FOR THE SENATE POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE COMMITTEE STATEMENT WITH REFERENCE TO THE POSITION OF THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE EXECUTIVE PAY BILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00224A000100670021-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 21
• Content Type: STATEMENT

Approved Fo elease 2002/01/31 : CIA-RDP59-00224A000100670021-9
TN! BMTR POST WILL AND CIYIL Wv Cat&ap
STAM03" HIT! 1 i TO TNN POSITION Or m
DMOCTOR OP CMITFAL I~i.IONNCN IN Ti N IYN PAT $UL
Attention In called to the recommendations ads by the Clark Task
Force of the Hoover Commission in this respect. Rec00110e0dation 3 of the
"Commission Report on Intelligence Activities", page 41, states:
"That the Executive Pay Bill of 1949 be ended to increase
the annual salary of the Director of Central Intelligence to the
equivalent of the pay of the Deputy Secretary of Defense; to bring
the compensation of the Deputy Director of Central Intellipsse Mp
to $17,500, the same as that of set under secretaries of the
executive branch; and to provide operating directors of areas of
responsibility in intelligence with proportionate salaries."
The Director of Central Intelligence, by statute, is not only the be"
of the Central Intelligence Agency, but he also has lsportaat functions with
respect to the coordination of intelligence activities of the United States
0overament. He is the principal officer of the United States in dealing with
the chiefs of all foreign intelligence services, which operate on a vary
high governsental level. The activities for which he is responsible in all
areas outside of the United States are of a comparable nature to the duties
doastically of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who is
in category II. He site on the Operations Coordinating Board
together wits
the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of hate, both is
category II. The Director of Central Intelligence is as advisor to the
National Security Council and reports regularly to that body.