CONTINUANCE OF PAY AND ALLOWANCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000400090074-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: November 29, 1951
• Content Type: MF

OGC HAS REVIEWED.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
29 November 1951
30RANDUM FOR; Chairman, Career Service Coammittee
FROM ; Working Group on Career Benefits
SUBJECT Continuance of Pay and Allowances
1. Item I B of the Agenda of this working Group, dated 29
October, 1951s relates to extension of the authority, presently
contained in paragraph 5.4 of the Confidential Funds Regulations,
which applies provisions of the Missing Persons Act to CIA staff
employees and staff agents. That Act generally provides for the
continuation of normal pay and allowances where an employee is
interned, missing, beleaguered, besieged, etc. There are further
provisions relating to procedures whereby a status of missing, or
other type of status, can be continued or terminated. The Act
provides for determination by the head of the agency concerned
that the individual is dead. During the period of such status,
for example, the dependents of the individual may continue to
receive an appropriate amount for their needs from the salary nor-
mally due to the individual.
2. The benefits of this Act are applied only to staff em-
ployees and staff agents of CIA who are paid from unvouchered
funds. It is believed that the desirability and justification
for such authority are quite obvious. However, it is the opinion
of this Group that, through an appropriate method, the benefits
of such Act, or similar provisions, be made available to all em-
ployees of CIA. In addition to providing for equitable treatment
of.various employees of CIA, statutory authorization of this type
enables many administrative obstacles to be overcome. For ex-
ample, the law provides for a determination of death by the head
of the agency concerned, which normally would be acceptable for
other legal purposes, such as settling the estate of the individual.
3. The Working Group discussed S. 1820, which was introduced
by Mr. Johnston of South Carolina to accomplish substantially the
same purposes as the provisions of the original Missing Persons
Act, which will expire as a wartime statute upon ratification by
the Senate of the Japanese Peace Treaty. It has been learned that
both the Civil Service Commission and the General Accounting
Office have certain objections to the Bill in its present form.
This Group believes that the general purposes of the proposed
Bill would substantially accomplish the objectives indicated
above. Therefore, it is recommended that the Career Service
Committee,'through whatever channels it deems appropriate,
recommend that CIA support S. 1820. It is evident that
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in order to insure that probable revisions will maintain it con-
sistent with CIA objectives. It would appear appropriate, if
CIA takes this position, that responsibility for action should
be placed on the General Counsel's office for following the Bill
and informing the appropriate Congressional Committees of CIA
support for the provisions of the Bill.
4. In view of the abovej, this Working Group believes that
no further action is necessary on Item I B of the Agenda of this
Working Group.
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