MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM WALTER L. PFORZHEIMER

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• Publication Date: June 19, 1947
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19 June 1947.
MEMORANDUM FCR THE RECORD
I talked this morning with Congressman James Wadsworth,
(R., N.Y.), regarding our position before the Committee on
Expenditures. I told him we were somewhat concerned regard-
ing the feeling of certain members of the Committee and some
witnesses appearing before it that we were or might become
an incipient Gestapo, or interested in domestic intelligence
of any sort. I told him that we were considering addressing
a letter to the Chairman, suggesting that a provision be in-
?cluded in the bill substantially in the form that it appears
in the Presidential Directive, prohibiting any police or in-
ternal security or law enforcement powers. Mr. Wadsworth
thought that it would be an excellent idea and endorsed it,
although he thought that the feeling was not very general.
I then explained to Mr. Wadsworth our position on enabling
legislation; and, while he stated that certain other agencies
created by the bill had their functions spelled out, he seemed
receptive to withholding any statement of functions and general
authorities which we need until the proper time for our enabling
act.
sequently spoke with Mr. Clare Hoffman, Chairman of
the Committee, (in the absence of his son, the General Counsel),
and Mr. Hoffman stated that he mould be pleased to receive any
amendment we cared to offer, introduce it, and give it every
consideration.
STAT
'HALTER L. PF RZRETmER
Chief, Legislative Liaison Division
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19 June 19477
ITMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
The witness at this morning's hearings on H.R. 2319 was
Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, USN, Ret., who stated that
he would like to testify on the intelligence provisions of
the bill in executive session. It was agreed that this would
be arranged.
During the questioning which followed Zacharias' prepared
statement, Rep. Walter Judd, (R., Minn.), remarked that he
agreed with the Admiral on the subject of intelligence, that
he believed that it deserved more study than almost anything
else in the bill.
Rep. Robert Rich, OR., Pa.), asked Zacharias his opinion
of the Mundt bill authorizing the Voice of America program.
"I believe that we must maintain the physical machinery which
now exists," Zacharias replied, "because I am confident we will
have to use it in the future. If that machinery is allowed
to lapse, and if the provisions for that machinery are allowed
to lapse, I am afraid there will be disintegration, and we
will have difficulty in getting it started again.
"Whether or not it should be under the State Department is
another matter. gy personal feeling is that it should not, be-
cause it is going to be a source of continual embarrassment to
the State Department. The Voice of America is -- we must call
it what it is -- propaganda. Unfortunately the word propaganda
has a poor connotation. But it is going to be vital to our
national security and the implementation of our national policy.
It is something that cannot be discussed in the open too much
without losing its effect. For that reason, it comes under
the category of intelligence activities. It is my intention
to recommend that the so-called Voice of America program be
placed under the Central Intelligence Group, for reasons which
I will explain in executive session. I do feel, however, that
the present machinery must be maintained now."
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served in or operated with all types uf
ships.. I have ccom3anded destroyers, a heavy cruiser and a battleship.
I have completed the senior course at the Naval War College. Practically
all of my share duty has been devoted to Intelligence work, which occupied a
total of twelve (12) years in the various phases of that work. While afl,iat
also engaged. in Intelligence Activity which has given men an over-all
experience in. this field of twenty-five (25) years. The last assignment
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two sea1 cruises during the recent war, 'was that of Deputy Director
of Naval.'Intelligence.
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Japanese armed forces without the necessity of a forced invasion of the Japanese
main islands.
Having been invited by this Committee to express my opinion of the proposed
legislation, H.R.2319, I welcome the opportunity not only because of rly conce-n
over our future national security, a subject to which I have devoted intensive
and continuing study throughout my 38 years of public service in the Navy, but
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also because of the apparent lack of comprehension of the dangers which confront mo
us if this legislation is enacted. I say without reservation that this bill
presents a danger to us far greater than any possible enemy in the world today,'
therefore, it should be given the most careful consideration regardless of the
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length of time required to do so. We have had concrete examples in the immediate
past of the results of compromise and appeasement. We can ill-afford to let this
creep into considerations of national defense and security.
My first concern about this proposed Merger, Unification, or Amalgamation,
is that we must have the right answer. This feeling has been strengthened by
recent contact with the public in various parts of the country, (salqr if them your
conitituents) in the discussions which have followed my lectures. In these
lectures I had avoided bringing up the subject but it Was invariably injected
by those who showed great concern over the present and future world situation,
It was only then. that I would discuss it for them on the basis of facts and
out any considerations of personal desire. I have come to feel that the
motivations 'behind some of the present proposals are extraneous considerations
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