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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01240A000100140088-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 88
• Publication Date: July 23, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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July 23, 1959
At 2:30 todsp', ilk response to a telephone" call from him, net
with Col. L. K. White, Deputy Director for Support, Central Intel-
ligence Agency.
Col. White opened the discussion with the comment that the
correspondence on expanding the audit at Central Intelligence Agency
betwen the General Accounting Office nand Chairman KildAW, Subcommittee
ci Central Intelligence Aged, Rouse Armed Services Committee, had been
ends: available to Central Intelligence Agency representatives and that
he would like as to tell hiss what kind of audit GAD would propose to
make at the Central Intelligence Agency. Re was told that ve did not
know too such about the organisation, policies and practices of the
Central Intelligence Agency and therefore ve could not describe
specifically what we could or would Want to do at CIA. There vas
described to his the general objectives and sane of the specifics of
a comprehensive audit in a gsversseatat agency, and that on the basis
of whit we knev about CIA ve would vent to review its or a za .~
it do an ev a$tioa app h ..r sl review or
both its veueheered sad uatouchered eocDeaditures
"""speoci, '"die nacessazjr fire
surrey and to get eases general information
Col. White replied that so far as the part of their operation
encompassed .by the vouebered expenditures, thee CIA would sot have s '
eb3octien to any kind of an audit that GAO would want to sake or the
Subcommittee on Central Intelligence Agency scald vent GAO to sake.
lowever, as to the operations at cad- kfin, the net levels for thew
.cohfid=tial or u ucbered eupead tares t b l e.re a
access wcu14 be of g, J d us. I. described certain of the projects -"-
.being w^ m . e ^
.being so sensitive and so confidential that only the Director, the
Deputy Director in enlarge of the sector, and the agent involved, would
have a w knowledge about' it and that in some cases large mounts of
money. would be paid out without avpr evidence of benefit whatsoever.
As to that type of projects, the Director wnit perhaps deem all, contact
or access. On the other hand, there were projects on which the particulars
could be sad. available to us even aaats were e aerie from eena i
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denial fej$ In this aannection. Col. to state that ie n ti ect~
be fYaasaed from berth the uamuohered aft. veachered funds .
Cal.. Waite raised the gmostiea on our reporting objectives and he
was iafarned that so far as the Senate cad -Noose Armed Services Committees
on Central Ittelligoose Agency were concerned if we were sailed before an
Ixeoutive clearing-ve would answer all giaastiaas to the best of our knoiledge
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and to the best of our ability. As to formal reporting, we would be
bound by whatever classification they put on our reports and we would
be bound also by ax- distribution limitations that they would put on it.
This reply seemed to satisfy Col. Whit* but. there vas some evidence of
servation on what ve would do if other congressional + omeaittees or
individual congressmen asked information from us on'CIA. At vas told,
hoVsver, that we would be bound by the.Agency' s security rogul&tions.
With respect to project s..counting, Col. White suggested that
Mr. Campbell and I cone dove f:or about r twos -hour briefing aometiae
next weak in which Mr. Sauneiars, Controller, Mr. Nou.ston, General
Counsel, and Chief of Internal Audit, would attend. In
sYddition, deputy directors would come is and discuss with us the nature
of .their projects and how they function and are accounted for. Col. White
suggested 2:00 o'clock on Thursdq, next week, and that this meeting be
limited at this time to Mr. Campbell and at. Nowas told that the matter
would be discussed with Mr. Campbell upon-4 return to the office and
that he would be wised whether or net ve could attend add the time was
satisfactory.
Col. White gave every indication that the Agency would cooperate
v ileheart.d.ly i*. whatever audit' we vented to make subject to matters
indicated above and made particular reference that every Director of
CIA sine. Admiral 1illerkoetter had had an attitude toward Government
funds under their control for eoaformanc* with all Government regulations
end laws.
the Controller, and wi Chief Technical Accounting Staff,
relative to the question raised by our Now Tort Regional Office in the
audit of the special advance accounts at ($A. Mr.?Beunders stated that
>i York could be advised that these accounts could be classified as
civilian but they should not be identified to our auditors with CIA.
Yellowing the s.eti with 0.1. White, set briefly with Mr. Saunders,
A.' T. Sas ielson
Director-, Civil Accounting
and Auditing Division
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