A BILL TO AMEND THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ACT OF 1949, AS AMENDED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000800060047-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: March 21, 1957
• Content Type: REGULATION

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21 March 1957
A BILL
To amend the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, as amended,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives'of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. Section 3 of the Act entitled the Central Intelligence
Agency Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended (63 Stat.
208, 50 U.S.C. 403a) (hereinafter referred to as "such Act"),
is amended to read as follows:
"Section 3? In the performance of its functions, the Central
Intelligence Agency is authorized to exercise the authorities
of the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947, approved
February 19, 1948, as amended (10 U.S.C. 2301-2314)-
SECTION 2.- Section 5 of such~Act is amended to read as followss
"Section 5. (a) Under such regulations as the Director may
prescribe, the Agency may--
(1) Utilize the authorities in Sections 901, 9110 912, 913,
933, 941, 942 and 943 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946,
as amended, or as it may hereafter be amended: Pr oviided,
That the provisions of Sections 901, 912, 941 and 942
may be utilized. only in respect to officers and employees
assigned outside the continental United States, its
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Territories and possessions: Provided further, That the
provisions of Section 911(4) may be utilized regardless
of the existence of emergency conditions or when it would
avoid the cost of transporting effects from one location
to another;
(2) pay the costs of travel of new appointees and their depend-
.
ents, and the transportation of their household goods and
personal, effects, from places of actual residence in foreign
countries at time of appointment-to places of employment and
return to their actual residences at the time of appointment
or a point not more distant: Pro, That such appointees
agree in writing to remain with the United States Government
for a period of nab less than twelve months from the time
of appointment. Violation of such agreement for personal
convenience of an employee or because of separation for,
misconduct will bar such return payments and, if determined
by the Director or, his designee to be in the best interests
of the United States, any money expended by the United States
on account of such travel and transportation shall. be con-
sidered as a debt due by the individual concerned to the
United States;
grant leave in accordance with the provisions of Sections
203(e) and. (f) of the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951,, as
amended, or as' it may hereafter be amended;
charge expenses in connection with travel of personnel,
their dependents, and transportation of their household
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goods, personal effects, and automobiles to the appropri-
ation for the fiscal year current when any part of either
the travel or transportation begins pursuant to previously
issued travel orders, notwithstanding the fact that such
travel or transportation may not all be effected during
such fiscal year, or the travel orders may have been
issued during the prior fiscal year.
5(b) In administering the authorities provided under Section 5(a).
of this Act, or similar authorities provided under other laws,
the Director may designate individual employees or groups of
employees who are foreign. nationals and who, by reason of
employment by the Agency in certain specified positions outside
the continental United States, shall be granted any or all of
the benefits and privileges covered under Sec. 5(a) without
regard to the provisions of any other laws which restrict
the payment or granting of such benefits and privileges to
employees of the United States Government who are citizens of
the United States."
;ECTION 3, Section 6(f)(l) of such Act is amended by striking out "fif-
teen" and inserting in lieu thereof the followings "thirty-five".
:ECTION 4. Section 6 of such Act is amended by the insertion of a
semicolon in lieu of the period at the end of subsection (f) and
by the addition of a new subsection (g) which shall read as follows:
"(g) Make payments without regard to Section 3648 of the
Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529), when made--
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(1) in compliance with the laws of foreign countries
or their ministerial regulations, and
(?.) for rent in foreign countries for such periods as
may be necessary to accord with local custom."
S CTIO 5? Such Act is amended by inserting a new Section 9 which
shall read as follows:
"Section 9(a) Any employee who attains the age of fifty years
and completes twenty years of creditable service under
the. Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended, (Act of 22 May
1920, 5 U.S.C. 691) may, if the Director. approves, volun-
tarily retire and be paid an annuity computed as provided
in Section 9(a) of that Act.- Provided, That (1) at least
ten years of such service has been with the Agency, (2) at
least five years of such service has been with the Agency
outside the continental United States and (3) at least 40%
of such service with the Agency prior to age fifty has been
served outside the continental United States.
(b) Any employee retiring under the provisions of this
Section shall,'for the purpose of computing the amount of
the annuity under the Civil Service Retirement Act, be
credited with one and one quarter years of service for each
year of Agency service outside the continental United States.
Such additional credits shall be granted proportionately for
fractional years of service: Provided, That the annuity
payable to an employee retiring under the provisions of this
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Section shall not be reduced under the provisions of Section
9(d) of the Civil Service Retirement Act."
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