MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. HELMS FROM L. R. HOUSTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000500100007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 8, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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8 April 1966
In connection with the obvious surprise of the Senate
Subcommittee members at the figures given them on the
number of people involved in the cryptographic effort, you
asked if he could find out how the NSA budget
hearings were conducted.
Apparently what has happened in
the past is that I has gone up and given the
Appropriation Committee an over-all briefing on DIA, NSA,
and a couple of other specialized agencies. Then, each of
these is given two hours to make a presentation in Executive
Session. No report is published, either in the House or
the Senate, and in the Senate usually no transcript is taken.
It is not quite clEar but we believe the NSA briefing is
devoted primarily to NSA as an agency and, therefore,
appears not to cover the additional support given by the
three services. Apparently, the Senators were well impressed
by presentation this year.
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