FY 1990 INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION BILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00005R001500060004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 16, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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Memorandum For:
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301
16 DEC 1988
Deputy Director for Legislation
Office of Congressional Affairs
Central Intelligence Agency
OCA 4008/88
SUBJECT: FY-1990 Intelligence Authorization Bill
1. Forwarded herewith Is a draft of legislation, patterned after
an existing NSA statute, that would enable DIA to proceed with a
minority-oriented critical skills program.
2. Our management was inspired by the successes attributed to
their programs by NSA and CIA at the recent EEO conference. While
it is now late in the process of putting together the intelligence
Authorization Bill for FY90, we hope that this worthy provision can
still be included.
Enclosure a/s WILLIAM J. ALLARD
General Counsel
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DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ACQUISITION OF CRITICAL SKILLS
SEC. (a) Chapter 83 of title 10, United States Code is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following section:
"SEC 1609:(a) The purpose of this section is to establish an
undergraduate training program, which may lead to the
baccalaureate degree, to facilitate the recruitment of
individuals, particularly minority high school students, with a
demonstrated capability to develop skills critical to the mission
of the Defense intelligence Agency, Including mathematics,
computer science, engineering, foreign studies and foreign
languages.
"(b) The Secretary of Defense Is authorized, In his discretion,
to assign civilian employees of the Defense intelligence Agency
as students at accredited professional, technical, or other
institutions of higher learning for training at the undergraduate
level in skills critical to effective performance of the mission
of the Agency.
"(c) The Defense intelligence Agency may pay, directly or by
reimbursement to employees, expenses incident to assignments
under subsection (b), in any fiscal year to the extent that
appropriated funds are available for such purpose.
"(d)(1) To be eligible for assignment under subsection (b), an
employee of the Agency must agree in writing
"(A) to continue in the service of the Agency for the
assignment and to complete the educational course
of training for which the employee Is assigned;
"(El) to continue In the service of the Agency following
completion of the assignment for a period of one-and-a
half years for each year of the assignment or part
thereof;
"(C) to reimburse the United States for the total cost of
education (excluding the employee's pay and allowances)
provided under this section to the employee if, prior to
the employee's completing the educational course of
training for which the employee Is assigned, the
assignment or the employee's employment with the Agency
Is terminated either by the Agency due to misconduct by
the employee or by the employee voluntarily; and
"(D) to reimburse the United States if, after completing
the educational course of training for which the employee
is assigned the employee's employment with the Agency Is
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terminated either by the Agency due to misconduct by the
employee or by the employee voluntarily, prior to the
employee's completion of the service obligation period
described in subparagraph (B), In an amount that bears
the same ratio to the total cost of the education
(excluding the employee's pay and allowances) provided to
the employee as the unserved portion of the service
obligation period described In subparagraph (B) bears to
the total period of the service obligation described in
subparagraph (B).
"(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the obligation to reimburse the
United States under an agreement described In paragraph (1),
including interest due on such obligation, is for all purposes a
debt owing the United States.
"(3)(A) A discharge In bankruptcy under title 11, United
States Code, shall not release a person from an obligation to
reimburse the United States required under an agreement described
in paragraph (1) if the final decree of the discharge in
bankruptcy is issued within five years after the last day of the
combined period of service obligation described in subparagraphs
(A) and (B) of paragraph (1).
"(B) The Secretary of Defense may release a person, in whole or
In part, from the obligation to reimburse the United States under
an agreement described in paragraph (1) when, In his discretion,
the Secretary determines that equity or the interests of the
United States so require.
"(C) The Secretary of Defense shall permit an employee assigned
under this section who, prior to commencing a second academic
year of the assignment, voluntarily terminates the assignment or
the employee's employment with the Agency, to satisfy his
obligation under an agreement described in paragraph (1) to
reimburse the United States by reimbursement according to a
schedule of monthly payments which results in completion of
reimbursement by a date five years after the date of termination
of the assignment or employment or earlier at the option of the
employee.
"(e)(1) When am employee Is assigned under this section to an
institution, the Agency shall disclose to the institution to
which the employee Is assigned that the Agency employs the
employee and that the Agency funds the employee's education.
"(2) Agency efforts to recruit individuals at educational
Institutions for participation in the undergraduate training
program established by this section shall be made openly and
according to the common practices of universities and employers
recruiting at such institutions.
"(f) Chapter 41 of title 5 and subsections (a) and (b) of
section 3324 of title 31, United States Code, shall not apply
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with respect to this section.
"(g) The Secretary of Defense may issue such regulations as
may be necessary to implement this section.
(b) The table of contents of chapter 83 of title 10, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the
following:
1609: "Acquisition of Critical Skills"
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