East-West Trade Trends / Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953

by United States. Foreign Operations Administration

The Money and the Manpower

The budget of Mutual Defense Assistance Control (MDAC) for the present fiscal year is $1,078,000. As of December 31, 1953, the MDAC staff consisted of 29 persons, including clerical employees. In addition, there were 111 persons on other United States Government agency staffs, both in Washington and overseas, who were performing Battle Act functions and were paid out of MDAC funds. These 111 were in the following agencies:

Commerce Department	32
State Department	43
Defense Department	13
FOA (other than MDAC)	23
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Total	111

This brought the total personnel on the MDAC payroll to 140, as compared with 115 on June 30, 1953.

Besides these 140 people, the four agencies listed above had still others, paid from the agencies’ own funds, who were working at least part of their time on similar functions (and generally were engaged in such activities even before the Battle Act became law).