A BILL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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• Publication Date: July 1, 1982
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A BILL FOR THE ESTAHLIE IENT OF A CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
DECLARATI( OF POLICY
Section l(a). Findings and Declaration. Experience in the two
World Ware and the interim period between has shown that the acquisition
of foreign intelligence by separate departments and agencies is in-
adequate to inform properly the people of the United States rnd their
elected representatives of the events, treads and plans in foreign
countries which, if known, might serve to avert armed conflict. The
lesson thus learned is that intelligence gathering and analysis must be
centralized so that all sources and facilities may be utilized to their
fullest potentialities. Accordingly? it is hereby declared to be the
policy of the people of the United States that in order to insure the
common defense and security, the processing, analysis and dissemination
of foreign intelligence shall be centralized and its procurenent eoordi-
nated so as to keep fully informed the proper officers and departments
of the Government.
(b) Purpose of Act. It is the purpose of this Act
to effectuate the policies set out in Section l(a) by providing aanong
others for the following major programs relating to intelligence:
(1) A program for coordinating the procurement
facilities of existing intelligence activities to develop
maximum efficiency.
(2) A program for the research, analysis a.
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evaluation of all inte14gence so received,
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(3) A program for accurate dissemination of
intelligence material to proper Government offices and
departments.
(4) A program of administration to insure the
positive procurement of all available foreign intelligence and
to take such other measures in the field of foreign intelligence
as will best serve to promote the national defense.
ORGANIZATZCI
Section 2(a) National Intelligence Authority.
(1) There is hereby established a National
Intelligt.rice 4athority which shall be composed of five members.
The Secretaries. of the State Department, "War Department and
Navy Departments shall be, ex officio, members of the National
Intelligence Authority. The fourth member shall be appointed
by the President as his personal representative. These four
me.ioers will be the sole voting members of the National
Intelligence Authority. The Director of the Central Intelli-
gence, hereinafter provided for, shall sit as the fifth and
non-voting member of the National Intelligence Authority.
( 2) The President shall appoint his personal rep-
resentative to the National Intelligence Authority by and with
the consent of the Senate. The tern of each voting; member of
the National Intelligence Authority shall be at the pleasure
of the President. The four voting members will serve without
compensation for this service and shall perform this service in
addition to such other activities, public or private, as they
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may en gage in.
(3) The National Intelligence Authority may
utilize such facilities of the State, War and Navy Departments
as may be necessary for the maintenance of offices, records and
for secretarial and clerical assistance.
(b) Central Intelligence Agency. There is hereby
established a Central Intelligence Agency (hereinafter in this Act referred
to as the "Agency") with a Director who shall be the head thereof, to be
appointed fraan civilian or military life by the President, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate for a term of not more than seven years.
The Director shall receive canpensation at the rate of $12,000 per annum.
Any co n!ssioned officer of the United States Army, the United States Navy,
or the Unit,,d States Air Force may be appointed to the office of Director;
and his appointrient to, acceptance of, and service in, such office shall
in no way affect any status, office,,rank, or grade he may occupy or hold
in the United States Army, the United States Navy, or the United States
Air Force, or any emolument, prerequisite, right, privilege, or benefit
incident to or arising out of any such status, office, rank or grade.
Any such commissioned officer on the active list shall, while serving in
the Office of Director, receive the military pay and allowances payable to
a commissioned officer of his grade and length of service and shall be paid,
from azyr ends available to defray the expenses of the agency, annual com-
ponsation at a rate equal to the difference between $12,000 and the mount
of his annual military pay and allowances. There shall be assigned to
duty with the Agency such military and civilian personnel of the depart-
ments and agencies of the Government as the Director may, from time to
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time, request, subject to policies established by the National Intelli-
gence Authority and approved by the President.
(c) It shall be the duty of the Agency, under the
supervision and direction of the National Intelligence Authority, to plan,
develop, and coordinate the foreign intelligence activities of the United
States in such manner as to assure the most effective accomplishment of
the intelligence mission relating to the national security. The Agency
shall -
(1) Correlate and evaluate intelligence relating
to the national security and provide for the appropriate
dissemination within the Government of the resulting strategic
and national policy intelligence;
(2) Make plans for the coordination of such of
the intelligence activities of theadepar.tments and agencies of
the Government as relate to the national security and recommend
to the National Intelligence Authority the establistment of
such over-all policies and objectives as will assure the most
effective accmplishment of the national intelligence mission;
(3) Perform, for the benefit of the depertan.ents
and other agencies of the Government, such intelligence services
of ccztumon concern as relate to the national security and as
the National. Lntelligence Authority determines can be more
efficiently acccsiplished by the Agency;
(4) Procure, train and supervise its intelligence
personnel; and
(5) Perform such other functions and duties
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relating to intelligence affecting the national security as
the President or the National Intelligence Authority may from
time to ne direct.
(d) The responsibility and authority of the departments
and other agencies of the Government to collect, evaluate, correlate,
and disseminate intelligence shall not be affected, except to the extent
that the Agency may relive then of such authority and responsibility
pursuant to the provisions of subsection (c). The Agency shall have no
police, subpoena or law enforcement powers or functions, either within
or outside of the continental limits of the United States. The Director
of the Agency shall be responsible for fully protecting intelligence
sources and methods.
( e)
The Agency shall make use cf the facilities and
services of the military and the civilian intelligence agencies of the
G,evcrrmert and may conduct intelligence projects through, or in cooperation
with, such agencies. Such agencies are hereby authorized and directed to
make such facilities and services available to the Agency are to participate
in the conduct of its projects.
(f) To the extent recommended by the National intelli-
gence~ithority and, approved by the President, (1) the intelligence operations
of the departments and other agencies of the Government shall be open to
inspection by the Director in connection with the planning functions of
the Agency and (2) the intelligence possessed by such deparx,ents and
agencies shall bemade freely available to the Director for correlation,
evaluation, or dissemination.
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GENE tAL AUTHORITY
Section 3(a). In the performance of its funct4.ons, the
Central Intelligence Agency may:
(1) Procure necessary ser~rices, supplier, and
ecut-11ront without regard to the provisions of Section 3'109,
Revised ~tatites (1l U.S.C. 5) upon certification by the
Director that, such action is necessary in the interest of the
common defense and security or upon a showing that advertising
is not reasonably practicable, and partial and advriee payments
may be made under contracts for such purpose.
(2) Pay living and quarters allowances or in
lieu thereof a salary differential to employees with headquarters
located. abroad.
(3) Render such gratuitous services and dispose
of, free or otherwise, such materials as the D-irector deans
advisable.
(h) Transfer such suns as may be authorized by
the .I ireau of the Budget and other departments or agencies of the
Government, either as advance payment or rein. burs er,ient of
appropriation, for the performance of arrr of the fzanct:~ on s or
activities authorized herein.
(5) Pay expenses of transportation and subsistence
of civilian officers and employees, and their dependerts.
(A) 'When transferred from one; officia.1 station
to another for permanent duty, irrcluding
expenses for crating, drayage and transportation
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of household goods and personal effects of
such officers and employees; (B) when travel-
in g from overseas posts to their homes in
the United States and return under regulations
established by the Director.
(6) Exchange funds without regard to Section 3651,
Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 543).
(b) The Director may delegate to subordinate officials
the power to employ persons in the Agency, departmental or otherwise, and
to such officials as he may designate the function of authorizing the
payments set forth in Paragraph 5 of Section 3(a) above.
APPROPRIA71ON S
Section 4(a). There are hereby authorized to be appropriated
such stuns as may be necessary and appropriate to carry out the provisions
and purposes of this Act.
(b) Within the limits of such appropriations, the
Director is authorized to employ such persons and means and make such
expenditures, at the seat of Government and elsewhere, for personal
services, rent, travel expenses, including expenses outside the United
States without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations
and the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended (5 U.S.C. 821-833);
preparation and transportation of the remains of officers are. employees
who die abroad or in transit, while in dispatch of their official duties,
to their fonaer homes in this country or to a place not more distant for
interment, and for ordinary expenses of such interment; rental of news-
reporting services; purchase of or subscription to law books, books of
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reference, periodicals, newspapers, cc uaercial and trade reports;
purchase or rental and operation of photographic, reproduction, crypto-
graphic, duplicating and printing machines, equipment and devices, and
radio-receiving and radio-sending equipment and devices; purchase, mainten-
unce, operation, repair and hire of motor-propelled or horse-dram
passenger-carrying vehicles and other vehicles and vessels of all kinds;
printing and binding; purchase, maintenance and cleaning of firearms,
guard unifor:as, special clothing, and other personal equipment; the cost
of a compartnent or such other accanodations as may be authorized by the
Director or his designee for security when authorized personnel are re-
quired to transport secret doamnents or hand baggage cortain-ing classified
or valuai'le equipment.
(c) The Acts appropriating such sums may appropriate
specified portions thereof which may be expended, (A) without regard to
the provisions of Jaw and regulations relating to the expenditure of
Government funds or the employment of persons in the Government ervice;
(k;) for objects of a confidential nature, such expenditures to be accounted
for solely on the certificate of the hirector and every such certificate
shall be deemed a sufficient voucher, Lor the amount therein certified.
SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS
Section 5. If any provision of this Act, or the application of
such provision to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the
rcniainder of this Act or the application of such provision to persons or
circ anstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not
be affected thereby.
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SHORT TITTLE
Section 6. This Act may be cited as the "Central Intelligence
Agency Act of 194611.
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