OCD CONTACTS WITH THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00597A000100020028-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: April 28, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

cONFIDENTIAl.
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OFFICE OF C0 Q QI 1 DISS.Ei4.INATION
Control Policy Memorandum No. 13
SUBJECT: OCD Contacts with the Congress of the United-States.
28 April 1948
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2. All legislative powers granted to the Federal Government by the
Constitution are vested in the Congress of the United States. The position
of the Congress in the government of the United States is fundamental and is
of particular significance to national security as a result of its powers and
responsibilities in connection with declarations of war and the raising and
maintaining of the national military forces.
3. cited in paragraph 1, above, 25X1A
establishes policies which are especially pertinent to this Control Policy
Memorandum. A copy is attached for ready reference. Action by CCD personnel
with respect to contacts with the Ca ess will at all times conform to the
policies enunciated Requirements 25X1A
Branch will perform necessary staff duties for OUD In imp ementing the provi-
sions of When a request from Congress 25X1A
requires COD action under paragraph 6c, responsibility is assigned as follows:
a. In cases in which collection action outside CIA is required,
Collection Branch will take the necessary collection action subject
to the controls imposed by Requirements Branch;
b. In cases in which it is determined that the information re-
quested will be supplied by CIA but that some or all of the material
originated in an outside agency, the Requirements Branch will secure
from the agency concerned its written consent to a release to Congress
by CIA.
4. There will be no spontaneous dissemination to the Congress. Dissem-
ination on , D&a requests will be accogplished in. one of the following ways
according to the decision rendered by the Executive Director and implemented
by the Office of the General Counsel:
a. By transmission through the Office of the General Counsel.
b. By routine dissemination under prevailing OCD procedures.
When material is provided by OOD to the Office of the
General Counsel for handling as indicated in a, above, the Dissem-
ination Branch will insure that the material does not reveal the
sources of the intelligence information contained therein, or the
methods or techniques used in its collection and that, if classified, 25X1A
be the notice required 25X1A
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