MEMORANDUM TO HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM ROBERT KENNEDY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 17, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM No 39
DATE 28 August 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PLANS)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (INTELLIGENCE)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (RESEARCH)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (SUPPORT)
COMPTROLLER
INSPECTOR GENERAL
GENERAL COUNSEL
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
FOR NATIONAL ESTIMATES
DCI
Executive Director
Executive Re gi stxy
Distribution:
LBK/hs
To all Executive Comm. plus
Security 0 via DD/S
CI Staff via DD/P
This memorandum contains information for the addressees. Ad-
dressees may give this memorandum additional circulation within
their components as required. All copies should be destroyed not
filed, upon completion of circulation. A master file will be kept in
the Executive Director's Office and will be available upon request.
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August 17, 1962
MEMORANDUM TO HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES:
Pursuant to National Security Action Memorandum 161,
dated June 9, 1962 from the President, The Attorney General has
been given primary responsibility for taking the initiative in the
Government in ensuring the development of plans, programs, and
action proposals to protect the internal security of the United'States.
His 'office has also been given supervision of the two interdepartmental
committees concerned with internal security--the Interdepartmental
Intelligence Conference (IIC) and the Interdepartmental Committee on
Internal Security (ICIS)--which have been under the supervision of the
National Security Council.
There is certainly a continuing need for the IIC and ICIS.
The functions and responsibilities of these two interdepartmental com-
r,mittees will be as defined in their charters issued by the NSC on
July 18, 1949 (amended September 10, 1954; see NSC 5425/1) and
approved by the President. I would like their organizations and proce-
dures to continue unchanged, except that their reports or recommenda-
tions heretofore directed to the National Security Council will now be
directed to me as Attorney General. It is anticipated that problems
and proposals under consideration in the committees will continue to
require the scheduling of meetings and the time of departmental staffs,
as has been the case in the past.
I trust that all departments and agencies will continue to
cooperate with the chairmen of the two committees as they have in the
past to assure the cQtnpetent and expeditious handling of the committees'
business.
(Offs a of tte 1 ttnrurj' Orunut
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