 leaves the Agency
without authority to extend to employees stationed in territories
and possessions the benefits listed in Section 5 of the Act, such
as home leave, shipment of effects and autos, travel.. of employees
dependents, radical travel and hospitalisation, etc. This affects
a large number of employees presently stationed and/or subsequently
to be statio the F_ I and more im-
portantly, I I and some of, the other used as
operating an., or training bases. The Career Program contemplates
that individuals would be rotated to such places and from and
between such places and foreign countries and the U. S. It there-
fore appears essential, both from the standpoint of career benefits
and in the interest of orderly and efficient ad zl.nistration, that
the Agency be in a position to grant similar rights, privileges,
and benefits to employees in territories and possessions as those
which are obtained in foreign countries.
3. We understand and appreciate the desire not to introduce
items in the proposed legislation which would lead to controversy
and involve prolonged argument and tedious detailed support. It
would appear,, however, that the deletion of the obovewmentioned'
phrase could be supported and.justified in principle on the broad
basis of the fact that the Agency is--,using certain island posses-
sions as operational bases and that the employees stationed on the
islands include career employees who are rotated to adjacent
foreign countries. The advantages and savings which would result
from having one administrative policy and procedure governing all
employees abroad would also be a strong argument.
Z. It is believed that the change proposed could be supported
and defended without going into each of the detailed, and possibly
controversial, employee benefits provided for in Section 5. It is
therefore recommended that consideration be given to including the
above change an in ~ThqpRs
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