STUDY OF OVERSEAS EMPLOYEES WHO RETURN SHORT OF TOUR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000600090023-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: June 7, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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Approved For Rele 3.2001/05/01~ P82-00357R004,Q,p90023-6
7 JUN 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Personnel
SUBJECT : Study of Overseas Employees Who Return Short of Tour
1. Some months ago, you asked Plans and Review Staff to study this
subject. The study was delayed by the Bureau of the Budget Length and
Cost of Overseas Tour Study and.may have been overtaken by the recent
25X1A9a e roac question of travel entitlements. Nevertheless,
we nave 1 completed in draft form as attached and you may find it of
interest.
2. As might be expected, the short of tour situation is most preva-
lent in the "D" Career Service where 27% returned short of tour. The
reasons given for this large percentage fall into a number of categories,
the largest being priority reassignment requirements. Only six people,
all in the clerical grades, were required to pay some of the costs, presum-
ably because their return was not considered for the convenience of the
Government. Nobody paid all of the costs.
3. From an administrative standpoint, the study indicates the diffi-
cult position of the Director of Personnel in attempting to decide cases
involving return short of tour. Essentially, this is a line responsibility
involving the Operating Official. Only in those cases where the Operating
Official has decided that the return was not at the convenience of the
Government does the Director of Personnel enter the picture. At this stage,
the die really has been cast in the sense that the Director of Personnel is
faced with a decision already made by the line official. The outcome is
that the Director of Personnel is placed in a crossfire between the indi-
vidual and the Operating Official and his position becomes hopeless. One
suggestion, therefore, is that the total responsibility be placed with the
Operating Official.
4. As a practical matter, it would seem inevitable that the Government
is going to pay these travel costs regardless of reasons involved. It may
be, therefore, that the best policy would be one of accepting this situation
and perhaps, either through Fitness Reports or other means, placing the fact
on record when the return is considered unjustified to be held against the
employee in future personnel actions. The Office of Communications follows
this policy and have achieved a low percentage of returnees short of tour
as a result.
Chief, Plans and Review
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