DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01240A000100140108-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 108
• Publication Date: June 21, 1962
• Content Type: LETTER

Approved For Release 2001/09/04: CIA-RDP80-1
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honorable Carl Vinson, Chairman
Committee on Armed Services
House of Representatives
By letter dated May it, 1961, to Honorable Paul J. Kildey,
Chairman, Special Subcommittee, Central Intelligence PAgency,
Committee on Armed Services, !louse of IRepreseentatives, we reported
upon our review of selected activities of Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) for the purpose of determining whether the scope of
the audit of the General A..ceounting Office could be elxpanded
sufficiently to make reasonably comprehensive evaluations of CIA
activities. In this letter ae stated that under the existing
security restrictions on our audit of CIA activities sae did not
have sufficient access to wake comprehensive reviews on a continu-
ing basis that would be productive of evaluations heL ' aful to the
congress and that we planned to discontinue the work.-
Your letter to us dated kay 1.8, 1961, recmmendski that the
audit not be discontinued at that time and eccbrding1Sa we have
continued our work at CTA despite the sever* limitations placed
upon us. Our further review., confined wholly to ce0tain units
in the Intelligence Component, have not resulted in ,sexy change in
our views that under existing security restrictions an our audit
of CIA activities we do not have sufficient actese to effectively
accomplish any worthwhile audit objectives at CIA on a continuing
basis. We are submitting this letter so that you may. consider
further our views on this matter at this time.
The limitations placed upon our audit activities at CIA are
severe. Following several meetings with the Director, Central
Intelligence Agency, and members of his staff, we exdsanged
correspondence in October 1959 which in essence reco*xiaed that an
audit of CIA would have to be limited to reviews out,de the areas
of sensitive security operations on.,
(1) Expenditures certif tad by the Director under
Section 8 of t:entrel intelligence Act of 1949,
as amended.
auras No. (2) Certain activities in support of confidential
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