OCI MAGID REPLACEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000900030012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 23, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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DATE: 23 April 74
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT: OCI MAGID Replacement
As you know, wants to be
phased out of MAGID as soon as possible.
OCI's nominee to replace him is
who probably needs no introduction
to you. If you don't like this choice, OCI
will try again. Once this vacancy is filled,
we will put out a new MAGID roster.
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18 April 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH
FROM
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
Executive Secretary
Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
Executive Dining Room Dinners
Your Memorandum, dated 11 January 1974,
Subject: Official Entertainment in the
Executive Dining Room
1. This memorandum submits a recommendation for
approval; this recommendation is contained in paragraph 4.
2. Paragraph 2 of referenced memorandum states that
official funds may not be used "to pay for the expenses incurred
in the entertainment of officials or employees of the U. S.
Government in the Executive Dining Room. " It also provides
that exceptions shall require the advanced approval of the
Director.
3. I have established a Management Advisory Group
Intelligence Directorate (MAGID) to advise me concerning
various problems that arise in the day-to-day management of
this Directorate. Membership on this group is rotational, and
the present membership is composed of employees GS-07
through GS-14. Patterned after the Agency MAG, the MAGID
meets after hours at a dinner meeting in the Executive Dining
Room. They are of course required to pay for their own meals
and for the meals of guests, which is as it should be. Even
though the meetings are officially sanctioned by this Directorate,
the individuals attend on their own time. There has been a
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recent ruling based on referenced memorandum which now re-
quires that the group also pay for any overtime required on
the part of Executive Dining Room personnel. This new ruling
means that members may have to pay as much as $9. 00 each
to conduct Agency business on a voluntary unpaid basis. I
believe that this additional charge to meet Dining Room over-
time costs is unwarranted.
4. It is requested that you grant an exception to permit
the official payment of overtime to Executive Dining Room
personnel in connection with these MAG official dinners.
J77C V. WALSH
Associate Deputy Director
for Intelligen
The recommendation in paragraph 4 is APPROVED
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W. E. Colby ` Hrrr 1974
Director of Central Intelligence Date
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1I January 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution
SUBJECT : Official Entertainment in the Executive
Dining Room
REFERENCES : (a) Memo dtd 29 June 1963 to ExD.ir from DDCI,
Subject: Delegation of Authority
(b) Memo dtd 10 April 1967 to Deputy Directors
and Heads of Independent Offices from.
ExDir, Subject: Official Entertainment
in the Executive Dining Room
(c) Memo dtd 29 July 1971 to Deputy Director
for Plans from ExDir, Subject: Official
Entertainment in the Agency Dining Room
(d) Memo dtd 17 March 1972 to Deputy Directors
from ExDir, Subject: Official Entertain-
ment in the Executive Dining Room.
(e) Form 725 dtd 5 September 1973 to Director
of Finance from DCI, Subject: Delegation
of Authority and
dtd 24 July 1973
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1. For some time the basic policy of the Agency
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that expenses incurred in the official entertainment of officers or employees
of the U. S. Government exclusively required approval by the Director or by
a single senior official designated by him. Per reference (a) this authority
was delegated to the Executive Director. Reference (b) stipulates that offi--
cial entertainment. in the Executive Dining Room must be hosted personally
by a Deputy Director or Head of an Independent Office, or by his deputy when
directed. Reference (c) disapproved a request to delegate to Division and
Staff Chiefs the authority of a Deputy Director to submit vouchers for official
entertainment. Reference (d) permitted Deputy Directors to delegate to a
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single senior officer their authority to submit such vouchers. Reference
(e) established the Executive Secretariat, appointed the Executive Secre
tary, and delegated to the Executive Secretary the Director's authority to
approve the payment of these expenses.
2. During the past few months Agency policy concerning the official
entertainment of officers and employees of the U. S. Government has been
under review. The Comptroller General's position is that official funds
should not be used for the entertainment of Government officials unless
specific authority for that purpose has been given by the Congress. There-
fore, it has been concluded that the Agency shall no longer use official funds
to pay for the expenses incurred in the entertainment of officers or em-
ployees of the U. S. Government in the Executive Dining Room. In addition
to those persons included within the definition of "officers and employees"
in Title 5 of the U.S. Code, this phrase includes staff employees,, staff
agents, detailed military and civilian personnel, contract employees, and
career agents of this Agency. An exception to this policy may be made
only in the most unusual and special circumstances. Such an exception
shall require the advance approval of the Director.
3.1 The Director's Imprest Fund may be used to pay the full cost of
a function, including the meals served Agency personnel, when the purpose
is to entertain a foreign official or a non-U. S. Government personality.
Deputy Directors may delegate their authority to submit vouchers for these
functions to a single senior officer. Since the burden is a limited one,
Heads of Independent Offices are expected to continue personally to retain
this authority. The Executive Secretary has been designated as the single
senior official who may authorize the payment or reimbursement of these
expenses.
4. It shall no longer be necessary that official entertainment in the
Executive Dining Room be hosted. personally by either a Deputy Director
or his Associate. Any other senior official designated by a Deputy Director
or a Head of an Independent Office may act as host.
5. The General Counsel has been asked to amend the appropriate
Headquarters Regulation to reflect the change of policy and delegations
set forth above. The policy and delegations referenced in this memoran-
dum are hereby rescinded. r - - -
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Colby
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