IG STAFF REPORT ON VISIT TO OBI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79S01057A000100020021-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 10, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM TOR: The Inspector General
THROUGH: Deputy Director/Intelligence Concur. IG statement par 1
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REFERENCE: Memo from Executive Assistant to 3)D/I
to AD/$I, subject; Unannounced Spot
Checks an Agency Components by
10 Sta.ff, dated 9 July 1957
SU$JECT; IG Staff Report cos Visit to 03I
1. Reference memorandum contains the following quotation from
an 10 staff report on a recent visit to this Office:
"One factor which should be reviewed is CBI's subsidy
of the Board on Geographic Names. This is a component
of the Interior Department for which Congress has refused
to provide funds. It consists of $5 people and costs the
Agency annually. It produces gazetteers for which
there is acknowledged need. However, the hazard of supporting
with Agency funds a unit which Congress deems unworthy of
support should be reconsidered. 11
Z. I am concerned about the implications of the last sentence of
this quoted report. The subject w not discussed during the visit of
the IG staff member, nor has this Office ever considered the budgetary
support of SGN in this light. It is a natter of record that Congress has
not seen fit in recent years to appropriate funds directly to the Department
of the Interior for this work. This is not to Infer, however, that Congress
deems the BON, nor its supporting staff in the Office of Geography, un-
worthy of support.
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