MY DEAR MR. DULLES:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01240A000400040038-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 38
• Content Type: LETTER

SECRET
Approved For Release 2001/06/09-- 1&ftW%"98Q00400040038-4
EKECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
*OMBWaiver Letter In ERU File*
My dear Mr. Dulles:
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Your budget estimate for the fiscal year 1955 and the information
presented by your representatives froeal Intelligence Agency
have been given careful analysis. I have approved the inclusion in
the Budget of the following recommendation for your agency's appro-
priation:
The foregoing budget allowance again recognizes the need for a
contingency reserve since cover requirements would make it difficult
to seek a supplemental a ro riation in fiscal year 1955. This reserve,
in the amount o is allowed with the understanding that
you will request your committees to remove the fiscal year limitation
from the funds appropriated for your reserve. Without this limitation,
the entire reserve amount would no longer have to be appropriated each
year, but only any difference between the new reserve allowance and the
balance in the prior year. Also, the Government's expenditure figure
would no longer be overstated by the amount of the reserve. It might
be possible to use existing reserve funds on a "no-year" basis so that
your 1955 appropriation could be reduced by the amount of the reserve
request. I would not object to any arrangements to this end that you
might make which have the concurrence of Congress and Budget Bureau staff.
In the past, it hasbeen our policy to consider reserve releases
only for activities not in the original budget submission. The allow-
ance does not provide for any of the unvouchered projects proposed in
your B list. Since many of these projects may materialize with high
priority in 1955, I wish to inform you that their inclusion in the 1955
B list will not disqualify them from consideration for financing from
the reserve.
This recommendation and any related information should not be dis-
cussed with the members or staffs of the committees on appropriations
until the budget message is presented to Congress, or unless you are
advised that the Bureau of the Budget has released the estimates con-
taining your request.
Honorable Allen P. Dulles
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
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