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APPENDIX II, "The Secret Team", 1997
U.S. Title 50 -- War and National Defense, Chapter 15 -- National
Security contains, in one place, a collation of most of the law
as it pertains to the Central Intelligence Agency. Most people
who write about the CIA and who talk about the CIA -- indeed,
many who have served with the CIA -- have never read this law.
It is most significant that the legislation that pertains to war
and national defense is the same legislation that includes all
reference to the CIA. It is almost as if the bomb contained its
own live fuse or the gun came with the trigger cocked for
action. As we have seen, during the past twenty-five years the
CIA has become the active agent that ignites the military
establishment whenever that great mass becomes supercritical.
to the whole concept and character of the CIA is the
statement of the five powers and duties, which appears in
Section 403 (d). This is a precise, clear, and unequivocal
delineation of what Congress and the President wanted the
Central Intelligence Agency to be. The language of the law has
never been substantively altered; yet in practice the CIA and
its Secret Team mentors have changed it beyond recognition.
(This appendix includes all important material relevant to the
CIA from the National Security Act.)
enacting this legislation, it is the intent of Congress to
provide a comprehensive program for the future security of the
United States; to provide for the establishment of integrated
policies and procedures for the departments, agencies, and
functions of the Government relating to the national security; to provide a Department of Defense, including the three military
Departments of the Army, the Navy (including naval aviation and
the United States Marine Corps), and the Air Force under the
direction, authority, and control of the Secretary of Defense; to provide that each military department shall be separately
organized under its own Secretary and shall function under the
direction, authority, and control of the Secretary of Defense; to provide for their unified direction under civilian control of
the Secretary of Defense, but not to merge these departments or
services; to provide for the establishment of unified or
specified combatant commands, and a clear and direct line of
command to such commands; to eliminate unnecessary duplication
in the Department of Defense, and particularly in the field of
research and engineering by vesting its overall direction and
control in the Secretary of Defense; to provide more effective,
efficient, and economical administration in the Department of
Defense; to provide for the unified strategic direction of the
combatant forces, for their operation under unified command, and
for their integration into an efficient team of land, naval, and
air forces but not to establish a single Chief of Staff over the
armed forces nor an overall armed forces general staff. (July
6, 1947, ch. 343, § 2, 61 Stat. 496; Aug. 10, 1949, ch. 412, § 2, 63 Stat. 579; Aug 6, 1958, Pub. L. 85-599, § 2, 72 Stat. 514)
is established a council to be known as the National
Security Council (hereinafter in this section referred to as the
"Council").
President of the United States shall preside over meetings
of the Council: Provided, That in his absence he may designate
a member of the Council to preside in his place.
function of the Council shall be to advise the President
Council shall be composed of --
the President; (2)
the Vice President; (3)
the Secretary of State; (4)
the Secretary of Defense; (5)
the Director for Mutual Security; (6)
The Chairman of the National Security Resources Board; and (7)
the Secretaries and Under Secretaries of other executive departments
and of the military departments, the Chairman of the Munitions
Board, and the Chairman of the Research and Development Board,
when appointed by the President by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, to serve at his pleasure.
addition to performing such other functions as the President
may direct, for the purpose of more effectively coordinating the
policies and functions of the departments and agencies of the
Government relating to the national security, it shall, subject
to the direction of the President, be the duty of the Council --
to assess and appraise the objectives, commitments, and
risks of the United States in relation to our actual and
potential military power, in the interest of national security,
for the purpose of making recommendations to the President in
to consider policies on matters of common interest to the
departments and agencies of the Government concerned with the
national security, and to make recommendations to the President
Council shall have a staff to be headed by a civilian
executive secretary who shall be appointed by the President.
The executive secretary, subject to the direction of the
Council, is authorized, subject to the civil-service laws and
chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title %, to
appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as may be
necessary to perform such duties as may be prescribed by the
Council in connection with the performance of its functions.
Council shall, from time to time, make such recommendations,
and such other reports to the President as it deems appropriate
or as the President may require. (July 6, 1947, ch. 343, title
I, § 101, 61 Stat. 497; Aug. 10, 1949, ch. 412,
§ 3, 63 Stat. 579; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, title XI, § 1106 (a), 63 Stat. 972; Oct. 10, 1951, ch. 479, title V, § 501 (e) (1), 65 Stat. 378.)
-- Subsec. (a) Act Aug. 10, 1949, added the Vice President
to the Council, removed the Secretaries of the military
departments, to authorize the President to add, with the consent
of the Senate, Secretaries and Under Secretaries of other
executive departments, to authorize the President to add, with
the consent of the Senate, Secretaries and Under Secretaries of
other executive departments and of the military department, and
the Chairmen of the Munitions Board and the Research and
National Security Council, together with its functions,
records, property, personnel, and unexpended balances of
appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be
made available) were transferred to the Executive Office of the
President by 1949 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Aug. 19, 1949, 14
F.R. 5227, 63 Stat. 1067, set out in the Appendix to Title 5,
and Deputy Director; appointment.
is established under the National Security Council a
Central Intelligence Agency with a Director of Central
Intelligence who shall be the head thereof, and with a Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence who shall act for, and exercise
the powers of, the Director during his absence or disability.
The Director and the Deputy Director shall be appointed by the
from among the commissioned officers of the armed services,
whether in an active or retired status, or from among individuals in civilian life: Provided, however, That at no
time shall the two positions of the Director and Deputy Director
be occupied simultaneously by commissioned officers of the armed
services, whether in active or retired status.
(b) Commissioned officer as Director or Deputy Director; powers
and limitations, effect on commissioned status.
If a commissioned officer of the armed services is appointed
as Director, or Deputy Director, then -- (A)
in the performance of his duties as Director, or Deputy Director, he shall be subject to no supervision, control, restriction, or prohibition (military or otherwise) other than would be operative with respect to him if he were a civilian in no way connected with the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, or the armed services or any component thereof; and
he shall not possess or exercise any supervision, control,
powers, or functions (other than such as he possesses, or is
authorized or directed to exercise, as Director, or Deputy
Director) with respect to the armed services or any component
thereof, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy,
or the Department of the Air Force, or any branch, bureau, unit,
or division thereof, or with respect to any of the personnel
(military or civilian) of any of the foregoing.
Except as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the
appointment to the office of Director, or Deputy Director, of a
commissioned officer of the armed services, and his acceptance
of and service in such office, shall in no way affect any
status, office, rank, or grade he may occupy or hold in the
armed services, or any emolument, perquisite, right, privilege,
or benefit incident to or arising out of any such status,
office, rank, or grade. Any such commissioned officer shall,
while serving in the office of Director, or Deputy Director,
continue to hold rank and grade not lower than that in which
serving at the time of his appointment and to receive the
military pay and allowances (active or retired, as the case may
be, including personal money allowance) payable to a
commissioned officer of his grade and length of service for
which the appropriate department shall be reimbursed from any
funds available to defray the expenses of the Central
Intelligence Agency. He also shall be paid by the Central
Intelligence Agency from such funds an annual compensation at a
rate equal to the amount by which the compensation established
for such position exceeds the amount of his annual military pay
The rank or grade of any such commissioned officer shall,
during the period in which such commissioned officer occupies
the office of Director of Central Intelligence, or Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence, be in addition to the numbers
and percentages otherwise authorized and appropriated for the
armed service of which he is a member.
(c) Termination of employment of officers and employees; effect
on right of subsequent employment.
the provisions of section 652 of Title 5, or the
provisions of any other law, the Director of Central
Intelligence may, in his discretion, terminate the employment of
any officer or employee of the Agency whenever he shall deem
such termination necessary or advisable in the interests of the
United States, but such termination shall not affect the right
of such officer or employee to seek or accept employment in any
other department or agency of the Government if declared
eligible for such employment by the United States Civil Service
the purpose of coordinating the intelligence activities of
the several Government departments and agencies in the interest
of national security, it shall be the duty of the Agency, under
the direction of the National Security Council --
to advise the National Security Council in matters
concerning such intelligence activities of the Government
departments and agencies as relate to national security;
to make recommendations to the National Security Council for
the coordination of such intelligence activities of the
departments and agencies of the Government as relate to the
to correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to the
national security, and provide for the appropriate dissemination
of such intelligence within the Government using where
appropriate existing agencies and facilities: Provided, That
the Agency shall have no police, subpoena, law-enforcement
powers, or internal-security functions: Provided further, That
the departments and other agencies of the Government shall
continue to collect, evaluate, correlate, and disseminate
departmental intelligence: And provided further, That the
Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for
protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized
to perform, for the benefit of the existing intelligence
agencies, such additional services of common concern as the
National Security Council determines can be more efficiently
accomplished centrally;
to perform such other functions and duties related to
intelligence affecting the national security as the National
the extent recommended by the National Security Council and
approved by the President, such intelligence of the departments
and agencies of the Government, except as hereinafter provided,
relating to the national security shall be open to the
inspection of the Director of Central Intelligence, and such
intelligence as relates to the national security and is
possessed by such departments and other agencies of the
Government, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made
available to the Director of Central Intelligence for
correlation, evaluation, and dissemination: Provided, however,
That upon the written request of the Director of Central
Investigation shall make available to the Director of Central
Intelligence such information for correlation, evaluation, and
dissemination as may be essential to the national security.
(f) Termination of National Intelligence Authority; transfer of
personnel, property, records, and unexpended funds.
when the Director first appointed under subsection (a)
of this section has taken office -- (1)
the National Intelligence Authority (11 Fed. Reg. 1337, 1339, February 5, 1946) shall cease to exist; and
the personnel, property, and records of the Central
Intelligence Group are transferred to the Central Intelligence
Agency, and such Group shall cease to exist. Any unexpended
balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds
available or authorized to be made available for such Group
shall be available and shall be authorized to be made available
in like manner for expenditure by the Agency.
NO. 11460. PRESIDENTS
Ord. No. 11460, Mar. 20, 1969, 34 F.R. 5535, provided: By
virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United
States, it is ordered as follows:
1. There is hereby established the Presidents Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, hereinafter referred to as "the
Board". The Board shall:
advise the President concerning the objectives, conduct,
management and coordination of the various activities making up
the overall national intelligence effort;
conduct a continuing review and assessment of foreign
intelligence and related activities in which the Central
Intelligence Agency and other Government departments and
agencies are engaged;
receive, consider and take appropriate action with respect
to matters identified to the Board, by the Central Intelligence
Agency and other Government departments and agencies of the
intelligence community, in which the support of the Board will
further the effectiveness of the national intelligence effort; and
report to the President concerning the Boards findings and
appraisals, and make appropriate recommendations for actions to
achieve increased effectiveness of the Governments foreign
intelligence effort in meeting national intelligence needs.
2. In order to facilitate performance of the Boards
functions, the Director of Central Intelligence and the heads of
all other departments and agencies shall make available to the
Board all information with respect to foreign intelligence and
related matters which the Board may require for the purpose of
carrying out its responsibilities to the President in accordance
with the terms of this Order. Such information made available
to the Board shall be given all necessary security protection in
accordance with the terms and provisions of applicable laws and
3. Members of the Board shall be appointed by the
President from among persons outside the Government, qualified
on the basis of knowledge and experience in matters relating to
the national defense and security, or possessing other knowledge
and abilities which may be expected to contribute to the
effective performance of the Boards duties. The members of the
Board shall receive such compensation and allowances, consonant
with law, as may be prescribed hereafter.
4. The Board shall have a staff headed by an Executive
Secretary, who shall be appointed by the President and shall
receive such compensation and allowances, consonant with law, as
may be prescribed by the Board. The Executive Secretary shall
be authorized, subject to the approval of the Board and
consonant with law, to appoint and fix the compensation of such
personnel as may be necessary for performance of the Boards
5. Compensation and allowances of the Board, the Executive
Secretary, and members of the staff, together with other
expenses arising in connection with the work of the Board, shall
be paid from the appropriation appearing under the heading
"Special Projects" in the Executive Office Appropriation Act,
1969, Public Law 90-350, 82 Stat. 195, and, to the extent
permitted by law, from any corresponding appropriation which may
be made for subsequent years. Such payments shall be made
without regard to the provisions of section 3681 of the Revised
Statues and section 9 of the Act of March 4, 1909, 35 Stat. 1027
(31 U.S.C. 672 and 673)
6. Executive Order No. 10938 of May 4, 1961, is hereby
revoked. RICHARD NIXON. SHORT TITLE
June 20, 1949, § 10, formerly § 12, 63 Stat. 212,
renumbered July 7, 1958, Pub. L. 85-507, § 21(b) (2), 72
Stat. 337, provided that Act June 20, 1949, which is classified to
sections 403a-403j of this title, should be popularly known as
the "Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949".
In the performance of its functions the Central Intelligence
Agency is authorized to exercise the authorities contained in
sections 151 (c) (1)-(6), (10), (1), (15), (17), 155 and 159 of
In the exercise of the authorities granted in subsection (a)
of this section, the term "Agency head" shall mean the Director,
the Deputy Director, or the Executive of the Agency.
The determinations and decisions provided in subsection (a)
of this section to be made by the Agency head may be made with
respect to individual purchases and contracts or with respect to
classes of purchases or contracts, and shall be final. Except
as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the Agency head
is authorized to delegate his powers provided in this section,
including the making of such determinations and decisions, in
his discretion and subject to his direction to any other officer
or officers or officials of the Agency.
The power of the Agency head to make the determinations or
decisions specified in sections 151 (c) (1), (15), and 154 (a)
of Title 41 shall not be delegable. Each determination or
decision required by sections 151 (c) (12), (15), 153, or 154
(a) of Title 41, shall be based upon written findings made by
the official making such determinations, which findings shall be
final and shall be available within the Agency for a period of
at least six years following the date of the determination.
(June 20, 1949, ch. 227, § 3, 63 Stat. 208.)
the performance of its functions, the Central Intelligence
Agency is authorized to --
Transfer to and receive from other Government agencies such
sums as may be approved by the Office of Management and Budget,
for the performance of any of the functions or activities
authorized under sections 403 and 405 of this title, and any
other Government agency is authorized to transfer to or receive
from the Agency such sums without regard to any provisions of
law limiting or prohibiting transfers between appropriations.
Sums transferred to the Agency in accordance with this paragraph
may be expended for the purposes and under the authority of
sections 403a to 403c, 403e to 403h, and 403j of this title
without regard to limitations of appropriations from which
Exchange funds without regard to section 543 of Title 31;
Reimburse other Government agencies for services of
personnel assigned to the Agency, and such other Government
agencies are authorized, without regard to provisions of law to
the contrary, so to assign or detail any officer or employee for
duty with the Agency;
Authorize couriers and guards designated by the Director to
carry firearms when engaged in transportation of confidential
documents and materials affecting the national defense and
security; (e)
Make alterations, improvements, and repairs on premises
rented by the Agency, and pay rent therefor without regard to
limitations on expenditures contained in the Act of June 30,
1932, as amended: Provided, That in each case the Director
shall certify that exception from such limitations is necessary
to the successful performance of the Agencys functions or to the
security of its activities. (June 20, 1949, ch. 227, § 5, formerly § 6, 63 Stat. 211; June 26, 1951, ch. 151, 65 Stat. 89; renumbered July 7, 1958, Pub. L 85-507, § 21(b) (2), 72 Stat. 337, and amended Aug. 19,
1964, Pub. L. 88-448, title IV, § 402(a) (28), 78 Stat. 494; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. July 1, 1970, 35
F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. --.)
act of June 30, 1932, as amended,
referred to in subsec. (c), is the Legislative Branch
Appropriation Act, 1933, act June 30, 1932, ch. 314, 47 Stat.
393, and is classified to section 303b of Title 40, Public
Buildings, Property, and Works.
was not enacted as a part of the National
Security Act of 1947 which comprises this chapter.
the interests of the security of the foreign intelligence
activities of the United States and in order further to
implement the proviso of section 403 (d) (3) of this title that
the Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for
disclosure, the Agency shall be exempted from the provisions of
section 654 of Title 5, and the provisions of any other law
which require the publication or disclosure of the organization,
functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency: Provided, That in furtherance
Budget shall make no reports to the Congress in connection with
the Agency under section 947(b) of Title 5. (June 20, 1949, ch. 227, § 6, formerly § 7, 63 Stat. 211, renumbered July 7, 1958, Pub. L. 85-507, § 21 (b) (2), 72 Stat. 337; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. --.)
§ 403h. Same; admission of essential aliens; limitation on
the Director, the Attorney General, and the
Commissioner of Immigration shall determine that the entry of a
particular alien into the United States for permanent residence
is in the interest of national security or essential to the
furtherance of the national intelligence mission, such alien and
his immediate family shall be given entry into the United States
for permanent residence without regard to their inadmissibility
under the immigration or any other laws and regulations, or to
the failure to comply with such laws and regulations pertaining
to admissibility: Provided, That the number of aliens and
members of their immediate families entering the United States
under the authority of this section shall in no case exceed one
hundred persons in any one fiscal year. (June 20, 1949, ch.
227, § 7, formerly § 8, 63 Stat. 212, renumbered July 7, 1958, Pub. L. 85-507, § 21 (b) (2), 72 Stat. 337.)
was not enacted as a part of the National Security Act
of 1947 which comprises this chapter.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, sums made
available to the Agency by appropriation or otherwise may be
expended for purposes necessary to carry out its functions,
personal services, including personal services without
regard to limitations on types of persons to be employed, and
rent at the seat of government and elsewhere; health-service
program as authorized by section 150 of Title 5; rental of
news-reporting services; purchase or rental and operation of
photographic, reproduction, cryptographic, duplication and
printing machines, equipment and devices, and radio-receiving
and radio-sending equipment; purchase, maintenance, operation,
repair, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and aircraft, and
vessels of all kinds; subject to policies established by the
Director, transportation of officers and employees of the Agency
in Government-owned automotive equipment between their domiciles
and places of employment, where such personnel are engaged in
work which makes such transportation necessary, and
transportation in such equipment, to and from school of children
of Agency personnel who have quarters for themselves and their
families at isolated stations outside the continental United
States where adequate public or private transportation is not
available; printing and binding; purchase, maintenance, and
cleaning of firearms, including purchase, storage, and
maintenance of ammunition; subject to policies established by
the Director, expenses of travel in connection with, and
expenses incident to attendance at meetings of professional,
technical, scientific, and other similar organizations when such
attendance would be a benefit in the conduct of the work of the
Agency; association and library dues; payment of premiums or
costs of surety bonds for officers or employees without regard
to the provisions of section 14 of Title 6; payment of claims
pursuant to Title 8; acquisition of necessary land and the
clearing of such land; construction of buildings and facilities
without regard to sections 59 and 67 of Title 40; repair,
rental, operation, and maintenance of buildings, utilities,
facilities, and appurtenances; and
supplies, equipment, and personnel and contractual services
otherwise authorized by law and regulations, when approved by
The sums made available to the Agency may be expended
without regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating
to the expenditure of Government funds; and for objects of a
confidential, extraordinary, or emergency nature, such
expenditures to be accounted for solely on the certificate of
the Director and every such certificate shall be deemed a
sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified. (June 20,
1949, ch. 227, § 8, formerly § 10, 63 Stat. 212, renumbered July 7, 1958, Pub. L. 85-507, § 21 (b) (2), 72 Stat. 337)
259 and 267 of Title 40, referred to
in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 86-249, § 17 (12), Sept. 9,
1959, 73 Stat. 485. See chapter 12 of Title 40, Public
Buildings, Property and Works.
The Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, the
Director of Central Intelligence, and the National Security
Council, acting through its Executive Secretary, are authorized
to appoint such advisory committees and to employ, consistent
with other provisions of this Act, such part-time advisory
personnel as they may deem necessary in carrying out their
respective functions and the functions of agencies under their
control. Persons holding other offices or positions under the
United States for which they receive compensation, while serving
as members of such committees, shall receive no additional
compensation for such service. Other members of such committees
and other part-time advisory personnel so employed may serve
without compensation or may receive compensation at a rate not
to exceed $50 for each day of service, as determined by the
Service of an individual as a member of any such advisory
committee, or in any other part-time capacity for a department
or agency hereunder, shall not be considered as service bringing
such individual within the provisions of sections 281, 283, or
284 of Title 18, unless the act of such individual, which by
such section is made unlawful when performed by an individual
referred to in such section, is with respect to any particular
matter which directly involves a department or agency which such
person is advising or in which such department or agency is
directly interested. (July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title III, § 303,
61 Stat. 507; Aug. 10, 1949, ch. 41, § 10(c), 63 Stat. 585; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 8, 68 Stat. 1228.)
part of the funds appropriated in any act shall be used to
pay (1) any person, firm, or corporation, or any combinations of
persons, firms, or corporations, to conduct a study or to plan
when and how or in what circumstances the Government of the
United States should surrender this country and its people to
any foreign power, (2) the salary or compensation of any
employee or official of the Government of the united States who
proposes or contracts or who has entered into contracts for the
making of studies or plans for the surrender by the government
of the United States of this country and its people to any
foreign power in any event or under any circumstances. (Pub. L.
85-766, ch. XVI, § 1602, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 884.)
was not enacted as part of the National
Security Act of 1947, which comprises this chapter.
The term "Department of the Army" as used in this Act shall
be construed to mean the Department of the Army at the seat of
the government and all field headquarters, forces, reserve
components, installations, activities, and functions under the
control or supervision of the Department of the Army.
The term "Department of the Navy" as used in this Act shall
be construed to mean the Department of the Navy at the seat of
the government; the headquarters, United States Marine Corps; the entire operating forces of the united States Navy, including
naval aviation, and of the United States Marine Corps, including
the reserve components of such forces; all field activities,
headquarters, forces, bases, installations, activities, and
functions under the control or supervision of the Department of
the Navy; and the United States Coast Guard when operating as a
part of the Navy pursuant to law.
The term "Department of the Air Force" as used in this Act
shall be construed to mean the Department of the Air Force at
the seat of the government and all field headquarters, forces,
reserve components, installations, activities, and functions
under the control or supervision of the Department of the Air
Force. (July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, §§ 205(c), 206(a),
207(c), 61 Stat. 501, 502.)