USE OF AGENCY SEAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92G00017R000800010006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 2014
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 6, 1989
• Content Type: MEMO

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
Use of Agency Seal
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6 June 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Logistics
THROUGH: Executive Assistant/DDA
SUBJECT: Use of Agency Seal
FROM: AO/Office of Congressional Affairs
As set forth in Regulation permission is hereby requested
to have business cards printed using the Agency seal (see attached sample
business card) for the following:
E. Norbert Garrett, Director/Office of Congressional Affairs
Deputy Director/Office of Congressional affairs
Deputy Director/House Affairs.
Please advise of requirements, if any, attached to the procedure for
ordering such business cards.
If any further information is required concerning this
STAT please call the undersigned on
request,
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DDA 89-1004
9 June 1989
STAT
MEMORANDUM
FOR:
FROM:
Secretary to the Executive
Assistant to
the
DDA
SUBJECT:
Using the Agency Seal on Business Cards
REFERENCE:
Your Memorandum for the D/L dtd 6 June
Subject: Use of Agency Seal
1989,
of the Agency
Seal in the
1. Per your request for the use
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printing of business cards for I am attaching
a
memo to the DDCI from the then General Counsel, David
P.
Doherty, regarding the use of printing business cards at
government expense. I hope this will help you in making your
decision about the printing of business
cards.
STAT
2. I note from the attached that
had
business cards printed for her. I don't
know what
year this
was done. The question that comes to mind is "did P&PG print
them? In the past few years we have been denying the printing
of business cards for other than OP recruiters as stated in the
OGC memo.
3. As you can understand we receive several requests for
printing of individual business cards throughout the Agency.
If we didn't draw the line somewhere everybody would want their
personal business card, and P&PG would be so busy printing
cards they wouldn't be able to do anything else.
STAT 4. , the EXA/DDA is the approving official for
all printing requests on the Form 70. He is on leave until
5 July. If you have any further questions please feel free to
call me and I will get you in touch with someone else to help
you.
STAT
STAT
Attachment:
As Stated
Thanks,
ORIG: 0/EXA/DDA
Distribution:
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1 - DDA Subject w/att
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OGC 86-52662
15 October 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: David P. Doherty
General Counsel
SUBJECT: Business Cards Produced at Government Expense
1. The Office of Personnel has requested our opinion on
a proposal to provide Agency recruiters with business cards
produced at government expense. OP intends to require that
recruiters have the cards available and provide them to
potential applicants along with other recruiting materials.
The cards will be produced by Printing and Photography
Division to assure uniformity, and recruiters will be
instructed that the cards are to be used for official
purposes only. I find that this proposal is an authorized
expenditure of appropriated funds. However, I felt that you
should be informed of this new proposal as it differs from
previous requests for business cards that have been rejected
by this Office in the past based on long-standing Comptroller
General opinions.
2. The General Accounting Office has followed a rule,
dating back to 1913, that business cards are a personal
convenience, and cannot be procured with government funds in
the absence of specific statutory authority. This rule has
been applied without further analysis in numerous opinions in
which the Comptroller General has denied requests by indivi-
dual employees or agencies who sought to provide cards at
government expense, or to reimburse employees who purchased
the cards themselves. In the past, the Office of General
Counsel has followed those decisions and denied approval to
use appropriated funds for such purposes.
3. The substantial difference in the current OP proposal
is that the Agency has determined that the use of business
cards is essential to effective recruiting efforts and will,
as a matter of policy, require recruiters to have and use
them. The Comptroller General noted in a 1923 application of
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the "business card" rule that a Government requirement for
the use of the items in question (in that case photographs
for identification cards) was distinguished from personal use
of business cards. That opinion held that an employee could
be reimbursed for an item that is required in connection with
official business.
4. I find that the current OP proposal to print business
cards at government expense is within the Agency's legal
authority and is consistent with GAO opinions that have found
other uses of business cards to be a personal expense. I
intend to advise the Office of Personnel that they may
proceed unless you have objections to this proposal.
CMCUR:
r David P. Doherty
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