Internal Security

The Internal Security Division requested an increase of $403,000 over its 1955 allotment. Of the $252,400 increase for general legal activities, $60,000 will be allotted to the Internal Security Division This represents an increase of approximately 6.3 percent, and will provide for little or no more than the operating cost of the Departmental Security Office which must be assumed by the Division on July 1, 1956.

The proposed allotment for fiscal year 1956 under the House allowance would support a maximum of 144 positions (86 attorneys and 58 clerks), with a man-year lapse figure, or 137 full-year employees.

Our staff at this time consists of 90 attorneys and 58 clerks, so that the present proposed allotment would mean a reduction of 11 employees on a full-year basis. In addition to assuming financial responsibility for the Departmental Security Office, we have been assigned those suits involving employee security cases from the Civil Division, and already have two attorneys assigned to this function, which was not contemplated in the request before the House or before the Bureau of the Budget.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been recommended for increased personnel for extension of its activities in many spheres of security and criminal investigative fields. In the month of July 1954, the Division received approximately 8,000 FBI reports and memoranda, and we are now receiving upward of 12,000 per month. This figure will surely continue to rise and each report must be read and evaluated.

Increased activities and responsibilities in the employee security program, furnishing departmental representation on the Planning Board of the National Security Council and its committees, war emergency planning, and problems of detention of subversives all decrease personnel available for litigation.

The Congress, in 1954, passed new legislation in the field of internal security which has increased the workload and presented many new and novel legal questions.

In view of additional duties and responsibilities transferred to this Division since our appearance before the Bureau of the Budget, and even since appearance before the House committee, it is most urgently advocated that any allowance less than the original request for an increase of $403,000 will most seriously impair the effectiveness of this division in combating the Communist and subversive menace to this country. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in his testimony before the House Committee stated: "I may say the subversive activities today overshadow those which we experienced during the peak of World War II when we were dealing largely with Nazi and Fascist elements."

In order to properly implement the intensified investigative program by the FBI in the internal security and subversive activities field, increased personnel in the Internal Security Division is essential.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES

Appropriation, 1955

Reductions:

Summary analysis of estimate

$9,750,000

Actually transferred to "Salaries and expenses, United States attorneys and marshals, Justice".

-657, 450

Comparative transfer to "Salaries and expenses, United States attorneys and marshals, Justice".

-344, 950

4. Claims, customs, and general civil matters.

369

2, 413, 292

349

2, 313. 100

381

2,489, 500

32

+176, 400

5. Land matters.

235

1,987, 786

244

2, 130,000

243

2.130 000

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(a) Workload data and past year's performance.-There has been a continuing increase in new business coming to the Division over the past 7 years. The situation is manifested in the following statement which shows the caseload in the Division during the past 8 years and the projected caseload for the current and budget years.

Workload data-Actual 1947-54, estimated 1955–56

The upward trend in work started in 1947, the first postwar year in which the Division began to feel the impact of litigation growing out of World War II. The great increase in the number of business transactions plus the maintenance of tax rates at very high levels have resulted since 1947 in more tax litigation than at any previous time in history. New work has increased an average of 15 percent each year during that period.

Caseload of the Criminal Division for fiscal years 1952, 1953, and 1954; actual cases 1st 6 months fiscal year 1955; estimates for fiscal years 1955 and 1956

Caseload of the Criminal Division for fiscal years 1952, 1953, and 1954; actual cases 1st 6 months fiscal year 1955; estimates for fiscal years 1955 and 1956-Continued

ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS SECTION

1 636 liquor, narcotics, customs cases transferred to Administrative Regulations Section from General Crimes Section (4,785+636=5,421).

2 173 cases handled by Administrative Section (Fines-Bail, Bonds-Judgments Unit) transferred to General Crimes Section on Dec. 15, 1953.

190 cases handled by General Crimes Section (Fines-Bail, Bonds-Judgments Unit) transferred to Civil Division on Oct. 12, 1953 (3,255-190-3,065).

The downward trend reflected in the above figures is caused by the Division's revision in statistical reporting and does not reflect a reduction in actual workload. See p. 58 hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, 83d Cong., 2d sess., Department of Justice. Includes 173 cases handled by Administrative Section (4,552+173=4,725). See also footnote 2. See footnotes above.