FIRST-CLASS AIR TRAVEL FOR OSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00961R000100120108-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 108
• Publication Date: November 15, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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FOR: Executive Assistan Deputy Direct
: First-Cla Air Travel fox. OSA
1,E jyiag the ebu1ous pos n whict I w fill, I take this
to appeal to you to bring to bear on Dr. Scoville whatever
you can to insure continued firetsclass travel for OSA
Being somewhat removed from OSA, yet very much a
I feel that I can write this with some objectivity as well ae
tn. I realise that this problem may riot necessarily be
of tea"; however, I prevail upon you to hear me out. I
that Colonel Ledford plane to reply to Dr. Scoville on this
ubiect. Being einnewhat a an odd member organizationally,
my response can be directed to you without circumventing
channels.
rch)
I. would recorriead strongly that you grant the OSA personnel
license to travel first class either inside or outside the continental
the United States. I recommend this not because OSA
el are of any particular breed. but I think that their functions
duties are particularly peculiar to th,ose of other Agency divisions
an6 components. It has often been joked that OSA's cab far* more
en than not exceeds the entire budget of other area divisions. As
Gratis as this my be, there is a great deal of truth la it. By its
y nature and philosophy. OSA has always been a traveling organisa-
The travel Involved, however, is not like the normal junketeering
and boondoggling &gigot iated with a great deal of "official' trips. I
UIk I tan epeak with a fair amount of experience not only from the
traveling that I have dome for OSA but *leo the traveling which I have
tneesed for the rest a the Agency during tray tenure es Chief of the
Central Prciceseing Branch. There is no question that the travel
associated with a staging operation.as pleasurable as it may be in
self is a grueling experience when added to the long hours and
leeplesa nights which roost people experience during such an opera
n. By the came token, the travel of our personnel. *specially
T. evelopment and Contracts types, are woven into a fairly tight schedule.
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of Ume. between here ad the We t Coat usually er
work on each end following travel during the night. It is
uit as it is now to take the Redeye in from the West Coast
eport for work at nine o'clock in the morning while blessed with
-cies* accontmodations; I would hate to *es the ship of state
in- a journey via the narrow anti confined tourist close acc
I would also like to comment, if I may, o
rmed by the personttel as a whole in OSA.
ficult to correctly speculate that there is
ne performed in OSA than any other comport
-would attest to thie when one considers the
ye been conducted from this office durin
4 hours. I feel that it is little compeneati
el the privilege of riding first class during
captured during a plane trip.
I would readily agree that turii
a PCS move since the traveler,
nity to rest upon arrival; and then gMn, the trtp is a one -
r at least another two years. But when o-e coastders the
if TlYir traveling done by OSA, it would be nothing kite than
require tourist accommods.tions. As I said before. our
by of research and develeprnent is to pick the best contractor.
excutte him f Mal the laborious, costly and time-consuming reports
normally required in Government contracts but rely on a close
aseociation with the contractor by monitoring his progress through
I' solvent visits. This type of development has been extremsay euccesstul
to date, and there is no indication that it will not continue t b* success-
ful in the future.
Agency.
operations
and
to grant OSA
the few movrxents of
the
Traveling is not only
the conduct of our operations al
detachment personnel, plus the support
-Operations ars usually conducted at a fast pace, Mgbt and day, and
hietorically in very remote bases with aubstandard facilities. To insist
hat whatever commereial Mr travel there may be, go via tourist close
our deve opment, but ift
g is a way of life with our
onnel sent from Ife dquarter
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is really rubb a salt in. TG go step Int-tiler, while there may
a tear in your cy. the only palatable porton of a cour
se few hours one gets to sit in a big Jet seat, following eighteen 1
a.ty hours baby sitting II imn e film, is the aft end of a MATS
raft.
6. I am tempted to proje
this argwient further in an atterup
to exUicate the Government employee from the second-class citizen
which e bureaucracy a Government would want bestov.ed upon bin..
The meagr arnounts which will be saved at the expense of the
Government employee can only remind me of the emphasis on the
tine* while the &Altars go jumping out the windows. So be it.
7. 1 reliae that you did not ask for all this, but! feel th*t I had
ay something and if nothing else, at least my pycbGata hae
erved.
Distribution:
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1 - DD/ft
1 - AD/OSA
I - DAD/OSA
I ADMIN/OSA
1 - RB/OSA
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