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63 Stat. 718. 22 USC 1677(e).

REORGANIZATION PI.ANS OF 1953

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Director and Deputy Director of the Foreign Operations Administration, respectively. (b) The Administrator for Technical Cooperation and the person occupying the senior position provided for in section 406(e) of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended, to serve in the two senior positions created by section 1(d) hereof. (c) The Deputy Administrator for Technical Cooperation and the persons occupying the three positions provided for in section 406(e) of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended, to serve in the four positions created by section 1(d) hereof which have compensation at the rate of $15,000 a year.

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 8 OF 1953 Transmitted June 1, Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Effective Aug. 1 Representatives in Congress assembled, June 1, 1953, pursuant to the provisions 1953. ' of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended. 63 Stat. 203. 5 USC 133z note.

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1. Establishment of agency.—(a) There is hereby established a new agency which shall be known as the United States Information Agency, hereinafter referred to as the Agency. (b) There shall be at the head of the Agency a Director of the United States Information Agency, hereinafter referred to as the Director. The Director shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall receive compensation at the rate of $17,500 a year. The Secretary of State shall advise with the President concerning the appointment and tenure of the Director. (c) There shall be in the Agency a Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive compensation at the rate of $16,000 a year. The Deputy Director shall perform such functions as the Director shall from time to time designate, and shall act as Director during the absence or disability of the Director or in the event of a vacancy in the office of the Director. (d) There are hereby established in the Agency so many new offices, not in excess of fifteen existing at any one time, and with such title or titles, as the Director shall from time to time determine. Appointment thereto shall be under the classified civil service and the compensation thereof shall be fixed from time to time pursuant to the classification laws, as now or hereafter amended, except that the compensation may be fixed without regard to the numerical limitations on positions set forth in section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, SECTION

Director,

Deputy Director.

63 Stat. 959.

as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105). SEC. 2. Transfer of functions.—(a)

S u b j e c t to subsection (c) of this

section, there are hereby transferred to the Director, (1) the functions vested in the Secretary of State by Title V of the United States

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