INSIDE: HUD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505230008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 27, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED.
ON PAG `-I
WASHINGTON POST
27 September 1983
INSIDE HUD
$3,075.
SMOOTH RIDE . As part of,a "Golden Fleece"
award 'from Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) last
year, HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr, won the
dubious distinction of having the most-expensive lim-
ousine of any Cabinet member. '
- Pierce was ariiong 190 federal-o~'Scials receiving
. chauffeur service to their homes at a cost of $3.4 mil-
:.lion a year.;Proxmmire said the busiest car belonged to
`CIA Directo'r' William J. Casey,--whose driver re-
-ceived $26,000 in overtime pay jlastyear on :top of a
;
$20,000 salary. Pierce's Oldsmobile 08,diesel -weighed
in with the costliest lease at $8 088. - ;'
Proxmire,-who authored a law-barring many fed-
- eral officials: from using a govemmentcar -for, com-
muting, said that bureaucrats regard :the -cars as "a
real status'symbol. When we try-to take the limou-
sine away, they just buck like steers. -I think they'd
rather lose a billion-dollar program than a' limou-
sine."
A HUD spokesman said Pierce -had wanted a
cheaper General Motors car and settled for the more
expensive lease after delivery problems with several
area dealers. But when For'd came' out with 'a dis-
count program this year, he said, Pierce was able to
get "a much swankier car,". a Lincoln Mark 6, for just
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