Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Applicant Intelligence Agency.

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Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Headquarters Case Files. Part B: Applicant Intelligence Agency.

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This classification covers applicant background investigations of persons under consideration for employement by the Central Intelligence Group, a predeceesor of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Bureau's Executive Conference recommended in 1946 that the FBI assume responsibility for these investigations in order to "prevent the Central Intelligence Group from having any justification for an investigative unit operating within the United States" and to ensure FBI access to the identities of Central Intelligence Group personnel. Bureau Bulletin 49 (1946) launched the program and instructed investigating agents to concentrate on developing information concerning the applicant's reliability, reputation, patriotism, and loyalty. The first case opened in the classification is dated September 1946. A year after the Bureau assumed responsibility for background investigations of intelligence agency applicants, it's executives began to negotiate for release from this responsibility. The effort did not succeed until June 1950 when the last request for an investigation of this type was accepted by the Bureau. The classification was declared obsolete in 1952.

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