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Defense Reorganization Acts (1950, 1953, 1958).Following quasi‐unification of the armed forces in the Department of Defense, created by the National Security Act of 1947, Congress passed the Army Reorganization Act of 1950 to achieve simplicity and flexibility in the army's statutory organization. The law revised provisions, some of which ...
The act was so weak regarding management of the new Defense Department that it had to be significantly amended in 1949, and Congress did not mandate the structure and processes necessary for a ...
The National Security Act of 1947 did not explicitly authorize the CIA to conduct covert operations, although Section 102(d)(5) was sufficiently vague to permit abuse. [2] [3] At the very first meetings of the NSC in late 1947, the perceived necessity to "stem the flow of communism" in Western Europe —particularly Italy —by overt and covert ...
The National Security Council was established by the National Security Act of 1947 (PL 235 – 61 Stat. 496; U.S.C. 402), amended by the National Security Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. 579; 50 ...
Jun 5, 2009 · OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING [Section 103 of the National Security Act of 1947, 61 Stat. 499, provided for a National Security Resources Board. The functions of the National Security Resources Board were transferred to the Chair- man of the National Security Resources Board by section 1, Reorgani- zation Plan No. 25 of 1950, 64 Stat. 1280 ...
Jul 26, 2017 · An important step towards both of those goals occurred in the passage of the 1947 National Security Act, which turns 70 today, July 26. After massive spending to win World War II, the public was tired of constant war-readiness and the high taxes that accompanied it. At the same time, President Truman and his advisers were gravely concerned ...
Apr 10, 2023 · Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, P.L. 108-458, 118 Stat. 3638 (codified as amended in scattered titles of the U.S.C.). The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 amended the National Security Act of 1947 to create the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
