ASSISTANCE FOR THE OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD

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• Publication Date: September 30, 1953
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ASSISTANCE FOR THE OPERATIOS COORDINATING BOARD
AGREEMENT Among the Department of State,
the Department of Defense, the Foreign
Operations Administration and the
Central Intelligence Agency
This agreement is entered into pursuant to Section 3 of
Executive Order 10483, dated September 2, 19539 establishing
the Operations Coordinating Board, to provide assistance to
said Board as may be necessary for the purpose of effectuating
Executive Order 10483.
1. The Departments of State and Defense, the Foreign
Operations Administration, and the Central Intelligence Agency
each agree to furnish assistance in the form of the advances of
funds or contributions of personnel or administrative services
to support the work of the Operations Coordinating Board, in
accordance with this agreement and as may be mutually agreed to
from time to time and subject to the availability of funds for
this purpose.
2. The Executive Officer shall prepare an annual estimate
of financial and other requirements necessary to effectuate the
work of the Board. The Board will review this estimate and the
members of the Board shall each approve for their respective
agencies the amount of funds and other support, to be reserved for
the assistance of the Board subject to the concurrence of the
Director of the Budget and the availability of funds for this
purpose. Final distribution of the costs of providing assistance
to the Board shall take place at the end of each fiscal year
and any advanced funds remaining unobligated at that time shall
be returned to the member agencies in the same pro-rata distribu-
tion as governed the providing of funds and services. The
Executive. Officer shall report to the Board on each year's financial
operations.
3. ! The Department of State agrees to provide full adminis-
tate Dept. revi eftifeport for the Board and the staff of the Board, including
P ges 1/2/. but not restricted to services in connection with personnel
administration; physical and personnel security; budgetary and
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financial administration; procurement of supplies and material;
travel; property; communications; mail and records, and library
services. Full-time permanent personnel on the staff of the Board
will normally be appointed in and paid by the Department of State
frcm funds contributed by the several member agencies in accordance
with paragraph 1 above and deposited with the Department of State
for accounting and disbursal. However, at the request of the
Executive Officer, personnel appointed in and paid by any of the
other member agencies may be assigned to the Board's work when it
is in the best interests of the Board. Also, the Executive Officer
may obtain other administrative services from any of the other
member agencies when it is mutually agreed between the Executive
Officer and the agency concerned.
4. The assistance provided in the form of appropriated funds
shall be available for expenditure for the support of the Operations
Coordinating Board in accordance with the authorities and regula-
tions of the Department of State.
5. Expenditures for or contributions of personnel or other
administrative support on behalf of the Board shall be offset
against the agreed pro-rata annual contribution of the agency making
the expenditure or contribution or shall be reimbursed fran the
funds contributed for-the support of the Board, whichever is more
convenient administratively.
6. Upon the abolition of the Psychological Strategy Board,
the space, equipment, records, and property made available by the
several member agencies of the Psychological Strategy Board are made
available to the Operations Coordinating Board. Anj property as may
not be needed by the Operations Coordinating Board shall be returned
by the Executive Officer to the Department of State for disposal
under applicable statutes. Outstanding contracts entered into by
the Department of State for the provision of services to the Psycho-
logical Strategy Board shall be reviewed by the Executive Officer
and either retained on behalf of the operations Coordinating Board
or terminated as the facts warrant. The unobligated balances of
funds for FY 1954 already advanced for the support of the Psycho-
logical Strategy Board and administered by the Department of State
are made available to the Operations Coordinating Board upon the
abolition of the Psychological Strategy Board.
7. This agreement will be governed, where applicable, by
Section 2113, Public Law 49, 79th Congress, 1st Session, approved
May 3, 1945 (59 stat. 106), and Section 601 of the Econciey Act of
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June 30, 1932 (31 USC 686), and shall remain in force until 30 J=9
1954 unless amended by the parties hereto, and shall remain in
effect after that date provided funds are appropriated for that
purpose unless rescinded by the parties hereto.
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE: FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Under Secretary of State tiv De uty Secretary of Defense
FOR THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCI: FOR THE FOREIGN OPERATIONS ADKIINISTRATICK:
Director of Central Into .igence'' 1)s ~ u ( Director
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Acting executive Officer,
Operati,Coordinating Board
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SUBJECT : Assistance for the Operations Coordinating Board
1. Attached is Executive Order 10483 and the draft agreement,
same subject as above. The preamble to the agreement provides that
it is entered into pursuant to EO 10483. I note that Section 3 of
the Executive Order starts out with the three words "Consonant with
law." I think we both feel substantially the same on this point that
the legal grounds are rather tenuous.
2. Paragraph 1 of the agreement indicates that the four agencies
concerned as a matter of principle would contribute approximately
equal shares to support the Board, although different shares may be
agreed upon. A quick glance at the financial statement as of
1 November 1953 indicates that neither State nor FOA will actually
contribute any cash. Of the $569,000 budget, CIA is expected to
contribute $380,000 or slightly more than two thirds. As a policy
matter, this heavy support by CIA of the Board might be subject to
some query either in the Bureau of the Budget or in the Congress.
3. Paragraph 3 of the agreement provides that funds should be
available for expenditure to cover costs of the staff of the OCB,
including employment of personnel, procurement of supplies, travel.
expenses, etc. This phrasing would indicate that the Board is
actually conceived as more than just an interagency committee or
board and in actuality partakes in the nature of a new executive
agency of the Government. From a legal standpoint the Board cannot
employ people nor can it procure supplies. In fact, it must do
these things through the member agencies. It is noted that in
paragraph 4 the full-time permanent personnel on the staff of the
Board will normally be appointed in and paid by State. From the
Bureau of the Budget standpoint, this type of "subterfuge" would
in a sense tend to distort the budget and personnel figures of
the department.
4. The closing words of paragraph 7 of the agreement provide
that it "shall remain in force until rescinded by the Board."
Obviously the agreement can be amended or rescinded by the depart-
ments concerned without reference to the Board as such. This may
be a.mere technicality, but it seems inappropriate that an agree-
ment should permit the Board to perpetuate itself.
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5. Because of the fact of its large financial contribution
and because of the probable heavy reliance by CIA on OCB, it would
seem that the CIA has a special responsibility in the OCB to assure
that such a mechanism is firmly and soundly established in a law-
ful manner. I would suggest consideration be given to discussing
the basic legal and policy problems involved with Mr. Dulles or
General Cabell with a view of taking action possibly with the
Bureau of the Budget and GAO. Fundamentally, OCB is no different
than PSB and the same general problems obtain.
J J S WARNER
/Eilecut a Officer
7fice of the DD/A
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EXECUTIVE ORDER 10483
ESTABLISHING THE OPERATIONS
COORDINATING BOARD
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and.
statutes, and as President of the United States, it-is hereby ordered
as follows:
SECTION 1. (a) In order to provide for the integrated implementation
of national security policies by the several agencies, there is hereby
established an Operations Coordinating Board, hereinafter referred to as
the Board, which shall report to the National Security Council.
(b) The Board shall have as members the following: (1) the Under
Secretary of State, who shall represent the Secretary of State and shall
be the chairman of the Board, (2) the Deputy Secretary of Defense, who
shall represent the Secretary of Defense, (3) the Director of the Foreign
Operations Administration, (4) the Director of Central Intelligence, and
(5) a representative of the President to be designated by the President.
Each head of agency referred to in items (1) to (4), inclusive., in this
section 1 (b) may provide for an alternate member who shall serve as a
member of the Board in lieu of the regular member representing the agency
concerned when such regular member is for reasons beyond his control unable
to attend any meeting of the Board; and any alternate member shall while
serving as such have in all respects the same status as a member of the.
Board, as. does the regular member in lieu of whom he serves,
(c) The head of any agency (other'than any agency represented under
section 1 (b) hereof) to which the President from time to time assigns
responsibilities for the implementation of national security policies,
shall assign a representative to serve on the Board when the Board is
dealing with subjects bearing directly upon the responsibilities of such
head. Each such representative shall be an Under Secretary or corresponding
official and when so serving such representative shall have the same status
on the Board as the members provided for in the said section 1 (b).
(d) The Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs may attend any meeting of the Board, The Director of the United
States Information Agency shall advise the Board at its request.
SEC. 2. The National Security Council having recommended a national
security policy and the President having approved it, the Board shall
(1) whenever the President shall hereafter so direct, advise with the
agencies concerned as to (a) their detailed operational planning responsi-
bilities respecting such policy, (b) the coordination of the interdepart-
mental aspects of the detailed operational plans developed by the agencies
to carry out such policy, (c) the timely and coordinated execution of such
policy and plans, and (d) the execution of each security action or project
so that it shall make its full contribution to the attainment of national
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security objectives and to the particular climate of opinion the United
States is seeking to achieve in the world, and' (2) initiate new proposals
for action within the framework of national security policies in response
to opportunity and changes in the situation. The Board shall perform such
other advisory functions as the President may assign to it and shall from
time to time make reports to the National Security Council with respect to
the carrying out of this order,.
SEC, 3. Consonant with law, each agency represented on the Board
shall, as may be necessary for the purpose of effectuating this order,
furnish assistance to the Board in accordance with section 214 of the
Act of May 3, 1945, 59 Stat. 134 (31 U,S.C.' 691). Such assistance may
include detailing employees to the Board, one of whom may serve as its
Executive Officer, to perform such functions, consistent with the purposes
of this order, as the Board may assign to them,
SEC, 4. The Psychological Strategy Board shall be abolished not
later than sixty days after the date of this order and its outstanding
affairs shall be wound up by the Operations Coordinating Board,
SEC, 5. As used herein, the word "agency" may be construed to mean
any instrumentality of the executive branch of the Government, including
any executive department.
SEC. 6. Nothing in this order shall be construed either to confer
upon the Board any function with respect to internal security or to in
any manner abrogate or restrict any function vested by law in, or assigned
pursuant to law to, any agency or head of agency (including the Office of
Defense Mobilization and the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization).
DWIGHT D. .aISENHOWER
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 2, 1953
(F. R. Doc. 53-7812;. Filed, Sept. 3, 1953; 4103 P. m.)
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