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Union Calendar No. 47
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 14,1949
Mr. SASSCER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Cone-
mittee on Armed Services
FEBRUARY 24, 1949
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole Honse
on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
A BILL.
To provide for the administration of the Central Intelligence
Agency, established pursuant to section 102, National Secu-
rity Act of 1947, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 Lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 DEFINITIONS
4 SECTION 1. That when used in. this Act, the term-
5 (a) "Agency" means the Central Intelligence Agency;
-6? (b) "Director" means 'the Director of Central
7, Intelligence ; - - ~--
8 (c) "Government agency" means any executive depart-
9 ment, commission, council, independent establishment, cor-
10 poration wholly or partly owned by the United States which
11 is an instrumentality of the United States, board, bureau,
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i,,. ice, office, officer, authority, administration, or
`o?bgealishment, in the executive branch of the Govern-
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1) Continental United States" means the States and
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5 the District of Columbia.
6 SEAL OF OFFICE
7 SEC. 2. The Director of Central Intelligence shall cause
8 a seal of office to be made for the Central Intelligence
9 Agency, of such design as the President shall approve, and
10 judicial notice shall be taken thereof.
11. PROCUREMENT AUTHORITIES
12 SEC. 3. (a) In the performance of its functions the
1.3 Central Intelligence Agency, is authorized to exercise the
14 authorities contained in sections 2 (c) (1) , (2), (3), (4),
15 (5), (6), (10), (12), (15), (17), and sections 3, 4, 5,
16 6, and 10 of the Armed Services Procurement Act of -1947
17 (Public Law 413, Eightieth Congress, second session) .
18 (b) In the exercise of the authorities granted in sub-
19 section (a) of this section, the term "Agency head shall
20 mean the Director, the Deputy Director, or the Executive
21 of the A envy.
22 (c) The determinations and decisions provided in sub-
23 section (a) of this section to be made by the Agency head
24 may be made with respect to individual purchases and
25 contracts or with respect to classes of purchases or contracts,
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1 and shall be final. Except as provided in subsection (d)
2 of this section, the Agency head is authorized to delegate
3 his powers provided in this section, including the making
4 of such determinations and decisions, in his discretion and
5 subject to his direction, to any other officer or officers or
6 officials of the Agency.
7 (d) The power of the Agency head to make the deter-
8 minations or decisions specified in paragraphs (12) and
(15) of section 2 (c) and section 5 (a) of the Armed
10 Services Procurement Act of 1947 shall not be delegable.
It Each determination or decision required by paragraphs
12 (12) and (15) of section 2 (c) , by section 4 or by section
13 5 (a) of the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947, shall
14 be based upon written findings made by the official making
15 such determinations, which findings shall be final and shall
16 be available within the Agency for a period of at least six
17 years following the date of the determination.
18 EDUCATION AND TRAINING
19 SEC. 4. (a) Any officer or employee of the Agency
20 may be assigned or detailed for special instruction, research,
21 or training, at or with domestic or foreign public or private
22 institutions; trade, labor, agricultural, or scientific associa-
23 tions; courses or training programs under the National Mili-
24 tary Establishment; or commercial firms.
25 (b) The Agency shall, under such regulations as the
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1 Director may prescribe, pay the tuition and other( ea es
2 of officers and employees of the Agency assigned or detailed
3 in accordance with provisions of subsection (a) of this see-
4 tion, in addition to the pay and allowances to which such
5 officers and employees may be otherwise entitled.
6 TRAVEL, ALLOWANCES, AND RELATED EXPENSES
7 SEC. 5. (a) Under such regulations as the Director may
8 prescribe, the Agency, with respect to its officers and em-
9 ployees assigned to permanent-duty stations outside the
10 continental United States, its territories, and. possessions,
11 shall-
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A ) pay the travel expenses of officers and
13 employees of the Agency including expenses incurred
14 while traveling pursuant to orders issued by the. Director
15 in accordance with the provisions of section 5 (a) (3)
16 with regard to the granting of home leave;
17 (B) pay the travel expenses of members of the
18 family of an officer or employee of the Agency when
19 proceeding to or returning from his post of duty;
20 accompanying him on authorized home leave ; or other-
21 wise traveling in accordance with authority granted
22 pursuant to the terms of this or any other Act;
23 (C) pay the cost of transporting the furniture and
24 household and personal effects of an officer or employee
25 of the Agency to his successive posts of duty and, on
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1 the termination of his services, to his residence at time
2 of appointment or to a point not more distant, or, upon
3 retirement, to the place where he will reside;
4 (D) pay the cost of storing the furniture and house-
5 hold and personal effects of an officer or employee of
,61 the Agency who is absent under orders from his usual
7 post of duty, or--who, is assigned to a post to which, be-
cause of emergency conditions, he cannot take or at
9 which he is unable to use, his furniture and household
10 and personal effects;
11 (E) pay the cost of storing the furniture and
12 household and personal effects of an officer or employee
13 of the Agency on first arrival at a post for a period not
14 in excess of three months after such first arrival at such
3 post or until the establishment of residence quarters,
whichever shall be shorter;
7 (F) 'pay the travel expenses and transportation
1--3 costs incident to the removal of the members of the fam-
19 ily of an officer or employee of the Agency and his
20 furniture and household and personal effects, including
21 automobiles, from a post at which, because of the preva-
22 lence of disturbed conditions, there is imminent danger
23 to life and property, and the return of such persons,
24 furniture, and effects to such post upon the cessation of
25 such conditions; or to such other post as may in the
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1 meantime have become the post to which such officer or
2 employee has been assigned.
3 (2) Charge expenses in connection with travel of
4 personnel, their dependents, and transportation of their
5 household goods and personal effects, involving a change
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year- current when any part of either the travel or
transportation pertaining to the transfer begins pursuant
to previously issued travel and transfer orders, notwith-
standing the fact that such travel or transportation may
not all be effected during such fiscal year, or the travel
and transfer orders may have been issued during the
prior fiscal year.
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(3) (A) Order to the United States or its Territories
and possessions on leave provided for in T44h ~Pfiited
States Go& 5 U. S. C. 30, 30a., 30b, or as such sections
may hereafter be amended, every officer and employee
of the agency who was a resident of the United States
or its Territories and possessions at time of employment,
upon completion of two years' continuous service abroad,
or as soon as possible thereafter: Provided, That such
officer or employee has accrued to his credit at the time
of such order, annual leave sufficient to carry him in a
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1 pay status while in the United States for at least a
2 thirty-day period.
3 -(-)- (B) While in the continental United States on
4 leave, the service of any officer or employee shall be
5 available for work or duties in the agency or elsewhere,
6 but the time of such work or duties shall not be counted
7 as leave.
8 -{-B)- (C) Where an officer or employee on leave
9 returns to the tntitterrt&l United States or its Territor-
10 i.es and possessions, leave of absence granted shall be
11 exclusive of the time actually and necessarily occupied
12 in going to and from the eentkieiitl United States or
13 its Territories and possessions, and such time as may be
14 necessarily occupied in awaiting transportation.
15 (4) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other
16 law, transport for or on behalf of an officer or employee
17 of the Agency, a privately owned automobile in any
18 case where the Agcy head sh4 4eter te it shall be
19 determined that water, tail, or air transportation of the
20 automobile is necessary or expedient for any part or of
21 all the distance between points of origin and destination,
22 and pay the costs of such transportation.
23 (5) (A) In the event of illness or injury requiring
24 the hospitalization of an officer or full time employee of
25 the Agency, not the result of vicious habits, intemperance,
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1 or misconduct on his part, incurred while on assignment
2 abroad, in a locality where there does not exist a suit-
3 able hospital or clinic, pay the travel expenses of such
4 officer or employee by whatever means he shall deem
5 appropriate and without regard to the Standardized
6 Government Travel Regulations and section 10 of the
7 Act of March 3, 1933 (47 Stat. 1516; 5 U. S. C. 73b),
8 to the nearest locality where a suitable hospital or
9 clinic exists and on his recovery pay for the travel
10 expenses of his return to his post of duty. If the officer
11 or employee is too ill to travel unattended, the Director
12 may also pay the travel expenses of an attendant.
13 (B) Establish a first-aid station and provide for the
14 services of a nurse at a post at which, in his opinion,
15 sufficient personnel is employed to warrant such a sta-
16 tion : Provided, That, in his opinion, it is not feasible
17 to utilize an existing facility;
18 (C) In the event of illness or injury requiring hos-
19 . pitalization of an officer or full time employee of the
20 Agency, not the result of vicious habits, intemperance,
21 or misconduct on his part, incurred in the line of duty
22 while such person is assigned abroad, pay for the cost
23 of the treatment of such illness or injury at a suitable
24 hospital or clinic;
25 (D) Provide for the periodic physical examination
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of officers and employees of the Agency and for the cost
2 of administering inoculations or vaccinations to such
3 officers or employees.
4 (6) Pay the eofA costs of preparing and transport-
5 ing the remains of an officer or employee of the Agency
6 or a member of his family who may die while in travel
7 status or abroad, to the his home or official station, or to
8 such other place as the Director may determine to be
9 the appropriate place of interment, provided that in no
10 case shall the expense payable be greater than the
11 amount which would have been payable had the destina-
12 tion been the home or official station.
(7) Pay the costs of travel of new appointees and
14 their dependents, and the transportation of their house-
15 hold goods and personal effects, from places of actual
16 residence in foreign countries at time of appointment
17 to places of employment and return to their actual resi-
18 dences at the time of appointment or a point not more
19 distant : Provided, That such appointees agree in writ-
20 ing to remain with the United States Government for a
21 period of not less than twelve months from the time of
22 appointment.
23 Violation of t such agreement for personal conven-
24 ience of an employee or because of separation for mis-
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I conduct will bar such return payments and, if deter-
2 mined by the Director or his designee to be in the best
3 interests of the United States, any money expended by
4 the United States on account of such travel and trans-
5 portation shall be considered as a debt due by the indi-
6 vidual concerned to the United States.
7 (b) In accordance with such regulations as the Presi-
8 dent may prescribe and notwithstanding the provisions of
9 section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S. C. 70) ,
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the Director is authorized to. grant to any officer or employee
of the agency allowances in accordance with the provisions
of section 901 (1) and 901 (2) of the Foreign Service
Act of 1946.
GENERAL AUTHORITIES
SEC. 6. In the performance of its functions, the Central
Intelligence Agency is authorized to-
(a) Transfer to and receive from other Government
agencies such sums as may be approved by the Bureau of
the Budget, for the performance of any of the functions or
activities authorized under sections 102 and 303 of the
National Security Act of 1947 (Public Law 253, Eightieth
Congress), and any other Government agency is authorized
to transfer to or receive from the Agency such sums without
regard to any provisions of law limiting or prohibiting trans-
fers between apptropriations. Sums transferred to the
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1 Agency in accordance with this paragraph may be ex-
2 pendel for the purposes and under the authority of this Act
3 without regard to limitations of appropriations from which
4 transferred;
5 (b) Exchange funds without regard to section 3651
6 Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 543)
7 (c) Reimburse other Government agencies for serv-
8 ices of personnel assigned to the Agency, and such other
Government agencies are hereby authorized, without regard
to provisions of law to the contrary, so to assign or detail
any officer or employee for duty with the Agency;
(d) Authorize couriers and guards designated by the
Director to carry firearms when engaged in transportation of
confidential documents and materials affecting the national
defense and security;
(e) Make alterations, improvements, and repairs on
premises rented by the Agency, and pay rent therefor with-
out regard to limitations on expenditures contained in the
Act of June 30, 1932, as amended: Provided, That in each
case the Director shall certify that exception from such
limitations is necessary to the successful performance of the
Agency's functions or to the security of its activities.
-(-)- SEc. 7. In the interests of the security of the foreign
intelligence activities of the United States and in order fur-
ther to implement the proviso of section 102 (d) (3) of the
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1 National Security Act of 1947 (Public Law 253, Eightieth
2 Congress, first session) that the Director of Central Intel-
3 ligence shall be responsible for protecting intelligence sources
4 and methods from unauthorized disclosure, the Agency
5 shall be exempted from the provisions of sections 1 and 2,
6 chapter 795 of the Act of August 28, 1935 (49 Stat. 956,
7 957; 5 U. S. C. 654), and the provisions of any other law
8 which require the publication or disclosure of the organiza-
9 Lion, functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of
10 personnel employed by the Agency: Provided, That in fur-
11 therance of this section, the Director of the Bureau of the
12 Budget shall make no reports to the Congress in connection
13 with the Agency under section 607, title VI, chapter 212
14 of the Act of June 30, 1945, as amended (5 U. S. C. 947
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General shall determine that the entry of a particular alien
into the United States for permanent residence is in the in-
terest of national security or essential to the furtherance of the
national intelligence mission, such alien and his immediate .
family shall be given entry into the United States for perma-
nent residence without regard to their inadmissibility under
the immigration or any other laws and regulations, or to the
failure to comply with such laws and regulations pertaining
to admissibility: Provided, That the number of aliens and
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1 members of their immediate families entering the United
2 States under the authority of this section shall in no case
3 exceed one hundred persons in any one eftleiidar fiscal year.
4 -(10- SEC. 9. The Director is authorized to establish and
5 fix the compensation for not more than three positions in the
.6 professional and scientific field, within the Agency, each
7 such position being established to effectuate those scientific
8 intelligence functions relating to national security, which re-
9 quire the services of specially qualified scientific or profes-
10 sional personnel: Provided, That the rates of compensation
11 for positions established pursuant to the provisions of this
12 section shall not be less than $40,3-30 $1,01000 per annum
13 nor more than $15,000 per annum, and shall be subject to
14 the approval of the Civil Service Commission.
15 APPROPRIATIONS
16 SEC. -7 10. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of
17 law,' sums made available to the Agency by appropriation or
18 otherwise may be expended for purposes necessary to carry
19 out its functions, including-
20 (1) personal services, including personal services
21 without regard to limitations on types of persons to
22 be employed, and rent at the seat of government and
23 elsewhere; health-service program as authorized by law
24 (5 U. S. C. 150) ; rental of news-reporting services;
25 purchase of rental and operations of photographic, re-
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1 production, cryptographic, duplication and printing
2 machines, equipment and devices, and radio-receiving
3 and radio-sending equipment and devices, including tele-
4 graph and teletype equipment; purchase, maintenance,
5 operation, repair, and hire of passenger motor vehicles,
6 and aircraft, and vessels of all kinds; subject to policies.
7 established by the Director, transportation of officers
8 and employees of the Agency in Government--owned
9 automotive equipment between their domiciles and
10 places of employment, where such personnel are en-
1 t gaged in work which makes such transportation neces-
12 nary, and transportation in such equipment, to and from
13 school, of children of Agency personnel who have
14 quarters for themselves and their families at isolated
15 stations outside the continental United States where
16 adequate public or private transportation is not avail-
17 able ; printing and binding ; purchase, maintenance, and
18 cleaning of firearms, including purchase, storage, and
19 maintenance of ammunition; subject to policies estab-
20 lished by the Director, expenses of travel in connection
21 with, and expenses incident to attendance at meetings
22 of professional, technical, scientific, and other similar
23 organizations when such attendance would be a benefit
24 in the conduct of the work of the Agency; association
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1 and library dues; payment of premiums or costs of
2 surety bonds for officers or employees without regard
3 to the provisions of 9ix4y--&st Stft-tii es-, 61 Stat. 646;
4 Sii444"motes Cade 6 U. S. C. 14; payment of
5 claims pursuant to section of title 1.444ted States
6 Go& 28 U. S. C.; acquisition of. necessary land and
7 the clearing of such land; construction of buildings and
8 facilities without regard is Thirty sixt Sta tee 6941
9 Vieth Upited Stfttes Ce& to 36 Stat. 699; 40 U. S. C.
10 .259, 267; repair, rental, operation, and maintenance
11 of buildings, utilities, facilities, and appurtenances; and
12 (2) supplies, equipment, and personnel and con
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tractual services otherwise authorized by law and
regulations, when approved by the Director.
(b) The sums made available to the Agency may be
expended without regard to the provisions of law and regu-
lations relating to the expenditure of Government funds;
and for objects of a confidential, extraordinary, or emergency
nature, such expenditures to be accounted for solely on the
certificate of the Director and every such certificate shall
be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein
certified.
SEC. 8 11. If any provision of this Act, or the applica-
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1 tion of such provision to any person or circumstances, is held
2 invalid, the remainder of this Act or the application of such
3 provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to
4 which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
5 SHORT TITLE
6 SEC. 0 12. This Act may be cited as the "Central Intel-
7 ligence Agency Act of 1949".
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH 13 (legislative day, FEBRUARY 2), 1948
Mr. GURNEY introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To provide for the administration of the Central Intelligence
Agency, established pursuant to section 102, National Se-
curity Act of 1947, and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tines of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1. That when used in this Act, the term-
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(a) "Agency" means .the Central Intelligence Agency;
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(b) "Director" means the Director of Central Intelli-
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gence;
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(c) "Government agency" means any executive de-
partment, commission, council, independent establishment,
corporation wholly or partly owned by the United States
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? ' #t.0 i - is instrumentality of the United States, board,,
a 2 x bureau ' division, service, office, officer, authority, administra-
on, or other, tablishment, in the executive branch of the
4 government; and
5 (d) "Continental United States" means the States and
6 the District of Columbia. -
7 SEAL OF OFFICE
8 SEC. 2. The Director of Central Intelligence shall cause
9 a seal of office to be made for the Central Intelligence
10 Agency, of such design as the President shall. approve, and
11 judicial notice shall be taken thereof.
12 PROCUREMENT AUTHORITIES
13 SEC. 3. (a) In the performance of its functions the
14 Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to exercise the
15 authorities contained in sections 2 (c) (1) , (2), (3), (4),
16 (5), (6), (10), (12), (15), (17), and sections 3, 4,
17 5, 6, and 10 of the Armed Services Procurement Act of
18 1947 (Public Law 413, Eightieth Congress, second session).
(b) In the exercise of the authorities granted in sub-
section (a) of this section, the term "Agency head" shall
mean the Director, the Deputy Director, or the Executive
Director of the Agency.
(c) The determinations and decisions provided in sub-
section (a) of this section to be made by the Agency head
may be made with respect to individual purchases and con-
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1 tracts or with respect to classes of purchases or contracts,
2 and shall be final. Except as provided in subsection (d) of
3 this section, the Agency head is authorized to delegate his
4 powers provided in this section, including the making of
5 such determinations and decisions, in his discretion and
6 subject to his direction, to any other officer or officers or
7 officials of the Agency.
8 (d) The power of the Agency head to make the de-
9 terminations or decisions specified in paragraphs (12) and
10 (15) of section 2 (c) and section 5 (a) of the Armed
11 Services Procurement Act of 1947 shall not be delegable.
12 Each determination or decision required by paragraphs (t2)
13 and (15) of section 2 (c) , by section 4 or by section 5 (a)
14 of the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947, shall be
15 based upon written findings made by the official making
16 such determinations, which findings shall be final and shall
17 be available within the Agency for a period of at least six
18 years following the date of the determination.
19 EDUCATION AND TRAINING
20 SEC. 4. (a) Any officer or employee of the Agency
21 may be assigned or detailed for special instruction, research,
22 or training, at or with domestic or foreign public or private
23 institutions; trade, labor, agricultural, or scientific associa-
24 tions; courses or training programs under the National
25 Military Establishment; or commercial firms.
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1 (b) The Agency shall, under such regulations as the
2 Director may prescribe, pay the tuition and other expenses
3 of officials and employees of the Agency assigned or detailed
4 in accordance with provisions of subsection (a) of this sec-
5 tion, in addition to the pay and allowances to which such
6 officials and employees may be otherwise entitled.
7 TRAVEL, ALLOWANCES, AND RELATED EXPENSES
8 SEC. 5. (A) Under such regulations as the Director
9 may prescribe, the Agency, with respect to its employees
10 assigned to permanent-duty stations outside the continental
11 United States, its Territories and possessions; shall-
12 (1) (a) pay the travel expenses of officers and
13 employees of the Agency, including expenses incurred
14 while traveling pursuant to orders issued by the Director
15 in. accordance with the provisions of section 5 (A) (2)
16 with regard to the granting of home leave;
17 (b) pay the travel expenses of the members of
18 the family of an officer or employee of the Agency when
19 proceeding to or returning from his post of duty; ac-
20 companying him on authorized home leave; or other-
21 wise traveling in accordance with authority granted
22 pursuant to the terms of this or any other Act;
(c) pay the cost of transporting the furniture and
household and personal effects of an officer or employee
of the Agency to his successive posts of duty and, on
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1. the termination of his services, to the place where he
2 will reside;
(d) pay the cost of storing the furniture and house-
4 and personal effects of an officer or employee of
5 the Agency who is absent under orders from his usual
6 post of duty, or who is assigned to a post to which,
7, because of emergency conditions, he cannot take or at
8 which he is unable to use, his furniture and household
9 and personal effects;
10 (e) pay the cost of storing the furniture and house-
11 hold and personal effects of an officer or employee of
12 the Agency on first arrival at a post for a period not
13 in excess of three months after such first arrival at such
14 post or until the establishment of residence quarters,
15 whichever shall be shorter;
16 (f) pay the travel expenses and transportation
17 costs incident to the removal of the members of the
18 family of an officer or employee of the Agency and
19 his furniture and household and personal effects, includ-
20 ing automobiles, from a post at which, because of the
21 prevalence of disturbed conditions, there is imminent
22 danger to life and property, and the return of such
23 persons, furniture, and effects to such post upon the
24 cessation of such conditions; or to such other post as
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1 may in the meantime have become the post to which
2 such officer or employee has been assigned;
3 (2) order to the continental United States on
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statutory leave of absence every officer and employee
of the Agency who is a citizen of the United States
upon completion of two years' continuous service abroad
or as soon as possible thereafter;
(a) while in the continental United States on leave,
the service of any officer or employee shall be available
for work or duties in the Agency or elsewhere, but the
time of such work or duties shall not be counted as
leave;
(b) where an officer or employee on leave returns
to the continental United States, leave of absence
granted shall be exclusive of the time actually and
necessarily occupied in going to and from the con-
tinental United States, and such time as may be neces-
sarily occupied in awaiting sailing or flight.
(3) notwithstanding the provisions of any other
law, transport for or on behalf of an officer or employee
of the Agency, a privately owned automobile in any
case where he shall determine that water, rail, or air
transportation of the automobile is necessary or expedient
for any part or of all the distance between points of
origin and destination;
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1 (4) (a) in the event of illness or injury requiring
2 the hospitalization of an officer or employee of the
3 Agency who is a citizen of the United States, not the
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his part, incurred while on assignment abroad, in a
locality where there does not exist a suitable hospital
or clinic, pay the travel expenses of such officer or
employee by whatever means he shall deem appropriate
and without regard to the Standardized Government
Travel Regulations and section 10 of the Act of March.
3, 1933 (47 Stat. 1516; 5 U. S. C. 73b), to the nearest
locality where a suitable hospital or clinic exists and
on his recovery pay for the travel expenses of his return
to his post of duty. If the officer or employee is too
ill to travel unattended, the Director may also pay the
travel expenses of an attendant;
(b) establish a first-aid station and provide for
the services of a, nurse at a post at which, in his
19 opinion, sufficient personnel is employed to warrant
20 such a station;
21 (e) in the event of illness or injury requiring hos-
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pitahzation of an officer or employee of the Agency
who is a citizen of the United States, not the result of
24 vicious habits, intemperance, or misconduct on his part,
25 incurred in the line of duty while such person is assigned
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1 abroad, pay for the cost of the treatment of such illness
2 or injury at a suitable hospital or clinic;
3 (d) provide for the periodic physical examination
4 of officers and employees of the Agency and, for the cost
of administering inoculations or vaccinations to such
6 officers or employees.
7 (B) In accordance with such regulations as the Presi-
8 dent may prescribe and notwithstanding the provisions of
9 section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S. (11. 70) ,
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the Director is authorized to grant to any officer or employee
of the Agency who is a citizen of the United States allow-
ances in accordance with the provisions of- sections 901 (1)
and 901 (2) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946.
GENERAL AUTHORITIES
SEC. 6. In the performance of its functions, the Central
16 Intelligence Agency is authorized to-
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(a) transfer to and receive from other Government
agencies such sums as may be approved by the Bureau
of the Budget, for the performance of any of the func-
tions or activities authorized under sections 102 and
303 of the National Security Act of 1947 (Public Law
253, Eightieth Congress), and any other Government
agency is authorized to transfer to or receive from the
Agency such sums without regard to any provisions of
law limiting or prohibiting transfers between appro-
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.1 priations. Sums transferred to the Agency in accord-
2 ance with this paragraph may be expended for the
3 purposes and under the authority of this Act- without
4 regard to limitations of appropriations. from which
5 transferred;
6 (b) exchange funds without regard to section 3651
7 Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 543) ;
8 (c) reimburse other Government agencies for serv-
9 ices of personnel assigned to the Agency, and such
10 other Government agencies are .hereby authorized, with-
11 out regard to provisions of law to the contrary, so to
12 assign or detail any officer or employee for duty with
13 the Agency;
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( ) aut orize couriers designated by the Director
to carry firearms when engaged in transportation of
confidential documents and materials affecting the
national defense and security;
(e) make alterations, improvements, and repairs
on premises rented by the Agency and pay rent there-
for without regard to limitations on expenditures con-
tained in the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended:
Provided, That in each case the Director shall certify
that exception from such limitations is necessary to the
successful performance of the Agency's functions or to
the security of its activities;
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1 (f) in the interests of the security of the foreign
2 intelligence activities of the United Sates and in order
3 further to implement the proviso of section 102 (d)
4 (3) of the National Security Act of 1947 (Public Law
5 253, Eightieth Congress, first session) that the Direc-
6 tor of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for pro-
7 tecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthor-
8 ized disclosure, the Agency shall be exempted from the
9 provisions of sections 1 and 2, chapter 795, of the Act
10 of August 28, 1935 (49 Stat. 956, 957; 5 U. S. C. A.
11 654) , and the provisions of any other law which require
12 the publication. or disclosure of the organization, func-
13 tions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of per-
14 sonnel employed by the Agency: Provided, That in
15 furtherance of this section, the Director of the Bureau
16 of the Budget shall make no reports to the Congress in
17 connection with the Agency under section 607, title VI,
18 chapter 212, of : the Act of June 30, 1945, as amended
t9 (5 U. S. C. A. 947 (b) ) .
20 APPROPRIATIONS
21 SEc. 7. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of
22 law, sums made available to the Agency by appropriation
23 or otherwise may be expended for purposes necessary to
24 carry out its functions, including-
25 (1) personal services, including employment of
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1 aliens, and rent at the seat of government and else-
2 where; preparation and transportation of the remains
3 of officers and employees who die abroad or. in transit,
4 while in performance of their official duties, to their
5 former homes in this country or to a. place not more
6 distant for interment, and for ordinary expenses of such.
7 interment; penalty mail; health-service program as
8 authorized by law (5 TT. S. C. 150) ; rental of news-
9 reporting services; purchase or rental and operation of
reproduction, cryptographic, duplication
10 photographic,'
11 and printing machines, equipment and devices, and
12 radio-receiving and radio-sending _equipment and devices,
13 including telegraph and teletype equipment; purchase,
14 maintenance, operation, repair, and hire of passenger
15 motor vehicles and aircraft, and vessels of all kinds;
16 printing and binding; purchase, maintenance, and clean-
17 ing of firearms; _ subject to policies established by the
18 Director, expenses of travel in connection with, and
19 expenses incident to attendance at meetings of profes-
20 sional, technical, scientific, and other similar organiza-
21 tions when such attendance would be of benefit in the
22 conduct of the work of the Agency; association and
23 library dues; payment of claims pursuant to section 403
24 of the Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 843;
25 28 U. S. C. 921) ; repair, rental, operation, and mainte-
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1 nance of buildings, utilities, facilities, and appurtenances.
2 (b) Of the sums made available to. .the"Agency, such
3 amounts as may be approved by the Bureau of the Budget
4 may be expended-
5 (1) without regard to the provisions of law and
6 regulations relating to the expenditure of Government
7 funds; and
8 (2) for objects of a confidential, - extraordinary, or
9 emergency nature, such expenditures to be accounted
10 for solely on the certificate of the Director and every
11 such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for
12 the amount therein certified.
13 SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS
14 SEC. 8. If any provision of this Act, or the applica-
15 tion of such provision to any person or circumstances, is held
16 invalid, the remainder of this Act or the application of such
17 provision to persons or circumstances other than those as
18 to which it is held invalid, shall not .be affected thereby.
19 SHORT TITLE
20 SEC. 9. This Act may be cited as the "Central Intel-
21 ligence Agency Act of 1948".
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