LETTER TO HONORABLE JAMES E. WEBB FROM []

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100070027-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 17, 1948
• Content Type: LETTER

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C 0 P Y
March 17 1948
Honorable James E. Webb
Director, Bureau of the Budget
Washington, D. C.
Aside from Section 6(h), the proposed bill would
provide for the aiiministrative structure and incidental
authority of the Central Intelligence Agency which do not directly
concern this Department.
Section 6(h) of the proposed bill would provide that
whenever the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall
My dear Mr. Webb:
This is in response to your request for the views of
this-Department concerning the draft of a proposed bill sub-
mitted by the Central Intelligence Agency "To provide for the
administration of. the Central Intelligence Agency established
pursuant to Section. 102, National Security Act of 191+7."
essential to the furtherance of the national intelligence
mission, an appropriate consular office shall issue to such
alien and his immediate family non-quota immigration visas as
provided for in the Act of May 26, 1924, 43 Stat. 153, as
amended, but without regard to the inadmissibility of such
aliens to the United States under the Immigration Laws. or
to the failure of the applicant to comply with such laws;
and upon issuance of visas under the provisions of this sec-
tion, the aliens to whom issued will not be denied entry to
the United States because of inadmissibility or ineligibility
under any provisions of law governing entry of aliens into
the United States. The section contains a proviso that the
number of visas issued to aliens and their immediate families
under the authority of the section shall in no case exceed
fifty in any one calendar year.
As you are aware, the Department of Justice is charged
with the responsibility of enforcing the immigration laws. In
addition to the admission and control of aliens, this 1'espa .si-
bility includes the apprehension and deportation of alf -ens *h:)
are in the United States illegally or whose presence has been
deemed undesirable under the law. Inasmuch as Section 6(h)
etermine that the entry of an alien into the United States for
ermanent residence is in the interest of national security or
OGC Has Reviewed
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