LETTER TO HONORABLE JAMES T. MCINTYRE, JR. FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: January 1, 1979
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Honorable James T. McIntyre, Jr.., Director
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D.C. 20503 -
Dear. Mr. McIntyre:
OLC 79-3173/a'.,
In accordance with Office of Management and Budget
Circular. No. A-19, revised, I am submitting proposed legis-
lation for your advice as to whether i-t is in accord with
the program of the President. Enclosed are ten copies of a
draft "Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities
Authorization Act for. Fiscal Year. 1981." Also enclosed are
draft letters of transmittal to the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Fiscal Year. 1981 Intelligence Authorization Bill
was identified as proposal number. 96/2 - 3 in the proposed
Central Intelligence Agency and Intelligence Community
Legislative Program, which was forwarded to your office on
15 November. 1979 as part of the consolidated National Foreign
Intelligence Program budget. The draft Bill has been pre-
pared in consultation with the Intelligence Community.
The draft Fiscal Year. 1981 Intelligence Authorization
Bill is substantively similar to the Fiscal Year 1980 Act
(P.L. 96-100). Consistent with Section 7e of Circular.
No. A-19, the draft Bill contains a provision relating to
compliance with Section 607 of. P.L. 93-344, the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974. The draft Bill also contains a self-
explanatory technical provision which would authorize the
Central Intelligence Agency to accept gifts and bequests.
I would be most appreciative of your assistance in
securing prompt Administration clearance of this proposed
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legislation, and in ensuring that resource allocations for
fiscal year. 1981 reflect the President's expressed determi-
nation to enhance the nation's intelligence capability.
Yours sincerely,
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To authorize appropriations for fiscal year. 1981 for intelli-
gence and intelligence-related activities of the United
States Government, for the Intelligence Community Staff,
for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability
System, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That
this Act may be cited as the "Intelligence and Intelligence-
Related Activities Authorization Act for Fiscal Year. 1981".
Sec. 101. (a) Funds are hereby authorized to be
appropriated for fiscal year 1981 for the conduct of the
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the
following departments, agencies, and other elements of the
United States Government:
(1) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(2) The Department of Defense.
(3) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
(4) The National Security Agency.
(5) The Department of the Army, the Department
of the Navy, and the Department of the Air. Force.
(6)
The
Department
of
State.
(7)
The
Department
of
the Treasury.
(8)
The
Department
of
Energy.
(9)
The
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(10)
The
Drug Enforcement Administration.
(b) The amounts authorized to be appropriated under
this Act, and the authorized personnel ceilings as of
September 30, 1981, for the conduct of the intelligence and
intelligence-related activities of the agencies listed in
subsection (a) are those listed in the classified Schedule
of Authorizations prepared by the committee of conference to
accompany the conference report on the bill
96th Congress. That Schedule of Authorizations shall be
made available to the Committees on Appropriations of the
Senate and House of Representatives and to the President.
The President shall provide for suitable distribution of the
Schedule, or of appropriate portions of the Schedule, within
the Executive Branch.
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(c) Nothing contained in this Act shall be deemed to
constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence
activity which is prohibited by the Constitution or laws of
the United States.
Sec. 201. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated
for the Intelligence Community Staff for fiscal year 1981
the sum of
(b)(1) The Intelligence Community Staff is authorized
full-time personnel as-of September. 30, 1981. Such
personnel may be permanent employees of the Intelligence
Community Staff or personnel detailed from other elements of
the United States Government.
(2) During fiscal year. 1981, personnel of the Intelli-
gence Community Staff shall be selected so as to provide
appropriate representation from elements of the United
States Government engaged in intelligence and intelligence
related activities.
(3) During fiscal year. 1981, any officer or employee
of the United States or member of the Armed Forces who is
detailed to the Intelligence Community Staff from another
element of the United States Government shall be detailed on
a reimbursable basis, except that any such officer, employee,
or member may be detailed on a nonreimbursable basis for a
period of less than one year for the performance of temporary
functions as required by the Director of Central Intelligence.
(c) During fiscal year. 1981, activities and personnel
of the Intelligence Community Staff shall be subject to the
provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.
401 et seq.) and the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949
(50 U.S.C. 403a-403j) in the same manner as activities and
personnel of the Central Intelligence Agency.
TITLE III - CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT
AND DISABILITY SYSTEM
Sec. 301. There is authorized to be appropriated for
the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability
Fund for fiscal year 1981 the sum of
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Sec. 501. Appropriations authorized by this Act for
salary, pay, retirement, and other benefits for federal
employees may be increased by such additional or supplemental
amounts as may be necessary for increases in such benefits
authorized by law.
Sec. 502. There are authorized to be appropriated for
fiscal year 1982 such sums as may be necessary for intelli-
gence and intelligence-related activities of the United
States Government, for.. the Intelligence Community Staff, and
for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability
System.
Sec. 503. Section 3 of the Central Intelligence Agency
Act of 1949, 50 U.S.C. 403c, is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following new subsection: "(e) The Director is
authorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize for
artistic or general employee or dependent welfare, educational,
recreational or like purposes, gifts, bequests or devises of
money, securities or other property of whatsoever character
whenever the Director determines that it would be in the
interest of the Agency to do so. Unless otherwise restricted
by the terms of the gift, bequest or devise, the Director
may sell or exchange, and invest or reinvest such property
in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in
obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by
the United States. For purposes of Federal income, estate
and gift taxes, gifts, bequests and devises accepted by the
Director shall be deemed to be to or for the use of the
United States. The Title of Section 3 of the Central
Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, 50 U.S.C. 403c, is amended
by adding after "PROCUREMENT" the following: ";AUTHORITY TO
ACCEPT GIFTS, BEQUESTS AND DEVISES."
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