Memorandum from S. D. Berger to Richard Neustadt

SECISITY .TION MEMORANDUM March 21, 1952 s 1 To: Mr. Richard E. Neustadt - White House From: S. D. Berger - Office of Director for Mutual SWB. Security 1. With reference to the first point raised in the Department of State's memorandum of March 14, the Office of the Director for Mutual Security has no special competence to decide whether the State Department's proposal for a five- year program based on the unused quotas would have a better chance of passage than the three-year, 100,000 a year proposal. 2. With reference to the second point, we are impressed with the argument advanced by the Department of State that reference to the education and training of escapees be dropped from the President's message, and support that position. 3. We are, however, not prepared to give unqualified endorsement to the sentence in the memorandum that reads "the expansion of this authority for the reception, care and movement of refugees out of Europe under the Mutual Security Act for the fiscal year 1953 will need to be secured in Congress." We be- lieve that financial provision other than in the Mutual Securit Act be made for next year's program. The language of the Presi- dent's message is deliberately vague to permit other arrangements to be made. 4. In the event no other provision is made, then the Office of the Director for Mutual Security will ask those agencies in- terested in pressing this program - State, CIA and PSB - to carry the responsibility for making the presentation to Congress, since we feel strongly that funds to assist and resettle refugees from Communism should not be at the expense of the military aid program as is now the case. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 DOD Directive 5100.30. June 18, 1979 STATE By NLT- NC NARS, Date 11-25-10 CONFIDENTIH TAL SECURITY INFORMATION