199. Memorandum From the Director of Central Intelligence (Vandenberg) to the National Intelligence Authority0
Washington, July 30, 1946.
SUBJECT
- Establishment of a Special Working Fund for the Central Intelligence Group
REFERENCE
- Minutes of N.I.A. 4th Meeting1
- 1.
- At the fourth meeting of the National Intelligence Authority, the Secretary of State undertook to discuss with the Bureau of the Budget the solution of the problems mentioned at that meeting by General Vandenberg. One of these problems was to devise a means whereby any funds made available for C.I.G. activities authorized by N.I.A. will be transferred by the State, War, and Navy Departments to the Director of Central Intelligence, and expended under the supervision of the N.I.A. by [Page 534] him without the cumbersome and duplicative administrative procedures now required.
- 2.
- The Secretary of State discussed this matter with the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, and personnel from the Central Intelligence Group subsequently explored the problem in detail with representatives of the Bureau of the Budget, the Treasury Department, and the General Accounting Office. The Bureau of the Budget and the Treasury Department have definitely indicated a willingness to cooperate, and the General Accounting Office has promised to give the matter sympathetic consideration. All three agencies have indicated that the transmittal of the enclosed letter is now in order, and that it will be considered expeditiously.
- 3.
- It is therefore recommended that the National Intelligence Authority approve the transmittal of the enclosed letter, and that it be signed by the Cabinet members as indicated therein.
- Source: Central Intelligence Agency Historical Files, HS/HC–804, Item 2, Job 84–B00443R, Box 7. Confidential. The source text is a transcript prepared for the CIA Historian on September 4, 1952.↩
- See Document 198.↩
- Printed from a copy that indicates Vandenberg signed the original.↩
- Confidential. The source text is marked “copy” and may be a transcript made for the CIA Historian, although it is not so marked.↩
- Printed from a copy that indicates the original was signed by the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy and by Admiral Leahy, the President’s Personal Representative on the NIA.↩