The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 appears to be at the root of providing the CIA with the ability to kill Members of Congress and perpetrate other nefarious acts inside the United States. Two years after the CIA was created under the National Security Act of 1947, Congress passed the Central Intelligence Agency Act, which made the CIA a much more powerful entity and marked the beginning of the government losing control. It is abundantly clear that Members of Congress had no idea what was in the 1949 legislation when they voted on it.
The New York Times reported that on Friday, March 4, 1949, “The House Rules Committee cleared a super-secret measure legalizing the work of the Central Intelligence Agency,” adding that the work of the CIA had been previously “accomplished under Executive Order . . . . The super-secret measure gives legal backing to the work of the Central Intelligence Agency . . . . Members of the Armed Services Committee have said that the spy bill is so vital and so confidential that almost nothing can be told of its aims.”
On Sunday, March 6, Congressman Clarence Brown of the House Rules Committee said “he was ‘confident’ that Congress would not put through secret legislation to hurt the nation, but only for its benefit . . . . Without much explanation, the measure gives the CIA authority to hire secretly and spend money freely, and without strings, in carrying on its activities.”
The New York Times reported that on Monday, March 7, just three short days after the “super-secret measure” made it out of the House Rules Committee, the House approved the legislation 348 to 4 “in an atmosphere of defense secrecy . . . . The vote was taken with the Members generally knowing little about how new authority proposed for the Central Intelligence Agency would be used.”
The House Armed Services Committee “bluntly” told the House of Representatives that “this program could not be discussed openly . . . . House rules were suspended to take up the bill under conditions permitting no amendments and requiring a two thirds vote for passage. Members yielded readily. Few questions were asked.”
“The House and Senate Armed Services Committee both held secret hearings on the bill and told Members of Congress that full details could not be discussed in debate.” Debate in the House was “limited to twenty minutes for and twenty minutes against” the legislation.
The House of Representatives debated the Central Intelligence Agency Act for no more than forty minutes and essentially had no idea what it said. Four years later, the CIA began putting LSD into the food of unsuspecting Americans and soon got around to opening and reading U.S. mail, carrying out massive operations targeting Americans, conducting intelligence operations targeting the White House, killing Members of Congress, and having CIA officers elected to Congress in violation of the Constitution.
The Senate unanimously passed the new legislation that would “maintain the utmost in secrecy for all aspects of the Central Intelligence Agency, including all of its activities, personnel and expenditures . . . . The measure was described by its principal sponsor, Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland, as granting to the agency a degree of secrecy for its operations, even from Congress, that had no parallel in peacetime.”
“The bill gives immunity to the CIA from every ordinary form of Congressional supervision and restraint . . . . It authorizes the agency’s director to disburse the money ‘made available’ to him ‘without regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to the expenditures of government funds.’
“The measure lets the Central Intelligence Agency do its hiring and spending in a secrecy not allowed to other government agencies . . . and authorizes the Central Intelligence Agency to assign its agents to schools, industrial organizations, labor unions, and other groups in this country,” supposedly “for training.”
On June 20, 1949, “President Truman signed a bill setting up statutory operating authority for the super-secret Central Intelligence Agency.”
The National Security Act that Truman signed into law in 1947 was apparently not really a law. The alleged “statutory operating authority” that “gives legal backing” to the CIA appears to be an excuse for the new legislation as Congress began to relinquish control while setting the stage for the CIA to take control.
If the new legislation was meant to “legalize” the work of the CIA, then was the CIA operating “illegally” with no “statutory operating authority” prior to 1949, or did the CIA need special laws passed that allowed them to secretly commit egregious crimes inside the United States with impunity, all in the name of national security?
The 1949 news article about Truman signing the bill into law reiterated that it authorizes the CIA to “assign its agents to schools, industrial organizations, labor unions, and other groups in this country,” supposedly “for training.”
The “Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States” said that the CIA established an “Office of Training” in 1951, and it “has long worked closely with the Directorate of Operations to train agents in the special skills necessary for clandestine operations.”
But the Commission focused only on CIA Activities Within the United States, which means the CIA would conduct “clandestine operations” inside the United States under the guise of “training” CIA officers, and CIA officers could certainly use “schools, industrial organizations, labor unions, and other groups in this country” for cover when they target U.S. citizens with “clandestine operations.”
No one would think of normal, everyday, working Americans as spies gathering intelligence and conducting secretive operations targeting other Americans. Using the guise of “training” is just another excuse for allowing the CIA to run rampant inside the United States. In 1984, a CIA officer stated that she remembered me from a few years earlier when she had been undergoing her “training.”
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