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B-193712 1 (1979-05-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtte0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1, 'DIGEST -- I--0G THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES 899 ( W~ HWASHINGTON. 0 OC. C20548 FILE: B-193712 DATE:May 24, 1979 MATTER OF: Reimbursement by Central Intelligence Agency of Employee's Legal Fees DIGEST: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), may reimburse its staff psychiatrist who was directed to prepare psychological profile of for cost of legal representation before congressional investigating committees and professional organizations if preparation of profile was within scope of employee's duties. The Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has requested our decision on whether the CIA has authority to reimburse M.D., a staff employee psychiatrist, for fees in- curred when he retained a private attorney to counsel him in connection with his appearance in various proceedings investigating actions by him within the scope of his employment. According to the Deputy Director, Dr. 1was summoned to appear before investigating committees (presumably congressional committees) and was required to defend his professional conduct be- fore the American Psychoanalytic Association, Washington Psychiatric Society, and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, because a psychological profile of he had prepared in accordance with the instructions of his supervisors had been misused by officials in the Nixon Administration. The Deputy Director has stressed the fact that Dr. acted within the scope of employment. In his letter to our Office, he states: In no way can it be said that Dr. difficulties in regard to these matters were of his own making. On the contrary, he exercised sound judgment by raising with the Agency's Director of Medical Services, the Deputy Director for Administration and. with the Director of Central Intelli- gence the question as to whether the preparation of the particular profile at issue was an appropriate activity for the Agency to undertake. He received assurances that the profile to be developed was required in the interest of national security, permitting an assessment of the proba- bility of continued leaks of information. He was directed .0 70.

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