ASSIGNMENT OF ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL TO SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2000
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D R A F T
~~ASSZC#NMENT OF ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL '
-? .~` T 0 BE OURITY ADVISORY BOARD
Memorandum~b the 8earetariat,
.8tate-War-Navy oordinatin~ ?mmittee
.THE PROBLEM
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T,o ~.ate~rmin~,~the~ need for assignment ;of additional; ~persannel
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to ::the Secretariat off' tb;e Security ,A,dvisory Board or aoneid.er the
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,~.-~T+ransferringJthe ;adtivit3:es.~of' tl?a,-Securi~y Advisory
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Board ~'~p NIA~~urisdi:ction. .
b. Esta~lishn the SAB~~`as a separate
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Executive Order;.
agency by'
~~ ~ ~ FACTS BEARZIVf~ 4N THE PROBLEM
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2. : Tha =A4ting 8ec~etr~ry of,-the .~:ecuxty Advisory :;Board has.
req~zeste~c~.~the
fcl.lowing personnel be a,ssi~nedto.
the Searetari.a
~~l offiQer (?Army
Training O~f'icer
l officer (Navy] `- guryey (Documentary Security- Officer).
1 o:~fi~3:a~1State} -'3earetary } .Now presently assigned
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(~ppendix^sete forth ~ustificatian. for
pos~aion~. ~ .
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tYie above
:`Paragraph 11 of SWNf~Q 262/2.provides for a separate Heore-:
-car~a,'c rar the Board tc beT furnished by, the State? Warn and Nav
Department a; ,however, in appr?,ving SWNC~C 262/2, the Committee agreed
to defer action on the-:que`$tion of establishing a separate secretariat
for the SAB-and inetruQted the BAB.to can$ult with the SWNCC
Beere>
~tari`at for .thee purpose of submitting to SWNCC point detailed rec.om..
mendation$ as to its secretariat requirements.
-The SWNCC Secretariats at its present strength, cannot
furnish trie abovepersonnel, .~'or this work.
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DISCUSBI?N
5. The SWNCC Secretariat considers that the above request
together with other factors raises the question of whether or not
SAB should be continued as a Subcommittee of SWNCC due to the follow.
ing trend of events which have transpired since its formation:
~. The National Intelligence Authority has been completely
organized and has a security section whose duties may eventually
paxallel or overlap the duties of SAB. Inf ormal conversations
between the SWNCC Secretariat and personnel of the NIA Secre-
tariat indicate that NIA would be willing to assume certain,
if not all, of the SAB functions.
b. The President has recently created a commission composed
of representatives of the Justice, State, Treasury, ti~ar and the
Navy Departments and of the Civil Service Commission, with the
representative from the Justice D~paxtment to serve as Chairman,
to draw up recommendations for any legislation thought necessary
to deep disloyal and subversive persons out of the Civil Service.
The President also Balled for suggestions on the following points;
(1~ Whether existing security procedures in the Executive
BPanch of the C?overnment furnish adequate protection against
the employment or continuance of employment of disloyal or
subversive persons, and what agency or agencies should be
charged with prescribing and supervising security procedures.
(2) Whether responsibility for acting upon investigative
reports dealing with disloyal or subversive persons should
be left to the agencies employing them, or whether a single
agency should handle it.
(3) What procedure should be established for notifying
allegedly disloyal or subversive employees or applicants for
employment of the charges made against them, and what pro-
cedure should be established to guarantee a fair hearing on
such charges.
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(4~ What standards are desirable for fudging the loyalty
of emplomeng of the government and applicants for such
employment,
(5) Whether further legislation is ne?~essary for the
adequate protection of the government against the employ-
ment or continuance in employment of disloyal or subversive
persons.
In view of the above,- it is believed that any action taken
by this commission will affect the functions of SAB.
e. Approval by the Committee of SWN'CC 252f2 was qualified by
the following;
"As the proposed functions of the Board are purely
advisory your committee is of the opinion that no Presidential
or Congressional authority 18 required to make the Board
more effective.. However, if experience should indicate at
a later date that such authority is required, this policsy
question could be referred to SWNCC for determination."
d. It~ now appears that the Boardi$ functions could more
properly be carried out if it were Wrested by an Executive
drder. An attempt was made to establish this Board by Executive
Order while it was under the ~urisdietion of the Office of 'War
Information, but it was decided by the Bureau of the Budget
and the OWI.General Council that the Exeoutive Order of.the
t7WI provided sufficient authority for the Board activities.
The OWI is now non-existent.
e, Appendix "B" sets forth the Bureau of the Budgets views
with respect to the continuation of the Board as a Sub+xsmmittee
of SWNCC.
f, tine of the functions of the Security Advisory Board
requires the establishment of security requirements-and procedures
for clearance of civilian officials to receive classified material.
In Security Advisory Board Memorandum No. 3 the Board set forth
certain minimum standards for the clearan ce of civilian officials
to receive Top Secret and. Secret information, requiring as one
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of the minimum standards the check of FBI subversive files of
the official, Some-agencies in an attempt to comply with the
provisions of SAB 3 were met with refusal by the FBI because
of the limited funds and personnel of the FBI. An informal
arrangement was then made whereby the FBI would conduct a
limited number of name checks on behalf of these agencies
through the medium of the Security Advisory Board.. In a
recent memorandum, the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation,,
advioed the Board that the ~'8I was terminating the arrangement
whereby the Board was able to aecare name checks for civilian
agencies. Bince the FBI does not make checks directly far
many of the agencies in the government, the Board is placed
in the position of having to rely upon the Stater War and
Navy Departments for these name checks ar discontinue this
function altogether, which will make far lower standards in
personnel security in many agencies and eliminate this function
of the security Advisory Board.
CONCLUSIONS
6+ It is concluded that:
a. The final disposition of the Hoard should be held in
abeyance pending the findings of the coinmisaion appointed by
the President (paragraph 5 b abov?~.
b. Pending this commission~a findings, and, if the Board
is to be continued as a Subcommittee of SWNCC, the personnel
listed above should be assigned to the sAB Secretariat to
enable the Board to carry out effielently its presently assigned
tasl~s.
4. The problem raised above should be reconsidered by 3WNCC
when final decision on the commissions report has been made
by the President.
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REC OMT~.E1V l~AT 1 ON.
It is recommended that:
a< SWNCG approve the above conclusion$<
b< After approval, the SWNCC Secretariat request the
State, Ws,r and Navy Dep~rtmenta to assign. the additional
personnel to the Secretariat of the Security Advisory
hoard.
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_. ~ OFFICE OF COLLECTION--AND ~DISSENIINATION
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