SECRET SERVICE EXPANSION ASKED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000500130006-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 29, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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P,v Paul !~. Schuette X750,000 for the Secret Scrvire,'Dillon, Attorney General Nic-
wnsh+ug6on Post s~.~c: wrucr which is an arm of the Trcas- halas Katzenbach, CIA Direc-
A special l4hite. Iiouse com-fury Department. Dillon askeditor John A. 141cConc and Mc-
mittee has byhasscd President
Johnson do aslc Congress for
$4 million to beef up the Se-
cret Service.
The money would give the
;Secret Service another 183
agents and other new person-
nel and equipment.-much of
it still secret-to carry out its
major mission of protecting
the President and tiice Presi-
dent.
'1'hc proposed c.~pansion is
tho outgrowth of the intensive
evaluation of Secret Service
capabilities that f o 11 o w e d
President Kennedy's assassi-
nation 16 months ago.
000.
"it is perhaps unprecedented
fora Cabinet officer to
ask for an appropriation in ex-
cess of that ?requested by the
President," he said. "This is,
however, a very special and
indeed wtique situation."
Dillon said r14r. J o h n s o n
lcncw the extra funds were
being requested but had de-
cided not to pass upon the re-
quest himself because of tihc
personal involvement.
"Ile is fully content to leave
the decisiori to the wisdom of
" Dillon said
ress
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Douglas Dillon, retiring Sec-,
rotary of the Treasury and a; Dillon and Secret Service
committee member, told ajChicf James J. Rowley gave
IIousc Appropriations sub-~ the subcommittee the most
committee that the special complete account thus far
'fund request overshadows available to the public of the
every other item in his Dc- steps already taken, and those
partmcnt's proposed budget, proposed, to tighten Presi-
"I personally believe that it dential security.
is the single most important The Warren Commission
matter to be considcrcd by recommended strengthening
the Appropriations Commit- the Secret Service in its com-
tecs of the Fiot;se and Senatclprchensive report on the lien-
this year," he said. nedy assassination rclensed
The testimony, given during last Sept. 27.
closed hearings last month, On the same day, Mr. John-
was released for publication son set up the special commit-
tod9y. ~ tee to advise him on the reo-
George Bundy, White ITottse
special
affairs,
panel.
assistant for security
were named to the
On the committee's recom-'
mendation, based on task
force reports, the Secret Sere-~
ice was given 75 more em-
ployes, 50 of them agents, last
November. The President's
budget would continue they
Secret Service a>; that strength.
Dillian proposed hiring
anal:her 183 agents and 76
administrative and clerical
employes in the fiscal year
starting July 1, giving the
Secret Service a staff of 920.
The agency had a staff of
586 at the .time of the assassi-
nation.
The over-all budget increase
also includes $185,000 to plan
and initiate an automatic data
processing system and "335,000
for "various armored devices
and equipment."
ti~rhen asked about the equip-
ment, Rowley said the devices
are classified and discussed
them with the subcommittee
off the record.
Rowley said the electronic
data processing equipment is
necessary to speed up procc-
The I'edcral budget that ommendations. In addition to' dures and precent human err-
Presidcnt Johnson sent to Con-
gress in Jant:ary included u8,-~
~'~'
research section.
The section now lists 240,000
persons and groups who may
be a danger to the President,
Rowley said. There are 55,000
dossiers containing detailed
information, he said.
'Those files Nave grown
enormously since the assas-
sination, he said, largely be-
cause of closer liaison with
other Fcaeral agencies and
police departments.
The Service rrceived 125
referrals from outside agen-
cies in September, 1963, he
said, compared with 3681 last
January. The month~y average
is now about 6:?J0, he said,
most of them fror.; the FBI.
An index of persons con-~.
sidered most dangerous to the
President has grown from 2001
to 800 in the past year, Rowley;
said.
He cited the difficulty of
h those -files
throu
combin
g
g
manually when the President
plans to visit a given city or
attend a given event. As an ex-
ample, Rowley said 3500 names
had to be checked out for 14Ir.
Johnson's trip to the Democra-
tic National Convention.
Because of the present
volume of referrals, Rowley
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estimated thaC 14,000 names will
be sent to the Services's 65
field officers for follow-u.p in-
vestigations in the cumin; fis-
cal year.
The Servica wants to assign
another 19II agents to the field
offices to ha;~dle security and
other investigations, keep track
of suspects, survey areas where
the President might travel and'
provide protection during Pros-
idential visits.
Surveys already have been
conduicted in most of tho Na-
tion's major cities to identify
possibly dangerous locations,
Rowley said.
Asked about the lack of com-
'~~ rrvuication between enforce-
ment agencies criticized by
the Warren Commission, he
reported that the Secret Serv-
ice now has a written agree-
ment with the FBI detailing
Service requirements.
Similar agreements are being
worked out with the CIA, the
State Department and the
armed services, he said.
Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo
(D-N.Y.) wanted to know if
Lee Harvey Oswald, Mr. Ken?~
nedy's assassin, would have
been apprehended or under'.
surveillance if the new proce?
dares had been in effect in
19G3.
Rowley's direct reply was'
off the record, but he said';
later that Oswald's name would
have been reported to thei
Secret Service under present
procedures. i?here was no such
report in 1963..
Subcommittee Chairman
Tom Steed (D?Okla.) suggested
that the day may comp when
the President's movements
will have to be restricted, by
law or otherwise, to avoid se-
curity risks.
"A President who is active
just creates problems in the
providing of any reasonable
safety precautions," said Steed.
"I keep feeling that every
citizen has such an equity in
him that a reasonable restric-
tion on him has some grounds
for it."
Dillon was inclined to think
that a President cannot be
restricted against his' will but
he agreed that the security
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