STATE DEPARTMENT COMMENTS ON CIA LEGISLATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100170048-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: December 30, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
? The Director.
FROM ? Legislative Liaison Officer.
SUBJECT: State Department Comients on CIA Legislation.
1. Mr. Fisher Howe, of the State Department Intelligence staff,
called me this afternoon regarding that section.of our legislation
which provides the power of the Director to issue 100 visas a year
in the interests of intelligence. The Department's comnents have
been requested by the Bureau of the Budget.
2. Mr. Howe was concerned that the interests of the Depart-
ment of State would not be properly served unless the Secretary of
State was included in the authority, along with the Director and
the Attorney General, and that the Department's interests would be
best served by the Secretary's inclusion.
3. I informed Mr. Howe that the Director had had an informal
concurrence in ttsWlanguage from Mr. Lovett, and that in the inter-
ests of the legislation I would be personally opposed to the inclu-
sion of any other people in the section with authority to concur in
the issuance of each visa. I pointed out that speed was necessary,
and that I thought the addition of other people to the section would
increase the difficulty of securing clearance from the Committee
and the Congress.
4. I urged Mr. Howe most strongly not to recommend that the
Secretary of State be included in this section, but emphasized that
this was my personal feeling in the natter, and that I was not
speaking for the Director in this instance.
,alter L. Pforzhciner
Legislative Liaison Officer
STAT
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