TSS COMMENTS ON OUR REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000200010030-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 1998
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: September 19, 1957
• Content Type: MF

MEMORANDW FOR: Inspector General
SUBJECT : TSS Comments on our Report
25X1A9a 1. Dr.'s general comments on our report juggle the
figures somewhat as was to be anticipated. He concludes that
only about or half of the total TSS expenditures for
25X1A1a Research an Development were for strictly agent type activities.
25X1X1 In arriving at this figure he excludes both ort and
25X1A1a Graphic Arts Reproduction totalling about
25X1A9a 2. In Pointing out what appears to be a mathematic error
in our tabulation, Dr.~s is not being entirely honest.
25X1A1a TSS's own Research and Development figure for the period covered
in our table is our table adds up to about this
25X1A9a same figure. For r.6 to remove approximately
25X1A1a from our table without explaining the discrepancy in terms of
his own figures is not entirely forthright. Insofar as I can judge
25X1X1 at this point, the error in our table comes from the typographical
omission of as a separate category.
25X1A9a 3, Dr. other complaints in the general section alleging
conflicting recomme tions simply reveal that he has not read the
report carefully. For example, in paragraph U. he states that the
Inspector General recommends that all Agency Research and Development
be merged under a Deputy Director. As you well know this was not
our recommendation, but for his own purposes he chooses to so con-
strue it.
4. The actual action taken on the bulk of the recommendations
is not too bad although TSS tries to get off the hook in many instances
by indicating that "no action is required", which is usually no more
than an evasive manner of concurring. On balance I do not believe
any useful purpose would be served in undertaking a written reply to
this TSS reply. The only point to be remembered, should this matter
come up in the Deputy's meeting, is that our table of R&D expenditures
concurs in its total with TSS's own figures, and hence, TSS cannot
reduce our figures without accounting for the change in an affirmative
manner.