Dear Mr. Secretary:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04914A000100090040-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: August 20, 1948
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Washington 25, D.C.
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The Honorable
The Secretary of Interior
Department of the Interior
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. Secretary:
With reference to letters of 18 May and 15 June 1948 from Mr.
Girard Davidson, Assistant Secretary, Department of the Interior,
estrictions will not permit the allocation of the total
quested for the fiscal year 1949 support of the National
Intelligence Survey Program.
25X1 A total of can be made available for this fiscal year, to
be broken down as follows:
Fish and Wildlife Service
Bureau of Mines
Petroleum Economics Branch
ect to the agreement of the Department of Interior that the
25X1 11 be utilized exclusively in support of the NIS Program
under the coordination of this Agency through the designated representa-
tive of the Office of Reports and Estimates, these funds can be trans-
ferred immediately. You will be contacted separately with regard to
provision in the CIA budget for support of your Department in meeting
NIS requirements for succeeding fiscal years.
Your concurrence in the above is requested at the earliest prac-
ticable date.
Sincerely,
R. H. HILLENKOETTER
Rear Admiral, USN
Director of Central Intelligence
Concurred in:
/s/ C. Girard Davidson
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
24 August 1948
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