LETTER TO HONORABLE DAVID E. BELL FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000800020005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 14, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

Approved For Release 2003/05/23 : - ,P~,80B01676R00080002~'0~9 /" 9 (( a
T
14 Novena"r 1961
Dear Mr. Bell:
In your letter of 25 September 1961 you requested that if the Agency'
proposal for Fiscal Year 1963 + e d your established pig total of 25X1
the bu4M should include an aboxnate platy, which would bring the Agency's proposal
within this amount. As rare darn advised you, our butt had already been prepared for
submission letter and our request In the Wdget as prepared
totaled i
n excess of your ply g total ntentioned above.
As you know, I will be tux ng over my functions In a few days to my succesac r,
Mr. John A. l Cone. and be will have the responsibility of directing the Agency's
activities for the Fiscal Your for which we are now plarn . ;; of the mapttu
grammlMg of Our activities. includes the elimi?,ation of caa iu major c ents of our
mds
f
ld
_
Ii
ie
WA action and CV=P"VWE_ in 25X1
You would agree with that Mr. Mc should h an o
ortunit
pp
y
view of Its important effect upon the carrying out of the Agency's pr's.
The a second astern stive, which I will o "me below, would darly affect
ort
t
an
a
?-?.t.
- play
PPOrM
Zo* and we frankly heel that to effct dwse,
reductions would limit o
ur
finave capability to take prompt action in support c our proms for national
(E EC y f C~ V .
Approved For Release 2003/05/23 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R000800020005-9
 Approved For Release 2003/05/23 :80B01676R000800020005-9
d6 it the li of our national security considerations, that the
you have suggested Should be made In our budget. we would propose
t ougb we recd,
b ae~t
and If the critical situations in the Caribbean, South t Asia and
e-1 re in the world continue to face us In Fiscal Year 1963; also, this procedure
would mean a serious reduction In our Reserve for Gau~secIes:
Reduction CIA Budget Under Second Alternative:
25X1
25X1
Sincerely.
.Allen W. Dulles
Director
DD/S: LKW:mam
Rewritten: DCI: A WD:laq
Distribution:
0 & 1 - Add via DD/S
1 DCI
1,- DDCI
A - ER
1 - DD/P
CONCUR:
L. K. White
Deputy Director
(Support)
1 DD/I 14 Nov 61
1 COMPT
1 - C/BUD/COMPT
1 - DD/S choono (ref)
1 - DD/S subject (ref)
1ApmyS rlil le A 05/23: CIA-RDP80B01676R000800020005-9
7' in P r. T
25X1