FISCAL YEAR 1983 INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION BILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001900170021-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: January 15, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Stanley Sporkin
General Counsel
SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 1983 Intelligence Authorization
Bill
1. Titles I through IV of the draft Bill are, for the
most part, routine. Section 103 reflects the compromise
reached on the issue of congressional notification of
expenditures in excess of program authorizations in the
Fiscal Year 1982 Act. Section 403 deals with the issue of
automatic data. processing procurement. A detailed discussion
of this issue appears below, and we request your concurrence
in our recommendation to proceed with pursuit of a legislative
provision designed to extract the Agency from the confines
of the so-called "Brooks Act."
2. We recommend including in the FY 1983 Intelligence
Authorization Bill a provision to exclude CIA automatic data
processing (ADP) equipment and services procurement from the
scope of the Brooks Act, P.L. 89-306 (40 U.S.C. 759) (Section
111 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act).
.As the discussion which appears below indicates, there are
differences of view on this issue among various Agency
components.
a. The Brooks Act authorizes and directs the
Administrator of General Services to coordinate and
provide for effective, economic procurement of ADP
equipment and services for federal agencies. In
addition, the Act, and presidential delegations of
authority to implement it, give the Secretary of
Commerce authority to establish uniform federal ADP
standards. in exercising their authorities under the
Brooks Act, the Administrator of General Services and
the Secretary of Commerce are subject to the direction
of the President and the fiscal and policy control of
the Office of Management and Budget. The Brooks Act
applies with full force to all federal agencies
(including CIA) except for the Defense Department,
which recently secured an exemption for military and
intelligence-related activities through inclusion
of a provision in the FY 1982 Defense Authorization
Act.