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The Department of the Air Force has responsibilities in
the internal security field which include (1) the safeguard-
ing of classified information and materiel within the Air
Force; (2) defense of the Air Force establishment against
espionage, sabotage, treason, disaffection, and subversion;
and (3) the furnishing of adequate, timely and reliable in-
telligence within the Department of the Air Force.
The Department of the Treasury has responsibilities in
the internal security field which include (1) protection of
the President of the United States; (2) prevention of smuggl-
ing; (3) determining whether merchandise is of a character
permitting its attempted entry into or export from the United
States; and (4) enforcement of the National and Federal Fire-
arms Acts.
The Atonic Energy Commission has responsibilities con-
cerned with the control of restricted data relating to the
manufacture or utilization of atomic weapons, the production
of fissionable material, or the use of fissionable material
in the production of power.
The National Security Resources Board has the responsi-
bility of advising the President concerning the coordination
of military, industrial and civilian nobilization. Indica-
tive of the Board's internal security interest is that seg-
mont of its functions which relates to the strategic reloca-
tion of industries and Government, the continuous operation
of which is essential to the Nation's security.
In addition to the agencies specifically nentioned above, there are
nunerous others which have varying degrees of interest in the internal security
field such as: (1) the Federal Communications Connission from the standpoint of
regulating and, in certain instances, monitoring interstate and foreign commerce
in communication by wire and radio; (2) the Departnent of Agriculture fron such
a standpoint as the perpetration of unconventional attacks upon human, plant or
aninal life through the nediun of bacteriological warfare; (3) the Public Health
Service from the standpoint of its concern with the health of the Nation, a nat-
ter which is important in peacetime and which assumes added importance in t ine
of hostilities; (4) the Central Intelligence Agency from the standpoint of se-
curing and providing foreign intelligence necessary for the better operation of
the internal security structure, even though it is fully recognized fron an ex-
amination of the law which constituted the Central Intelligence Agency that it
has no internal security functions as such; etc., etc.
NSC 17
- 2A -
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