PROPOSED CIA LAW FOR ADMISSION OF ALIENS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100170055-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: November 16, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

STANDARD FORM NO.
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Office 1Vlemoranjum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
The Director DATE. 16 November 7- a48
Assistant General Counsel
Proposed CIA Law for Admission of Aliens.
1 Attached herewith i
d
s a
raft of a section regard-
ing the admission of aliens for,the proposed CIA lax,
2. This draft is substantiall
th
y
e same as that pro-
posed last year, with the following exceptions:
a. Line 1 has been chan
ed f
'
g
rom,
When
the Director shall determine. . to read
`Wh
e
enev
r the Director and the Attorney General
shall determine. . ";.and
b: The number of aliens to be admitted
has been raised from 50 to 100.
3. The change set forth in
paragraph eta), above,
was made purstiant to a request contained in a letter co
which is attached
y of
from Peyton Ford
T
,
,
he Assistant to the
Attorney General, to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget,
dated 17 March 198. This letter also suggested that the
word "application" , contained in line 11 of the attached draft
was intended to be either "applicant" or "alien". Actually =
the intention was to use the word "application", as the present
laws require the application to be in a certain form, failure
of which would bar 1ssuance of the visa. Therefore we have
retained, the word '`application" in the present draft.
4. While we have not cleared with the Department
of Justice on the raising of the figure from 50 to 100, no
objection from them is envisaged, as they have been most co-
operative and approved the draft last year.
5. Last year's draft was also approved by the Coi-.p-
troller General in a letter to the Director of the Bureau of
the Budget, dated 12 March 1948, in which, speaking of Section
6 which included the proposed admission of aliens, Lindsay-C.
Warren stated that while the section provided -
"for the granting of much wider authority than
I would ordinarily recommend for Government
agencies generally, the purposes sought to be
obtained by the establishment of the Central
Intelligence Agency are believed to be of such
paramount importance as to justify the extra-
ordinary measures proposed therein. . . . In
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Following is the text of a letter which the President has sent
to the heads of departments and agencies of the government:
You arc also requested to submit by Novc;mbcr 29, a report on the
You are requested to submit to zz by fovcribor 29, 1948, the
subjects :;llich you would propose for inclusion in the State of the Union
m na e and the Economic Report of te President to be presented to the
Congress in January, 1949, to;etl"icr .:zth a brief explanation of each
subject... its relationship to the current activities and plans of the
Cor:rd.ssion, and the relative enp:iasis .hi? you would recoru:rnd. You should
includ: any views which you :uay care: to present at this time ?oncerning
special Presidential messages during the forth comin session of the Congr r ss.
Your reply should be forwarded Jircctly to n at the i:hite House.
proposed legislative progrcru of your Corr;:fission. Your report should shc'.~r
(1) the subject r:atttr of all legislation which you desire to propose: for
consideration at the forthco:,min; session, (2) the state of readiness of
legislative drafts unu supporting (3) reference to the bills
and House or Senate reports in the 80th Congress concerning the subjects
covered in your prograr::., together i h a brief appraisal of the adequacy
of these bills, (4) your viers on the ti.-dn,C of introdlc tuion and Concres-
siorial corsidc r?= Lion, end (5) the. nary s of other departr.:tints and a,-encics
>>;hich, in your. judg uen t, are into r;. sted in the sae subjects. ~.Jhilu these
reports should be as completo as possible, suppl