PROPOSED PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE ON DEPARTURE OF PERSONS FROM THE UNITED STATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00384R001000110023-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: September 20, 1950
• Content Type: MEMO

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OGC HAS REVIEWED.
20 September 1950
ER-1-2620
yS-73G
SUBJECT: Proposed Presidential Directive on Departure of
Persons from the United States
1. Basically, the goal to be achieved by the issuance of the
proposed directive is very essential in the interest of national
security. However, I do not believe that the suggested directive,
in its present form, is practicable in application.
2. It is indeed understandable that the directive, in its
present form, is drawn up solely from the security standpoint.
Because of this, however, it completely misses a positive benefit
that can be achieved by a system which is presently in effect
between some of the departments of government and the Department of
State. .
3. Each department and agency of government should, in the
interest of internal security, submit a guide list of sensitive
names to the Department of State. Besides such a list, however,
the departments and agencies of government may be interested from
a positive viewpoint in knowing that certain past employees are about
to travel overseas, not from a security angle, but from the viewpoint
of the ability and capacity that such persons might have to obtain
information and accomplish tasks for the benefit of the agency.
4. Accordingly, it is recommended that the Presidential Directive
be recast in keeping with the attached proposal. It will be noted that,
according to the new approach, the Department of State will not need
to know why the name is on the list, but will be compelled to make
specific inquiry of the interested department when an application for
a passport is received from any person on the list.
5. Discussion with the Passport Division of the Department of
State indicates that if such "lists" are to be sent to the Department
of State, much time can be saved and a greater degree of efficiency
achieved by prior consultation with the Passport Division to ascertain
the format that would control the submittal of any such lists.
6. There is also a serious question as to whether the proposed
Directive should be limited to certain departments and agencies of
government. For example, the Department of Labor has a great deal to
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do with international labor problems and has constant contact with
other departments and international organizations in combatting
Communist activity. The Department of Labor is not on the proposed
list. Also, many top officials in various segments of the Executive
Office of the President are security cleared for Top Secret informa-
tion and even higher, but the Executive Office is not on the list
in the Presidential Directive. These two examples are merely indica-
tions supporting our conviction that the Directive would be more
practicable if it were issued to the Executive Departments as a whole
rather than to certain agencies thereof.
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