SECURITY REQUIREMENTS FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00268R000600010008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 5, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Intelligence)
LS 6-0015
5 JAN 1956
SUBJECT: Security Requirements for Government Employment
1. The memoranda of 19 December to the National Security Council
Planning Board discussed various aspects of a Civil Service recommenda-
tion to establish a formal employee security advisory committee. The
papers are directed to consideration of the Administration's program
as described in Executive Order 10450.
2. Action limited to this program would not impair the authorities
of the Director of Central Intelligence, particularly those set forth
in Section 102(c) of the National Security Act of 1947. Even if the
action purported to extend further than the President's program under
Executive Order 104500 it is doubtful that such executive action would
impair such clear-cut statutory authority. The Attorney General has
agreed that the Director may, within his discretion, process and take
action upon security cases without reference to Executive Order 10450.
Therefore, neither the proposed executive order accompanying the staff
memorandum of 19 December nor the Department of Justice's suggestion
in that memorandum that the committee if constituted would logically
be placed in the Civil Service Commission are technically objectionable
from the viewpoint of this Office. On the other hand, our experience
has not indicated any need for a change, and any change which would
In any way tend to impair the Director's authority in such matters
should be resisted.
Att - Background papers on
subject
cc: DD/S
Director of Security
LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
STAT
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