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

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CIA-RDP59-00224A000100670021-9
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December 12, 2016
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January 24, 2002
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STATEMENT
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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.