MEMORANDUM DATED 11 JULY 1972 TO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-COMPTROLLER FROM ACFE; SUBJECT - SENATOR SYMINGTON REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON LAOS AND CAMBODIA.

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• Publication Date: July 17, 1972
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17 July 1972
Memorandum dated 11 July 1972 to
Executive Director-Comptroller from
ACFE; Subject - Senator Symington
Request for Information on Laos
and Cambodia.
1. On 14 July OPPB, and I met with
Mr. Colby to discuss subject memorandum. Mr. Colby had
briefed the Director who generally concurred in the
position recommended by FE.
2. It was agreed that:
A. FE would provide State with the CIA fourth
quarter expenditures using the same general
categories as contained in the prior reports.
B. Details of CIA expenditures would not be
provided State for submission to Senator Symington
(in his role as Chairman of the Subcommittee on
U.S. Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad).
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3. In concurring in the State draft letter to
Symington (copy attached), we will re_ uest- elimination
of the last sentence__on page 1 - i.e. "The. CIA has
in"ormec., e " - and suggest the letter be sent as
oth i drafted. ;t'hen Slate prepares the fol owup
letter to Symington providing the details of the_FY 72
expenditures a footnote will have to be added as follows:
" rir1s breakdown does---not include details of the_
expenditures incurred by the Central Intellilgence.4:ency."
%h11e we will strongly recommend this action to State we
will leave the decision to them whether or not to put
this footnote in the attached draft (as a sentence rather 25X1
than a. footnote) or handle as a footnote in the subsequent
letter to Symington.
State Department review completed
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In accord with the above, Mr. Maury, OLC, and
talked to Mr. Braswell, Staff member of the
Senate Armed Services Committee, who agreed that such
detailed information on CIA expenditures should be
provided only to the CIA Oversight Committees, i.e.,
SASC.
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DE, MOP,ANDUM TO. :)OD/DSAA-M.r., Morris
CIA/OCC
CJIA/FE-
AID/SA/IR/LT-Nr, Thompson
AID/GC-Mr. Ludacer
L/EA-Mr. Johnson
EA/I.,C-Mr. Davis
AID/SA/IR/C?-Mr. Kamens
PM/PA-Mr. Pernick
FROM: PM/MAS - Robert T. Grey
SUBJECT: Senator Symington's Letter on
Laos and Cambodian Ceilings
? I ant forwarding still another draft of a
proposed response to Senator Symington's letter on
the Cambodian and Laos ceiling. Please let me
have your comments or suggested revision: by COB,
Friday. If I do not hear from you, I will assume that
you and your respective agency or bureau have cleared
the letter.
PM/MAS:RG:esa
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Dear Senator Symington:
This letter, is in response to your letter of June 15
to Secretary Laird and your July 1. letter to Secretary Rogers
requesting information concerning the implom ntation of
Section 505 of the Defense Procurement AuthorLzation Act
of 1971 and Section 655 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1971.
I am enclosing the initial message to the field of
November 29, 1971, concerning Section 505 of the Military
Procurement Authorization Act pertaining to the Laos ceiling.
This telegram was prepared on an interagency basis and repre-
sents the basic continuing guidelines for Embassy Vientiane
in preparing its reports under Section 505.
I am also forwarding; copies of the supplemental instruc-
tions prepared by the Department of Defense concerning
reporting on programs covered by Section 505, as well as some
AID instructions designed to supplement the basic instructions,
particularly for further guidance on narcotics and regional
development expenditures. The CIA has informed us that it
has sent no instructions concerning Section 505 other than
those contained in the initial interagency message.
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As you are aware:, Section 655 of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1971 requires that the accounting on the coiling on
assistance to Cambodia be made on the basis of obligations.
This accounting is done in Washington. Therefore, apart
from transmitting notification of the passage of the. FAA and
'ruiom Penh
the text of Section 655 to Embassy/ , no instructions were
:sent to the field concerning this ceiling.
We are also preparing the periodic reports for the
fourth quarter of FY 1972 on assistance to Laos and Cambodia,.
and plan to forward them to the Congress by July 30. We.
hope to be able, at the same time, to give a report on
assistance provided under the Laos and Cambodia ceilings
in FY 1972, with the understanding that the Laos figures
,for the first half-year are on the basis of the best estimates
available since procedures for, reporting on an expenditure
basis were not established for the first half-year.
We are also preparing a more detailed, classified
breakdown of the assistance provided under these ceilings
in FY 1972, and will forward this to you when it is completed.
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finally, in the case of Laos 5 we are also preparing
an accounting of the cost of all items which are intended
for the use of the Royal Lao Government and which will be
counted against the Laos ceiling when they are delivered.
I hope that the enclosed documents and those being
prepared will be helpful to you, We will male every
effort to answer any further questions which you may have,
Sincerely yours ,
David M. Abshire
EncI os ures
1. (telegram No., etc..)
2. DOD Instructions
3. AID Instructions
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