The formulation and implementation of United States disarmament policy in a manner which will promote the national security requires a central organization charged by statute with primary responsibility for this field. This organization must be so placed within the Government that it can provide the President, the Secretary of State, other officials of the executive branch, and the Congress with recommendations concerning United States disarmament policy, and can assess the effect of these recommendations upon our foreign policies, our national security policies, and our economy.

This organization must have the capacity to provide the essential scientific, economic, political, military, psychological, and technological information upon which realistic disarmament policy must be based. It must be able to carry out the following primary functions:

(1) The conduct, support, and coordination of research for disarmament policy formulation.

(2) The preparation for and direction of United States participation in international negotiations in the disarmament field.

(3) The dissemination and coordination of public information concerning disarmament.

(4) The preparation for, operation of, or as appropriate, direction of United States participation in such control systems as may become part of United States disarmament activities.

SEC. 3. As used in this Act

DEFINITIONS

(a) The term "disarmament" includes the elimination, reduction, control, limitation, inspection, verification, or identification, of armed forces and armaments of all kinds under international agreement or measure, including the necessary steps in connection with disarmament to create and strengthen international organizations for the maintenance of peace.

(b) The term "Government agency" means any executive department, commission, agency, independent establishment, corporation wholly or partly owned by the United States which is an instrumentality of the United States, or any board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment in the executive branch of Government.

(c) The term "Agency" means the United States Disarmament Agency. (d) The term "person" means (1) any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, Government agency other than the Agency, any State or any political subdivision thereof or any political entity within a State, any foreign government or nation, any international organization, or other entity, and (2) any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing.

TITLE II-ORGANIZATION

UNITED STATES DISARMAMENT AGENCY FOR WORLD PEACE AND SECURITY

SEC. 21. There is hereby established the United States Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security.

SEC. 22. The Agency shall be headed by a Director. He shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. He shall receive compensation at the rate of $22,500 per annum. The Director shall serve as the principal adviser to the President on disarmament matters. Under the direction of the President and the Secretary of State, the Director shall have primary responsibility within the Government for disarmament matters.

DEPUTY DIRECTOR

SEC. 23. A Deputy Director of the Agency shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. He shall receive compensa tion at the rate of $21,500 per annum. The Deputy Director shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the Director may prescribe. He shall act for, and exercise the powers of, the Director during his absence or disability or during a vacancy in said office.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS

SEC. 24. Not to exceed four Assistant Directors may be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. They shall receive compensation at the rate of $20,000 per annum. They shall perform such duties and exercise such power as the Director may prescribe.

BUREAUS, OFFICERS, AND DIVISIONS

SEC. 25. The Director may establish within the Agency such program and staff bureaus, offices, and divisions as he may determine to be necessary to discharge his responsibilities under this Act, including, but not limited to, an Office of Public Affairs and an Office of the General Counsel.

GENERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

SEC. 26. The President may appoint a General Advisory Committee of not to exceed fifteen members to advise the Director on disarmament policy and activities. The President shall designate one of the members as Chairman. The members of the committee may receive the compensation and reimbursement for expenses specified for consultants by section 41(d) of this Act.

TITLE III-FUNCTIONS

RESEARCH

SEC. 31. The Director is authorized and directed to exercise his powers in such manner as to insure the conduct of research, development, and other studies relating to disarmament, by private or public institutions or persons, and to assist in the acquisition of a fund of theoretical and practical knowledge in this field. To this end, the Director, under the direction of the President, is authorized and directed to coordinate the research, development, and other studies conducted in this field by or for other Government agencies in accordance with procedures established under section 37 of this Act. To the same end, the Director is authorized and directed to make arrangements (including contracts, agreements, and grants) for the conduct of research, development, and other studies relating to disarmament, including:

(a) the detection, identification, inspection, monitoring, limitation, reduction, control, and elimination of armed forces and armaments, including thermonuclear, nuclear, missile, conventional, bacteriological, chemical, and radiological weapons;

(b) the techniques and systems of detecting, identifying, inspecting, and monitoring of tests of nuclear, thermonuclear, and other weapons;

(c) The analysis of national budgets, levels of industrial production, and economic indicators to determine the amounts spent by various countries for armaments;

(d) the control, reduction, and elimination of armed forces and armaments in space, in areas on and beneath the earth's surface, and in underwater regions;

(e) the structure and operation of international control and other organizations useful for disarmament;

(f) the training of scientists, technicians, and other personnel for manning the control systems which may be created by international disarmament agreements;

(g) the reduction and elimination of the danger of war resulting from accident, miscalculation, or surprise attack, including (but not limited to) improvements in the methods of communications between nations;

(h) the economic and political consequences of disarmament, including the problems of readjustment arising in industry and the reallocation of national resources;

(i) the disarmament implications of foreign and national security policies of the United States with a view to a better understanding of the significance of such policies for the achievement of disarmament;

(j) the national security and foreign policy implications of disarmament proposals with a view to a better understanding of the effect of such proposals upon national security and foreign policy;

(k) methods for the maintenance of peace and security during different stages of disarmament;

(1) scientific, economic, political, legal, social, psychological, military. and technological factors related to the prevention of war with a view to a better understanding of how the basic structure of a lasting peace may be established;

(m) such related problems as the Director may determine to be in need of research, development, or study in order to carry out the provisions of this Act.

RESEARCH FACILITIES

SEC. 32. The Director is authorized (1) to conduct and support research, development, and other studies of the types specified in the preceding section through use of the Agency's own facilities, and (2) to use, with their consent, the facilities of other Government agencies or those of outside organizations. In carrying out his responsibilities under this Act the Director shall, to the extent feasible, make full use of available facilities, Government and private, and may construct such new laboratories as he deems necessary.

POLICY FORMULATION

SEC. 33. The Director is authorized and directed to prepare for the President, the Secretary of State, and the heads of such other Government agencies as the President may determine, recommendations concerning United States disarmament policy.

NEGOTIATION OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

SEC. 34. Under the direction of the Secretary of State, the Director may (a) consult and communicate with or direct the consultation and communication with representatives of other nations or of international organizations for the purpose of conducting negotiations concerning disarmament or for the purpose of exercising any other authority given to the Director by this Act; and (b) communicate in the name of the Secretary with diplomatic representatives of the United States in this country and abroad.

PUBLIC INFORMATION

SEC. 35. Under the direction of the Secretary of State, the Director shall perform functions pursuant to section 2(c) of Reorganization Plan 8 of 1953 with respect to the dissemination abroad of information concerning United States disarmament activities.

INSPECTION AND CONTROL

SEC. 36. The Director is authorized (1) to formulate plans and make preparations for the establishment, operation, and funding of inspection and control systems which may become part of the United States disarmament activities and, (2) as appropriate, to put into effect, direct, or otherwise assume United States responsibility for such systems.

COOPERATION AND COORDINATION

SEC. 37. The Director, in consultation with other appropriate Government agencies and subject to approval by the President, shall develop suitable procedures to assume cooperation, coordination, and a continuing exchange of information among affected Government agencies on all significant aspects of United States disarmament policy and related matters, including current and prospective policies, plans, and programs. The Director and such Government agencies shall keep each other fully informed, currently and prospectively, of policy decisions, activities, statements, studies, research, and other matters which are within the scope of their respective responsibilities and which affect disarmament matters.

TITLE IV-GENERAL PROVISIONS

GENERAL AUTHORITY

Sec. 41. In the performance of his functions, the Director is authorized to(a) with the consent of the Secretary of State or other officer or agency concerned, utilize or employ the services, personnel, equipment, or facilities of the Department of State, or any other Government agency to perform such functions on behalf of the Agency as may appear desirable. It is the intent of this section that the Director rely upon the Department of State

for general administrative services in the United States and abroad to the extent agreed upon between the Secretary of State and the Director. Any Government agency is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to transfer to or to receive from the Director, without reimbursement, supplies and equipment other than administrative supplies or equipment. Transfer or receipt of excess property shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended;

(b) appoint officers and employees, including attorneys, for the Agency in accordance with the civil service laws and fix their compensation in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, except that, to the extent that the Director deems such action necessary to the discharge of his responsibilities, not to exceed forty-five scientific, technical, administrative, and professional personnel may be appointed, compensated, and removed without regard to the provisions of any other law, of whom not to exceed twenty may be compensated at annual rates not more than $500 in excess of the compensation now or hereafter fixed by law for grade 18 of the General Schedule, and of whom not to exceed two may be compensated at annual rates not more than $1,500 in excess of that now or hereafter fixed by law for grade 18;

(c) enter into agreements with other Government agencies, including the military departments through the Secretary of Defense, under which officers or employees of such agencies may be detailed to the Agency for the performance of service pursuant to this Act without prejudice to the status or advancement of such officers or employees within their own agencies;

(d) procure services of experts and consultants or organizations thereof, including stenographic reporting services, as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), at rates not to exceed $100 per diem for individuals, and to pay in connection therewith travel expenses of individuals, including transportation and per diem in lieu of subsistence while away from their homes or regular places of business, as authorized by section 5 of said Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 73b-2): Provided, That such contracts may be renewed annually;

(e) employ individuals of outstanding ability without compensation in accordance with the provisions of section 710 (b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2160), and regulations issued thereunder;

(f) employ, with the prior approval of the President, not to exceed three retired commissioned officers of the Armed Forces who are experts in military strategy or weapons systems and whose service shall not be considered as employment or holding of office or position bringing such individuals within the provisions of section 2 of the Act of July 31, 1894 (5 U.S.C. 62); section 13 of the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2263); section 212 of Public Law 72-212, as amended (5 U.S.C. 59a); or any other law limiting the reemployment of such officers or governing their simultaneous receipt of compensation and retired pay or annuities; (g) establish advisory boards to advise with and make recommendations to the Director on United States disarmament policy and activities. The members of such boards may receive the compensation and reimbursement for expenses specified for consultants by section 41(d) of this Act;

(h) make such investigations and obtain such information as the Director may deem necessary or proper to assist him in exercising any authority provided in this Act;

(i) acquire, purchase, lease, and hold real and personal property, including patents, as agent of and on behalf of the United States, subject to the provisions of section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (40 U.S.C. 255), and sell, lease, grant, and dispose of such real and personal property in accordance with the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended;

(j) accept in the name of the Agency and to hold and administer any conditional or unconditional gifts, devises, bequests, grants, or other donations or contributions of money, securities, or real or personal property, for use in the furtherance of the purposes of this Act. The Director shall not accept any conditional gift, devise, bequest, grant, or other donation or contribution which is conditioned upon any expenditure not to be met therefrom

or from the income thereof unless such expenditure has been approved by Act of Congress;

(k) delegate, as appropriate, to the Deputy Director or other officers of the Agency, with power to redelegate as needed, any authority conferred upon the Director by the provisions of this Act; and

(1) make, promulgate, issue, rescind, and amend such rules and regulations as may be necessary or desirable to the exercise of any authority conferred upon the Director by the provisions of this Act.

FOREIGN SERVICE RESERVE AND STAFF OFFICERS

SEC. 42. The Secretary of State may authorize the Director to exercise, with respect to Foreign Service Reserve officers and Foreign Service Staff officers and employees appointed or employed for the Agency, the following authority: (i) The authority available to the Secretary of State under the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, (ii) the authority available to the Secretary under any other provision of law pertaining specifically, or generally applicable, to such officers or employees, and (iii) the authority of the Board of Foreign Service pursuant to the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. The appointment or employment of Foreign Service Reserve officers pursuant to this subsection may be made without regard to the term or terms of appointment or employment prescribed by section 522 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended.

CONTRACTS OR EXPENDITURES

SEC. 43. The President may, in advance, exempt actions of the Director from the provisions of law relating to contracts or expenditures of Government funds whenever he determines that such action is essential in the interest of United States disarmament policy.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND DUAL COMPENSATION LAWS

SEC. 44. The members of the General Advisory Committee created by section 26 of this Act, and the members of the advisory boards, the consultants, and the individuals of outstanding ability employed without compensation, all of which are provided in section 41 of this Act, may serve as such without regard to the provisions of section 281, 283, 284, or 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, or of section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 99), or of any other Federal law imposing restrictions, requirements, or penalties in relation to the employment of individuals, the performance of services, or the payment or receipt of compensation in connection with any claim, proceeding, or matter involving the United States Government, except insofar as such provisions of law may prohibit any such individual from receiving compensation from a source other than a nonprofit educational institution in respect of any particular matter in which the Agency is directly interested. Nor shall such service be considered as employment or holding of office or position bringing such individual within the provisions of section 13 of the Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2263), section 212 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (5 U.S.C. 59a), or any other Federal law limiting the reemployment of retired officers or employees or governing the simultaneous receipt of compensation and retired pay or annuities.

SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

SEC. 45. (a) The Director shall establish such security requirements, restrictions, and safeguards as he deems necessary in the interest of national security. The Director may arrange with the Secretary of State or with the Civil Service Commission for the conduct of such security or other personnel investigations of the Agency's officers, employees, consultants, persons detailed from other Government agencies, and its contractors and subcontractors and their officers and employees, actual or prospective, as he deems appropriate; and if any such investigation develops any data reflecting that the individual who is the subject thereof is of questionable loyalty, the matter shall be referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the results of which shall be furnished to the Director. (b) The Atomic Energy Commission may authorize any of its employees, or employees of any contractor, prospective contractor, licensee, or prospective licensee of the Atomic Energy Commission or any other person authorized to have access to Restricted Data by the Atomic Energy Commission under section