PROPOSED 1955 LEGISLATION - DEPUTY DIRECTORS AND GENERAL COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00224A000100680041-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2000
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 27, 1954
• Content Type: MFR

SUBJECT: Proposed 1955 Legislation - Deputy Directors and
General Counsel
1. Mr. Pforzheimer drew a proposed bill in November 1953
which, among other things, raised the DCI's salary to $20,000,
THE DDCI's to $18,000, and, in addition, provided for six Deputy
Directors at salaries of $16,000. The other provisions of the
proposed bill were minor.
2. After considerable discussion with Mr. Pforzheimer, we now
believe that instead of authorizing six Deputy Directors with sal-
aries of $16,000 each, we should provide for six "rind al assistants,"
one of whom would be the General Counsels and/duties would be as
specified by the Director. The principal assistants' salaries should
be that of Assistant Secretaries of the Executive Departments, so that
they would rank with Assistant Secretaries and receive the benefit of
any salary increases granted Assistant Secretaries.
3. It would seem easy to justify an Assistant Secretary's salary
for the General Counsel. The General Counsels of the Department of
Defense (Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1953) and of the Department of
Commerce (Public Law 607, 83rd Congress, 2nd Sess.) receive such sal-
aries as does the Legal Advisor of the Department of State. All three
are appointed by the President and subject to Senate confirmation. The
General Counsel of the Atomic Energy Commission is appointed by the
Commission and receives compensation at a rate determined by it not to
exceed $16,000 (Sec. 25b, Public Law 703, 83rd Congress, 2nd Bess.).