plans and policies that they develop and promulgate become the plans and policies of the Air Force.

Now how do they develop those policies?

We come next to what we call the directorate level of the Air Staff. This level we consider our working level, the pick and shovel level. Here the majority of decisions that are made in the Air Staff are made. These people work and rework specific problems by cooperating clear across the board if necessary.

Now, what goes on in each of these five major spheres?

Well, briefly, starting here with the Comptroller, he has five directors: Accounting, Statistical Service, Budget, Management Analysis Service, and Finance.

He has this Assistant for Plans and International Affairs and he has the Auditor General.

Mr. RIVERS. How many stars does that billet carry?
Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. Which one is that, sir?

Mr. RIVERS. The billet right there.

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. This one here?

Mr. RIVERS. Yes.

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. Three stars.

Mr. RIVERS. Three stars. All of those come under three star men? Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. Yes, sir; a three-star man heads up the Deputy Chief level.

Mr. ARENDS. Who are the heads of those five?

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. General Stone is the Comptroller, General Kuter is the Chief of Personnel. General Craigie is the Chief of Development. General White is the Chief of Operations. And General Cook is the Chief of Materiel.

Mr. RIVERS. Isn't General Kuter due to go down

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. He is due to leave to go to the Air University.

Mr. BLANDFORD. What is your statutory authority for an assistant chief of staff, Colonel?

General WETZEL. Perhaps I can answer that.

Mr. BLANDFORD. The answer is there isn't any under the Air Force organization.

General WETZEL. Is that right?

Mr. BLANDFORD. The law allows you a chief of staff, a vice chief or staff and not to exceed five deputy chiefs of staff and such other members of the Air Force and such civilian officers and employees in or under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Air Forces as may be assigned or detailed under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force.

But I am intrigued with the title of Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, who is a major general, because it gives you, I think it gives you, one more general officer in your command structure than any other service. General WETZEL. Was your question the Vice Chief or the Assistant Vice Chief?

Mr. BLANDFORD. The Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, who is a major general.

General WETZEL. Yes, sir. The Vice Chief is covered under section 203.

Mr. BLANDFORD. But the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff is just something that was created?

General WETZEL. Yes.

Mr. RIVERS. That comes under that language which you just quoted, other officers as he deems necessary to implement the provisions of this act.

General WETZEL., That in our opinion is a very necessary office, too. General Bozo McKee heads that office and most everyone in the two Houses of Congress have had dealings with him.

Mr. HARDY. Do the Army and the Navy have a comparable situation?

General WETZEL. I don't know, sir.

Mr. BLANDFORD. I don't believe so.

That

Mr. HARDY. We can just as well figure we will have general officers in such a job in the other services if the Air Force has them. seems to be the pattern.

Mr. RIVERS. Just as soon as these liaison people get the word back to them, they will have it.

Mr. HARDY. Yes.

General WETZEL. We had an Assistant Vice Chief of Staff for a long time.

Mr. HARDY. I don't know how you all happened to keep it quiet. Mr. ARENDS. Go ahead, Colonel.

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. Yes, sir.

Now a brief word as to what goes on in each of these five major areas of the Air Staff.

Under the Comptroller, he directs the administration and integration of budget, fiscal, accounting, auditing, disbursement, collection and statistical-reporting activities of the Air Force.

He assembles and evaluates elements of information necessary for the efficient management of the Department of the Air Force. He takes final action for the Secretary on statutory functions in connection with the administration of funds as may be delegated. Provides for the measurement of progress toward program objectives. He evaluates results in relation to cost so that the Air Force may efficiently and economically utilize the resources available.

In the personnel area, the Chief has assisting him the Directors of Personnel Planning, Military Personnel, Civilian Personnel, Training, Assistant for Gound Safety, the Chief Chaplain, Special Assistant for Air Force Academy matters, and the Director of the WAF, or Women in the Air Force.

Briefly, this man is responsible for the plans and administration of all military and civilian personnel programs in the Air Force, including individual training, procurement of personnel, classification, assignment, reassignment, promotion, demotion, separation, retirement, efficiency ratings, and personnel services.

The Deputy Chief of Staff for Development has a Director of Requirements and a Director of Research and Development, with an Assistant for Development Programing and Assistant for Development Planning.

This man is responsible for the qualitative improvement of the Air Force and the development of improved air weapons systems, materiel, and techniques.

Operations: We have the Directors of Manpower and Organization, Intelligence, Plans, Operations, Communications, Installations, Assistant for Atomic Energy Matters and an assistant for programs.

He is responsible for Air Force intelligence activities, installations programs, manpower, and organization activities, operations including joint operations, preparation of overall plans and programs, development and review of all Air Force broad policies, Air Force communication activities and Atomic Energy matters. In addition he monitors all matters pertaining to the Joint Chiefs of Staff which require action within the Air Staff.

Mr. COLE. May I interrupt you there. You have a Director of Manpower and Organization under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations.

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. Yes, sir.

Mr. COLE. Why in the world isn't that under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel? Why do you need one Under Deputy Chief of Staff Operations?

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. Well, in our overall structure, this is where we feel that it should be, under Operations.

Mr. HARDY. Why don't you take it out from under Personnel, then?

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. You feel it should be under "Personnel," sir?

Mr. COLE. I don't know. It is a personnel problem, isn't it?
Mr. BATES. It is an overall thing.

Mr. HARDY. Why do you have to have it in both?

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. No, sir, we don't have it in both. I don't mean to convey that impression. We have it under "Operations."

Mr. BLANDFORD. Couldn't both jobs be combined under Director of Military Personnel?

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. No, sir; they couldn't.

General WETZEL. Well, I suppose they could. You could put it all together. The Director of Manpower and Organization is the individual responsible for determining the requirements for personnel and the organization of the Air Force.

Mr. HARDY. He determines your requirement and your Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel finds out how you are going to get them, is that the idea?

General WETZEL. He gets them and fills the requirement.

Mr. RIVERS. All right. Now say you are going to open base X, a new base.

General WETZEL. Yes, sir.

Mr. RIVERS. Who determines where you will get the personnel to operate that?

General WETZEL. The Deputy Chief of Staff Personnel is the responsible individual to get the people from wherever is best and man the base.

Mr. RIVERS. Can he recruit them through Civil Service or does he have to transfer them from another base under existing regulations? General WETZEL. Well, this is all in accordance with plan and we know sometime ahead that our program plan is to activate this station with these units on it at this date. The fellow that determines that is the Director of Manpower and Organization.

Mr. RIVERS. The reason I asked you that: I have a specific case in mind.

General WETZEL. Oh.

Mr. RIVERS. Now, in Charlestown, my town, they are going to open up a troop carrier.

General WETZEL. That is correct.

Mr. RIVERS. The representative down there says he has no authority to employ anybody. They got to get them from somewhere else. They can't get new people.

General WETZEL. Civil service, you mean, people?

Mr. RIVERS. That is right.

General WETZEL. Well, there presently is a freeze on the hiring of civil-service personnel.

Mr. RIVERS. That is right. What are you going to do about that? Who imposed that freeze?

General WETZEL. The Secretary of Defense.

Mr. RIVERS. Despite the fact that you got a new troop coming into existence under the 143 conception?

General WETZEL. That is correct.

Mr. RIVERS. You don't have any authority to man them, is that a true statement?

General WETZEL. No, sir; not unless we take the personnel we have in place elsewhere.

Mr. RIVERS. How are you going to do that and keep it up to that question that you answered for Mr. Bates?

Mr. BLANDFORD. Isn't the answer to that, General-
General WETZEL. It is going to be a neat trick.

Mr. RIVERS. You can go to the Secretary of Defense and ask him

General WETZEL. We have gone to the Secretary of Defense.
Mr. RIVERS. And ask him to release-

General WETZEL. And explain the ceilings he is imposing will make it as we see it almost impossible to carry out the Air Force program. Mr. RIVERS. All right.

Now these installations are coming into being daily, aren't they? General WETZEL. Yes, sir, they are.

Mr. RIVERS. Or weekly or monthly?

General WETZEL. Yes, they are.

Mr. RIVERS. Isn't that imposing a terrible handicap on the Air Force?

General WETZEL. Yes, it is.

Mr. BATES. Mr. Chairman?

Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Bates.

Mr. BATES. Colonel Burke.

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. Yes, sir.

Mr. BATES. I am interested in this Assistant for Atomic Energy. I have two questions.

First of all, why doesn't it come under Research and Development, and secondly, what are you trying to do anyway? What is this function as far as atomic energy? What is the scope? Is it for planes or is it for ordnance or what is it?

Lieutenant Colonel BURKE. I see, sir. I would have to get the detailed breakdown as to just what goes into that office. It will take a few minutes, sir.

General WETZEL. I can give you his general officer's job description, if you would like it. I can talk a little bit on it? Would you like to have it now?

Mr. BATES. Yes; I would like to know why he doesn't come under Research and Development if that is the purpose for which he is used in the field of development; or secondly if he is under operations, operations for what purpose?

General WETZEL. Let me first read his job description. He is responsible for the overall supervision of United States Air Force atomic-energy matters and programs.

Mr. BATES. Now, what are those? Well, is it in the field of ordnance? Is it research and development?

General WETZEL. NO.

Mr. BATES. For the operation of a plane in the future or just what is it?

General WETZEL. Maybe it will be explained if I can read on.
Mr. ARENDS. Read the whole thing.

General WETZEL. Let me do the best I can, sir.

Mr. ARENDS. All right.

General WETZEL. Thank you, sir.

Supervision of Air Force atomic-energy matters and programs for the DCS operations-he is the guy he works for and in turn for the Vice Chief of Staff. Fully collaborates with and secures the collaboration of the Air Staff Division in this headquarters in any way concerned with atomic-energy matters and programs.

Monitors the program within headquarters and the major air commands to secure necessary action and coordination of action. Liaison between Air Force Headquarters and all other agencies on atomic-energy matters. Formulates requirements and priorities; controls operations and effectively monitors programs associated with atomic energy; supervises the flow of all Atomic Energy Commission restricted data to and within our headquarters. Supervises and monitors the activity of the Special Weapons Command. Supervises the activities of special projects relating to atomic energy.

Mr. BATES. I would gather that this statement up here would cover the generalizations that you have covered in this job description.

General WETZEL. Yes. When we first started out with this business of atomic energy, it was the most highly classified business in the world, really. This job was created as being the one agent, one agency, in the Air Staff that would control all atomic-energy matters. (Statement off the record.)

Mr. BATES. I still don't understand what he does.
General WETZEL. What he does?

Mr. BATES. We know we have an atomic bomb. I suspect somebody knows the number we have. If it is a question of later on going into development, it seems to me that certainly at this stage it should be in development. We are not going to progress perhaps any further.

But my question specifically before is why isn't he in development now. Now is this man a general?

General WETZEL. He is a major general.

Mr. BATES. Does he have a scientific background?
General WETZEL. Yes, sir.

Mr. VAN ZANDT. What is his name?

General WETZEL. General Bunker, Howard Bunker.
Mr. BATES. Is he a career man?

General WETZEL. Oh, yes; he is a Regular officer.