JOHN:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00453R000300120125-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 125
• Publication Date: May 11, 1955
• Content Type: LETTER

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VW %MW
11 May 55
your cow ents will be appreciated.
yesterday:
25X1 l) meolple who have never occ ied furnished quarters fall
under persons who have
ever done so fall under 25X1
(2) people who went to the field after 1 January 53 to occupy
furnished quarters could take only 3000 # at agency expense, so if
they took more at their own expense and then got caught by the "fror+"
25X1 amendment on 27 November 53, one can't bleed too hard for
them. (Those who went after 97 Nov., of course, had ample notice.)
25X1
(3) people in the fieldion 1 January 53, in personal quarters
later changed to furnished quarters, are protected by Section 7 of
Presumably, by implication this also applies to people who go out in e
future'to personal quarters dnd later change to furnished quarters - but
this could stand clarification.
25X1
(4) people like II in the field and in furnished quarters on
1 January 53 are not protected unless Section 7 can be extended by implication.
I've made the argument, but F'm not satisfied with it - it strikes me as
somewhat specious.
25X1
(5) as stated in the notes,( T y
*Section 7 woul It save him anyway, because of the "furniture
shipped to field at Government expense" provision. I'm not at all happy
about that. However, if people in paragraph 3 above are so bound, I 25X1
would find it difficult to justify placing the II in a better position
(unless on the ground that they've given CIA overseas service for a long
time - but this might be trul of the paragraph 3 people too, and, by
definition they had the privilege of furnished quarters for less time than
As I discussed with
(6) In conclusion, a "savings clause", preferably retroactive, is
needed, but I'm not at all sore yet what it should say - the one in
will not fully fill the bill (and has drafting ~,reaknesses such as the
provision that furniture is i o be shipped to "designated place of
residence", which will plague us sooner or later).
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