NOTE TO (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00882R000100210053-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: August 30, 1955
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Release Yob
OGC REVIEW COMPLETED
NOTE TO GENERAL Mc
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30 August 1955
1. 1 have read the proposed revision of Section 606 and the existing
section 606 of the Communications Act of 1934 and must state that there
appears to be some validity in the TPC position that consistency or rigger-
ing clauses is not one of the strong features of the existing law.
proposal definitely provides for consistency, in some measures broadens the
President's power and at the same time to some degree limits it more than
present law.
2< 1 honestly cannot say that it improves OtM' s position in that both
present and proposed write ups place the authority with the President and
in both cases authorize him to issue orders "directly, throughsuch
Com-
person or persons as he designates for t he purpose,, trough the
mission."
3. I find disagreement with one point of the TPC staff study where
they indicate subsectiorsc and d as silent as to the means by which delegated
power may be exercised. ecutive Order No. 10312 of 10 December 1951
delegates to the FCC the authority vested in him by subsection c over non-
goverment stations. Authority over government stations is delegated to the
heads of each department or agency. As regards the establishment of`OFE as
a "Czar" of cocations, I am unable to cozmeent. Presumably it could be
done but as indicated above the President would make the decision through
either present or proposed legislation.
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