SUBJECT: TESTIMONY AT MERGER BILL HEARING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100050004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 25, 1947
• Content Type: FORM

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REMARKS: SUBJECT: Testimony at -Merger Bill Hearing
I. Foreign Broadcast Information Branch:
This Branch which was originally under the Federal. Cora . wnications
Unfortunately, it is impossible to give specific savings in either money or manpower.
This is because the functions of the Office of Operations are- either unique - as they
savings by eliminating duplication and overlapping in the collection of intelligence.
The following information is supplied to you in reply to your memorandum
21 March 1947, concerning the methods by which CIG effects monetary and manpower
need and have never before been attempted in peacetime.
~73iS or represent the first effort in a new field such as contacts or Docu menus.
It is not felt that contrast with-war conditions gives a fair or accurate p eture,
inasmuch as most intelligence efforts originated during the war to meet a pressing
Commission and later under the War Department, is the only office in the
government which performs the function of monitoring foreign radio broad-
casts. As such, it provides an essential service for nearly every branch of
the goverment, as well as a vital.service fqr the intelligence agencies.
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