REST AND RECUPERATION TRAVEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000500210016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 1, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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April 1966
SUBJECT: Rest and Recuperation Travel
1. Section 1(3) of H. R. 14590, introduced on 21 April 1966 by
the Chairman, authorizes travel of an employee and his dependents away
from designated hardship posts to other locations abroad having more
favorable environmental conditions. This rest and recuperation travel
would be in the interest and of the health and welfare of the individual and
his family and would contribute to maintaining high standards of work
productivity by employees serving under difficult circumstances.
2. Precedent for this provision is found in Section 911(9) of the
Foreign Service Act asamended (P. L. 87-196, Section 708(3)). In 1963,
similar authority for Agency personnel was cleared by the Bureau of the
Budget, and was introduced in the House by Chairman Vinson on 24 June
1963. As you recall, this bill, H. R. 7216, was an omnibus measure
proposing both an early retirement system for certain Agency personnel
and sundry amendments to the CIA Act of 1949. Because of the overriding
importance of the retirement legislation, a clean bill, H. R. 8847, was
introduced by Chairman Rivers on 12 September 1963 dealing solely with
the retirement program for CIA.
3. The rest and recuperation travel authorization found in Section
1(3) of H. R. 14590 would only apply to those employees who were assigned
to hardship posts for a relatively long period of time. Over the space
of two years of such duty, not more than one round trip would be authorized.
In the case of three years of such duty without a break for home leave, not
more than two round trips would be authorized.
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4. While this legislative proposal is not precedent setting and
was introduced as far back as 24 June 1963, its incorporation in
H. R. 14590 has received attention in the press. This has been done on
a tongue-in-cheek basis under such captions as "Hardship Fund Sought
by CIA" (21 April 1966, WASHINGTON STAR), and "Spies Out of the
Cold" (21 April 1966, WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS).
Office of Legislative Counsel
LLM:kef (7 July 66)
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