ACCOUNTABILITY FOR BALANCE OF OPERATIONAL ADVANCE

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP78-05252A000100140017-5
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RIPPUB
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S
Document Page Count: 
3
Document Creation Date: 
December 9, 2016
Document Release Date: 
April 6, 2001
Sequence Number: 
17
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Publication Date: 
March 14, 1952
Content Type: 
MEMO
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Approved For Releas-2001/07/16 5252A000100140017-5 S I ,D;. O 25X1A9a O /0Ps .'. 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