PUBLIC LAW 85-507

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06365A001200030018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: September 18, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Director of Training
FROM : Chief, Plans and Policy Staff
svsJECT: Public Law 85-507 '
DATE: 18 September 1958
1. I received a call from the Office of General Counsel on this
date and was advised that on the date of 17 September Mr. Dulles
received a letter signed by Roger W. Jones, Acting Director of the
Bureau of the Budget acknowledging the CIA letter dated 26 July
which proposed a Presidential Directive designating this Agency, its
officers and employees as excepted from certain provisions of Public
Law 85-507. The Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget concurred
in the CIA view that the President should excot the Agency from various
provisions of the training act. He stated that most of the exceptions
listed in our proposal seemed necessary and desirable. A few, in his
opinion, do not appear to be required.
2. In his belief, the Agency would need exception from only the
last sentence of Section 5. Section 5 states that the head of each
department shall conduct and complete a review of the needs and
- Y x; sion for security reasons.
available to the Commission at its request. " We should agree that
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its jurisdiction. " The sentence referred to above reads as follows:
X "Information obtained or developed in any such review shall be made
3. The Bureau of the Budget does not feel it is necessary to
exempt the Agency from the directive in Section 7 to establish a
training program and plan. The Bureau prefers to exempt the Agency
from that part of Section 7 which reads "shall conform, on and after
the effective date of the regulations prescribed by the Commission
under Section 6 of this act, to the principles, standards, and related
requirements contained in such regulations then current. " Section 7
would then read as follows: "Each such program and plan or plans
thereunder shall be operated and maintained in accordance with the
provisions of this act and shall provide for adequate administrative
control by appropriate authority (within CIA). " I feel that with this
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modification, Section 7 should be acceptable to CIA and meet its require-
ments for security control.
4. The Bureau stated that if the Agency (CIA) is exempted from the
regulatory authority of the Civil Service Commission in connection with
the act, the discretions in connection with the general requirements for
the Agency's training program authorized in Section 8 would be entirely
exercised by the Director. His decisions as to what was practicable,
necessary or appropriate would, of course, be governed by his knowledge
of Agency requirements. It therefore does not appear essential that the
Agency (CIA) be exempted from Section 8 of the act. I feel that we should
agree to this proposal, and Section 8 therefore would merely mean that the
Director will decide how the training shall be conducted and by, in, and
through those Government facilities acceptable to him within his regulatory
authority.
5. The Bureau of the Budget suggests that in subsection 9 (b) of the
act, the provision numbered (1) appears to be the only portion of the sub-
section which would appear inappropriate for CIA. The Bureau can see no
benefit from exceptions from other portions of the subsection. Subsection
9(b) (1) requires that each department will "provide for information to be
made available to employees of such department with. respect to the selec-
tion and assignment of such employees for training by, in, and through
non-Government facilities and the limitations and restrictions applicable
to such training in accordance with this act. " With exemption from this
provision, CIA would follow the procedure presently in effect.
6. The Bureau of the Budget recommends that we go along with Section
19(c) with respect to travel, subsistence, and other payments. Normally
the Agency operates in this manner and as prescribed by standardized
Government travel regulations. However, under certain conditions mem-
bers of the DD/P who require official cover for outside training can be
provided with expenses through the Agency's independent authority under
Public Law 81-110. It is therefore recommended that CIA accept the
suggestion of the Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget in this regard.
7. The last item refers to Section 23 (a) which provides for regulation
by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget in regard to absorption of training
costs. Since it appears that the Director of the Bureau has made a rather
firm commitment to the House Committee respecting maximum absorption of
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costs without additional appropriations, it would appear that our advanced
budget planning should provide for our needs in this regard and we should
withdraw our request for exception from this Section.
8. If you are in agreement with the suggestions made by the Acting
Director of the Bureau of the Budget, the Office of the General Counsel is
prepared to draft an Executive order and an appropriate statement in ex-
planation of the proposed order and forward same to the Bureau of the
Budget.
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FORM NO. r~ Replaces Form 30-4
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Remarks :
Mr. Baird and Mr. - accepted the
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questing the Office of General Counsel to
prepare the draft of the Executive Order and
the letter of explanation for the Bureau of the
Budget. General Counsel was contacted 19
September and requested to proceed as above.
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