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STATUS OF NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS ON JUNE 30, 1957
{usc 5720, Parts 4,5, 6, 7 and 8)
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Mr. Cutler commented briefly on the several status reports, .
stressing particularly the Internal Security Program and the Intelligence Advisory Committee's status report. In connection with the latter report, he commented on some provisional figures submitted by the
Bureau of the Budget relative to the total annual cost and the total
personnel employed throughout the U. S. intelligence commmity.
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The Director of Central Intelligence commented that the
figures submitted by the Bureau of the Budget were very misleading
indeed.
The President commented that his only interest in this mat-
ter was whether, in the field of intelligence, we are doing what we
ought to do and not doing what we ought not to do. If it cost!:2:%
eet!to do what we ought to be doing, this was OK with him.
The Netional Security Council:
Noted and discussed the following reports on “the subject:
a.
The Mobilization Program.
b.
The Civil Defense Progran.
¢. The USIA Program.
da.
The Foreign Intelligence Progran.
e.
The Internal Security Program.
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