CIA POSITION WITH RESPECT TO INCREASED COORDINATION OF INTELLIGENCE BUDGETS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: August 11, 1954
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I I August 1954
ORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
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Mr. L. Kirkpatrick
CIA Position with Respect to Increased
Coordination of Intelligence Budgets
C consider in summary form a consolidation
of the member-agency budgets.
b. That a budgetary subcommittee of the LAC be created
to assist the members of the IAC in their review.
C report its recommendations to the Bureau
o the Appropriations Committees of the Congress.
e Bureau of the Budget and Congress be rcque:stud
Ace budgets as a coordinated program using,
committee for this purpose.
?. That supplemental requests, allocation of Congressional
cuts, interim adjustment, etc., of any significance made by any
department be reported to the IAC budget subcommittee so that IAC
community influence can be exercised to prevent impairment of the
national intelligence effort.
ts:
the only rational responsible way for the
Executive Branch to decide how much to spend for intelligence.
b. Each agency** financial needs are explainable only
in tho context of what it gets from and gives to the other agencies
firms of service, etc . , e.g., CCI* s and -appropriations
can be readily justified in relation to NSA' s financial outlay.
Many Integrated programs, e.g., the National Intolli-
,eys, are nowhere considered in their entirety in the budget
so; yet adverse action on one agency's appropriations (b
senior fiscal officers or the Congress) can mangle the program.
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d, U C aeoder DGI leadership doesn't seize the
it"if, it rune serious risk ill-Informed bureau of the Budget
or Cougressd ul ; ffs will do so and create havoc.
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ROZ ZRT AMOJLY. JR .
Deputy Director/Intel igence
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Presentation for the tat 41enco
CAMMMI-ty
1. To determine the desirability and feasibility of the
station to the Bureau of the Budget and
B. Disc
. I . It is Blear that the intent of the National Security Act
and the NS s is that the Agencies represented an the Intelligence
Advisory Committee are to operat*. insofar as possible as a system,
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nterr teed and Ant 44#endent. While the Act and the Directives
agencies
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meet meet ear derpaartssreatal reap sihilities, the separate Agencies
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ceseity for budget requests to be related
each of the lAC agencies to present and justify their
which tars can be sec amplisheed. Present procedures
coordinated intelligence program, there is at present
for the intelligence function independently to
het and Congress. In addition. as Intelligence
possible to
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