AMENDMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00224A000100370011-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 27, 1956
• Content Type: OPEN

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Calendar No. 2296
84rrl CONGRESS He R. 11356
21) SESSION
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE 27, 1956
Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed
AMENDMENT
Intended to be proposed by Mr. DOUGLAS (for himself, Mr.
DUFF, and Mr. LEII MAN) to the bill (H. R. 11356) to
amend further the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended,
and for other purposes, viz: At the end of the bill insert a
new section as follows :
1 SEC. . (a) It is the declared policy of the Congress
2 to resist the spread of communism. The issue between the
3 free and the slave world is essentially whether freedom shall
4 survive. The struggle to preserve freedom, however, is
5 not to be worn solely by further resistance to enslavement,
6 but also by keeping alive in the hearts of enslaved people the
7 spirit and hope of freedom. It is the purpose of this section
S to advance the cause of freedom by providing aid and sup-
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1 port to those groups which are actively engaged in maintain-
2 ing, inspiring, and instilling that spirit and hope.
3 (b) (1) There is hereby created an agency under the
4 name "Freedom Administration" (hereinafter referred to
5 as the "Administration"), which shall be under the general
6 direction and supervision of the President and shall : not be
7 affiliated with or be a part of any other agency or department
8 of the ]Federal. Government. The principal office of the
9 Administration shall be located in the District of Columbia,
10 but the Administration may establish offices in such other
11 places as may be determined by the Administrator of the
12 Administration.
13 (2) The management of the Administration shall be
14 vested in an Administrator (hereinafter referred to as the
15 "Administrator") who shall be appointed from civilian life
16 by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the
17 Senate. The Administrator shall receive compensation at
18 the rate of $17,500 per annum. There shall also be ap-
19 pointed to the Administration, by the President, by and
20 with the advice and consent of the Senate, eight deputy
21 administrators who shall each be paid at the rate of $15,000
22 per annum. The deputy administrators shall be outstand-
23 ing citizens of the United States, one of whom shall be of
24 German descent, one of Polish descent, one of Lithuanian
25 descent, one of Latvian descent, one of Estonian descent,
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1 one of Czech descent, one of Ukrainian descent, and one of
2 such descent as to represent the remaining Slavic peoples
3 in the Communist world.
4 (c) The Administration shall have power to adopt,
5 alter, and use a seal which shall be judicially noticed. The
6 Administrator is authorized, subject to the civil-service laws
7 and the Classification Act of 1949, to select, employ, ap-
8 point, and fix the compensation of such officers and ein-
9 ployees as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this
10 section. The Administration, with the consent of any de-
11 pa,rtment or agency of the Government, may avail itself
12 on a reimbursable basis of the services, facilities, and per-
13 sonnel of any such department or agency.
14 (d) For the purpose of carrying out its functions under
15 this section, the Administration-
16 (1) may sue and be sued;
17 (2) may adopt, amend, and repeal rules and regn-
18 lations governing the manner in which its business may
19 be conducted and its powers exercised;
20 (3) may make and carry out such contracts and
21 other arrangements as are necessary or advisable in
22 carrying out its functions;
23 (4) may determine the character of and the neces-
24 sity for its obligations and expenditures, and the manner
25 in which they shall be incurred, allowed, and paid sub-
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1 ject to the provisions of the Government Corporation
2 Control Act, as amended; and
3 (5) take such other action as may be necessary to
4 carry out the purposes of this section.
5 (e) (1) The Administrator is authorized to make
6 grants to any private or semiprivate nonprofit organization,
7 committee, or group which is actively engaged in broadcast-
8 ing, publishing, correspondence or other activities designed
9 to keep alive the spirit and hope of freedom, and the will to
10 resist enslavement, in persons residing in Communist or
11 Communist-dominated countries.
1.2 (2) In making any grant under this section, the Ad--
13 ministrator shall advise and consult with the Director of
Central Intelligence, and no such grant shall be made except
with the concurrence of a majority of the deputy administra-
tors of the Administration.
(f) (1) There shall be established in the: Treasury
Department a special fund which shall be available without:
fiscal-year limitation for financing the operation and ex-
penses of the Administration. There is hereby authorized.
to be appropriated to such fund for each fiscal year, be-
ginning with the fiscal year, 1957, the sum of $20,000,000.
(2) Notwithstanding section 1415 of the supplemental
Appropriation Act, 1953, or any other provision of liw.
foreign currencies or credits owed to or owned by the
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United States shall, with the approval of the President,
be made available to the Administration for the purpose of
making any grant authorized by this section.
(g) The Administrator shall submit to the President
for transmission to the Congress at the beginning of each
regular session an annual report of its operations under this
section.
(h) Section 101 of the Government Corporation Con-
trol Act, as amended (31 U. S. C. 846), is amended by
inserting after "Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Cor-
poration;" the words "Freedom Administration;".
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