ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01240A000100140090-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: March 17, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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Marcth 17, 1959
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Armed Services Committee
House of Representatives
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On March 10, 1959, I received a telephone call from Mr. Edward
Saunders, Comptroller of Central Intelligence Agency, to the effect
that 1 had an appointment with Mr. Robert W. Smart,, General Counsel
of the Armed Services Committee, at 1:30 p.m. in room 31h of the Old
House Office Building.
I arrived at Mr. Stte office at 1:15 p.m., introduced myself
when we started our meeting immediately.
Mr. Smart proceeded to ask me questions pertaining to the audit
of accounts both here in Washington, D. C., and foreign countries in
connection with their rendition to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ate- questions were askedLby Mr. Smart which were as follows:
1. When was I first detailed here at the Agency to perform an. audit
at the Site?
2. Now was the audit conducted?
3. Was the audit as now performed any different than that when I first
dame to the agency?
Was the audit performed on a selective or 100 percent basis?
' . What disposition after audit by General Accounting Office site
auditors was made Of the vouohera, transportation requests, claims,
and the supporting documentation? Were they retained by the Agency
for fib disposition?
6. Did I have contacts with the Agency personnel at all levels?
7. Was travel by the employees made entirely on Government Transportation
Requests? Were many trips made on a cash basis?
8. How were questions or problems of importance settled , With different
components of the agency and on what basis' Did they consult GAO site
auditors?
9. Now was the agency or personnel paid their salaries and aq enses?
10. Were there any contracts to be reviewed and were there any great
numbs : of vouchers to be audii $' Z r inch contracts?
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n. Were there any foreign accounts that were audited here at the
agency?
12. Did the agency as a whole seek information from the GAO site
auditors and to what degree?
13. Had I any contact with the finance or uanvouchered part of the
age=3r in connection with their undercover travel?
314. What w auld the do if their audit program were expanded and
would the expansion of the audit be of a benefit to the agency?
15. Did the agency have their own Disburving officer and how did it
operate?
16. Were we called upon to locate laws, decisions of the Comptroller
General, etc., as to the problems which they had on hand?
17. Did they have their own payroll section and how it was operated
and to what degree?
l8. How was transportation request handled and how was the audit
performed?
TO all Of the questions above X was informed by Mr. Edward Saunders,
o troller of Central Intelligence Agency, that I was to answer Mr. Smart
to the beat of z" ability and not to withhold any information 1 might have
knowledge of. This 1 am sure was accomplished by r answers and Mr. Smart
stated to me that he was very much pleased by the meeting and that he now
had a better understanding about the agency and felt very much informed
than heretofore
He closed the meeting at 2:20 p.m, and/returned to the agency.
Due to s ty restrictions of this agency that certain information
d not be disclosed, %W answers to Mar. -rt'c s questions are not given
the above reason.
ward T. Chappell
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