SECRET SPENDING BY CIA CHALLENGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400220003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 17, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Constitutional Right Violated,
Greensburg Man Contends In Suit
A Westmoreland County man has filed a suit in Fed r 1
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Insurance ? claims examiner; in production " of regular.
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Court contending he has been deprived of his 'constitutional'.
fight to a regular statement of money received and spent by
th Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
i
ed the self-prepared suit
yesterday, naming aS defend.
statement 4'4 ;in drawing
money from the Treasury. '..
ant, S. S. Sokol, commission.
er, Bureau of Accounts;
Fiscal Service, U. S. Treasury
Dept.
Cities Lack Of Receipts
he claims the lack of CIA.
receipts and expenditures in
Treasury reports is in viola.
tion of the U. S. Constitution.`
Mr. Richardson claims the
defendant does not know the
amount of money the CIA
receives from the Treasury,
..despite . the constitutional
mandate'. that' ' no money,
shall be drawn from the'
'..Treasury except ? I. conse-
quence. of , appropriations,
made by law.','
y Mr. Richardson, 48, of 149 Cites'No '
Westmoreland Ave., Greens, Accountability
U He said the CIA Act of 1949
urg,
that: asked the court to find ;;.ls "repugnant" to the Consti
VThe intent of Article One,
Section Nine, Clause Seven of.
make available to every
citizen a regular statement of
receipts and expenditures of
all public money,
VA condition to use of
public money by a Govern.
meat agency be. that its
expenditures be available and
no classification be given to
prevent Its inclusion, in print-
collusion between the 'CIA,
"other agencies" " in '. the
alleged transferring of money
from one agency to the CIA
"practically without limita-
tion In spending and without
accountability.",
According to- Mr. Richard'
son, the act "authorizes
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'depositories of public money
within other' agencies that
draw on the Treasury to
,,Insulate' the CIA' from any
ipublic money from..?the?.only..
.'system as far as the, people
are concerned." .
This undermines confidence'
in.the Government's ability to
produce a regular statement,
he charged.. ,
Mr. Richardson said,he has
a "legal background" always,
.ha's been interested in consti
tutional'law, ? . ? ,.
"If . I'rq' right.,' I'll :prevail
he said 1j reference 'to ? the
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