JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 1 FEBRUARY 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000300130033-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: February 1, 1954
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - i February 1954
1. Mr Burrus, of the Bureau of the Budget, has called our attention
to S. 2308, a bill which authorizes the invest gation by the Attorney General
in any department or agency of offenses such as bribery, fraud, false
claims, theft, etc., This legislation was originally introduced to authorize
the Department of Justice to investigate certain frauds in the Treasury
Department heretofore allowed to be handled by the Treasury Department
itself. However, as Justice has considerably broadened the intent of
the bill without prior consultation with Treasury, a bitter controversy
has ensued between them. They have been unable to get together, and
the special subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, consisting
of Senators Langer, Dlrksen and McClelland, have indicated that so much
time has gone by that they propose to: arbitrate the bill rather than leave
it with the Bureau of the Budget. The Bureau of the Budget is making one
last plea to the Committee to be permitted to try to arbitrate, but the
present plan is for Mr. Collins, the Judiciary Committee staff man in-
volved, to have a policy conference with Treasury, Justice, Commerce,
CIA and. Post Office to see what can be developed. Assistant Secretary
Chapman Rose, of Treasury, and Assistant Attorney General Rankin are
handling the matter for their departments, and Mr. Houston and I will
follow through on this matter if it is determined that the bill will hamper
CIA to, the degree that a first look would indicate.
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