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5/12/44
$500,000 FCC CUT UP TO CONFEREES; JETT FIGHTS FOR RID
Within a short time conferees of the House and Senate will meet to decide whether the $509,000 trimmed by the Senate from the Federal Communications Commission appropriations shall be restored.
The House last March had reduced the FCC appropriations by $1, 654, 857. The Senate approved this slash and added another $509,000 of its own.
Hardest hit by these cuts was the Radio Intelligence Divi¬ sion of the FUC and Commissioner E. J. Jett, George E, Sterling, RID Chief, and others testifying this week before the House Committee Investigating the FCC, made an eleventh hour effort to impress mem¬ bers of Congress with the importance of the radio intelligence work and the necessity of the $509,000 being restored.
According to Commissioner Jett, the Radio Intelligence Division today has 12 monitoring stations, 59 secondary monitoring stations, 88 mobile units, three intelligence centers, with a total personnel of 635.
"Former counsel of the House investigating committee has claimed that our expansion, modest as it was to meet the war-time emergency, was unwise; that money appropriated for RID has been wasted". Commissioner Jett said, "Miat we have done with this small unit is the best answer to all these, * * * *
"I want to clear up one point on vhich there has been studied confusion. It has been charged that ’radio intelligence’ is a misnomer as applied to our activities; that RID is not equipped to do radio intelligence work; and that RID is not equioped to do any¬ thing but local monitoring. And with an abandon which does not require consistency, it is charged both that RID has penetrated into the field of ’military intelligence’, and at the same time that RID is not performing ’military radio intelligence’. It is also said that RID is not equipped to perform ’military radio intelligence’.
"These conflicting charges result from a complete lack of understanding of fundamentals as to what radio intelligence as per¬ formed by the FCC actually is and as to what constitutes military radio intelligence. Radio intelligence simply means obtaining in¬ formation or knowledge by means of radio. The information or know¬ ledge obtained may have legal significance, diplomatic significance, commercial or economic significance or it may have military signif¬ icance.
"Military Radio Intelligence is primarily concerned with monitoring enemy transmitters to determine the disposition of mili¬ tary or naval forces and other informa.tion of a military signific¬ ance, Military radio intelligence also includes policing one’s own radio service to insure security of operations and adherence to authorized military procedures; and the transmission of communica¬ tions designed to mislead the enemy or to jam its radio services. The Radio Intelligence Division of the FCC is not designed to per¬ form military radio intelligence. It is designed to perform an
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