A BILL TO AMEND THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT OF 1950.

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2005
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• Content Type: REGULATION

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87th congress
2d Session
A BILL
That
the Internal Security lot of 1950 ( Stat. 987 et seq.) is
amended by adding at the and thereof the following new titles
"TITLE III -0 E8AL
"Personnel Procedures in National Security Agency
"Sec. 301, (a) Subject to the provisions of thisisection,
the Secretary of Defense (hereafter in this section referred
to as the 'Secretary') shall prescribe such regulations
'relating to continuing security procedures as he may deem
necessary to *emare-
Be it enacted by the Senate and Huse of Rlpren-mt
To amend the Internal Security Act of 1950.
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"(1) that no person Ball be employed in, or
detailed or assigned to, the National Security Agency
(hereafter in this section referred to as the 'Agency'),
or continue to be so employed, detailed, or assigned;
and
(2) that no person Flo employed, detailed, or
assigned shall have access to any classified information;
unless such eaployment, detail, assignffient, or access to classi.
fied information is clearly consistent with the national security.
"(b) Except as otherwise prodded in this subsection,
no person shall be employed in, or detailed or assigned to,
the Agency unless he has been the subject of a full field
investigation in oonneotion with such employment, detail, or.
assignnt, and is cleared for access to classified informa?-
tion in accordance with the provisions of this section. The
Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice
Shall conduct the full field investigation required by this
subsection in the case of any position in the Agency desig.
nated by the Secretary as a key position, and in the case of
any detail or assignment of a person to the Agency for the
Performance of duties designated by the Secretary as key duties.
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During any period of war declared by the Congress, or during
any period when the Secrretary determinds that a national di,sr-
aster exists, or in exceptional oases in which the Secretary
makes a determination in writing that his action is necessary
or advisable in the -national interest, he may authorise the
employment of any person in, or the detail or assig n nt of.
any per4 n to, the Agency, and may grant to, any seoh person
accesso classified iaa'ormation, an a temporar'y basis;'
pending the completion of the full field investigation and
the clearance for access to classified information required
by this subsection, if-the Secretary determines that such
action is clearly consistent with the national security.
N(c) In order to assist the Secretary in carrying out
his duties under this section, he shall appoint, from among
the personnel of the Department of Defense, one or more boards
of appraisal of three members each, which boards" shall appraise,
and submit to the Secretary (or his designee for such purpoao )
a report and recoxnendations with respect to/.the loyalty,,
f stability, and fitness of any person in oOnneation withw-
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R{1) his wVloyment in the Agenoyl or
(2) his detail or assignment to perform duties
in the Agency= and
(3) his clearance" for aacess to classified
information.
Bah member of any such board shall be specially qualified
and trained for his duties as a member of such a board, shall
have been the subject of a full field investigation by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice
in connection with his appointment as a member of any such
board, and shall have been cleared by the Secretary for
access .to classified information at, the time of such
appointment. No person shall be employed in, or detailed
or assigned to, the Agency, or cleared for access to
classified information, contrary to the recommendations
of any such board, unless the Secretary (or his designee
.for such purpose) shall make a determination in writing
that such employment, detail, assignment, or access to
classified information is in the national interest.
? (d) ]?or the purpose of c nduoting any investigation
under this section, other than an investigation required to
be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the
Department of Justice, the Secretary is authorised to utilize
the services of any investigative agency of the United States,
with the consent of the head of such agency,
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e (e) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the
Act of August 24. 1912 (S U. S. C. W) s or of any other law,
the Secretary (or his dsaign" for such purpose) may terminate
the employment of any officer or employee of the Agenor when-
ever he deems it to be in the interest of the United States.
Termination of employment under this section shall not affect
the right of the officer or employee involved to seek or
accept employment with any other department or agency of the
United States if he is otherwise eligible for such employments
"(f) Por the purposes of this section, the terra 'cias3ei?._=
fled information' means information vhioh, for reasons of
national sQOUrity, is specifically designated by a United
States Government Agency for limited or restricted diaecmina-
tiop/di stribution.
"(g) The first sentence of seotion 2 of the Act of
May 29, 1959 (50 U.S.O. 402 note), is amended by inserting
to without regard to the civil service lave,' immediately
after ''and to appoint thereto' ,
Nh) Subsection (b) of section 2 of the Performance
Rating dot of 1950 (5 U.S.O. 20O1(b)) is amended-??
"(1) by striking out the period at the and of
paragraph (13) and inserting in lieu thereof a
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