WILSON CLAIMS DEFENSE PRODUCTION IS INCREASING BY 3 BILLION A MONTH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200080073-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: December 3, 1951
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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I WASHINGTON 1. D. C.
?*: LOS ANGELES EXAMINER
A
I Circ.: m. 351,436.
S. 764,629
Page; . I
Date: - DEC 3 .1-951-
DiEr 9 1051
Wilsion Claims .D'efense' Production
Is iriereasin.gy 3 .Billion a Month
By Robert G. Nixon Sistant to 'Wilson, said in Wash- figures could not be disclosed for
Staff Correseen,tiefit International Newt Service ington that the next six months obvidus reasons.
KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 2.?De-
fense Mobilizer Wilson said to-
day that military production is
Increasing by $1,000,000,000 a
, month with no interference from
civilian output in War weapons
sehedules. '
Wilson stated, after three days
of intensive conferences with
President Truman, that the dis?
cussions touched on the need for
appointing an over-all defense
production czar. He indicated a
decision will be made on .that
Within the "neXt'couple of nionths.
CHARGE IGNORED-----
is a crucial period in rearmament
which will "strain our whole econ-
oniy, to the utmost."
Wilson's statement was inter-
preted,as an answer to the com-
mittee charges that the produc-
tion program has been one of
"too much butter and not enough
guns."
? .
300 PCT. GAIN?
? The mobilization boss made his
statement shortly before taking
off on the -return flight to Wash-
ington' in company with Gen.
The mobilization chief declined Walter ,Bedell Smith, chief of the
comment on a report by the Sen- Central Intelligence Agency;
ate preparedness committee un- Stanley'WtiOdward, 1J.?S7A-In as-
der Senator Johnson (Democrat), sador to Canada, and Presiden-
Texas, which charged that de- tial AssiStant Donald Dawson.
fense production is seriously lag- Wilson stated that production
ging dangerously. is more than 300 per cent greater
Charles B. Stauffacher, an as- than a year ago, but that exact
Predo intelligence, inc.
WASHINGTON 1. D. C.
CLEVELAND (0.) PRESS 1
Circ.: e. 294,747
Page: .
Date: DEC 3
Tale of the East Wind I
. ,
Two weary and bedraggled'
fishermen arrived back at Key
West, Fla., -during the week end
with a full box of fish and a
tale of an all-night battle against
strong easterly winds. ? The ang-
lers, giiestdat the Winter White
House, were Gen. Walter- B. ?
Smith, chief of theA.Genjir In-
telligencei&g.ency,sand Maj. Gen.
Wallace Graham, the President's
doctor. They had been fishing
off the DO Tortugas to the
south, but heavy winds caught
up with their small Navy craft
and they Spent the night buck-
ing the breeze and making little
headway.
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He noted that civilian durable
goods production has been cut
"by 50 per cent at least,'! ?and
added:
"It doesn't take a magician
to figure out that the military
pipeline is getting very, yeiy
big."
j
Pre.os intelligence, inc.
A. WASHINGTON 1. D. C.
DENVER ROCKY MT.
NEWS
Circ.: tn. 133,331
S. 142,261
Page:
Date: Ho 3 1951
Views on News
By DAN
President Truman has sum-
moned Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,1
head of the Central Inteligency
Agency, to Key- e_
knoWE 'What it ,ging ,on.
S -?1
White House' Press:Se-cretary
Joseph Short. cOuld clear np 'some
of the "?!Confursion" if: 'he would
:just stop'. expIaining.te. eXpjana'-.
tions, ? -4
After 10 days' of. secret Big your.
? talks",:we may-find out what it was
that VishinSky laughed all night.
-about.
-* *
Roger Lowell Putnam was
sword in as the new pilot of the
U. S. inflatidn balloari? with -a.
promise from the President that
he can swear out in six months.
* *
- No wonder it is so: difficult to
get a doctor. According to the TV
programs they must all be PusY
testing cigarets. - ?
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