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Intelligence Reform Act

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | 309 words | Copyright

Intelligence Reform Act an act passed by Congress in 1980 to allow the CIA to receive presidential approval for covert operations before congressional oversight committee approval. Earlier restraints in the Hughes-Ryan Act of 1974 had prohibited presidential approval before congressional committee approval.

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