GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE AUDIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300110001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 18, 1972
• Content Type: MF

Approved Fbr Release 200 0415R000300110001-2
18 AUG 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director-Comptroller
SUBJECT : General Accounting Office Audit
1. During your meeting with II on 9 August, you asked 25X1 A
that he provide you with documentation relating to the determination
of the General Accountin Office in 1962 to discontinue audit of
f the Agency. You also inquired as to
whether there is a clear agreement with the General Accounting
Office for the destruction of records that could be subjected to
GAO audit.
2. Copies of the key correspondence relating to the
discontinuance of the GAO audit are attached as Tab A. In summary,
the decision to discontinue was the outgrowth of efforts beginning
in 1959 to identify measures that might be taken to expand the scope
of the GAO audit. The Agency cooperated fully with the GAO in
consultation with the CIA Subcommittee of the House Armed
Services Committee in this endeavor. The Comptroller General,
with the approval of the Chairman of the House Armed Services
Committee, finally concluded, however, that the audit scope could
not be expanded and that continuation of the limited scope audit served
no useful purpose.
3. The agreement concerning destruction of records is in the
form of a letter, Tab B attached, to the Director of Central Intelligence
from the Comptroller General,. dated November 2, 1967, granting
approval to a records retirement program. The approval explicitly
provides for disposition of records in accordance with the schedule
(furnished with the Director's letter of October 3, 1967, also at
Tab B) "after conducting your own audit of accounts".
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