BROOKS BILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000100070075-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: January 10, 1968
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: Brooks Bill
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Comptroller General has ii.a a recent ruling pertaining to the authority
I. Today I I s Lt Me
ea~tp eted by the Comptroller General would pose a problers?. to the Agency's
AD? efforts.
acquired by GSA under the so-called Brooks automatic data processing t
I I is apparently gatherix g some facts on whether GSA's authority as
2. 1 rein indod that we had gone to some lengths to make
legislative history In Connection with the Brooks bill to the effect that this
Agency in particular and the intelligence community in general should be
e*pted from the scope of the central authority to be exercised by GSA
in the interest of assuring the security of intelligence sources and methods.
I also mentioned that it was rr y belief that Mr. Houston had in fact been in
touch with WA during the consideration of the Brooks bill as the specific
paint of GSA regulations exec;Pptiing CIA as GSA fs authorized to do under
the Brooks bill.
3. This matter is er anttoned now with the thought that it may be
timely to focus on the question of CIA exemption from GSA's regulation
and control.
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