titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed.” The act also pro-
vides that CIAfunds could be hidden in the budgets of other depart-
ments and then transferred to the agency without regard to the restric-
tions placed on the initial appropriation. As such, the act contributes to
the legal basis for CIAsecrecy over its activities and intelligence budg-
ets. See alsoINTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT.CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION ACT.
The Central Intelligence Agency Information Act, signed by President
Ronald Reaganon 15 October 1984, amended the National Security
Act of 1947 to relieve the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the
necessity of searching for and reviewing records in its “operational”
files, thereby protecting the CIAfrom Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests about its operations and security processes. The CIA
must still apply Executive Order 12356and other appropriate regu-
lations to records and materials not covered by this act. Such records
include the final intelligence products that are directed to national pol-
icymakers as well as administrative and other “nonoperational” files.CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP (CIG).Established on 22
January 1946 as part of the National Intelligence Authority(NIA),
which was to make intelligence policy while the CIG was to imple-
ment it. The CIG was also charged with coordinating information
produced by America’s various intelligence agencies in the aftermath
of World War II—most of them military—and was dependent on
the defense establishment and the Department of Statefor its
budget. At this early stage in the development of America’s postwar
intelligence apparatus, the CIG’s principal work was the preparation
of an intelligence summary for the president.
In March 1946,army, navy, and air force intelligence were directed
to cooperate with the CIG to prepare an evaluation of Sovietmilitary
capabilities, but the military refused to give the CIG any information.
As a result, General Hoyt Vandenberg, the director of central in-
telligence (DCI) at the time, sought and won permission for the CIG
to generate its own intelligence. DCI Vandenberg also won the right
to collect intelligence in Latin America, which until then had been
performed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and to or-
ganize the Office of Special Operations (OSO), which combined the24 • CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION ACT05-398 (2) Dictionary.qxd 10/20/05 6:27 AM Page 24