[NO.237 - TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 102, NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES (H. R. 5871). MR. ANDREWS OF]

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• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: March 13, 1948
• Content Type: REGULATION

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PURPOSES ,(H. R. 5871). MR. ANDREWS OF NEW YORK
[No. -237]
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY,.
March 13, 1948.
10%, NATIONAL SECURITY ACT: OF 1947, AND FOR OTHER
TELLIGENCE AGENCY, ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION
Tlie Hon. JoSEPR W. MARTIN, Jr.,
Speaker of the House of Representatives, .
DEAR MR. SPI~AXEI:' There is submitted herewith the draft of a
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henceArencv established pursuant to section 102,. National Security
proposed bill to provide for the administration of the Central Intelli-
necessary for the` istration. oT the Central' Tntelligence'-Agency....
Services Procurement Act of 1947 (Public lw 413, 80th Cong.) be
extended to the Agency. This is requested on. the basis of difficulties
propriationsiangllage.
It is provided in section 3 that. certain provisions of the Armed
travel, :allowances and-related .expenses; general authorities; and ap-
:The basic..provisions .e over`-the,.Agency'ss problems of procurement;-
intelligence service.
are believed necessary to facilitate the financing of the Agency, to-
gother.with additional authorities which are requested on the basis
of experience in intelligence activities during the war and since the
establishment of Central Intelligence in 1946. Additional general
authorities are sought in the interests of the security of the national
intelligence mission and in furtherance of section 102 (d) (3) of the
National Security Act of 1947 which provides that the Director of
Central Intelligence be responsible for protecting intelligence sources
and methods from unauthorized disclosure.
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(6561)
the Central Intelligence Agency be regarded as a career service, it is
felt that the Agency has a problem similar to that faced by the Foreign
Service in the assignment of personnel to duty abroad, and authorities
similar to those granted in the Foreign Service Act of 1946 are neces-
sary to the development of an intelligence career staff (sec. 5).
occasional. overseas assignment, and, in certain cases, the establish-
ment of overseas posts. In the 1 ht of our desire that employment in
the coordination and production of foreign intelence pertaining to
the national security, there will be frequent need or overseas travel,
Inasmuch, as, the Central Intelligence Afenc is concerned with
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