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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1127

To direct the President to reorganize the intelligence agencies of the Government in order to reduce duplication and inefficiency and to require

that the number of intelligence personnel be reduced by 25 percent

over the next five fiscal years.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FEBRUARY 24, 1993

Mr. SANTORUM (for himself, Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina, Mr. DOOLITTLE,

and Mr. ZIMMER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

A BILL

To direct the President to reorganize the intelligence agencies

of the Government in order to reduce duplication and

inefficiency and to require that the number of intelligence

personnel be reduced by 25 percent over the next five

fiscal years.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Intelligence Agencies

5 Reorganization Act of 1993’’.
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1 SEC. 2. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY REORGANIZATION AND

2 PERSONNEL REDUCTION.

3 (a) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY REORGANIZATION.—

4 The President shall reorganize the United States Intel5 ligence Community to reduce redundancy and overlapping

6 jurisdiction of intelligence components and to centralize

7 (to the extent determined appropriate by the President)

8 responsibility and authority for intelligence activities.

9 (b) PERSONNEL REDUCTIONS.—(1) In implementing

10 the reorganization required by subsection (a), the Presi11 dent shall, for each of fiscal years 1993 through 1997,

12 reduce the total number of military and civilian personnel

13 employed by, or assigned or detailed to, elements of the

14 Intelligence Community by not less than 4 percent of the

15 baseline number specified in paragraph (2). The President

16 shall direct how such reductions are to be allocated among

17 the elements of the Intelligence Community.

18 (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the baseline num19 ber is the total number of military and civilian personnel

20 employed by, or assigned or detailed to, elements of the

21 Intelligence Community as of September 30, 1992.

22 (3) Reductions in personnel carried out pursuant to

23 this subsection for any fiscal year may also be counted

24 for that fiscal year for purposes of section 907(b) of Public

25 Law 101–510 (104 Stat. 1622).
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1 (4) Functions and personnel may not be reassigned

2 in order to avoid, or reduce the effect of, the reductions

3 required by this subsection. Reductions pursuant to this

4 section in the number of members of the Armed Forces,

5 or the number of civilian personnel, in the Intelligence

6 Community shall be matched with corresponding reduc7 tions in the overall number of members of the Armed

8 Forces or of civilian employees of the Government, as the

9 case may be.

10 (c) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY DEFINED.—For pur11 poses of this section, the Intelligence Community consists

12 of those agencies (and elements of agencies) performing

13 intelligence and intelligence-related activities for which

14 funds were authorized to be appropriated in Public Law

15 102–183.

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