President Ford, in this Presidential Directive, established the Committee on Foreign Intelligence, reporting to the NSC Chairman, Kissinger, and with the DCI as the Chairman of this new committee.
This directive also outlawed assassination as an instrument of American policy.
This directive also (as each President does) outlines the CIAs
domestic duties, and accepted the principle of a joint Congressional
Oversight committee, however the Congress chose not to setup a joint
committe, rather elected to each have their own committees.
The directive actually known as EO10905 also
performs what has now become ritual for an incoming President, setting
out the definition and tasking for the U.S. Intelligence Community.
See also Intelligence Authorization of 1981.