CIA AMENDMENTS TO THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000100280024-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: February 4, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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Memorandum
Ch ;ef, Alien Affairs Staff
DATE: 4 February 1915
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CIA Amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act
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1. On 4 February 1965, Assiltant L.egisl ative
Counsel, and the undersigned met with James L. Hennessey, Exec -
utive Assist&nt'to the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service to discuss CIA's proposed amendments to the I&N Act
2. Mr. Hennessey stated that it was his understanding that
the Department of Justice and the Department of State had agreed
that they would not submit any amendments to the President's Bill
to change the I&N Act because they did not wish to prejudice its
passage. He stated that both State and Immigration have proposed
technical amendments to the Act but they will not do anything about
these until after the Administration' s National Origins Quota Amend-
ments are completed.
3. We went over the proposed CIA amendments with Mr.
Hennessey and he stated that he did not feel the Service would have
any great objections to any of the proposals, however, he did say it
was possible that there might be some slight objection to the inclu-
sion of all aliens employed by the U. S. Government receiYing the
benefits of Section 216(b) . He said that he could see the secu ,ity
need for removing the Agency's name and it might not be as big a
problem as he thinks.
4. He further stated that he did not believe an amendment to
Section 313 of the Act was advisable, especially at this time since the
Congress appears to be somewhat jeal Hof its prerogatives and tht
prerogatives of the Judiciary and would #r ` 1 y be opposed to per -
mitting an official or officials of the Less five Branch to determine
that any naturalization is in the interest tithe U. S.
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would be opposed to granting such benefits on a large scale.
S. He commented on the p-roposed an en ent Which would
help o Tree Eusope employees become citizens without regard
to residence requirements and again stated that he felt that the Con-
gress would not waive such requirements for a class and if the
amendment was broadened to include organizations such as
eleemosynary or educational institutions, this might give more
people such benefits than necessary and the Congress ob-ably
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