CIA OCCUPANCY OF THE NEW BUILDING IN MCLEAN, VIRGINIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 24, 1961
• Content Type: MF

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July 24. 1961
[ORANDUM FOR THE DIREC" TOR OF CE HALL INTELLIGENCE
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(Attention: Mr. J. Patrick Coyne)
THE WHITE HOUSE
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normally be present at meetings of the Council, in its discretion. General
Vandenberg concurred in this, as did General Norstad, and it was accepted
with the additional. proviso that the Joint Chiefs of Staff would also attend
meetings at the discretion of the Council.
Staff.' As a compromise, Admiral Sherman suggested that the Director should
proved to be cumbersome and unworkable at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of
The first draft of the new unification legislation was received by the
Central Intelligence Group on 22 January. Section 102(a) of'the draft
stated that "There shall be in the Council of National Defense a Central
Intelligence Agency with a Director who shall be the , head. thereof . . ."
.The Director of CIO, Lt. even. Vandenberg, the. General Counsel of CIG,
Mr. Houston, and one of his assistants met with the drafters the next day
and submitted recommendations for incorporation in the next draft. General
Vandenberg suggested that the Directorts function of providing policy makers
with pertinent information should be spelled out more clearly. While General
Vandenberg was strongly opposed to the participation of the Central/Intel-
ligence Agency or its director in policy decisions on any matter, he felt
that the Director of Central Intelligence should be present at meetings 3f
the National Security Council. To this General Norstad voiced serious
exceptions, as he felt that the Council was already too big. He thought
that the Director should not even be present as an observer, as this had
General Vandenberg indicated the difficulties which he had had in
having. to go to the National Intelligence Authority on many problems. He
felt that the difficulties of his position would be multiplied, as he would
have to ask policy guidance and direction from the Council, which was to con-
sist of many more members than the N.I.A. He was assured that the intetr of
the'act was that the CIA would operate independently and come under the
Council only on such.specific measures as the Council would, from time to
time desire to direct. It would not be necessary for the Agency to ask ~~on-
tinual approval from the Council. The Director also pointed out the diffi-
culties of operation where clandestine methods were involved in the absence
of detailed legislation empowering him to. operate on unvouchered funds, .
select certain types of personnel, and discharge employees for any question
of possible disloyalty.
It was decided that the Director of Central Intelligence should report
to the Council on National Defense. General Vandenberg indicated that it
would be necessary to report somewhere and that both the President and he
did not want another agency "free wheeling" around the Government. However,
it was thought that the Agency should have sufficient power to perform its
own functions without its being necessary to have specific approval from.
the Council on each action.
The next draft received by CIG reflected some of these suggestions. A
major change was in the beginning of the Intelligence section which read>; :
"Where is hereby established a Central Intelligence Agency . . . faith a
Director of Central Intelligence who shall be the head thereof ." In
the third draft when the paragraph regarding the position of the Director
as the intelligence Advisor of the Council was eliminated, the Army-Navy
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conferee pointed out that the position of the Director as the Government's
intelligence advisor was inherent in the position itself. The wording-"with
a Director of Central Intelligence" remained and appeared in the eventual
legislation; the position of Director of Central Intelligence was recognized
from the beginning as being more than the head of the Central Intelligence
Agency but rather as the Chief Intelligence Advisor in the Government.
It must be remembered that in 1917, Congress and the President's Office
were strongly influenced by the Pearl Harbor investigations which showed the
need for an effective. intelligence agency. This was stressed in House and
Senate hearings on the National Security Act bill,. and witness after witness
testified as to value of centralized intelligence. It was also pointed out
;.;.on numerous occasions that the provisions for a Director of Central Intel-
ligence and a Central Intelligence Agency would be simply a legislative
recognition of the President's order of 22 January 197+6. The basic role of
the Director of Central Intelligence from 194.6 was described by.General
Vandenberg in April 197+7: / ?
"The Director of Central Intelligence is presently charged with
the following basic functions:
1.. The collection of foreign intelligence information of
certain types -- without interfering with or duplicating the normal
collection activities of the military and naval intelligence services
or the Foreign Service of the Stag Department.
2. The evaluation, correlation and interpretation of the foreign
information collected, in order to produce the strategic and national
policy intelligence required by the President and other appropriate
officials of the Goverment.
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The dissemination of the national intelligence produced.
4. The. performance of such services of common concern to the
various intelligence agencies of the Government as can be more
efficiently accomplished centrally.
5. Planning for the coordination of the intelligence activities
of the Government so as to secure the more effective accomplishment
of the national intelligence objectives."
General Vandenberg also touched upon the responsibilities of the
Director to the intelligence community:
"In order to perform his prescribed functions, the Director of
Central Intelligence must keep in close and intimate contact with the
departmental intelligence agencies of the Goverimnenrt. To provide
formal machinery for this purpose, the President's Directive estab-
lished an Intelligence Advisory Board to advise the Director. The
permanent members of this Board are the Directors of Intelligence of tae
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The bill was passed ov/r three times in the Senate, finally aominz
striking out section 7(b " e4-,A9eneT-auth0ritty. e
up ror debate on 21 June. /An amendment was offered by Senator McMahon
On 15 December 1948, the Agency presented a draft of legislation to
the Budget Bureau which, after suggesting changes, advised CIA on 9 February
19+9 that it would have no objection to the Agency sending the revised draft
to the 81st Congress.
an explanation that it was
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introduced in the 80th Congress.
The House Armed Services sub-committee I6o. 3 met on 18 February 1QI+9
;.by section and certain minor amendments were made including:
to' consider the legislation, H.R.2663. The committee discussed it section
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mention of this could be made in a report. However, it was the intent
of the committee that any agent who was not a full-time employee who was
injured in the course of duty for the Agency should be considered to be
a full-time employee of the Agency on that date and be subject to the
full provisions oft
FOURTH In connection with the carrying of fire-arms; the phrase
"and guards' was inserted after the word "courier." The explanation
generally offered was that there may be times when CIA would wish to arm
a guard with the courier rather than the courier himself.
which were to be.extended.to covert native: personnel acting as agents on
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all a loyees. voth full-time and part-time
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p y .exa ns~tions, inoculations and vaccinations should be given toy.
custodial personnel and occasional employees of-the Agency. However S,-: _ka
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S0N1 The word "full-time" was insertedAto qualify the phrai'
"o:?f'icers and employees of the Agency" in order that the medical facili-
ties involved in the legislation o.aauld be extended only to,regular-full-
time employees of-the Agency. It was agree&_that these facilities should
be extended to citizens of the United States and aliens employed by the
Agency,slik, but the facilities should not be extended to part-time
territories and possessions" so that natives of Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto
Rico, and other possessions who were ordered home on leave could be
ordered to the..United States, its territories and possessions if such
FIRST 4 The term "the United States" was modified to include "its
FIM, 11The intent of the committee was that the only laws to be
waivred in c~i~nection with the admissibility of,Wensn
three for permaentreaiden a withput regard to the . immiraion laws and f
regulations e1'' `'there was no iitcnt 1io taaive any laws regardini the ^condnct
of these aliens once they were in the United States. The committee
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Section 8 of the Act regarding the admission of aliens was one of
the most controversial aavs of the bill. The Agency strongly urge
retention of this provision because it was felt that it would provide
inducement to outstanding individuals with high intelligence potential to
approach-United States offic' Is in order to pass valuable information.
It was emphasized that the need for this authority did not arise from
problems of substantive migration but rather from CIA's highly
specialized needs, the V e of aliens concerned, and the operational
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L.EGAL-STATUS AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORY O
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" Very soont after th. establ#sbrrien't- of CIA In 1947-b
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thought w e. given'to`Propsi-housing of the Agency since"even tt that
time Ageiiey per"sen ifl'*reke
varied lc- ii f "~r ,re lror i~iacatF p sE~ tsmposaiwyr uildin'gs. Now
impetu r[-aid= ;.eit to olviaj~ this problem with
'the "advent of t~tt
ind'bdiId up oil the, number of personne2:.3nbthe Agnew
The secu Ittiy`hazabde In transporting documents between buildings
justification' which ra'suited in an authorization by the -Congre e. for
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$38, 000, 000 In the -Military Construction Act, P. L. 82-155,
acre"ased'=alvriig'with-the- economy null afficiency'iri presenting a
and the physical security ha zards fn the-`temporary bu'iidings'-were
28 September 1951. At that time no site had been chosen nor had any
plans been drawn. In considering the problem of securing, appropriations
it was- determined not. feasible to secure funds -until a eita 'beriection
was made and plans` had been drawn. ' No decisions, were reached and
the authorization eventually lapsed.
Continuing- thought was given to this problem and by letter,
dated 1 July 1955, the President forwarded to the Congress-proposed
leislation? containing an authorization for $59 500, 000 of which
$50, 000, 000 was to be for actual construction of the building. P. L. 84-161
was apppy bcr]Be1Aj*
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