SUBSIDY FOR(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001300240003-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 10, 1955
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2004/0 CIA-RDP80R01731 R001300240003-3
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
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10 January 1955
MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SUBJECT: Subsidy for General Anders
1. With reference to your, memorandum of 23 December 1954 which
enclosed a letter from General Anders, I smizuable to identify any
request that I made of General Anders which would require any expendi-
ture of funds.
2. The only suggestion which eas made on my part to the two
Polish Generals during our conversations in your office was that the
Defense Department would have to have astatement, in some detail,
from General Anders indicating the total personnel that he considers
to be eligible and available for the military force which he desires
to organize. It was also stated that this statement should indicate
the number of personnel by age groups, location of residence, and branches
of service in which the personnel have had experience. Foroome time
exper-
ienced General Anders has maintained that he has a very large potential ienced manpower which could be formed into a combat unit. About a year
ago he gave me a rough breakdown by branches of the service of this
personnel, which he claimed to be about 91,000. The request which I
made of the two Polish Generale is very similar to a previous request
made to General Anders to provide the information that would be necessary
for the Defense Department to determine whether it would be feasible to
support the organization desired, by General Andere, On previous occasions
the information furnished has been so scant and nebulous that it would be
impossible to make a definite decision to recommend any support for General
Anders' military organization.
3? It appears to me that if General Anders has the military potential
which he has claimed, he must already have information quite similar to that
which I requested during the aforementioned conference; otherwise, the plans
which he has made have not been valid. I do not consider that the informa-
tion requested, in the light of previous claims, should warrant any addi-
tional financial support. There does not appear to be any particularly
urgent reason to support General Anders' request as far as the information
which I desire is concerned, and it is recommencgd t /no increase in the
present subsidy be granted for this purse. j,i.
OSD REVIEW COMPLETED
General, USMC (Ret)
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