REASSIGNMENT OF COMPTROLLER FUNCTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000700090031-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 31
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Reassignment of Comptroller Functions
1. This memorandum proposes reassignment of responsibilities
and authorities now vested in the Comptroller. Approval action by the
Director of Central Intelligence is recommended in paragraph 4.
2. The Agency's expanded responsibilities and its complex
operating relationships make it increasingly necessary that management
policies be coordinated and controlled at the highest practicable level in
the command structure. This is particularly true with respect to
budgetary policy, program review, and the allocation of manpower and
financial resources. Historically the Comptroller-bias been responsible
for man`_agement of the budget, for development of financial policy, and
for day-to-day fisc la and accounting operations in support of Agency
activities. I question however, as a practical matter, whether a Comp-
troller can be expected to deal authoritatively with the competing demands
of major components and make--and enforce--the necessary har-d
decisions. I question too whether it is necessary or desirable to combine
unn er one head the management policy and control functions plus the
responsibility for day-to-day operations. The determination of manage-
ment policy and the exercise of controls must, I believe, be functions of
command, supported by staff assistance. The execution of policy decisions
should take place through the Agency's operating mechanisms. In other
words, I believe the time has come to reorganize the functions of the
Comptroller to accord more realistically with the present-day facts of
Agency life, and the reassignment of the present Comptroller affords a
practical occasion on which to do it.
3. I suggest that the Comptroller policy and control func.ti_ons
should be assigned to the Executive Director.--Fle exercises broad directive
and approval authority under existing delegations and to assign to him
responsibility for budgeta end financial policy, with the review and con-
trol functions pertaining thereto, would be a logical development o#`Mis role.
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He would be supported by a Budget Division, a Manpower Control Staff,
and a Program Analysis Staff. I suggest further that fiscal and account-
ing operations throughout the Agency structure constitute a major
element of support and as such should be assigned to the Deputy Director
for Support..
4. If you approve these proposals, I recommend that you sign the
attached Notice which will put them into effect.
25X1
Marshall . ar er
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
Attachment
Proposed Notice
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THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The Executive Director is the senior non-statutory officer of the Agency
and acts for or in the absence of the Director and the Deputy Director in
exercising his directive and approval authority. He coordinates component
activities and ensures necessary action by the proper component on decisions
of the Director and the Deputy Director. He develops budgetary and financial
policies of the Agency and is responsible for program evaluation, financial
analysis, manpower controls, and the preparation and execution of the Agency
budget. He assures that all components are kept advised of policy decisions
or antra-governmental actions affecting them, and he reviews all papers
requiring action by the Director or Deputy Director.
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NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947
TITLE IV
Promotion of Economy and Efficiency Through Establishment of Uniform
Budgetary and Fiscal Procedures and Organizations
Comptroller of Department of Defense
Sec. 401. (a) There is hereby established in the Department Comptroller
of Defense the Comptroller of the Department of Defense, who shall of Department
be one of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense. of Defense.
(b) The Comptroller shall advise and assist the Secretary Establishment.
of Defense in performing such budgetary and fiscal functions as may Duties.
be required to carry out the powers conferred upon the Secretary of
Defense by this Act, including but not limited to those specified in
this subsection. Subject to the authority, direction, and control of
the Secretary of Defense, the Comptroller shall--
(1) supervise and direct the preparation of the
budget estimates of the Department of Defense; and
(2) establish, and supervise the execution of--
(A) principles, policies, and procedures to be
followed in connection with organizational and
administrative matters relating to--
(i) the preparation and execution of the
budgets,
(ii) fiscal, cost, operating, and capital
property accounting,
(iii) progress and statistical reporting,
(iv) internal audit, and
(B) policies and procedures relating to the expenditure
and collection of funds administered by the Department of
Defense; and
(3) establish uniform terminologies, classifications, and
procedures in all such matters.
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