GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE DRAFT OF FIRST PORTION OF REPORT ON REVIEW OF SELECTED ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01240A000100140103-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: February 8, 1961
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2001/09I04 CIA. RDE~ OA000100140103-3
08 FEB 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Eugene L. Pahl
SUBJECT General Accounting Office Draft of First Portion of Re-
port on Review of Selected Activities of the Central
Intelligence Agency
REFERENCE Memo dtd 11 Jan 61 to DDS fr Mr. Eugene L. Pahl, trans-
mitting two copies of the subject report
1. In the referenced memorandum you requested that Colonel White
provide you with: (a) comments on the material presented in the draft
report, (b) a determination of the security classification to be placed
on your letter and the report, and (c) limitations on the distribution
of the final report.
2. Colonel White received your memorandum and the attached reports
just prior to his departure for a trip to the Far East area and was not
able to complete a detailed review of the material. However, his immedi-
ate reaction on scanning the report was that it fails to acknowledge in
any way the various steps which have been taken to place the GAO audit
team in a position to do a comprehensive audit of the overt activities
of the Agency. Instead, the report makes repeated assertions that the
GAO auditors have less access now than they did before we attempted to
expand their activities in the Agency. Under the prior audit arrange-
ment, the GAO auditors had access only to the vouchers and related docu-
mentation, which were available in the Fiscal Division, whereas under the
present arrangement they are provided free access to any Support or Intel-
ligence component, with the single exception of PIC, to perform compre-
hensive audits of overt activities and transactions.
3. With regard to the security classification to be applied to the
report, the CONFIDENTIAL classification should be used. Agency policy
in this regard requires that a document bear only one over-all classifica-
tion, notwithstanding that pages, paragraphs, sections, or components
thereof bear different classifications or no classification. Your
11 January 1961 letter should be classified CONFIDENTIAL when it is ac-
companied by the report but could be unclassified when the report is not
attached.
4. With regard to the limitations on the distribution of the final
report, we would not object to the distribution plan outlined in your
11 January 1961 letter.
DD8 _ ~2 _ -- REV DA-re BY H. Gates Lloyd
Dg}D OQI-?~ ON TYRE d~-- Acting fDeputy Director
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