Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of all, it was Blumenthal who last fall finally imposed some order on Carter's chaotic policymaking apparatus. Early in the Administration, programs were supposed to be coordinated...
This week, despite the growing controversy about the admiral, he will get much of the broader powers that he wanted, and from his old Annapolis mate Jimmy Carter. The President on Tuesday will sign an order reorganizing the entire U.S. intelligence community, which embraces the CIA and the intelligence arms of the FBI, the State and Defense departments and the individual military services. The directive will give Turner authority over all intelligence budgets (estimated total: $7 billion). But, as decreed by the President last summer, the order stops short of giving Turner the job he most coveted: U.S. intelligence czar...
...executive order was one of the first projects begun by Carter after taking office, but it still took almost a year to produce. One reason: he rejected the first version, submitted in August by the National Security Council, as incomprehensible. An adviser recalls that the President said, "I don't understand it, and I doubt anybody else...
Under the new order, Turner will get "full and exclusive authority" over preparing the intelligence community's budgets. He will also operate through a new National Intelligence Tasking Center-made up of officers from the entire intelligence community-to assign intelligence projects to each agency and coordinate their activities. But each department will retain operational authority over its own intelligence arms. Thus while the Tasking Center can order the Pentagon's National Reconnaissance Office to continue operating spy-in-the-sky satellites, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown will control the office's day-to-day operations...
After Carter signs the order, he will ask Congress to enact it, giving it the permanency of law. It is expected to encounter little opposition despite the rising concern in Washington about Turner. Some senior advisers to Carter regard him as a poor manager of people and somewhat overweening. But they believe that another change at the top would only further damage the CIA, which has had five directors in five years. Still, by getting a new charter for all U.S. intelligence activities written into law, the Administration hopes to make spy operations more orderly and efficient, and keep them...