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Memorandum from Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach to President Harry S. Truman
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Memorandum from Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach to President Harry S. Truman
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SFR 2 1947
Any the AND
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM THE SECRETARY OF LABOR
(álgasd) L. B. Schwellanback
Title I of the National Security Act of 1947 creates the National Security
Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Re-
sources Board. The Secretaries of the Executive Departments may be
designated by the President for membership on the National Security Council
and the heads or representatives of such Departments may be similarly
designated for membership on the National Security Resources Board. The
Central Intelligence Agency will have a Director of Central Intelligence
at its head. When the Director takes office, the National Intelligence
Authority ceases to exist and the personnel, property, and records of
the Central Intelligence Group are transferred to the new Central
Intelligence Agency.
This memorandum is written to acquaint you with the interest of the
Department of Labor in the three agencies referred to above.
The Secretary of Labor is a statutory member of the Council of National
Defense which continues in existence after the effective date of the
National Security Act of 1947. The functions of the Council of National
Defense parallel to some extent the functions of the new National Security
Council.
The legislative history of Section 103 of the National Security Act which
creates the National Security Resources Board (particularly the Eberstadt
Report to Secretary of the Navy Forrestal printed by the Senate Committee
on Naval Affairs on October 22, 1945) clearly indicates that the Department
of Labor should be represented in the membership of the National Security
Resources Board. The Eberstadt Report also recommends (p. 9) "a considerable
identity of membership between the National Security Council and the National
Security Resources Board."
The Department of Labor is now represented on the Intelligence Advisory
Board to the Director of Central Intelligence under the direction and
control of the Central Intelligence Authority established by Presidential
Directive of January 22, 1946, which will be superseded by the Central
Intelligence Agency created by Section 102 of the National Security Act.
The Department's interest in central intelligence activities derives from
its responsibilities for international labor matters.