PROPOSED CIA LEGISLATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00631R000200090025-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 23, 1957
• Content Type: MFR

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SECRET
23 September 1957
SUBJECT: Proposed CIA Legislation
1. Messrs. Warner and I met with Messrs. Spencer Platt,
Harry Wilhelm and Rolland Severy of the Bureau of the Budget to
discuss possible CIA legislation and to secure information on over-
all administration policy on various items. The following items
were mentioned specifically:
a. Travel of dependents for educational purposes;
b. home leave;
c. medical care for dependents;
d. travel for hospitalization purposes of dependents;
e. emergency storage;
f. benefits for certain alien employees in the U.S.;
Many of these items had been held up in the Bureau of the Budget last
year at the last moment because of the over-all policy of not going
forward with any legislation which would be an additional drain on the
budget. Several items had simply not been cleared due to the impending
departure of Phillip Young and new faces in the Civil Service Commission
concerned with these matters. The Bureau of the Budget advised that
they could not tell as of this time whether the over-all policy would be
changed at any time. However, they felt about 1 November of this year
they would be giving the subject general consideration.
2. While not wishing to discourage CIA from presenting its
legitimate needs they indicated they saw no reason why the existing
general policy against legislation which cost additional funds would not
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be applied to special CIA requests in the same manner that it would
be applied to the general legislation applicable to all Government
employees.
3. In the field of retirement, the Bureau of the Budget
recognized that we did have a specific problem and indicated they
had worked with us in the past and would in the future in an attempt
to solve this one. While not trying to tell us which way we should go
on this subject, it was indicated that an amendment to the Civil
Service Retirement Act to give CIA employees special benefits
would probably not receive their endorsement and they did not consider
it to be good law. The thought of establishing an independent disability
and retirement system based on the principles of the Foreign Service
Act would probably bring this situation up against the general policy
of not committing additional funds. In addition they strongly hinted
that the Bureau of the Budget was opposed to this approach. The
other approach to retirement which would involve amendments to the
Civil Service Retirement Act for a category of employees without
specifically referring to CIA appeared to be more acceptable to the
Bureau of the Budget at this point. They indicated that very likely
this type of an approach would receive heavy support from other
agencies particularly the Department of Defense.
legislation.
4. We stated that CIA would keep in touch with them to keep
abreast of administration and Bureau of the Budget thinking. It was
also stated that the Agency would inform them as we moved along in
our analysis of our problems internally and would keep them advised
on an informal basis of our approaches to the.question of submitting
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HN S. WARNER
egislative Counsel
cc: IG
DD/ S
Comptroller
Dire ctor/ Personnel
VOGC Subject - Legislation 1-1
Legislative Counsel File
OGC Chrono.
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