THE 1947 ACT--CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2012
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Darling, HS-1 Chap. V, Action by Congress, 1947-1949
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The 1947 Act--Congressional Consideration
hearings held by Sen Comm on the Armed Services, and House
Comm on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.
/ Major attention centered upon the proposed merger of the
V/ armed forces, the authority of the Sec of Def, and the NSC.
reps of the armed forces sought to restrict CIA operations, 19
fearing it would usurp funcs properly belonging to them.
CIA reps, rather than shying away from the word gestapo,
prominently used it to emphasize that the proposed new agency
could and would not be such a thing. It would have no police
Iv/ power, no right to subpoena, no authority of law envorcement,
no funcs re internatl security.
some worry re silence of the proposed legislation as to funcs
/ of the new agency and its Director. No guarantee, after all,
that Cong would ever receive an enabling bill. Safeguards
re Agency's funcs should be written into the bill.
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Vandenberg's sta nt before Wig: stressed the need for
Apr. 29 a permanent 'ntell agency and centralized, Pledged that
enabling legislation would follow in due course.
some difficulty in getting cong. approval of the provision
in the Pres' Jan 22 dirctive that Dirctor should perform
"services of common concern" for the deptal agencies.
some discussion as to whom DCI should report. Donovan argued
that he should report to an indiv, such as Sec of Def. But
Vandenberg countered that since CIA not to be ghe sole intell
agency, it needed to report to a council like the NSC.
at one pt, Houston drafted an amendment to the bill which
wuld have given Hillenkoetter the directorship for 14 yrs,
but this was later dropped. (And given the consensus re
Hillenkoetter's lack of effectiveness as Directory, the
Acency can be thankful it was not acted upon.)
service intell officers also feared that an indep DCI might
have direct channels to the Pres (and ready access)
re proper funcs for CIA and service opposition to clandestine
collection: Brig. Gen. HWI-Kroner offered the opinion that
it would be unwise tb have the CIA "overburden itself w/
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operations." Kroner, former chief of Mil. Intell. Service,,~
~~ also hinted that the Army might well classify intell so
highly that the CIA would not be able to share it, hence -14,
limiting the Agency's usefulness. 28
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