REQUEST FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL ALLOWANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M01152R001101420004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 26, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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26 December 1985
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STAT
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
Director, Office of Personnel
Legislation ivision
Office of Legislation
SUBJECT: Request for Special Educational Allowance
REFERENCE: Memo from D/Pers. to DCI, dated 8 October
1985, same subject
1. Attached for your review and comment are letters to
Chairman Hamilton of the HPSCI and Chairman Durenberger of the
SSCI informing them of the issuance of a regulation
establishing a special educational allowance for Agency
officers engaged in operational activities that pose a
significant risk of reprisal being taken against their
children. As stated in the referenced memo, the new regulation
would provide the Agency with the authority to pay a special
allowance that would enable Agency officers at selected
stations to send their children to boarding school in the
United States. Because the regulation is being issued pursuant
to 54 (b) of the CIA Act of 1949, it is necessary to inform the
Oversight Committees of the regulation prior to its
promulgation.
2. If you or your staff have any questions or concerns
regarding the transmittal letters, please do not hesitate to
contact me. Thank you for your cooperation.
Attachments as
stated
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
1 - D/oll and DD/OLL
1 - OLL Chrono
1. - OLL/Leg/Subject
1 - DMP/Si ner
OLL/LAG
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D R A F T
The honorable Lee H. Hamilton
Chairman
Permanent Select Cormittee on Intelligence
House of Representative-
Washington, D.C. 2C515
As you are aware, terrorism has escalated at an alarming
rate and has become a threat to Agency officers and their
dependents at certain stations. We are concerned that the
involvement of Agency officers in countering narcotics or
terrorist operations could lead to kidnapping or other acts
of reprisal against their children. To ensure the safety of
the children of Agency officers, we have drafted a new
regulatory provision that would authorize the payment of an
education allowance to our employees to send their children to
schools even when local schools are educationally adequate.
Since this regulation is being issued pursuant to ?4(b)(2) of
the CIA Act of 1949, we are submitting it for your review prior
to promulgation of the regulation.
In general, the Agency follows the State Department's
Standardized Regulations in determining the amount education
allowance and when it will be paid. The State Department
.eaulations are issued pursuant to Executive Crder 10903, which
delegates to the Secretary of State the authority of the
President under 5 O.S.C. ?5922(c) to issue regulations
regarding payment of education allowance pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
S5924(4) to government employees serving overseas. The purpose
of the allowance is to enable an employee to send a dependent
to an adequate school at the post, or the nearest locality
where an adequate school is available.
There is currently a provision, in our regulation that
authorizes the payment of a special allowance for employees
under Non-Official cover when such allowances are required for
cover or security considerations. These special allowances are
necessary since an employee under non-official cover could not
send his children to a school for children of U.S. government
officials. Instead, he would have to pay a premium to send his
children to either a private school in the foreign country or
back home to the United States. A special education allowance
is provided to the non-official cover employee to compensate
him for this additional educational expense.
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The new regulatory provision would authorize the payment of
a special education allowance to certain Agency employees who
perform particularly dangerous duties and/or serve in
particularly dangerous posts. It would allow these officers
the option of sending their children to a school away from the
post even when local schools are adequate. The payment of the
allowance would be made to ensure the safety and welfare of the
children of Agency officers engaged in operations that pose a
significant risk of retaliation against the children of the
Agency employee. Although no station has yet been formally
eesignated as a cost where children of Agency employees ray be
tAr tte ,
If you have any questions regarding the regulation, please
feel free to call me or have your staff contact
Sincerely,
Charles A. Briggs
Direct^r, Office of Legislative Liaison
Enclosure as
stated
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