SPECIAL FUNDS RESERACH

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• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
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SPECIAL FUNDS RESEARC
Miscellaneous Matters
The German Spy Syste
By X-Intelligence Officer
London: 1914
(p. 34)
About 16130,000 per year (1914)# distributed among
members Of the German Secret Service, plus an even
larger sun of which no record is available.
Spies and the Next War
= Richard w, lowenn
York : 1936
36)
Japan admitted to spending in 19.34-1935 13,E314,000
Yen, or more than 4,00O,00O, upon
Service organizations.
(p. 145)
Great Britain spends from L2O4,000 to T5300,000
annually .'pr Secret Service. Many other charges
are 3-ed in other chinks and quarters of the
(p. 155)
During the final war gears, 1917-1916, German
Intelligence costs were M25,000,000 (approximately
1#000*000) per month. The British were spending
over L1,5000000 per month. The French were spending
about the same as the Germans, and the Italians
somewhat less.
(p. 237)
The German agent, Wasause, in Serbia during the
World War received an extra allowance for "lavish
entertainment".
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7981
*G7
Annual :'.p enditures on Secret Service by the 'zovernments
o Austria, 7unzar __ , "France Serman reat THE
a n
Italy and ;fuss - a Accor- __ng o Their Published uq-:eta
H. M. Stationery office
London: 1912
Austria-rfun aria
The 1909-Budget of the Ministry for Foreign Af i:airs
contained a fund of x62,500, designated "Disposi-
tionfonds and lxpendi turd for oli ti c a:l Information
'hie,n Does Not Have to be Accounted For".
e
The budget was L40,0O .
n
budget was O,004, and it was hidden in various
"The Disoosal of General Staff for Various " urpos
etc.
by Officers Travelling for the German General
parts of the budget, e.g., "Expenditures for Special
Purposes," "Funds to Cover Expenditures Incurred
The budget provided for S5O,O0O*.
The total budget amount was -12,8QO, broken up
follows 2
For Police Rewards
For Detective Services
at Rome and Abroad
3&M0,000
fi34, 8OO
L46,000
"No account is rendered to the Chambers as to how
this sum is expended."
* "*** no one is asked to suppose that the amount in
question covers the entire expenditure made on account
of useful information given up." Spies and Secret Service,
By {anvil Grant, New York: 1915 (p.
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Russia
Each year a large appropriation (-l,,O00,000) was
made for "extraordinary requirements". About a
year or so later, particulars are given as to how
this was spent, except that it was always reported
that a certain sum was spent "to direct order of
the employer". These are the Secret service ex-
penditures in 1910 that amounted to r38O,000; in
1909, fi279,O00; in 1908, fi287,000. Also, the budget
included a large item for "Miscellaneous Police
Expenditures" Iof which,expenditures a portion is
not subject to publication. From 1912, this
amounted to I335,O0O.
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