Pub. L. 95-370, tit. II, sec. 201

Sec. 201. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated for the Intelligence Community Staff for fiscal year 1979 the sum of $12,700,000 to provide the support necessary to permit the Director of Central Intelligence to fulfill his responsibility for directing the substantive functions and managing the resources for intelligence activities. (b) For fiscal year 1979 the Intelligence Community Staff is authorized an end strength ceiling of two hundred and sixty-nine full-time 92 STAT. 627 employees. Such personnel may be permanent employees or employees on detail from other elements of the United States Government so long as they are properly counted within the ceiling and there is a mix of positions to allow appropriate representation from elements of the United States Government engaged in intelligence and intelligence-related activities. Any employee who is detailed to the Intelligence Community Staff from another element of the United States Government shall be detailed on a reimbursable basis, except that an employee may be detailed on a nonreimbursable basis for a period of less than one year for performance of temporary functions as required by the Director of Central Intelligence. (c) Except as provided in subsection (b) and until otherwise provided by law, the activities of the Intelligence Community Staff shall be governed by the Director of Central Intelligence in accordance with the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) and the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 408a–403i).