ACCOUNTABILITY FOR BALANCE OF OPERATIONAL ADVANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05252A000100140017-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: March 14, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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.'. March 1952
StWJ rte.': Account-:_,.bility for Balance Of Operational Advance
Finance Division memorr-dum to 10 March
1952, same subject
1. The reference ? er orandum requests supplementary information
in support of my re -uest to your office, dated 2 november 1,)51, for
relief from accountability for the sum of 1s.'0 advanced to me for
oper=ation al Uurpoi?es. The information below is keyed to the questions
raised by the De,:uty Comptroller in his attached memorandum of 6 r arcla
1952 addressed, to your office on this subject,
a. I was not merely administratively responsible for the
25X1A9a operation in which Mr. ~ was enrfa ^c,
'ed at the time of his
dismissal, but in direct daily control of it, disbursiri funds
25X1A9a myself and advancing funds to Mfr. and others in small
increments to be accounted for to me on a daf l;y basis. It did
not seem practicable to me at the time, in the interest of
cerntralize : direction o::' a single operatian, to require several
different persons engaaod in the same operation to draw advice
fund direct';.', from 'inance :ivision and to acco-.Jnt for them
individually. liein' newly assigned to 030 and. Unfamiliar with
acco? nting, practices, I was not ware and, under tresaure of a
literally clv otic operational situation, had no. opportunity to
discover that it wotald hrave been feasible, if somewhat incon-
venient in r .ractice, to protect myself by securing a receipt
formally transferring accoo.nt