EXCERPT FROM HEARINGS OF THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947, (S. 758), ON TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 1, 1947
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EXCERPT FEU IMARINGS OP THE =ATE ARNED SERVICES CONIaTTER ON ME
NATIONAL =URI= ACT CE1$h7, (5. 75E1h ON TuEs_arAEL 1,7.
sauna TIDINGS: Admiral, I do not want to revert to another
subject, and maybe you -would prefer to bring it up in the regular
course. But leoldng at this proposed chart of the way that the uni-
fication will be carried out under the bill, when you get doen to the
Central Intelligence Agency, which certainly is ow or the most Impor-
tant of all the functions set forth in the bill. I notige that it re-,
ports directly to the President and deem not seem to have any lino
running to the war Department, or the Navy Deparlatent, or to the Satria.
tary for Air. And I was wendering if that rather excluded positions
you might say, was a virolesome thing.
It 3SCIAS to Me that Central Intelligence Agency ought to
have more direct contact with the Army and the Navy and the Air force
and as I see it on the chart here, it is pretty well set aside and
goes- only to the President. /hat is the reason for that?
AtIRAL SEIERNAN: Nell, sir, this diagram share the primary
control of the Central Intelligenoe Agency through. the National Security
Council which, of course, is responsible to the President. But, of
course, the Central Intelligence Agency, tor its detailed directive,
takes information in from the military services and also supplies them
with information.
In other elOrdap it is a staff agency and controlled through
the National Security Council, which is supported by the military
services, and in turn, supports then.
SMATOR TIDINGS: It serene to me that of course they would
diffuse such information as a natter of orderly procedure to the Aray?
Navy and Air Force as they collected the information and as they
deemed it pertinent% Bert I mould feel a little mare secure about it
if there ware a line rtnming fru* that agency to the War Department,
the Navy Department, and- the Air Force, rather than have it go up
through the President and back again. Because the President is a
rather busy Ble311 and while he has control over it, one of its functions,
it seem to--,ought to be to have a closer tie-in with the tlwee
services than he chart indicates.
=MAL MEMO: Well, sir, that is the trouble with the
diagram. Actually, the Security Cmarcil, placed directly under it,
has members of the three departments, the Secretary. of National Defense,
the Central Intelligence Agency, who collaborates very closely with
Itilitar3r and Naval intelligence, and there are a good many other
cross-relationsh4e.
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ADNERAL SHERnir- The .interct Of thds language wee ret.
- transfer the chi of thethe? existing intelligence agency to
council, ands nexLs to MOTU the tuncti-ona of the intelligent e gro
it is now constituted, by a, letter directive of, the Presider 1,, v
to the anthurity.
wad truegest that it 11.&t be beneficial to tal the
existinelertter directive under which the Central InteLlize1-c5
is- functiosdng now, and:insert, it in the record. Be