TITLE V - OFFSETTING DISINCENTIVES TO OVERSEAS SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89M00610R000100010027-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2007
• Sequence Number: 27
• Content Type: REPORT

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TITLE V - OFFSETTING DISINCENTIVES TO OVERSEAS SERVICE
Promoting Effective Performance of Authorized
Intelligence Functions
SEC. 501.(a) The Director of Central Intelligence may
authorize payment to officers and employees of the Central
Intelligence Agency and their dependents of allowances and
benefits not specifically authorized under any other provision
of law when the Director determines such allowances or
benefits to be appropriate for the purpose of promoting the
effective performance of authorized intelligence functions.
(b) The heads of the departments, agencies, and other
elements of the United States Government listed in (2)
through (10) of section 101 of this Act may authorize
payment to officers and employees, and their dependents, who
serve in circumstances comparable to those of Central
Intelligence Agency personnel, of allowances and benefits
comparable to those authorized in accordance with subsection (a)
of this section.
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OFFSETTING DISINCENTIVES
TO OVERSEAS SERVICE
Subsections 501(a) and (b) supplement the expenditure
authority of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
under the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C.
403a-403j). The purpose of the provisions is to demonstrate
clearly and convincingly that the Congress and the American
people value the efforts of the nation's intelligence
officers no less than that of members of the Foreign Service..
Passage of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-465)
has eroded the morale of CIA employees and has had a similar
effect on personnel of other elements of the Intelligence
Community who serve overseas in like circumstances. The
allowances and benefits provisions of the Foreign Service Act
of 1980 were enacted in part to offset a growing realization
that disincentives to service abroad have increased dramatically
in recent years. The Intelligence Community supported these
allowances and benefits provisions because the Community
recognized from its own experience the need for such remedial
measures. Changing social and economic values have resulted in
an increased number of spouses seeking employment outside the
home. An assignment overseas does not generally permit spouses
to remain employed. Hence, family income decreases in an
overseas environment in which the purchasing power of the
dollar has seriously declined. In addition, the normal marital
and family stress of overseas service has been magnified
because the safety of U.S. overseas missions and their personnel
has become increasingly questionable in many areas of the
world.
Subsection 501(a) would provide the Director of Central
Intelligence with greater flexibility to deal with disincentives
associated with intelligence service overseas. At a time in
which the provision of accurate intelligence to policymakers
is increasingly crucial, but when disincentives to overseas
service are so dramatically on the rise, it is essential
that the Director of Central Intelligence have the broadest
flexibility to act quickly in the allowances and benefits
area to ensure the effective performance of authorized
intelligence functions. Dramatic political changes abroad
for example, may require decisive action and extraordinary
expenditures to ensure the effective performance of intelli-
gence functions and to protect intelligence personnel and
their families. Although the Director of Central Intelligence
? has implied authority to undertake such measures, subsection
501(a) will explicitly affirm that authority with respect to
personnel allowances and benefits.
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Various Intelligence Community entities have personnel
serving overseas, and disincentives to service abroad are
experienced by them all. Accordingly, the heads of those
entities should be able to authorize appropriate comparable
benefits and allowances so as to ensure the effective
performance of all authorized intelligence functions.
Enactment of the authority contained in subsection 501(b)
will serve as a clear indication to the Intelligence Community's
overseas personnel that their concerns are understood and
that positive steps are being taken to offset the detrimental
aspects of service abroad.
Finally, the enactment of subsections 501(a) and (b)
would serve to help guarantee the elimination of disparities
between members of the Foreign Service and officers and
employees of the Intelligence Community which have aided
individuals bent on destroying the foreign intelligence
capabilities of the United States in their efforts to
identify Intelligence Community officers and employees
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