ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES- -TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00261R000600030043-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: August 26, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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26 AUG 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director-Comptroller
SUBJECT Administrative Authorities --Travel and Transportation
Expenses
At the time you approved the extension of authorities for travel and
transportation of effects for retirees and dependents to a selected place of
residence we had limited the application of this to employees in the CIA Retire-
ment and Disability System. You Informally queried whether or not this could
be properly extended to other employees engaged in overseas service but who
are not members of the CIA Retirement System. We have given this full con-
sideration but there does not appear to be any practical system by which we
could sort out and make applicable these authorities to other employees. I
am afraid we would be opening a Pandora's box without devising any effective
controls. We can always consider on an exception basis any deserving case
and unless you have other views I propose to go this route.
SIGNED R. L. Bannerman
R. L. Bannerman
Deputy Director
for Support
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT .
Administrative Authorities--Travel and, Transportation
Expenses
REFERENCES .
a.
b.
Memo for ExDir-Comp fr DDS dtd Apr 68,
same subject
Memo for ExDir-Comp fr DDS dtd 21 may 68.,
same subject
1. This memorandum is for your information and recommends a position
to be taken by you in response to an informal query by the Executive
Director-Comptroller.
2. In paragraph 3.b. of DDS 68-2844, dated 26 June 1968, you asked.
the Director of Finance to consider the extension of the authorities
approved by the Executive Director-Comptroller in referent memoranda, for
employees in the CIA Retirement and. Disability System, to groups or cate-
gories of Agency personnel outside the CIA System. The Director of Finance
deferred to me for the development of this policy position.
3. I have reviewed, the subject in great depth and have reached the
conclusion that this benefit should be restricted to members of the CIARDS
as the identifiable Foreign Service Group in the Agency, comparable to the
Foreign Service Corps of the Department of State from which source the
statutory authority is derived.. Only by so restricting this benefit will
the Agency have a completely logical, defensible program, simple to operate
on a continuing basis. This conclusion was reached, after considering the
advantages and disadvantages in each of the several options available,
ranging from the payment of travel benefits to all employees subject to
overseas service to retention of the present policy.
4. The Administrative Authorities Committee which originated, the
recommendation leading to our adoption of this benefit considered. the ex-
tension to personnel retiring under the Civil Service System. I believe
the Committee was on sound ground when it asserted that it was necessary
to confine this benefit to employees who have actually performed the
qualifying service which earned, for them participation in the CIARDS in
order to justify adoption of this Department of State authority which is
not available to the Department's Civil Service retirees. Extension of
the travel payment to designated, Civil Service retirees within the Agency
would create a preferential benefit, unique in the Federal Service.
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5. Even if the Agency were prepared to provide this benefit for
Civil Service retirees, we would still have the problem of administering
a program based on arbitrary qualifications standards. To extend, the
benefit to those who served PCS tours of 24 or 36 months overseas would,
leave us with large groups who had, slightly less overseas duty or had.
TDY service for which they would, want credit. Extending eligibility
to those "subject to rotational assignment" would not only appear to be
contrary to the intent of the authority we have adopted but could, encom-
pass the great majority of Agency employees and would require case-by-
case decisions by the determining authority.
6. If there are truly individuals or groups of individuals outside
of the CIARDS who are deserving of this travel benefit, it would, appear
logical that the very nature of the duty which makes them deserving would
also qualify them for participation in the CIARDS. The course we should,
follow, therefore, is to restrict the benefit to members of the CIARDS
but encourage the transfer into CIARDS of all personnel whose duties are
markedly different from normal Civil Service employment.
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d.obert` S . Wattles
Director of Personnel
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director -Comptroller
SUBJECT : Administrative Authorities --Travel and Transportation
Expenses
At the time you approved the extension of authorities for travel and
transportation of effects for retirees and dependents to a selected place of
residence we had limited the application of this to employees in the CIA Retire-
ment and Disability System. You informally queried whether or not this could
be properly extended to other employees engaged in overseas service but who
are not members of the CIA Retirement System. We have given this full con-
sideration but there does not appear to be any practical system by which we
could sort out and make applicable these authorities to other employees. I
am afraid we would be opening a Pandora's box without devising any effective
controls. We can always consider on an exception basis any deserving case
and unless you have other views I propose to go this route.
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Bannerman
Deputy Director
for Support
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