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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00957A000100100080-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 80
• Content Type: REGULATION

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To amend the National Security Act of 1947, as amended., and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. Section 102(a) of the National Security Act of 7.947
(50 U .S .C . 403a) is amended to read as follows:
"(a) There is established under the National Security Council
a Central Intelligence Agency with a Director of Central Intelligence
who shall be the head thereof. The Director of Central Intelligence
shall have two deputies: a Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
for the Central Intelligence Agen yy/and a Deputy Director of. Central
Intelligence for the Intelligence Community. The Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency shall act
for, and exercise the powers of, the Director during his absence or
disability. Except for those authorities and responsibilities the delega-
tion of which is prohibited by law, the Director may, to the extent he
deems appropriate, delegate to each of these Deputy Directors ~K respect-
ively those authorities and respons:Lbilities vested in him by law or
by virtue of his position as Director of Central Intelligence and as
head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Director and the Dep ity
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Directors shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, from among individuals in civilian life
or from among the commissioned officers of the armed services
whether in active or retired status: Provided, however, that at
no time shall the two positions of the Director and the Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency be. occupied
simultaneously by commissioned officers of the armed services, whether
in an active or retired status.
SECTION 2. Section 5314 (36) of title 5, United. States Code, is
amended by striking the word "Director" and inserting in lieu thereof the
word "Directors. "
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a. There is established under the National Security Council
a Central Intelligence Agency with a Director of Central Intelligence
who shall be the head thereof. There shall be two Deputy Directors
of Central Intelligence: The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for
the Central Intelligence Agency, who shall perform such duties relating
to the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency as the Director may
prescribe, and the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for the
Intelligence Community, who shall perform such duties relating to
the intelligence activities of other Government departments and
agencies as the Director may prescribe. The Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency shall act for,
and exercise the powers of, the Director during his absence or disability.
Except for those authorities and responsibilities the delegation of which
is prohibited by law, the Director may, to the extent he deems
appropriate, delegate to each of these Deputy'Directors respectively
those authorities and responsibilities vested in him by law or by virtue
of his position as Director of Central Intelligence and as head of the
Central Intelligence Agency. The Director and the Deputy Directors
shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, from among individuals in civilian life or from among the
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commissioned officers of the armed services whether in active or
retired status: Provided, however, that at no time shall the two
positions of the Director and the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
for the Central Intelligence Agency be occuppied simultaneously by
commissioned officers of the armed services, whether in an active
or retired status.
SECTION 2. Section 5312 (36) of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by striking the word "Director" and inserting in lieu thereof
the word "Directors. "
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SUBJECT:
Two Deputies Legislation
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two alternative drafts, and relevant legislation
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