NATIONAL INTELIGENCE AUTHORITY N.I.A. DIRECTIVE NO. 4 POLICY ON LIQUIDATION OF THE STRATEGIC SERVICES UNIT

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 1998
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: April 2, 1946
• Content Type: REGULATION

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April 1946
NATIONAL INTELL;,GLNCE AUTHORITY
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POLICY ON LIQUIDATION OF T1E STRATEGIC SERVICES UNIT-
References: a. The ' Executive, Order of 20 September
1945, subject: "Termination of the
Office of Strategic Services and
Disposition of'Its Functions"
b. C.I.G. Directive No. 1
Pursuant to paragraph 1 of the letter from the President
dated 22 January 1916 which designated this Authority as re-
sponsible for planning, developing, and coordinating the Federal
foreign intelligence activities so as to assure the most effective
accomplishment of the intelligence mission related to the na-
tional security, the following policies and. procedures relating
to the liquidation of the Strategic Services Unit (SSU) are
announced:
1. The national interest demands that the complete liqui-
dation of SSU shall not be accomplished until it is deter-
mined which of its functions and activities are required for
the permanent Federal foreign intelligence program, and should
therefore be transferred to the Central Intelligence Group or
other agencies in order that its useful assets may .not be lost.
Such determination and,transfers shall be made and the liquida-
tion of the remainder of SSU shall be completed as promptly
as possible and prior to 1 July 1947. The Director of Central
Intelligence shall issue the necessary directives to effect
the liquidation. He will make recommendations to this Au-
a
thority as to the intelligence activities-permanently re=
quired in the peace-time effort.
2. During the period of liquidation the SSU should be ad-
ministered and operated so as to service, to the extent prac-
ticable, the i.ntf;ligence agencies subject to'our coordination.
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The Director of Central Intelligence shall issUo the .neces-
sary directives to trio Director of SSU required to' accomplish
this mission. In addition, the Dirodtor of SSU will make
available to the Director or Cohtral Intelligence, upon his
request, any facilities and services of SSU which may be
useful in the performance of an authorized function of the
Central Intelligence Group.
3. The,Diroctor of Central Intelligence will be responsible
for determining which funds, personnel and facilities of SSU
are required for the performance of an authorized function
of the Central Intelligence Group. Such funds, porsonnoJ. and
facilities of SSU will then be transferred to an appropriate
War Department unit. The Director of Central Intelligence
will be responsible for making the necessary administrative
.arrangements and for issuing the necessary directives to the
Director of SSU.
4. The War Department will take the necessary budgetary
action to carry out this program.
5. The War Department shall retain the right to determine
what. portion of War Department funds, personnel and facil_i.-
ties can be made available to SSU by the War Department.
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