LEGAL BACKGROUND, RESPONSIBILITY, AND AUTHORITY OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00882R000100270039-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 16
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: February 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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*s decision,
of the prim
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the
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of the activities of their
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duties of the d s
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so Sagmt Ow tuo em
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of the dexs
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Thus 0 the
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n the
These are not x eeeaari
~V bitities end on
belie ,, t give
ility of the Digit of Central
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a sp.citic directive to e
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At ' riot aft* the
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sdiction in the cl;andes
We nor desirable
Directive ND. 5
establishes that var
fl 102.(d)(4) about :
ion thereof. The statutory autbmity of the
field but that the Direr
field mist, thereftres be
other ammusaam of additional services Of - n
etion 102. (d) (5) is the Translation S+rv
sist the Central I telli8ence Agency' and
urity Act of 194 LIT
shad co:
such additi
sti
rity council determines
needs. if their needs can be effectively Ovid
of
collect accordir
ion can be a efficiently
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reflected
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and *VwIion?
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:Titie at the time
eteUl
a ettrat.d
of covert motions as v *11
ies a pnwted In full
lation, ho,
of strategic Serview
Agency Act Of 1949-
that Act ere, St 1*&St in, '"re
eency bad au
but ve bad no
eti'vities, we
in my opinion if funds
by
for the purp ee of
the retire
be 1 gut ized to vnd=
that they were to
teliigenee w A Coun p
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s ingly detailed brie
given ,
ces Su'b itte ee& of the
oxmitteas so that funds have been authorized with specific knowledge of
their intevAed use.
the Central intelligence Agency is financing
Les and have raised no question as to the
y to
tiler General and the moment Of
ertaking psychological and p*r llitaZy
fields of Flex coordination: were encountered.
tsure that covert psychological operatiOX s were
consistent with national policy
least not Inconsistent
with overt propaganda aims. Llv=tually a board called the
was created by the President on 4 April 1951 to formulate
national psychologi objectives and see that they were carried outo
to make objection to the concept of the Psychological
on legal grounds on the theory that it was th
cr?eatisns of an operating agency by the Executive in violation of
the restrictions 0
of 1932
and. coordination groups but not creation of
t statutory authority. The Comptroller General
along the same line, but agreed not to protest the
of the Board on the understanding that the purpose oDul be
specifically presented to the Come
This Opportunity was taken at the next request for funds by the
Central Intelligence Ag
strategy Board
and funds were provided f
constituted by the President. The Hoard was
in 1953, on rather grounds a
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of the so-celled Jackson Comittee.. properly known as
to auk distinct frm national objectives. They
Coanittee on 2 sternational ration Activities. This comittee
recorded that the Psychological strategy Board was not properly
theory that there were national psychological
directives
felt national policy would determine the objectives
needed waz a coordinating board to k
ible agencies performed their functions
which wotcld meet national policy. The President there upon
established the Operation Coordinating Board by Zxecutive Order 1083,
5 Seytember 1953. In the earlier drafts, Section 2., in effee
the Board responsibility for seeing to it that the operational "plus
developed to carry out national security policy were properly
developed and executed. The Department of Justice
t the same grounds we had raised in connection with the
Peye
Ong,
insisted that the Board could do
es concerned as to" op?ratioxs3
on, and execution. With this modification,. the
had no objection to the constitution of the
The Congress has provided funt=
as now constituted.
L t = R. NDUSTON
General counsel
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