DEAR MR. YOUNG:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00224A000100680008-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 11, 1955
• Content Type: LETTER

Suggested redraft of IJCI
letter to Mr. Young 11 August 1955
Honorable Philip Young
Chairman. Unite States Civil 3ervice Commission
Washington 25, D. C.
As the proposed Federal Executives (-ay Act of 1955 will be
pening before the Congress when it reconvenes. I believe it
important to set forth my views of the proper place of this Agency
in that legislation for incorporation in any further action the
Administration may take at that time.
As passed by the House. Section 10s of H.R. 7619 provides
compensation for the Director of Central Intelligence at an annual
rate equivalent to that to be provided for the Secretaries of the
military departments and the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Under : ection lu6 of H. R. 7619, the annual rate
of compensation for the Deputy Director of Ventral Intelligence is
placed at the level of that provided for the Under secretaries of the
military departments. the Deputy Under Secretaries of the Depart-
ment of State and several like positions. This places the salary of
the Deputy Director one category above that to be paid Assistant
Secretaries of the Executive Departments.
The crenate Committee on Post Iffice and Civil Service, in
reporting S. 2628 to the .senate. established the rate of basic com-
pensation of the Z irector of ventral Intelligence in the same relative
 category as in H. R. 7619 (Section 102(a)). However, section 102(e)
of s. 2628, as reported, establishes the rate of compensation of
the Deputy Director of central Intelligence at the same rate as that
established for Assistant Secretaries of the Executive Departments,
although the compensation of $20, 000 per annum is the same as that
authorized by H. It. 7619.
I do not desire to comment on the amount of compensation
that should be provided for the positions of Director and Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence. I do wish to stress, however. the
necessity of having these positions established at the appropriate
level within the executive branch generally. ;otherwise the function-
ing of all senior levels of the Agency is impaired by an implicit
down-grading which raises obstacles to our establishing working
relationships with the appropriate officials of other governmental
departments.
The Director of Central Intelligence is a regular participant
in the deliberations of the National security Council and is a full
member of theOr.erations Coordinating Board. As Director of
Central Intelligence he is acting in his capacity as senior intelligence
advisor to the Government in addition to his responsibility as the
head of the Agency, and it is felt that the ..ongress recognized this
distinction in the National Security Act of 1947 which established
both the position and the .Agency. It would, therefore, seem approp-
riate for the Director to be bracketed with the Deputy Secretary of
Defense, the Under Secretary of State. and the senior Administrative
 Assistants to the President. with whom he works on completely equal
terms.
Whether the rate of compensation of the position of Director
of Central Intelligence is established at the level of the Deputy
Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State or remains
as proposed in S. 2628 and Ii. R. 7619. the position of Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence should be equated to that of the Deputy Under
Secretaries of State and the Under zecretaries of the military
departments, as proposed in the House version. rather than at the
level of Assistant secretaries of the executive departments. as
proposed by the >enate Committee. This is essential not only from
the point of view of the broad responsibilities of the Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence but also because the principal operating
deputies below him in the Central Intelligence Agency must deal
as equals with assistant secretaries of other departments. par-
ticularly State and Defense. This de facto equality has long been
recognized in the composition of interdepartmental boards such as
the ?tanning Board of the National Security Council.
I therefore hope that the Administration's position on this
legislation will make clear that the relative positions of the
Director and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence should be
established as befits their functions and responsibilities as set
forth above. I shall be happy to provide you with any further data
or to discuss any aspect of this mdter with you.
Allen W. Dulles
Director