Reading Room Document

Further question raised by the Selective Service with respect to the release of Information discussed in Assistant Attorney General Dixon's letter to you of January 31,1974

In response to a previous OLC memo concluding that the Director of the Selective Service could release information to the Office of Drug Abuse Prevention, the Director of the Selective Service expressed a belief that the Selective Service could not release subject information without approval from the Office of Management Budget (OMB). In this memo, the OLC explained that the director’s position involved a misreading of the Federal Reports Act. Instead, the OLC concluded that the Act mandates agencies to cooperate “to the fullest possible extent” in making their information available to other agencies, and that a provision authorizing the Director of OMB to require such cooperation only provided an additional backstop should an agency fail to comply.

March 8, 1974