Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 161. Special Inquiries Requested by the White House, Congressional Committees, and Other Government Agencies.

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Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Classification 161. Special Inquiries Requested by the White House, Congressional Committees, and Other Government Agencies.

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The Bureau opened this classification in 1960 in SAC Letter 60-51 for investigations of prospective White House employees from low-level non-professionals to senior staff officials such as general counsel or head of Office of Management and Budget. After 1962, the only changes occuring in these investigations concern Internal Revenue Service (IRS) material. Under the authority of a 1961 letter from President Kennedy, the IRS provided tax information on applicants. Reacting to a Congressional investigation in 1974 the IRS began to tell the FBI only if an applicant owed taxes tather than giving a dollar amount. The Tax Reform Act of 1976 necessitated a waiver from the applicant that also identified the agency to receive the information. In addition to investigating White House appointees, the FBI has investigated applicants for the Peace Corps and its successor agencies, the Church Committee (1974-1975) and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (1976-1977). Since 1953 the Bureau was also given authority to investigate standing committee staffs of the Senate and House Appropriations, Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations, and the Joint committee on Atomic Energy. when Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller were appointed Vice-President, the FBI investigated them also.

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...