SPENDING FOR WHAT?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100490007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2003/12/02: CIA-RDP
Ii1'c'a,ii'ilIS, TEN N.
COYt1CRCIAL APPEAL
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w officers. The Foreign Service em- about that .agency's argument that it
ploye generally begins his career as ;needs listening posts. in our embassies.
corps, 3,768 Foreign Service officers The misjudgments of the CIA---ncver
and 1,343 Foreign Service.. reserve iR,:publiely revealed-raise a question
'frSpending For What? formal;ion.. -Agency and"fhe United-
f$ States Army 'Control and Disarma
National disturbance ovor the Unit- meat Agency. Hidden within this mass
ed States' deficit position, in interns- of~~g, m~t~t, yrq erg-are. nu-
tional'balance'. of payments' and the `.meroua agents of the Central Intelli
outflou ,of American oldhas Gent gence Agency, whose foreign spend- t
many experts acurryng to find the be enormous despite
causes. t , its disguise.-
Among the causes turned up are:: MR. BRIGGS, whose experience as a
Heavy capital investments by Ameri-.I. side able, does not should advocate Ameri-
can career diplomat businessmen abroad, tourists, ..y can withdrawal from the foreign',
military expenditures, foreign.aid-- A scene. He is not what we now call
and American embassies and con- a new isolationist." But he does be aulates, lieve that State Department efficien-;
? cy in foreign operations could be-.'
Operation ofr a. diplomatic: corps,; increased by reducing these overseas;,
like international defense, is a neces 'staffs. His reasoning is buttressed by
$. sity. Indeed, without it the foreign ALFRED PARKER, executive director -
trade that does most to contribute, of Tax Foundation, Inc., and former'
( to United States Income;. from. inter-; a aide to the House Ways and Means
: national sources would wither. But `
Committee, who recently noted: "Con
r the State Department is not exempt:) trol thus tends to diminish as' gov.,'
is from scrutiny in the balance-of-pay. "ernmental activity grows."
ments crisis. Extra hands never increase effi
Career diplomat Erias BRIGGS, a ciency. But they do add to cost. If';
former American ambassador to scv ;;reduction of. Foreign Service per-.,
eral countries, has said in'his book,' sonnel overseas can add efficiency of
"Farewell to Foggy Bottom," that'1 operation and at the same time re-
United States embassies. and con= _i .duce our balance-of-payments deficit,-"
sulates are heavily over-staffed. His at is `a' move that the State' Depart
concern is for efficiency, but them_ment should make, and which. Con-'
should be some interest in the over'greys should insist upon.'
seas spending that finds this outlet. The record of the State 11Depart-`[
The State Department's Foreign ment's fumbling In Indonesia ,Egypt a
Service had more than 9,000 American,, .the Congo (and any, number of the
employes as of Sept. 30, 1963, plus + newly independent African nations),
10,000 foreign nationals. The foreign and in the Soviet Union often makes.,
employes held such jobs as chauffeur- Americans wonder whether we are,
ins, typing and. clerical work. Thee .doing anything except set up targets
a Class 8 Government worker at . ,ine back-breaking straw is that For-
;.'$5,795 a year and can rise to Class i' K