1947 ACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000100010018-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 18
• Content Type: MISC

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Darling, HS-1 Chap. V, Action by Congress, 1947-1949
The 1947 Act ( aa. - /,--4 /91/7)
CIG vulnerable to instant disestablishment. This alone
made it essential to obtain cong. sanction. To insure
continuity and insurance vs. capricious or pol-motivated
action by a future Pres.
another advantage offered by statutory authorization:
CIA would be less vulnerable to accusations of being
another gestapo, an instrument of executive arbitrariness.
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on Jan. 23, 1947, Vandenberg, Houston, and Pforzheimer met
w/ the drafting committee of Murphy/Norstad/Sherman, where
Vandenberg made a strong pitch for an indep and vigorous
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considered on Jan. 23 included sections repugnan to the
CIG otticers peresent. Murphy then suggested that they
offending section be replaced w/ the Houston draft v4hich
had earlier been cleared w/ CLifford.
At this meeting on the 23rd, Vandenberg emphatic in his
views that neither the Agency nor the DCI should participate
in the making of policy; their func. was to be merely and
exclusively service in nature, that is, to provide the intell
necessary for the poicy makers. Vandenberg also stressed
the difficulties of clandestine operations and argued that
they must be supported by legislation which authroized the
use of unvouchered funds. Also insisted that DCI should
have unchallenged authority to discharge personnel.
The drafters, prhaps impressed by Vandenberg's statement that q,1
the new Agency should not simp1
y go "free wheeling" around
the Govt, decided the DCI should report to the proposed SC.' '
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But also agrred that Agency should have sufficient power to
operate w/out having to seek specific approval from NSC for
each action. +i t 12-14
suddenly on Jan 25, Murphy announced that drafting committee
had decided to omit from bill all but the barest mention
of the proposed AGency, on the grounds that substantive
portions of the draft legislation too controversial, esp. to
Army and Navv, which would obiect to omission of an advisory board. 15
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writes of "early bills in the spring of 1946" w/out amp?ix
fixat? xx many specifics. Most loosely provided for the
creation of a CIA w/ unspecified funcs. Vague re the rela-
tionship bet the CIA and the service intell. agencies.
Souers' final report as DCI on June 7, 1946, urged necessity
of legislation and an indep. budget for NIA and its CIG.
Houston's "24-hr." draft for Vandenberg served as the enabling
bill of Dec, 1946, when the drafting committee of Army, Navy,
and White H. met to draw up legislation for the Nat. Def.
Estab.
,after Houston drafted his sumer 1946 bill, he took it to
Lay (Sec of the NIA) and Clark Clifford, Special Counsel to
the Pres. Lay made a few changes, Clifford had little to
contribute.
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Darling, HS-1 Chap. V, Action by Congress, 1947-1949
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The 1947 Act C r, YA4 /9Y7)
re reasons for omitting detailed plans for CIA: some fear
that the broad authorities which ghe CIG sought for managing
its properties and expenditures might draw fire. Moreover,
"the ambitions of the Marine Corps were being held in check"
so this too dictated avoiding arguemtn at this pt.
then Darling concludes that the delay was profitable in that
the 1949 law "gained from the experiences of the next two
years."
CIG also tried to get the drafting committee to provide for
a DDCI in the legislation, but the mil members blocked this.
,- The services also blocked CIG desire to have the DCI named ZD-
visor to the NS-C-;) but this ideal would reappear in the
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