ENTERTAINMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00755R000100080027-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 22, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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Assistant Director for Operations
Chief, Contact Division
Entertainment
References Draft of Finance Division Memorandum.. 15 November 1949,
Subject: Entertainment.
22 November 1949
1. Contact Division concurs with the principle of the refer-
ence memorandum, and consistently has deducted the normal cost of
its employees ' Teals from the total cost of official entertainment.
This fact is supported by the recent 1 & S audit of vouchers in
the Confidential Funds Branch. Contact Division does not concur,
however, with the amount which the memorandum stipulates for such
deduction.
2. We believe it evident that no employee should be burdened
with the cost of entertainment which is an integral part of his
official duties. Yet a deduction of 1/5 of his per diem (l.3O)
for each-meal, as paragraph 3 (a) of the reference memorandum
provides, is such a burden. Lunch, rather then dinner, is the
meral when Contact Division's field offices normally entertain;
and $1.80 considerably exceeds the normal cost of lunch for
contact specialists.
3. In consequence, Contact Division recommends that the
draft memorandum be revised to provide a double standard for
deductions-one deduction for luncheon entertainment, and a
larger deduction for dinner entertainment. A deduction of ~'d .75
lunch end $1.00 for &.nner, whether or not the employee is
travelling, seems more reasonable, would not work an unnecessry
hardship on the employee, and would prevent unfair profit to the.
Government at its employees' expense.
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