Executive Order 9669—Transfer of Air-navigation Facilities and Functions in Iran from the War Department to the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes, including Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941 (55 Stat. 838), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

There are transferred from the War Department to the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, Department of Commerce, (1) all air-navigation, air-traffic-control, airways-communications, and meteorological facilities of the United States necessary to the operation of civil aircraft of the United States in international air commerce at Tehran, Abadan, and Jask, Iran, (2) all other property of the United States located at the site of any of the said facilities, including housing, other structures, equipment, and vehicles, necessary to the operation and maintenance of such facilities, (3) all functions of operation and maintenance of such facilities, and (4) so much of the funds available or to be made available for the use of the War Department in the operation and maintenance of such facilities as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to related to the said functions.

This order shall become effective on January 1, 1946.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 28, 1945