REF ID:A43076 

Wa~ngton Star, 7 Au~st 1950 

!Strategic Intelligence!: 

Scored by Byrd and i 

• I Bridges as lnadequatel1 

~ 

Both Urge Change:s; ~~ 

House Prepares to Act on/ fi 

Increase in Arms Budget ·Ir 

ly the Associated ~reu 1 b 

- t Criticism of the Nation's. intelll-1 i 

1, -ence setup was voMed-toda.'1 '-"!a s: two members of the Senate Armed I' 

f Services Committee, while legisla-, 

tors in the House looked forward l 

l to further large increase, in the ~ 

t military budget. t 

Senator Bridges, Republican, of 11 

New Hampshire, told a reporter h 

he thinks all availabk information 

shows that this otiuntry was u 

caught napping by th~ Communist ii 

invasion of South Korea. He said 

he will suggest that a Senate ti 

·,Armed Services Investigating sub- ft 

committee of which he is a mem- b1 , ber look into intelligence opera-

/ 

tions with a view to suggesting F1 

changes ·I Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ou • : ginla;· like Senator Bridges a mem- : · i ber of the full Armed Services tll 

- j Committee, said events of the last co; >-~few weeks have indicated to him an· le i that some drastic revisions in in- mi·' 

I telligence operations ought to be 

to l undertaken. 

"The whole intelligence setup 

ld probably ought to be reorganized i·~; 

th on a war basis," he said in a sep- sit 

I arate interview. pc. 

~s I Better Evaluation Sought. ~!: ~ I Senator Bridges said he hopes ori 

·- I intelligence reports from other l!\!. 

g I parts of the world are evaluated F:' 

f more effectively than were those co 

. from Korea. of 

The Senate Appropriations com- SIP 

· mittee inquired b1iefly into the •· nature of intelligence reports wl l from Korea a few days afte1· the oft 

a Communist invasion. Rear Ad- m·'. 

:l mlral R.H. Hillenkoett.er, director ;· - of the Central Intelllgence Agency, ~ 

~ said then that his agency has re- ~­ s ports dating back a full year to tr 1 show North Korea was massmg al s troops and equipment along the ti• 

- border. 

But A&miral J411lenkoetter said :F. s -- A s CSee MILITARY, Page A-6.) C 

. Military 

<Continued From First Page.) . 

his agency merely passed these 

reports on to other Government 

depanments without evaluating 

them: 

Senator Byrd said he ls particularly disturbed because American 

military leaders apparently 

thought the North Koreans had 

committed most of their troops to 

the fighting 10 days ago but now find that additional reserves have 

been poured into the battle. 

Without referring to intelligence 

reports, Seantor Tydings, Demo-; 

crat, of Maryland, said in a week- 1 

end racilo broadcast that top mU- I 

tta.ry leaders are confident, despite I 

the evident ability of the North I 

Koreans to concentrate more and more troops, that Communist ad-

; 'vances in Korea have been slowllf 

down. 

Weak in Ground Forces. . 

But Senator Tydings, cha~ 

of the Armed Services C~. 

added: "There's still a 1~11f1h.y 

to go and there's blooclf fighting 

ahead." ' · . I He also said that the Western 

powers, with "a large <United 

States> stockpile of atomic bombs I as compared with what Russia 

likely has," probably enjay 

"great predominance over the 

Soviets in af.rpower. 

But he said the reverse is true 

of ground forces, and that this 

country should do all it can to 

build up its military manpower. 

He said the United States shouid 

persU9.de friendly Western Euro1 p~n nations to ''put on more and 

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more speed in their rearmament~~ 

program" and help them with tt 

money. E 

Meanwhile 1n the House Chair1 man Vinson of the Armed Services w. 

Committee said he expects the if 

l armed forces to ask for "consid- c 

erably" more money in January, cl 1 including $500 million 'f.or another c 

Marine expansion. l\! 

s The military budget has soared H 

5 in two weeks from $14,679,000,000 a.' , to $26,722,000,000. ai 

Marines Have 74,ZOO. 

O The extra half billion dollars -'· 

i for the Marines would enable the 

1

• corps to increase its strength to 

1 174,000, have two fUlly equipped 

• combat divisions and an air arm e of 18 squadrons, Mr. Vinson said. ot e Latest recruiting :6.gures of m 

June 30 gave the Marines a ex strength of 74,200 and they now pt : have 16 air squadrons. in 

On .Jllb' 26 the -.DU~...m~Wi.I:~ 

1 committee it planned to allow pl • about $270 million from its share m 

. of President Truman's recent $10,- m t87 ,000,000 emergency military re-

:::g~o qu~~J;~ ~i.oo~arine : 

,Mr. Vinson said that allotment bi 

would enable the Marines to have ti' 

one and a half divisions ready sc 

for combat with tanks and guns. pi 

Of the $500- million expected to w be sought in January, $100 mUlion would go toward equipping h 

the two additional air squadrons 

with planes. ~ 

The Government operati~s tl 

budget for the ftscal year ending w : next June 30, stilI pending in si 

' Congress, contains for the armed tr 

services $13,294,000,000 in cash fJ 

and $1,385,000,000 in contract 

authority, a total of $14,679,000,- t< 

000. t. 

$26 Billions Asked. le 

On July 24 Mr. Truman sent up ti 

his first emergency supplementary S' 

increase for $10,487 ,000,000, and tl 

then last Friday he asked for an additional $1,556,000,000-a total so far of $26,722,000,000 for the tt 

mllltary. tl 

This second emergency supple- ir 

mentary increase includes $170,- n 930,000 for additional military 0 . 

public works. This would go to- c; 

ward covering building projects :tr 

already authorized by Congress, d 

Mr. Vinson said. al 

He added that the Defense De- st 

partment might rush up before m · Congress recesses a request for A 

·authorization of additional build- tc 

ing projects, "relating to air 

fields." f~ 

He declined to elaborate, but ~ 

said the Defense Department was o; 

at work on the matter. G 

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