DEAR SIR:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05844A000100140041-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: September 5, 1946
• Content Type: LETTER

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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY
NEO WAR DEPARTMENT BUILDING
21st and Virginia Ave .NW
Washington, D.C. I9.4mont Kv.
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The Comptroller General C93ss;fie;i at 11 a
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In our letter of 30 July 19!6, we requested that you
establish a working fund to assist in carrying out the President's
wishes in regard to foreign intelligence activities. We.proposed in
that letter to authorize the Director of Central Intelligence to direct
the administration and fiscal supervision of such a working fund upon
its establishment. With approval of the Treasury Department and the
Comptroller General, Working Fund, War, General, 1947, has been con-
stituted and has been assigned the symbol number 2175900?
In order to comply with the Presidential Directive
of 22 January 19L1.6 that the Director of Central Intelligence perform
such services of common concern as the-National Intelligence Authority
determines can be more effectively accomplished centrally, we now
on behalf of the Departments we represent, and in our capacity as
members of the National Intelligence Authority, authorize the Director,
subject to policies established by the National Intelligence Authority,
to control, supervise and administer this working fund with full
powers in respect thereto as would otherwise have been exercised by
us over the funds contributed to the working fund by our respective
Departments, including the powers and authority granted by the Military
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Appropriation Act, 1947, and the Naval Appropriation Act, 1947,
approved July 8, 1946 (Public Law 492 - 79th Congress), pertaining
to certificates of expenditures and determinations of propriety of
expenditures.
The Director of Central Intelligence and his authorized
representatives shall arrange with your Departments such procedures,
practices and controls as are necessary to meet your requirements, and
the Working Fund, War, General, 1947 shall be subject only to the im-
mediate control of the Director in accordance with policies established
by the National Intelligence Authority.
Acting Secretary ofState
1L. Q't/(7L
cr ary o the a
onal Representative
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