DEPARTMENTS OF STATE AND JUSTICE, THE
JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES
APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1957

4.S. Congress. House.

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF STATE AND JUSTICE AND THE
JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

JOHN J. ROONEY, New York, Chairman

PRINCE H. PRESTON, Georgia
ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Florida
DON MAGNUSON, Washington

FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York
FRANK T. BOW, Ohio

CLIFF CLEVENGER, Ohio

JAY B. HOWE, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee

74591

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1956

KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director

DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS, 1957

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1956.

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

WITNESSES

THEODORE C. STREIBERT, DIRECTOR

ABBOTT WASHBURN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR

BEN POSNER, BUDGET OFFICER

LEWIS C. MATTISON, DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, AMERICAN
REPUBLICS

WALTER R. ROBERTS, DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, EUROPEAN
GEORGE M. HELLYER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, FAR EASTERN
G. HUNTINGTON DAMON, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, NEAR EASTERN,
SOUTH ASIAN, AND AFRICAN AREA

BURNETT ANDERSON, DEPUTY CHIEF, PRESS SERVICE
TURNER B. SHELTON, CHIEF, MOTION PICTURE SERVICE
PARKER MAY, ASSISTANT CHIEF FOR OPERATIONS, INFORMATION
CENTER SERVICE

ALLEN W. MOORE, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

RICHARD F. COOK, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR ADMINISTRATION HENRY LOOMIS, CHIEF, OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND INTELLIGENCE LOUIS A. FANGET, CHIEF, PUBLICATION AND PROMOTION BRANCH FREDERICK A. LONG, TELEVISION PROGRAM MANAGER

Mr. ROONEY. The committee will please come to order.

This morning we shall commence consideration of the appropriation requests for the United States Information Agency which appear beginning at page 165 of the committee print.

This request is in the amount of $135 million. The amount appropriated to date in the current fiscal year is $85,336,630. The requested amount would be an increase of $47,831,905 over the base figure set forth at page 2 of the justifications. This represents an increase of approximately 55 percent.

Do you have a general or oral statement to make at the outset, Mr. Streibert?

Mr. STREIBERT. Mr. Chairman, I have a statement which I wish to submit for the record.

Mr. ROONEY. Very well. We shall insert your prepared statement at this point in the record.

(The statement referred to follows:)

STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTOR

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, the world situation calls for an intensive United States information program with sharper impact on both offensive and defensive lines.

Changed Soviet tactics prove the determination of Kremlin leaders to influence larger portions of the world through political, economic and psychological offensives.

"Communist tactics against the free nations," said President Eisenhower in his 1956 state of the Union message, "have shifted in emphasis from reliance on violence and the threat of violence to reliance on division, enticement and duplicity. We must be well prepared to meet the current tactics which pose a dangerous though less obvious threat."

The recently published Soviet budget shows an addition of a huge sum of money to the heading marked: "Social and Cultural Activities," almost exactly equal percentagewise to the sum of money by which the military budget was decreased, but exceeding it in actual figures by 5 billion rubles. The official rate of exchange is 4 rubles to the dollar.