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could be included in any overall JMATE budget esti- mate. 32/* In discussing the funding for air operations, Bill Eisemann, who was Chief, WH/4 Support pointed out that: We had earmarked a certain amount of funds for military needs -- for Air Branch needs We would obligate those funds, and they [DPD] would pick it up on their own records and do their own buying. They were sort of an independent activity in themselves. They were not really .•. under Support in any way, but we had a very close relationship with those guys. We had to have a very close relationship; so they did most of their own requisitioning for .•• the aircraft, as an example, and the bombs •.• You see, anything on the Air Branch side of the house they handled As I recall, back then, when that materiel was issued to the operations, * Neither in the copy of the August budget that ac- companied Beerli's memorandum nor the revised estimated budget do the totals accurately reflect the numbers \ that are given for each of the categories of expendi- tures. In the initial estimate, for e~ample, the total is some $24,000 higher than the sum of the parts. In the revised estimate -- where Beerli said that the total was identical to the total that had been submitted in August because the changes that were being made were revisions within internal cate- gories -- the figure appears to be either $10,000 too low or $290,000 too high, based on the various sub- totals by category which appear in the JMCLEAR budget estimate! There is no way to reconcile these differ- ences on the basis of the information presently avail- able. - 29 -