DEAR SIR:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05844A000100140049-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: July 30, 1946
• Content Type: LETTER

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30 July 1946
The Comptroller General
General Accounting Office
5th and F Streets, N.W.
Washington, D. C.
Attention: Chief, Accounting and Bookkeeping Division
In accordance with the Presidential directive of 22 January 1946, the
National Intelligence Authority has, through a series of directives to
the Director of Central Intelligence, established over-all policies
for foreign intelligence activities related to the national security,
and has directed that the Central Intelligence Group engage in certain
centralized intelligence activities which are of common interest to the
Departments herein concerned. To implement properly the wishes of the
President, the National Intelligence Authority has found it necessary
to provide the Director of Central Intelligence with administrative and
operational facilities which involve expenditure of funds and furnish-
ing of personnel and equipment. This threefold method of supply has
become so cumbersome as to impair seriously the administration of the
Central Intelligence Group, and is becoming an important threat to the
security of its operations.
We desire, therefore, under the provisions of Section 214 of the Inde-
pendent Offices Appropriation Act, 1946, to make available to the Cen-
tral Intelligence Group, from the appropriations of the three Depart-
ments mentioned, amounts authorized by Congress for the' support of in-
telligence activities and such other funds as it is in our discretion
to use for this purpose. To administer these funds, it is proposed to
establish a special working fund, as provided for in Section 601 of the
Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 417). This fund will be, for record
purposes, in the War Department, but, with the approval of the Se cre-
t -of _Wmr, its ac~ni:2istration and fiscal supervision will bo solely
by officers of the Central Intelligence Groin. Upon the establishment
of such a workizig' d, it is proposed, in addition to committin ; such
funds of our respective Departments for administration by the Central
Intelligence Group, to delegate to the Director of Central Intelligence
or his authorized representatives the meow au horitiu_.f_Qr a-
mir &tration of those funds, for personnel actions, for procurement of
equipment and supplies, and for the certification of vouchers. We are
informed that the Bureau of the Budget is in full accord with the es-
tablishment of such a working fund.
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We therefore request, on behalf of the Departments we represent and in
our capacity as members of the National Intelligence Authority, that
you establish such a working fund under the provisions of Section 601
of the Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 417). All officials of our De-
partments and of the Central Intelligence Group are prepared to give
you complete cooperation.
Signed
secretary of state
Signed
secretary o War
Signed
Secretary of the avy
Signed
ersona epreeen a ive
of the President on
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